Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-07-23
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.

REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
The republicans OF the United States, as
Sembled by their representatives In national
convention, appealing for popular as well as
historical Justification Of their claims to match
less achievements during thirty years Of re-
publican rule. earnestly and confidently ad-
dress themselves to the awakened intelligence,
experience and conscience OF their countrymen
in the following declaration OF facts and princi-
pies: "For the first time since the civil war
the American people have witnessed the Gala
mitous consequences Of full and unrestricted
democratic control Of the government. 1t has
been = record OF unparalleled incapacity, dis
honor and disaster. In administrative man
agement 1t has ruthlessly sacrificed indspen-
sable revenue, entailed unceaSing defcit, eked
out ordinary current expenses with borrowed
money, piled up the public debt by s262, 900 900
in time OF peace, forced an adverse balance Of
trade, kept perpetual menace hanging over the
redemption fund, pawned American credit to
alien syndicates, and reversed all measures
and results OF successful republican rule. In
the bread effect OF its policy it has precipiated
q panic, blghted industry and trade with pro-
longed depression, closed factories, reduced
work wages, halted enterprise and crippled
American production while stimulating foreign
production for the American market. Every
consideration Of public safety and individual
interest demands that the government be res
cued from the hands of those who have shown
themselves incapable to conduct it without dis
aster at home and dishOnor abroad, and shall
be restored to the party which for thirty years
I'D m hiskAn saifk. lad
prosperity. And in this connection we heartily
endorse the wisdom, patriotism and success Of
the administration of President Harrison.
PROTECTION AND RECIPROCITY.
We renew and emphasize our allegiance to
the policy OF protection rs the bulwark OF Am
erican industrial independence and the fOunda-
ton OF American development and prosperity.
This true American policy taxes foreign pro-
ducts and encourages home industry; it puts a
burden OF revenue on foreign goods; it secures
the American market for the American pro-
ducrr; 1t upholds the American standard of
wages for the American wOrkingman; it puts
the factory beside OF the farm and makes the
American farmer less dependent on foreign de-
mand and price; 1t difruses general thrift and
POUNDS the strength of eace. In its reasonable
application 1t Is just fair and impartial equally
opposed to foreign control and domestic mono
poly, to sectional crimihation and individual
favOrtisn.
We denOunce the present democratic tariff as
sectional, injurious to public credit and de-
structiye to business enterprise. We demand
such equitable tariff Oh foreign imports which
come into competition with American pro-
ducts as will not only furnish adequate re-
If fha
eminent but will protect American labor from
degradation to the wage level Of other lands.
We are not pledged to any particular schedules.
The question Of rates Is a practical question, to
be governed by the conditions of time and of
production; the ruling and uncOmpromising
principle Is protection and the development OF
American labor and industry. The country
demands right settlement and then it wants
rest. We believe the repeal of the reciprocity
arrangements negotiated by the last republi-
can administration was national calamity,
and we demand their renewal and extension on
such terms as will equalize our trade with
other nations, remeve restrictions which now
obstruct the sale of American products i'm 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 the republican policy and 20
hand In hand. Democratic rule has recklessly
struck down both and both must be re.estab-
ilshed. Protection fer what we produce; free
admission for the neceSSarieS of life which we
DO not produce; reciprocal agreements OF
mutual interests which gain open markets for
us IN return for our open market to others.
Protection builds up domestic industry and
trade and secures our own market for ourselves
reciprocity builds up foreign trade and finds an
outlet for our surplus.
We condemn the present administration for
not keeping faiah with tee sugar producers of
this country. The republican party favors such
protection rs will lead to the production on
American soil Of all the sugar which the Amer
lean people use. and for which they pay other
countries more than s1eO, OOo, 900 annually.
To all our products-to those of mine and
field as well as those of shop and factory-to
hemp, to wool, the product of the great in
dustry OF sheep husbandry as we'll as to the
finished woOlens of the mill-we promise most
ample protection.
MERCHANT MARINE.
We favor restoring the early American
policy OF discriminating duties for the upbuild-
ing Of our merchant marine and the protection
of our shipping in the foreign carrying trade, so
that American ships, products OF American
labor, employed In American shipyards, sailing
under the stars and stripes, and manned,
officers and owned by Americans, may regain
the carrying OF our foreign commerce.
FINANCIAL PLANK,
The republican party is unreseryedly fer
sound money 1t caused the enactment of a law
providing for the resumption of specie pay
ments in 1879; since then every dollar has been
As good rs gold We are unalterably opposed
10 every measure calculated to debase our
or impair the credit of our country.
We are, therefore, opposed to the free coinage
v silver except by International agreement