Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1900-06-21

confidence IN the WISDOM OF the 1cY sln.
ton of the Fifty-sixth congress by which
the parity of ali Of our money and the sta
bility OF our currency on a gold basis has
been secured. We recognize that interest
rates are a potent factor in production
and business activity and for the purpose
of further equalizing and further lower
ing the rates of interest, we favor such
| monetary legislation as will enable the
varying needs Of the season and OF all Sec
tions to be promptly met in order that
trade may be evenly sustained, labor
steadily employed and commerce en-
larged. The volume of money in circula-
tion was never SO great per capita as it is
today.
We declare our steadfast opposition to
the free and unlimited coinage of silver
No measure to that end could be consid-
cred which was without the support Of the
leading commercial countries of the
world.
National Credit in Danger.
However firmly Republican legislation
may seem to have secured the country
against the peril of base and dscredited
currency the election of q Democratic
president could not fail to impair the
| country's credit and to bring once more
| into question the intention of the Ameri-
| can people to maintain upon the gold
| standard the parity of their money circu.
| lation. The Dem0cratic party must be
| convinced that the American people will
never tolerate the Chicago platform.
We recognize the necessity and pro
priety of the honest cooperation of cap
ital to meet new business needs, especially
to extend our rapidly increasing foreign
trade, but we condemn all conspiracies
and combinations intended to restrict
business, to create nonopolies, to limit
production or to control prices and favor
such legislation as will effectually re-
strain and prevent all such abuses, pro-
tect and promote competition and secure
the rights of producers, laborers and all
who are engaged in industry and COM
merce.
Protection for american Labor. .
We renew our faith in the policy of pro-
lection to American labor. In that policy
our industries have been established, di-
versifed and maintained. BY protecting
the home market the competition has
been stimulated and prediction cheap
ened. Opportunity to the inventive
genius of our people has been secured and
wages in every department OF labor main
tanned at high rates, higher now than
ever before, always distinguishing our
working people in their better conditions
of life from those of any competing coun-
try Enjoying the blessings of American
common schools. secure in the right of
sen-governmenta and protected in the oc-
cupancy 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 pro
duce in return for free foreign markets.
The platform also favors liberal pen.
sions, irrigation Of arid lands, state.
hood for territories, government con.
struction of the Nicaragua canal, ap
proves the presidents foreign policy
and demands the retention Of the Phil,
ippines