The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-17
TARIFF.

We renew and emphasize our allegiance
of American Industrial independence and the
foundation of American development and
prosperity. This true American policy taxes
foreign products and encourages home indus
Try; 1t puts the burden of revenue on foreign
goods; it secures the American market for
the American producer; it upholds the Ameri-
can standard of wages for the American
workingman; it puts the factory by the side
OF the farm and makes the American farmer
less dependent on foreign demand and price:
it difuses general thrift and POUNDS the
strength of all ON the strength of each In
its reasonable application 1t Is just, fair and
impartial, equally opposed to foreign control
and domestic monopoly, to sectional discrimi-
nation and individual favoritism.
We denounce the present Democratic tariff
as sectional, injurious to the public credit
and destructive to business enterprise. We
demand such equitable tariff on foreign
imports which come into competition with
American products as will not only furnish
adequate revenue for the necessary expenses
of the government, but still protect American
labor from degradation to the wage level OF
other lands. We are not pledged to any par
ticular schedules. The question of rates is a
practical question, to be governed by the
conditions of the time and of production; the
ruling and uncompromising principle is the
protection and 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 Repub-
lican 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 obstruct 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 Repub-
lican policy and go hand in hand. Demo-
cratic rule has recklessly struck down both,
and both must be re-established. Protection
for what we produce; free admission for the
necessaries of life which we do not produce;
reciprocal agreements of natural interests
which gain open markets for US In return for
our open markets to others. Protection builds
up domestic industry and trade, and secures
our own markets for ourselves; reciprocity
builds up foreign trade and hnds on outlet
for our surplus.
we condemn the present administration for
not keeping faith with the sugar producers
of this country. The Republican party favors
such protection as will lead to the produc-
ton on American soil Of all the sugar which
the American people use, and for which they
pay other countries more than 900 an
nua1ly.
To all our products-to those of the mine
and the field as well as those of the shop
and the factory-to hemp, to wool, the pro-
duct of the great industry of sheep hus-
bandry, as we'll as to the finished woolens OF
the mill we promise the most ample pro-
lection.
We favor restoring the early American
policy of discriminating duties for the up
building of our merchant marine and the
protection of our shipping in the foreign car
duct of American labor, employed In Ameri-
can shipyards, sailing under the stars and
stripes, and manned, Differed and owned by
Americans-may regain the carrying OF our
foreign commerce.
PENSIONS.
The veterans of the Union army deserve
and should receive fair treatment and gen.
erous recognition. Whenever practicable they
should be given the preference in the matter
of employment, and they are entitled to the
T.
ed to secure the fulfllment of the pledges
made to them in the dark days of the coun-
try's peril. We denounce the practice in the
pension bureau, so recklessy and unjustly
carried on by the present administration, Of
reducing pensions and arbitrarily dropping
names from the rolls as deserving the sever
est condemnation of the American people.
FOREIGN RELATIONS.
onr foreign policy should be at all times
firm, vigorous and dignifed, and all our in
rerests in the Western hemisphere carefully
watched and guarded. The Hawaiian islands
should be controlled by the United States,
TO Interfere with them; the Nicaraguan 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.
The massacres in Armenia have aroused
the deep sympathy and just indignation of
the American people, and we believe that
the United States should exercise all the in
fiuence It can properly exert to bring these
atrocities to an end In Turkey, American
residents have been exposed to the gravest
dangers, and American property destroyed.
There and everywhere American citizens and
American property must be absolutely pro-
tected at all hazards and at any cost.
MONROE DOCTRINE.
We reassert the Monroe doctrine in its
full extent and we reaffirm the right of the
United States to give the doctrine effect by
responding to the appeals Of any American
state for friendly Intervention in case of
European encroachment. We have not in
terfered and shall not interfere with the
existing possessions of any European power
in this hemisphere, but these possessions
must not on any pretext be extended. We
hopefully look forward to the eventual with
drawal Of the European powers from this
hemisphere. and to the ultimate union of all
the English-speaking part Of the continent
by the free consent Of its inhabitants.
From the hour Of achieving their own In
dependence the people Of the United States
have regarded with sympathy the struggles
of other American peoples to free themselves
from European domination. We watch with
deep and abiding interest the heroic battle
Of the Cuban patriots against cruelty and
oppression. and our best hopes go out for