The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1896-06-19
WITHOUT EVASION.
Republican Platform Demands
Gold Standard.

vision of Thrift and Good Word For
Cuba.
ST. Louis, June 17-Following is the
platform adopted today by the national
Republican convention at st. Louis:
1.-The Republicans of the United States,
assembled by their representatives in
national convention, appealing for the
popular and historical justification Of
their claims to the bitter fruits of four
years of Democratic control, as we'll as
the matnhless improvements OF 80 years
of Republican rule, earnestly and con-
fidently address themselves to the
awakened intelligence, experience and
conscience of their countrymen, in the
following declaration of facts and prln-
ciples:
For the first time since the Civil War,
the American people have now witnessed
the calamitous consequences of full and
unrestricted Democratic control of the
government. 1t has been a record of
UNPARALLELED incapacity dishoncr and
disaster. In the administrative manage
nent it has ruthlessly sacrificed indis-
pensible revenue, eked out ordinary cur
rent running expenses with borrowed
money, piled up the public debt $262, OOO,-
600 in time of peace, forced an adverse
balance of trade, kept perpetual NEIL
ace hanging over the redemption FUND
for pawned American credit to alien syn
dictates, and reversed all the measures
and results of successful Republican
rule. On the broad effect of its policy
1t has precipitated panic, blighted in
dustry and trade with prolonged de-
preston, closed factories, reduced work
and wages, halted enterprise and Grip
pled American production, while slim
ulating foreign production for the
American market. Every consideration
of public safety and individual interest
demand that the government shall lie
rescued from the hands of those who
have shown themselves incapable of con-
Quoting it, without disaster at home and
dishonor abroad, and shall be restored
to the party which for 80 years admin
fstered it with unequal success and pros
perity.
I'VE renew and emphasize our allie
glance to the policy of protection as the
6ouiwark of American industrial indie
rendence and the foundation of Ameri-
can development and prosperity. This
true American policy taxes foreign prod
ulcts and encourages home industry; it
puts the burden of revenue on foreign
goods; it secures the American market
for the American producers; 1t upholds
the American standard of wages for the
American workingmen; 1t puts the fac
tory by the side of the farm; makes
the American farmers dependent on
foreign demand; it diffuses general
thrift, and POUNDS the strength of each.
In its responsible application it is best,
fair and impartial, and equally opposed
to foreign control and domestic monop-
DIV to sectional discrimination and in
dividual favoritism.
I'VE denounce the present Democratic
tariff as sectional partisan and one
sided, and disastrous to the treasury and
destructive of business enterprise, and
we demand such an equitable tariff on
foreign imports which come into compe-
- pm with American products, as will
Sot oily furnish adequate revenue for the
necessary expenses of the government,
but will protect American labor from
degradation and the wage level of other
lands. We are not pledged to any par
ticular schedule. The question of ratios
is practical question, to be governed by
the condition of the times and of produc-
ton. The ruling and uncompromising
principle is the production and develop
ment of American labor and industry.
The country wants a right settlement,
and then it wants rest.
"The Republican party renews it's
pledge for the protection of all American
Industries, against foreign competition,
and declares it's faith that the supremacy
of the United States among the nations
is the result of such policy. We believe
in liberal reciprocity and just relation,
and demand the application of the golden
lule of commerce to all future legisla-
ton affecting the tariff and the foreign
trade. We believe the repeal of the
reciprocity arrangement. negotiated by
the last Republican administration, was
a national calamity, and demand its
renewal and extension, on such terms as
viii equalize our trade with other ma
tions, and remove the restrictions that
now obstruct the sale of American pro-
ducts in the ports of Europe and secure
new markets for the products of our
farms, forests and factories.
We favor restoring the early Ameri-
can policy of discriminating duties for
the upbuilding of our merchant marine
and the protection of our shipping in the
foreign carrying trade, so that Ameri-
can shipping, the product of the Ameri-
can labor employed in American ship
yards sailing under the Stars and
stripes, and manned, differed and owned
by Americans may regain the carrying
of our foreign commerce.
THE Republican party is unreservedly
for sound money. 1t caused the enact
ment of the law providing for the re-
sumption of specie payments in 1879,
since then every dollar has been as good
as gold. We are unalterably opposed to
every measure calculated to debase our
currency or impair the credit of our
country. We are. therefore, opposed to
the free coinage of silver, except by in
ternational agreement with the leading
commercial nations of the world, which
we pledge ourselves to promote, and I'M
ill agreement can be obtained the ex-
isting gold standard must be preserved.
All our silver and paper currency now
in circulation must be maintained at
parity with gold. and we favor all meas
ures designed to maintain inviolably the
obligations of the United States, and all
our money, whether coin or paper, at the
present standard, the standard of the
most enlightened nations of the earth"
The foreign plank is general in its ma
ture, outlining a policy in regard TO all
current foreign questions. 1t contains