Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-25

perpetual menace hanging over the
redemption fund, pawned American
credit to alien syndicates, and revers-
ed all the measures and results of
successful Republican rule.
In the broad effect of its policy il
has precipitated panic, blighted in
dustry and trade, reduced work and
wages and enterprise, and crippled
American production while stimulat-
ing foreign production for the Amer
lean market. Every consideration OF
public safety and individual interests
demands that the Government shall
be rescued from the hands of those
who have shown themselves incapa-
bic to conduct it without disaster at
home and dIshonor abroad, and shall
be restored the party which for 80
years administered it with unequaled
success and prosperity. And in this
connection we heartily Indorse the
wisdom, the patriotism and the sue
cess of the administration of President
Harrison.
| TARIFF.
We renew and emphasize our al
iegiance to the policy of protection as
the bulwark of American industrial
independence and the foundation of
American development and prosper
ity. This true American policy taxes
foreign products and encourages
home industry; it puts the burden of
revenue on foreign goods; it secures
the American market for the Ameri-
can producer; it upholds the Ameri-
can standard of wages for the Ameri-
can workingman; it puts the factory
by the side of the farm and makes the
American farmer less dependent on
foreign demand and price; it diffuses
general thrift and founds the strength
OF all on the strength of each. In it's
reasonable application it ie just, fair
and impartial, equally opposed to for
eign control and domestic monopoly;
to sectional discrimination and indi-
vidual favoritism.
We denounce the present Demo-
cratic tariff as sectional, injurious to
the pubic etsssiit ard desia sic Il I to
business enterprise. We demand such
an equitable tariff on foreign imports
| which come into competition with
| American products as will not only
furnish adequate revenue for the nee
essary expenses of the Government,
but will protect American labor from
degradation to the wage level of other
lands. We are not pledged to any
particular schedules. The question
of rates is practical question to be
governed by the conditions of the
time and of productions; the ruling
and uncompromising principle is the
protection and development of Amer
lean labor and industry. The coun-
try demands right settlement, and
then it wants rest.
RECIPROCITY.
We believe the repeal of the re-
ciprocity arrangements negotiated by
the last Republican administration
was a national calamity, and we de-
mand their renewal and extension on
such terms as will equalize our trade
with other nations, remove the re-
strictions which now obstruct the sale
of American products in ports of
other countries and secure enlarged
markets for the products of
our farms, forests and fac
tories. Protection and reciprocity
are twin measures of Republican pol
icy and go hand in hand. Democrat
ic rule has recklessly struck down
both, and both must be re- established.
Protection for what we produce; free
admission for the necessaries of life
which we do not produce; reciprocal
agreements of equal interests which
gain open markets for us in return for
our open market to others. Protec-
tion builds up domestic industry and
trade and secures our own market for
ourselves; reciprocity builds up for
eign trade and finds an outlet for our
surplus.
We condemn the present admins
tration for not keeping faith with the
sugar producers of this country. The
Republican party favors such protec-
tion as will lead to the protection on
American soil of all the sugar which
the American people use and for
which they pay other countries more
than 21O0 oO0 On0 annuallv