The National tribune., 1900-06-28
PROTECTIVE POLICY INpoRsEp.


We renew our faith in the policy of pro
| lection to American labor. In that policy
our industries have been established, di
yersifed and maintained. By protecting
| the home market competition has beer
| stimulated and production cheapened. Op
| pertunity to the inventive genius of oul
| people has been secured and wages in
| every department of labor maintained al
| high rates, higher now than ever before
and always distinguishing our working
| people in their better conditions of life
from those of any competing country.
Enjoying the blessings of the American
common school, secure in the right of self
government and protected in the occu.
pancy of their own markets, their con.
stantly increasing knowledge and skill
have enabled them finally to enter the
markets of the world. We favor the as,
sociated policy of reciprocity so directed
as to open our markets on favorable terms
for what we do not ourselves produce in
return for free foreign markets.
TO RESTRICT IMMIGRATION.
In the further interests of American
Workmen we favor more effective re-
striction of the immigration of cheap labor
from foreign lands, the extension of op-
portunities of education for working chill
dren, the raising of the age limit for cl.ild
labor, the protection of free labor as
against contract convict labor and an eff
fective system of labor insurance.
FOR SUBSIDY SHIPPING LAW.
Our present dependence upon foreign
shipping for nine-tenths of our foreign
carrying is great loss to the industry
OF this country. 1t is also a serious dam
ger to our trade, for its sudden withdra wal
IN the event of European war would SER
iously cripple our expanding foreign COM
merce. The National defense and naval
efficiency of this country, moreover, sup
ply n compelling reason for legislation
which will enable us to recover our former
place among the trade-carrying Geets of
The world.
LIBERAL PENSIONS.
The Nation owes a debt of profound
gratitude TO the soldiers and sailors who
have fought its battles, and it is the Gov
ernment's duty to provide for the surviv-
ors and for the widows and orphans of
those who have fallen in the countrys
wars. The pension laws, founded in this
Just sentiment, should be liberal and
should be literally administered and pref
erence should be given wherever practical
Bile with respect to employment in the pub
lie service to soldiers and sailors and to
their widows and orphans.
TO MAINTAIN CIVIL SERVICE.
We commend the policy of the Repuh-
lican party in maintaining the efficiency cf
the Civil Service. The Administration
idS dClcu WISELY III eHOTt TO secure IOr
public service in Cuba, Porto Rico. Hawaii
and the Philippine Islands only those
whose fitness has been determined by
training and experience. We believe thar
employment in the public service in these
Territories should be confined as far as
practicable to their inhabitants.
TO SUPPORT THE XvTH AMENDMENT
1t was the plain purpose of the 18th
amendment to the Constitution to prevent
discrimination on account of race or color
in regulating the elective franchise. De
vices of State Governments, whether by
statutory or constitutional enactment to
avoid the purpose of this amendment are
revolutionary and should be condemned.
Public movements looking to Il perman-
ent Improvement of the roads and high
ways of the country meet with our cordial
approval, and we recommend this subject
to the earnest consideration of the people
and of the legislatures of the several
States.
FREE POSTAL DELIVERY AND FREE HOMES.
We favor the extension of the rural free
delivery service wherever its extension
may be justified.
In further pursuance of the constant
policy of the Republican party TO provide
free homes on the public domain we rec
adequate National legislation TO
reclaim the arid lands of the United
States, reserying control of the distribu-