Arizona weekly citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz) 1880-1901, 1896-06-27
Thu PLATFORM.

The platform adopted by the Repub
lican National Convention is as fol
lows:
The Republicans of the United States
assembled by their representatives II
national convention, appealing for the
popular and historical jurisdiction o.
their claims &c the mstchless achieve
ments of thirty years of Republican
rple. earnestly and confidently address
themselves to the awakened intelligen
ce experience Gud conscience of theil
couutrymen In TIE following declaration
of facts and principles:
For the first time since the civil wal
the American people have witnessed the
calamitous conseq uence of full and IN
restricted democratic control of the
government. Ii has been a record OF
unparalleled in capacity, dishonor ano
disaster. IL administrative management
it hss ruthlessly sacrificed Indispensable
revenue, entailed an unceasing deficit,
eked out ordinary current expenses
with borrowed money, piled Up the pub
lie debt by S262, 100000 in time Of peace.
forced an adverse balance of trade, kept
a perpetual menace hanging over the
redemption fund, pawned American
credit to alien syn6icates and reversed
III a. ~
fol Republican rule. II the broad effect
of its policy it has precipsted panic,
blighted industry and trade with pro-
longeG depression, closed factories, re-
duoed work and wages, halted enter
prise sn6 crippled American production
for the American market. Every con-
sideration of American safety and indi-
vidual interest demands that the gov
ern ment shall be rescued from the hands
of those who have shown themselves in
capable Of conducting it without disaster
at home end dishonor abroad, and shall
be restored to the party which for thirty
years administered it with unequaled
success and prosperity, and 10 this con-
nection we heartily irdorse the wisdom,
the patriotism and the success or the
of President Harrison.
TARIFF.
We renew and emphasize our ale
glance to the policy of protection as
he bulwark of American industrial
and the foundation OF
American development and prosper
ty. This true American Policy taxes |
Orei9n products and encourages home |
Industry; 1t puts the burden of rev. |
niue on foreign goods; it secures the |
American market for the American |
PRODUCER; it upholds the American |
tandRrd OF wages for the American |
: orkiDgDan; it puts the factory by the |
gds of the farm, and makes tn |
/ merican farmer less dependent on |
oreign demand and price; it diffuses
General thrift and POUNDS the strength |
4 all on the strength Of each. In its |
essonsble application it is just, fair
nd impartial, equally opposed to for
ign control and domestic monopoly, |
o sectional discrimination and indi-
idusl favorltism.
We denounce the present democratic
ariff As sectional, injurious to the
ublic credit and destructive To bust
ees en- terprise. We demand such an
quitable tariff on foreign imports
Thich come into ompetition with
4mericgn products as will not only /
essery expenses of the govern ment,
a IL
egradatiop to the wage level of other
snds. We are not pledged to any par
ocular schedules. TIE question Of
ates is a practical question, to be gov
rDed by the conditions OF the time
nd of production; the ruling and un-
principle is the protec
ion and development OF American la
or and industry. The country de-
hands right settlement, and then it
rants rest.
RECIPROCITY.
We believe the repeal of the reeipro-
lty arrangements negotiated by the re-
uolicRn administration wRs a national
alamity and we demand their renewal
nd extension on eucn terms as will
qualize our trade with other nations,
emove the restrictions which now OBJ.
truct the eale OF American products In
De ports OF other countries, and secure
nlarged markets for the products OF our
arms, forests and factories.
Protection and reciprocity are twin
measures of repu blican policy, which go
and 10 hand. Democratic rule has
scklessly struck down both, and must
70 re-established. Protection for what
re produce; free admission for the ne.
OF life which we do not pre-
uce; reciprocal agreements of mutual
interest which gain open msrkets for
6 in return for our open market to
thers. Protection builds up domestic
ndustry and trade, and secures our own
lsrket for ourselves; reciprocity builds
o foreign trade and finds an outlet for
ur surplus.
We condemn the present administra-
ion for not keeping faith with the sugar
roducers OF this country. The repub-
can party f6voTs such protection es
7ill lead to the production on American
oil of all the sugar which the American
eople use and for which they pay other
more than 500, 000,00U annu-
lily.
WOOL AND WOoLENS.
To all our products-ro those o. the
nine and field as we'll as those OF the
hop and fsctory-to hemp, TO wool, the
roducE of the great industry of sheep
as we'll as the hnishsd WOOL
ns of the mill, We promise the most
mple protection.
MERCHANT MARINE.
We favor restoring tie early Amer
ian policy Of discriminating duties for
be uPbulldiDg OF our merchant marine
nd the protection Of our shipping in
be foreign carrying trade, so that Amer
ian shIps-the product OF American
aDor, employed in American shipyarde,
aiiing under the Stars and Stripes, sno
named, differed spd owned by Amer
,ans-msy regain the carrying Of our
Oreign commerce.