The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-06-19

For the first time since the civil war tn,
American people have now witnessed the calam
itous consequences of full and unrestricted
Democratic control OF the government. 1t ha
been record of an unparalleled incapacity, dis
honor and disaster. In the administrative man
agement it has rutnlessly sacrificed indispen
sable revenue, eked out ordinary current run
ming expenses with borrowed money, piled NJ
the public debt S262 100000 in time of peace
forced an adverse balance of trade, kept per
petua menace hanging over the redemption
fund, pawned American credit to alien syndi
Gates and reversed all the measures and results
of successful Republican rule.
In the broad effect of its policy ii has prccipi'
tated panic, bligbted industry and trade with
prolonged depression, closed factories, reduced
work and wages, halted enterprises, crippled
American production for the American market.
Every consideration of public and individual
safety demands that the government shall he
rescued from the hands of those who have
shown themselves incapable of conducting it
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.
We renew and emphasize our allegiance TO the
policy of protection as the work of American
independence and the foundation of American
development and prosperity. This true Ameri
can policy taxes foreign products and encour-
ages home industry: 1t puts the burden of rev
enuc on foreign goods; 1t secures the American
market for the American producer; it upholds
the American standard of wages for the Ameri
can worbingman; il puts the factory by the side
of the farm and makes the American farmer
less dependent on foreign demand and prices; 1t
diffuses general thrift and POUNDS the strength
of all on the strength of each.
In its responsible application 1t Is Just, lair
and impartial, equally opposed to foreign con
troll and domestic monopoly, TO sectional dis
crimination and individual favoritism.
We denounec the present Democratic tariff as
sectional, partisan and one sided, and disastrous
to the country and destructive to business en-
terprise. We demand such an equitable tariff
on foreign imports that come into competition
with our products as will not only furnish rev
enuc for the necessary expenses of the govern.
ment, but will protect American labor from
degradation and the wages OF other lands. We
are not pledged to any particular schedule. The
question of rates is practical question TO be
governed by the condition at the time of pro-
tuction. The ruling principle is the protection
and development OF American labor and indus,
Try. The country wants right settlement, and
then it wants rest.
"The Republican party is unreservedly for
sound money. II caused the enactment of the
aw providing for the resumption Of specie pay |
nent in 1879; stree then every dollar has been |
Is good as gold. |
''Wc are unatcrably opposed TO every feat |
III calculated to debase our currency or i'm |
pair the credit of our country. We are there |
ore opposed 10 the free coinage of silver en-
'cpt by International agreement with the lead
Dg commercial nations of the world, which we
hedge ourselve to promote. and until such 1
greemcnt can he 0,t.,.i,e'i the existing gold
tandard must he preserved All our silver and
'apcr currency now IN circulation must bc
pajntained a, parity with gold, aud we favor
1lmeasures designed 20 maintain inviofably the
bligaticns of the United States and an our !