The Republican journal., 1896-06-25

strictlons which obstruct the sale of Ameri-
can products in the ports Of other countries,
and secure enlarged markets for the prod
ucts OF our farms, forests and factories.
Protection and reciprocity are twin meas
ures OF Republican policy, and go hand in
hand Democratic rule has recklessly struck
down both, and both must be re-esta blished
Protection for what we produce; free admis-
sion for the necessaries of life which we do
not produce; reciprocal agreements of mu-
tual 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 market for ourselves !;
reciprocity builds up foreign trade and finds
an outlet for our surplus.
SUGAR.
We condemn the present administration
for not keeping faith with the sugar produc-
ers 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
SlO00UO,0O0 annually.
WOOL AND WOOLENs.
To all our products-to those of the mine
and the field well as those of the shop
and factory-to hemp-to WOOL the product
OF the great industry of sheep husbandry as
well as the finished wooens of the mill-we
promise the most ample protection.
MERCHANT MARINE.
We favor the restoring of the early Ameri-
can 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, officered and own
ed by Amerlcans-may regain the carrying
OF our foreign commerce.
MONEY.
The Republican party is unreservedly for
sound money. 1t caused the enactment OF
the law providing for the resumption OF
specie payments in 1879; since then eyery
dollar has been as good as gold.
We are unaterably opposed to every meas
ure calculated to debase our currency or i'm
pair the credit of our country. We are op-
posed therefore, to the free coinage 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 in
violab'y the obligations of the United States
and al! our money, whether coin or paper,
at the present standard the standard of the
most enlightened nations of the earth
PENSIONS.
Tho ,-a+arans of tho Irnior .rr,;os aa.o
o,,i al,Td n; V'o 80; +.aa+ a. ud'oi No
erous recognition. Whenever 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 lulfllment of the
pledges made to them IN the dark days of
the country's peril. We denounce the prac-
tice in the pension bureau. so recklessly and
uniustly carried or hv the present admins
tration, of reducing pensions and arbitrarily
dropping names from the rolls as deserving
the severest condemnat on of the American
people.
FOREIGN RELATIONS.
our loftlgh PoticF Shoulu oe at all 'llnes
nrln' NisotYuS 5tnu llgpIieo, ap'l All our IA
tefests IN bhH western hemisphere carefully
~a1Hhe" ana s"afatd' me HaWallan
lsIahuS Sit"ulu oc epHCfoileu py tne Chlttu
o'aoeS, any ~ l"relgn pnWeF Shol,d oe per-
hlVtG' =" nue. iF-G ~" VilellI 0he NlCafasua
~ +ha IF,,itaa Sratas. anI ~, TIT. ,,,,rnt.,.t
Of the Danish stands We should secure a
proper and much needed naval station in
the West Indies.
ARMENIAN uAssACREs
=, 1t ~ l~nassatfes III armenia nave aroused
Vilo "efP - nlpa'iS 'h" JuSu h1'ighotloh on
tne american people, ana we peneVt that
huehee u can properly exert 70 hrlhg these
atrotitles 70 an ehu' IN turkey American
rtsloThts nave peen eAposeu 70 Viie gfaFest
,lii Iahg@fS al" American property destroyed.
There, and everywhere American citizens
and American property must be absolutely
protected al ali haZafds anu at any cost
Nnvpop nocrp,vr
We re-assert the Monroe doctrine in its
full extent, and we re-atfirm the right of the
United States to give the doctrine effect by
responding to the appeals of any American
State for friendly intervention III case of
European encroachment. We have not in
terfered, and shall not interfere, with the
existing possessions of any European power
IN TINS hemisphere, but those possessions
must not, on any preteXt, be extended, We
1itbdrawal of the Euronaan nowars from
this hemisnhere and 1o the intimate nnion
of ali the Enoiish-sneakinp mart of the CON
tinant Nv th4 fro. consent of its inlahitan+4
NonA.
From the hour Of achieving their own in
dependence the people of the United States
nave reRdfueu Win sS lhPdthy Ihe struggles
from Enrnnean dominatinn W. watch viii
dean and aMding interest tine heroir battla
Of tha OMAN natT;ots against crnaltv and ~
,,ression and onr hast homes go ont fnr ~
mn snccess of their deternined contest for
nn.rtv The povernment of Snain havina
lost control of Cuba, and being unable to
protect the property or hVes OF resident
American cltlZtnS, OF TO comply with Its