The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-07-01

Following are the concluding planks
in the platform adopted by the Republi-
can National Convention, the first por-
ton of which we gave last week:
SUGAR.
We condemn the present administra-
ton for not keeping faith with the sugar
producers of this country. The Repub-
lican 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, GOO annu-
ally.
WOOL AND wooLENs.
TO all our products-to those of the
mine and the field as well as to those of
the shop and the factory-to hemp, to
wool, the product of the great industry,
as we'll as to the finished woolens of the
mill--we promise the most ample protec-
tion.
PENSIONS.
The veterans Of the Union army de-
serve and should receive fair treatment
and generous recognition. When ever
practicable they should be given the
preference in the matter of employment,
and they are entitled to the enactment of
such laws as are best calculated to secure
the fulfillment of the pledges made to
them in the dark days of the eountry's
peril. We denounce the practice in the
pension bureau, so reckleSsly and un-
justly carried on by the present adminis-
tration, OF reducing pensions and arbi-
trarily 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 dignihed, and
all our interests in the western hemis-
phere carefully watched and guarded,
the Hawaiian islands should be con-
trolled by the United States, and no for
eign power should be permitted to inter
fere 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 in
dignation of the American people and VIZ
believe that the United States should eX
ercise all the influence it can properly
exert to bring these atrocities to an end
In Turkey, American residents hav'
been exposed to the gravest dangers anC
American property destroyed. Their
and everywhere American citizens an,
American property must be absolutel.
protected at all hazards and at any cost.
MONROE DOCTRINE.
We reassert the Monroe doctrine in it
full extent, and We reatfrm the right O
the United States to give the doctrin
effect by responding to the appeals @
any American state for friendly inter
Vention in case of European eucroach
ment. We have not interfered and shal
not interfere with the existing possess
ions of any European power in this hem
isphere, but those possessions must moi
on any pretext be extended. We hope
fully look forward to the eventual with
drawal of the European powers froI
this hemisphere, and 20 the ultimate VI
ion of all English speaking parts of th
continent by the free consent of its in
habitants.
CUBA.
From the hour of achieving their ow
independence the people of the Unite
States have regarded with sympathy th
struggles of other American people
free themselves from European domino
ton. We watch with deep and abidin
interest the heroic battle of the Cuba
patriots against cruelty and oppression
and our best hopes go out for the fu
success 10 that determined contest (,
liberty.
The government of Spain, having 10
control Of Cuba, and being unable TO pr
tect the property or lives of resdel
American citizens, or TO comply with j
treaty obligations, we believe that u