Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-25

WOOL AND wooLENs.

Il WOOL AND wooLENs.
| To all products-to those of the
mine and the field, as well as those OF
the shop and the factory, to hemp, to
wool, the product of the great indus
try OF sheep husbandry, as well as to
the finished woolens of the mill-we
promise the most ampleprotection.
! MERCHANT MAKINE.
| We favor restoring the early Amer
lean policy of discriminating duties
for the upbnilding of our merchant
marine and the protection of our ship
ping IN the foreign carrying trade, so
that American shippers4the product
of American labor, employed in
American shipyards, sailing under the
stars and stripes and manned, officer
ed and owned by Amerieans-mayr re-
gain the carrying of our foreign COM
| merce.
MONEY.
The Republican party ID unreserved-
Iy for sound money. II caused the
enactment of the law providing for
the resumption 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 cur
rency or impair the credit of our
county. We are therefore opposed
to the free coinage of silver except
by international agreement with the
leading commercial nations of the
world with 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 inviolably the obligations of
the United States and all our money,
whether coin or paper, at the present
standard, the standard of the most
enlightened nations of the earth.
PENSIONS.
The veterans of the Union armies
deserve and should receive fair treat
ment and generous 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 fulfill
ment of the pledges made to them in
the dark days of the eountry's peril.
We denounce the practice in the PEN
sion Bureau so recklessly and unjustly
carried on by the present Administra-
ton, of reducing pensions and arbi-
trarily dropping names from the rolls
as deserving the severest condemna-
ton of the American people.
FOREIGN RELATIONS.
Our foreign policy should be at all
times firm, vigorous and dignified, land
all our interests In the Western Hem
isphere carefully watched and guard
ed. The Hawaiian Islands should be
controlled by the United States and
no foreign power should be permitted
to interfere with them; the Nicaragua
Canal should be built, owned and OPP
Grated by The Uinted states, and by
the purchase of the Danish Islands we
should secure a proper and much
needed naval station in the West
Indies.
ARMENIAN MASsACRES
The massacres in Armenia have
aroused the deep sympathy and just
indignation of the American people,
and we believe that the United States
should exercise all the influence it can
properly exert to bring these atroci-
ties to an end. In Turkey American
residents have been exposed to the
greatest dangers and American prop
erty destroyed. There and every
where American citizens and Ameri-
can property must be absolutely pro-
tected at all hazards and at any cost.
MONROE DOCTRINE.
We reassert the Monroe doctrine in |
it's full extent and we re-affirm the |
right of the United States to give the
doctrine effect by responding to the |
of any American State for |
friendly Intervention in case of Euro |
pean eneroachment. We have not in |
terfered and shall not interfere with |
the existing possessions of any Euro |
pean power in this hemisphere, but |
those possessions must not, on any
pretext, be extended. We hopefully |
look forward to the eventual with |
drawal of the European powers from |
this hemisphere and to the ultimate |
union of all English speaking parts of
the continent by the free consent of
its inhabitants.
CUBA.
From the hour of achieving their |
own independence the people of the
United States have regarded with |
sympathy the struggles of the other
American people to free themselves
from European domination. We
watch with deep and abiding interest
the heroic battle of the Cuban patriots
against cruelty and oppression, and
our best hopes go out for the full sue
cess of their determined contest for
liberty.
The Government of Spain, having
lost control of Cuba, and being unable
to protect the property or lives of res
ident American citizens, or to comply
with its treaty obligations, we believe
that the Government of the United
States should actively use its influence
and good offices to restore peace and
give independence to the island.
THE NAVY.
The peace and security of the re-
public and the maintenance of its
rightful influence among the nations