The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-16

l and have already begun to export to 1 the English markets
 | For the first time in our history the l past two years show an excess of eX- 1 ports over imports in all lines of manu- factured goods, amounting in the ag- gregate to more than $30,000,000, but of our total exports only "A per cent came from our shops and factories and 71 per cent, from our farms and fields.
 It Is not an impossible task for Amer ican skill and ingenuity, backed by American statesmanship, to hold the home market by protective tariff, and conquer the worlds markets by recip- rocity, but to do 1t we must not only buy and sell in gold but we must throw off every useles financial burden here,
 We captured Santiago by prowess of our arms. and were received in Porto Rico with glad rejoicing, but in neither country would they accept our silver dollars at more than fifty cents apiece.
 Four-tifths of all the trade of the countries to the south of us on this western hemisphere is done with for eign nations, and the one-fifth which we do have Is paid for in English gold.
 l want an American dollar which can travel around the world and find a well come everywhere, and which, in every cline, and among every people, will speak for the honor and dignity and financial integrity of the United States l of America.
 To have this, and have it beyond dispute, we must write it in our stat utes that an American dollar is fixed quantity of fine gold, and that all other forms of money are redeemable in that and that all obligations for the. pay ment of money shall be in accord there l with.
 Two years ago Connecticut was the first of all the states in it's percentage of gain in the republican vote.
 Let us lead the union now in demand ing that 'The peoples purpose be giv- en the vitality of public law
 At the conclusion of MT. Hills speech Hon. Samuel Fessenden, chairman of the committee on resolutions, reported the following platform, which was adopted unanimously: ... The republican party of the state of Connecticut in convention assembled, endorses and sustains the administra- tion of it's great leader, William Me- Kinley, and declares that by his devo- tion to his country; by his fidelity to the high trust reposed in him by the American people; by the wisdom and patriotic character of his public acts, speeches and messages, he has en- deared himself to the hearts, and won the confidence and love of his country l men.
 It heartily approves his course in seeking first, a solution of the questions at issue between our country and Spain l without war; comments his wise and 4 prudent forbearance in exhausting ev- cry honorable means of averting it; and while in the meantime so endeav- bring to maintain peace with honor, I preparing for it, and when it could not honorably be avoided, meeting it with rare skill, and with sublime courage, 4 conducting it unto glorious victory, ! and so wisely that the people, of all I sections of our country have been I periodically united as never before.
 It declares that the statesmanship, I wisdom and commanding courage 
 trying period entitle him to the last ing gratitude of the American people.
 It declares it's most unbounded con- fidence in him and his constitutional advisers, and congratulates the people of America upon the sagacity, firmness and patriotism which have marked the conduct of the war, and have brought in so brief a period such marvellous | success.
 It confidently appeals to the electors of the state to trust to the president and to his constitutional advisers to wisely determine the conditions of peace which necessarily involve our future relations to Cuba and the ulti- Philippine Islands.
 The brave soldiers and sailors of our republic in this, as in all other wars in which they have engaged, have won undying fame, and covered the dear old flag with glory and with honor. They have endured much sickness, many hardships; they have made great sacrifices, some even unto death, and | all alike have earned, and will ever re- ceive the highest need of praise and the most profound esteem of a grateful and generous people.
 l It, therefore, declares it's appreciation of the noble and patriotic services of 1 all our brave soldiers and sailors, and of their heroic sacrifices, and if by the misconduct or incompetency of any off, ficials their health or their lives have been unnecessarily endangered or sac rificed, it implicitely trusts that the president and his constitutional ad- visers will make such investigation as will bring the offenders, regardless of past or present political affiliations, to condign punishment.
 l It declares that by the platform of their state convention of April, 1896, | the republicans of Connecticut were | among the first to uneauivocally advo- | cate sound money and to unreservedly favor "a single standard of value and that standard gold"
 That this declaration has met the ap- proval of great majority of the intel ligent voters of this state is shown by the overwhelming victory gained by our party in November of that year 1 through the ballots of both republicans i and patriotic gold democrats. That this is the true, safe and great principle of an honest and successful | financial policy is already clearly indi- | +.,1,l T