Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-06-28

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ness activity, and for the purpose OF fur
Their equalizing and of further lowering the
rate of interest, we favor such monetary
legislation as will enable the varying needs
of the season and of all sections to be
promptly met, in order that trade may be
evenly sustained, labor steadily employed
and commerce enlarged.
The volume of money in circulation was
never SO great, per capita, as it is today
We declare our steadfsst opposition to the
free and unlimited coinage of silver. No
measure to that end could be considered
which was without the support of the lead
ing commercial countries Of the world.
However firmly Republican legislation may
seem TO have secured the country against
the peril of base and discredited currency,
the election of a Democratic President
could not fail to impair the country's
credit and to bring once more into ques'
ton the intention of the American people
to maintain upon the gold standard the
parity of their money circulation. The
Democratic party must be convinced that
the American people will never tolerate
the Chicago platform.
We recognize the necessity and propriety
of the honest operation OF capital to meet
new business conditions and especially to
extend our rapidly increasing foreign
trade, but we condemn all conspiracies
and combinations intended to restrict bust
ness, to create monopolies, to limit pro-
duction, or to control prices, and favor
such legislation as will effectively restrain
and prevent all such abuses, protect and
promote competition and secure the rights
of producers, laborers and all who are en-
gagged in industry and commerce.
We renew our faith in the policy of pro-
lection to American labor In that policy
our industries have been established, di-
versified and maintained. By protecting
the home market competition has been
stimulated and production cheapened'
Opportunity to the inventive genius OF our
people has been secured and wages In
every department Of labor maintained at
high rates, higher now than ever before,
and always distinguishing our working
people in their better condition 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
nave enabled them finally to enter the
markets of the world. We favor the asso'
ciated 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.
In the further interest of American work
men we favor more effective restriction
of the immigration of cheap labor from
foreign lands, the extension of opportunl'
ties of education for working children, the
raising of the age limit for child labor, and
the protection of free labor as against con-
tract convict labor and an effective system
of labor insurance.
Our present dependence upon foreign
shipping for nine-tenths of our foreign car
rying is great loss to the industry Of thl'
, country. 1t is also a serious danger to oul
trade, for its sudden withdrawal in The
event of European war would seriously
, cripple our expanding foreign commerce
2 The national defense and naval efficiency
} of this country, moreover, supply com
polling reason for legislation which vii
enable us to recover our former place
among the trade carrying fleets OF TIT
} world
D The nation owes a debt of profound
8 gratitude to the soldiers and sailors whit
. have fought in its battles, and it is tn
Governments duty to provide for the sur
r vivors and for the widows and orphans
l.. those who have fallen in the country
e wars. The pension laws founded in thi
Just sentiment, should be liberal and shoul'
r be literally administered and preference
q should be given wherever practicable Will
: respect to employment in the public ser
r vice to soldiers and sailors and to thei
widows and orphans.
e We commend the policy of the Republi
t can party in maintaining the efficiency o
t the Civil Service rules. The Administra
!, ton has acted wisely in its efforts to secur
f for public service in Cuba, Porto Rico
=. Hawaii and the Philippine Islands onl
f those whose fitness has been determines
n by training AID experience. We believ
: that employment in the public service il
those territories should be confined as ia
+ as practicable to their inhabitants.
e 1t was the plain purpose of the fifteenth
D amendment to the Constitution to proven
e discrimination on account of race or colo
r in regulating the elective franchise. De
t vices of State governments whether b.
e statutory or constitutional enactments t.
= avoid the purpose of this amendment ar
. revolutionary and should be condemned
t Public movements looking to a perma
s nent improvement of the roads and high
. ways of the country meet with our cordia
< approval and we recommend this subjec
/ to the earnest consideration of the peopl
e and of the Legislatures of theseveral States
e We favor the extension of the rural FIRE
= delivery service wherever the extension
q may be justified.
}. In further pursuance of the constan
' policy of the Republican party to provid
free homes on the public domain We rec
!. ommend adequate national legislation +
: reclaim the arid lands of the United States
i reserving control of the distribution o
: water for irrigation to the respective State
e and Territories.
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