The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-06-27
THE NATIONAL PLATFORM
PRINCIPLES REPUBLICANS ASS
VOTERS TO SUPPORT.
Declares Against Free Coinage of
siIver-Rcciprosity and the Doe
trine of Monroe.

assembled by their representatives III ia
tional convention. appealing for the pop
ular and historical justification of their
claims to the matchless achievements rf
50 years Of republican rule. earnestly and
confidently address themselves to the
awakened Intelligence, experience and
conscience of their countrymen in the
following declaration of facts and prin-
ciples:
For the first time since the civil war
the American people have witnessed the
calamitous consequences OF full and un-
restricted democratic control of the gov
eminent. 1t has been a record of unpdr-
aleled incapaclty. dishonor and disaster.
In administrative management 1t mas
ruthlessly sacrificed indispensable rev.
enue entailed an unceasing deficit. eked
out ordinary current expenses with Dor
rowed money, piled up the public debt by
$3.50, 000,0 900 in a time Of peace, forced an
adverse balance of trade, kept a perpet-
ual menace hanging over the redemption
fund pawned American credit to alien
syndicates, and reversed all the measures
and results of successful republican rule.
In the broad effect of it's policy it has
precipitated panic. blighted industry AMI
trade with prolonged depression. closed
factories, reduced work and wages. halt
ed enterprise and crippled American pro-
duction, while stimulating foreign pro-
duction for the American market Every
consideration of public safety and indi-
vidual interest demands that the govern
ment shall be rescued from the hands of
those who have shown themselves inca
pable to conduct it without disaster ut
home and dishonor abroad, and shall be
restored to the party which for 80 years
administered it with unequaled success
and prosperity, and in this connection
we heartily indorse the wisdom, patri
otism and success of the administration
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The Tariff.
We renew and emphasize our allesi-
ance to the policy of protection as the
bulwark of American Industrial indepen-
dence and the foundation of American
development and prosperity. This true
American policy taxes foreign products
and encourages home industry, and it
puts the burden of revenue on foreign
goods; 1t secures the American market
for the American producer; 1t upholds
the American standard of wages for the
American workingmen; 1t puts the fac
tory by the side of the farm. and makes
the American farmer less dependent on
foreign demand and price it dffuses
general thrift. and POUNDS the strength
of all on the strength of each. In its
reasonable application it Is just. fair and
impartial, equally opposed to foreign con-
troll and domestic monopoly. to sectional
discrimination and individual favoritism.
We denounce the present democratic
tariff as sectional. injurious to public
credit and destructive to business enter
prise. We demand such equitable tariff
on foreign imports which come into com
petition with American products as Will
not only furnish an adequate revenue for
the necessary expenses of the govern
ment, but will protect American labor
from degradation to the wage level OF
other lands.
a "A MI fluraV nj foul a.
schedules The question of rates is Il
practical question. to he governed by
the conditions Of the time and of the
production. The ruling and uncompris-
ing principle is the protection and devel-
opment of American labor and industry.
The country demands the right settle
ment and then it wants rest.
Reciprocity.
We believe the repeal of the reciproc-
ity arrangements negotiated by the last
republican administration was a national
calamity and we demand their renewal
and extension on such terms as will
equalize our trade with other nations
remove the restrictions which now OBJ
struct the sale of American products in
the ports of other countries. and secure
enlarged markets for the products of our
farms, forests and factories. Protection
and reciprocity are twin measures of re-
publican policy, and go hand in hand.
Democratic rule has recklessly struck
down both. and both must be re-estab-
lished. Protection for what we produce,
free admission for the necessaries of life.
which we do not produce: reciprocal
agreements of mutual interests which
gain open markets in return for our
open markets to others Protection builds
up domestic industry and trade, and Sc
cures our own markets for ourselves
reciprocity builds up foreign trade and
IL ff.f Co..
Sugar.
We condemn the present administration
for not keeping faith with the sugar pro-
ducers of this country. The republican
party favors such protection as will lead
TO the production on American soil of
all the sugar which the American peo-
pie use, and for which they paid other
countries more than S1O0O00,OOO annually.
Wool and WOOIenS.
To all our products. to those Of the
mine and field as we'll as those of the
shop and factOry-to hemp. TO wool. the
product of the great industry of sheen
husbandry. as we'll as TO the finished
woods of the mill-we promise most am
pie protection.
Merchant Marine.
We favor restoring the early Americ IN
policy of discriminating duties for the
upbuilding of our merchant marine and
the protection of our shipping interests
in the foreign carrying trade. so that
American ships-the product of American
labor employed I'm American shipyards
sailing under the Stars and Stripes and
manned. Differed and owned by Ameri-
cans-may regain the carrying OF our
foreign commerce.
Money.
The republican party is unreservedly
for sound money Il caused the enact
ment of the Jaw providing Tor the re-
sumption of specie payments in 1879;
since then every dollar has been as good
as gold. We are unalterably opposed 70
every measure calculated to debase our
currency or impair the credit of our
country We are. therefore. opposed 10