Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-06-26

| Chains 10 Jne maJcnleSS achievements OF
thirty years of Republican rule, earnestly
and confidently address themselves to the
awakened intelligence, experience and con-
science of their countrymen in the follow
ing dee. ration of facts and principles:
For the first time since the Civil war the
American people have witnessed the cal
amitous consequences of full and unre-
stricted Democratic control of the govern
ment. 1t has been record of unparalleled
incapacity, dishonor and disaster. In adj
ministrative management it has ruthlessy
sacrificed indispensable revenue, entailed an
unceasing deficit, eked out ordinary current
expenses with borrowed money, piled up
the public debt by 1892, 100000 in time of
peace, forced an adverse balance of trade,
kept perpetual menace hanging over the
redemption fund, pawned American credit
to alien syndicates, and reversed all the
measures and results of successful Repub-
lican rule. In the broad effect of its policy
it has precipitated panic, blighted industry
and trade with prolonged depression, closed
factories, reduced work and wages, halted
enterprise and crippled American produc-
ton, while stimulating foreign production
for the American market. Every consider
alton of public safety and individual inter-
est demands that the government shall be
rescued from the hands of those who have
shown themselves incapable of conducting
1t without disaster at home and dishonor
abroad, and shall be restored to the party
which for thirty years administered it with
unequalled success and prosperity. And in
this connection we heartily indorse the wis
dom, patriotism and the success of the ad-
ministration of President Harrison.
A Protective Tariff.
We renew and emphasize our allegiance
to the policy of protection as the bulwark
of American industrial independence and
the foundation of American development
and prosperity. This true American policy
taxes foreign products and encourages
home industry it puts the burden of reve-
nue. on foreign goods 1t secures the Ameri-
can market for the American producer; it
upholds the American 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 for
eign demand and price; it diffuses general
thrift and POUNDS the strength of all on the
strength of each In its reasonable appli-
cation it is just, fair and impartial, equally
opposed to foreign control and domestic
monopoly, to sectional discrimination and
individual favoritism. We denounce the
| furious to the public credit and destructive
to business enterprise. We demand such
an equitable tariff on foreign imports which
come into competition with American prod
ucts as will not only furnish adequate rev.
enue for the necessary expenses of the
government, but will protect American
labor from degradation TO the wage level
of other lands. We are not pledged to any
particular schedules. The question of rates
is practical question, to be governed by
the conditions of the time and of produc-
ton; the ruling and uncompromising prin-
ciple is the protection and development of
American labor and industry. The coun-
try demands right settlement, and then
1t wants rest.
Reciprocity.
We believe the repeal of the reciprocity
arrangements negotiated by the last Re
publican 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 obstri 1t the sale of
American products in the | rts of other
countries, and secure enlarge markets for
the products of our farms, for sts and fac
tories. Protection and reciprocity are twin
measures of Republican policy, and 60
hand in hand. Democratic rule has reck-
lessly struck down both, and both must be
reGstablshed. Protection for what we pro-
duce; free admission for the necessaries of
| life which we do not produce; reciprocal
agreements of mutual interest which gain
open markets for us in return for our open
market to others. Protection builds up
| domestic industry and trade, and secures
our own market for ourselves; reciprocity
httil troI do nd at
for our surplus.
Sugar and Wool.
We condemn the present administration
for not keeping faith with the sugar pro-
ducers of this country. The Republican
party favors such protection as will lead to
the production on American soil of all the
sugar which the American people use, and
for which they pay other countries more
than 500, 100000 annually.
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 prod
uct of the great industry of sheep hus-
bandry, as well as the finished woolens
of the mill-we promise the most ample
protection.
Merchant Marine.
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
carrying trade so that American ships-the
product of American labor, employed in
American shipyards, sailing under the stars
and stripes, and manned, Differed and
owned by Americans-ma regain the car
rying of our foreign commerce.
The Gold Plank.
The Republican rNrty is unreservedly
for sound money. caused the enact
ment of the law prov lg for the resump-
tion 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 i'm
pair the credit of our country. We are,
therefore, opposed to the free coinage of
silver except by international agreement
with the leading commercial nations of the
world, which we pledge ourselves to pro-
mote, and until such agreement can be OBJ
tanned, the existing gold standard must be
preserved. All our silver and paper cur
rency must be maintained at parity with
gold, and we favor all measures designed
to maintain inviolably the obligations OF
the United States and all our money,
whether coin or paper, at the present stan
dard, the standard of the most enlightened
nations of the earth.
Justice 10 Veterans.
The veterans of the Union armies de-
serve and should receive fair treatment and
generous recognition. Whenever practica