The Portland daily press., 1896-06-19

tion builds up domestic industry and
trade andsecures our own market for our
selves; reciprocity builds up foreign
trade and finds an outlet for our sur
plus.
SUGAR.
We condemn the present administra-
ton for not keeping faith with the sugar
producers of this country. The Republi-
can party favors such protection as will
lead to the production on American soil
of all the sugar which the Ameri can
people use, and for which they pay the
other countries more than 500, 600, 900
annually.
| WOOL AND wooLENs.
/ To all our products, to those of the
mine and the field as well as those of the
shop and factory, to hemp, to wool, the
product of the great industry of sheep
husbandry, as we'll as the finished wool
ems OF the mill we promise the most am
pie protection.
/ MERCHANT MARINE.
We favor the restoring of the early
American policy of discriminating duties
for the upbuilding of our merchant ma
rine and the protection Of our shipping
In the foreign carrying trade so that
American ships-the product of 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.
MONEY.
The Republican party ia 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 aa good
as gold.
We are unalterably opposed to every
measure calculated to debase our curren-
cy or impair the credit of our country.
We are therefore opposed to she free COIN
age OF silver except by international
agreement with the leading commercial
nations of the world which we pledge
ourselves to promote, and until such
agreement can be obtained, the existing
gold standard must be preserved. All
our silver and paper currency must be
maintained at parity with gold, and we
| favor all measures designed to maintain
inviolably the obi igations 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.
PENSIONS.
The veterans Of the Union armies de-
serve and should receive fair treatment
and generous recognition. Whenever
pr acticable they should be given the pre-
ference in the matter of employment, and
they are entitled to the enactment of
such law as are best calculated to secure
the fulfilmentlof the pledges made to,them
in the dark days of the country's peril.
We denounce the practice in the pension
b ureau, SO recklessly and unjustly carr led
on by the present administration of redu-
cling pensions and arbitrarily dropping
names from the rolls as deserving the
severest condemnation of the American
| people.
FOREIGN RELATIONS.
| Our foreign policy should be at all
times firm, vigorous and dignifed. and all
our interests in the western hemisphere
carefully watched and guarded. The
Hawaiian Islands should be controlled
by the United States, and no foreign
power should be permitted to interfere
with them; the Nicaragua canal should
be built, owned and operated by the
United States; and by the purchase of
the Danish Islands we should SECURE a
! proper and much needed naval station in
| the West Indies.
ARMENIAN MASSACRES.
The massacres in Armenia have aroused
the deep sympathy and just indignation
OF the American people, and we believe
| al Mi af 20 ot,
the influences it can properly exert to
bring these atrocities to an end. In Tur
key American residents have been exposed
to the gravest dangers and American
property destroyed there, and everywhere
| American citizens and American prom
erty must be absolutely protected at all
hazards and at any cost.
MONROE DOCTRINE.
We reassert the Monroe doctrine in it's
full extent and we reaffirm the right of
the United States to give the do otrine
effect by responding to the appeals of any
American state for friendly intervention
in case of European encroaohment. We
have not interfered, and shall not inter
fere with the existing possessions of anv
European power In this hemisphere, but
those possessions must not, on any pre-
text be extended. We hopefully look
forward to the eventual withdrawal of
the European powers from this hsmis-
phere to the ultimate union of all the
English speaking part of the continent
by the free consent of it's inhabitants
CUBA.
From the hour of achieving their own
independence, the people of the United
States have regarded with Sympathy the
struggles OF other American people to
free themselves from European donina-
ton. We watch with deep and abiding
interest the heroic battle of the Cuban
patriots againt cruelty and oppression
and our best hopes go out for the full
success of their determined contest for
Liberty. The govern ment of Spain, hay
ing lost contol of Cuba, and being unable
TO protect the properly or lives Of resident
American citizens, or to comply with it's
ONE HONEST MAN.
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