Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-08-08
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
A Mastery Declaration Of Princi-
pies that win Insure Victory.


The Republicans Of the United States,
assembled by their representatives in
national convention, appealing Tor the
popular and historical justification Of
their claims to the matchless achieve
ucnts of thirty years of Republican rule,
earnestly and confidently address them
selves to the awakened intelligence, eN-
poricncc and conscience of their country
men in the following declaration OF facts
and principles:
For the first time since the Civil War
the American people have witnessed the
Nllmitous consequences of fun ana I'M
,Nstricted Democratic control OF the
4 lvernmcnt 1t has been a record OF
unparalleled incapacity, dishonor and DIS
aster. In administrative management IL
has ruthlessly sacrificed indispensable
revenue, cntailed an unccasinG dehclt,
eked out ordinary current expenses with
borrowed money, piled up the public debt
hy $262, O0O, 900 in time of peace, forced
an adverse balance of trade, kept a per-
petual menace hanging over the redemp-
ton fund, pawncd American credit 10
alien syndicates and reversed all the
measures and results of successful he
publican rule. In the broad effect OF IT'S
policy il has precipitated panic, blighted
industry and trade with prolonged de-
preston, closed factories, reduced work
and wages, halted enterprise and crippled
American production, while stimulating
foreign production for the American
market. Every consideration of public
safety and individual interest demands
that the government shall be rescued
from the hands of those who have shown
themselves incapable to conduct II with
cut disaster at home and dishonor abroad,
and shall be restored to the party which
for thirty years administered il with un-
Cqualcd success and prosperity. and III
this connection we heartily indorse the
wisdom, patriotism and success of the
administration of President Harrison.
Protection Is Reamrmcd.
We renew and emphasize our allegi-
ancc to the policy of protection as the
hulwark of American industrial indie
pcndence and the foundation of Ameri-
can development and prosperity. This
true American policy taxes foreign prod
ucts and encourages home industry; it
puts the burden of revenue on foreign
goods; it secures the American market
for the American producer; il uphOlds
the American standard of wages for the
American workingman; il puts the fac
tory by the side of the farm, and makes
the American farmer less dependent Oh
foreign demand and price; il diffuscs
general thrift and POUNDS the strength of
all on the strength of each. In its reason
ublt uIlnltdlIDu IL IN just, ldlI hlb III
partial, equally opposed to foreign con-
troll and domestic monopoly, to sectional
discrimination and individual favoritism.
We dcnOunCc the present Democratic
tariff as sectional, injurious TO the pub
lie credit and destructive to business en-
terprisc. We demand such m equitable
tariff on foreign imports which come into
competition with American products as
will not only furnish adequate revenue
for thn nnensSnrV nNnnnsps nI tho VnV-
crnmcnt, but will protect American la
Dor from degradation To the wage level
Of other lands. We are not pledged to
any particular schedules. The question
of rates is a practical question. to be
governed by the conditions of the time
and of productions: the ruling and un-
compromising principle is the protection
and development of American labor and
industry. The country demands Il right
settlement and then il wants rest.
Protection and Reciprocity.
We believe the repeal of the reciproci-
~ arrangements negotiated by the last
Republican administration vas n nation
nj calamity, and we demand their re-
ncwal and extension on such terms as
will cqualiZe our trade with other ma
tons, 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 Republican policy and go
hand IN hand. Democratic rule has rcck-
lcssly struck down both, and both must
be re-cstablished. Protection for what
we produce: free admission for the nee
c~sSarics of life which we do not produce;
reciprocal agrecmnts of mutual interests
which gain open markets for us in re-
turn for our open market to others. Pro-
lection builds up domestic industry and
trade, and secures our W market for
ourselves; reciprocity builds up foreign
trade and finds an outlet for our sur
plus.
Sugar Attitude Stated.
We condemn the present administra-
ton for not keeping faith with the sugar
producers of this country. The Repub-
lican party favors such protection rs will
lead TO the production on American soil
of all the sugar which the American peo.
pie use, and for which they pay other
countries more than 5000 00, 600 annual
ly.
American Products Favored.
To all our products-to those of the
mine and the field. as well as to those of
the shop and the factory-to henp. to
wool, the product of the great industry
of sheep husbandry, AS well as to the
finished woolens of the mill-we promise
the most ample protection.
Merchant Marine Restoration.
We favor restoring the early American
policy Of discriminating duties for the
upbuilding of our merchant marine and
the protection of our shipping i'm the for
eign carrying trade, so that American
s~hips-the product of American labor.
employed in American shipyards, sail.
ing under the Stars and Stripes and
manned, differed and owned by Ameri.
oans-may regain the carrying of our
foreign commerce.
For Sound Money.
The Republican party IN unreservedly
for sound money. 1t caused the enact.
ment of the law providing for the re-
sumption of specie payment in 1879,
since then every dollar has been as good
as gold.
We are unalterably opposed to every
measure calculated to debase our cur.
rency or impair the credit of our coun-
try. We are, therefore, opposed to the
free coinage of silver, except by interna-
tional agreement with the leading COM
merical nations of the world. which we
pledge ourselves TO promote, and until
such agreement can be obtained the ex-
listing gold sta ndard must be preserved.
All our silver and paper currency must
be maintained at parity with gold. and
we favor all measures designed 10 main
tain invoilably the obligations of the Init
ed States, and all our money, whether