Middletown transcript., 1896-06-27
THE PLATFORM.

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tives in National Convention, appes
ing for the popular and historical just
4 fication of their claims to the mattel
less achievements of thirty years of r.
publican rule, earnes!ly:and confiden
ly address themselves to the awakene
intelligence, experience and conscienc
OF their countrymen in the followin
declaration of facts and principles:
For the first time since the civil wa
the American people have witnesse,
the calamitous conseq ,ences of full
and unrestricted Democratic contro
OF the government. 1t has been IA re
cord of unparalleled igcapacity, dis
honor and disaster. In administrative,
management it has ruthlessly sacrificed
indispensable revenue, entailed an un
ceasing deficit, eked out ordinary cur
rent expenses with borrowed money
piled up the public debt by $262, 900,
GOO in time of peace. forced an adverse
balance of trade, kept a perpetua
menace hanging over the redemption
fund. pawned American credit to alien
syndicates and reversed all the meas.
ures and results of successful Republi-
can rale. In the broad effect of its
policy it has precipitated panic blight
ed industry and trade with prolonged
depression, closed factories, reduced
work and wages, halted enterprises and
crippled American production while
stimulating foreign production for the
American market. Every considera-
tion Of public safety and Individual
interest demands that the government
shall be rescre ed from the hands OF
those who have shown themselves in.
capable to conduct it without disaster at
home and dishonor abroad, and shall be
restored to the party whic b, for thirty
years. administered it with unequaled
success and prosperity.
TARIFF.
We renew and emphasize our allegi-
ance to the policy of protection as the
bulwark of American Industrial inde-
pendence and the foundation of Ameri-
can developement and prosperity. This
true American policy taxes foreign
products and encourages home indus
Try; it puts the burden of revenue on
foreign goods; it secures the A merican
market for the American producer; it
lpholds the American workingman; it
puts the factory by the side of the
arm and makes he American farmer
ess dependent on foreign demand and
,rice; it 9diffuses general thrift, and
ounds the strength of all on the strength
# each. In is reasonable application
is just, fair and impartial, equity
opposed to foreign control and domcs
lie monopoly, to sectional discrimina-
ion and individual favoritism.
We denounce the present Democratic
ariff as sectional, injurious to the
ublic credit and destructive to busi-
ess enterprise. We demand such an
quitable tariff on foreign imports
1hich come into campet ii ion with
American products as will not only
lrnish adequate revenue for the neces-
ary expenses of the government, but
ill protest American labor from de-
the wage level of other
'nds. We are not pledged to any parti-
liar schedules. The qisyi,a of
ties is a practical question
be governed by the conditions
the time and of production; the
ling and uneompromising prin-
pie is the protection and development
American labor and industry. The
,untry demands right settlement,
I'd then 1t wants rest.
RECIPROCITY.
We believe the repeal of the recipro-
ty arrangements negotiated by the last
epublican administ ration was nat
nal calamity, and we demand their
neWal and extension on such terms
will equalize our trade with other
'tions, remove the restrictions which
W obstruct the sale of A merican pro-
cts in the ports of other countries,
d secure enlarged markets for the
oducts of our farms, forests and
;tories.
Protection and reciprocity are twin
,asures of Republican policy and go
nd in hand. Democratic rule has
,klessly struck down both, and both
lst be re-established.
Protection for what we produce; FIRE .
mission for the necassaries If life
Itch we do not produce; reciprocal
reements of mutual intare s!s which
n open markets for us in return for
I open market to others. Protection
lids up domestic industry and trade
secures our own market for our
yes; reciprocity builds up foreign =
de and finds an outlet for our sur .
IS.
SUGAR. VI
We condemn the present administers =
o for not keeping faith with the y
'ar producers OF this country. The
publican party fayors such protec-
Q as will lead to the production on 9
,erican soil of all the sugar which "
American people use, and for -
ich they pay other countries more "
2 $100. 600, 900 annually. %
WOOL AND wooLENs. :, :,
o all our products-to those of the :.
le and the field as we'll as to those :
The shop and the factory--to hemp,
WOOL. the product of the great in !.
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