Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-06-29

order that trade may be evenly sus- |
tained, 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 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. However firmly republican legis-
lation 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 question the intention of
the American people to maintain upon
the gold standard the parity of their
money circulation.
The Democratic party must be con-
vinced that the American people will
never tolerate the Chicago platform.
We recognize the necessity and propri-
ETY. of the honest cooperation of capital
to meet new business conditions and
especially to extend our rapidly increas-
ing foreign trade, but we condemn all
conspiracies and combinations intended
to restrict business, to create monopo-
lies, to limit production or to control
prices, and favor such legislation as will
effectually restrain and prevent all such
abuses, protect and promote competition
and secure the rights of producers,
laborers and all who are engaged in in
dustry and commerce
We renew our faith in the policy of
| protection to American labor. In that
policy our industries have been estab-
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protecting the home, competition has
ened. Opportunity to the inventive
and wages in every department of labor
maintained at high rates, higher new
than ever before, always distinguishing
our working people in their better con-
ditions of life from those of any compet-
ing country. Enjoying the blessings of
American common schools, secure in
the rights of elf-government and pro-
tected in the occupancy of their own
markets, their constantly increasing
knowledge and skill have enabled them
finally to enter the markets of the
world.
We favor the associated policy of reci-
procity, so directed as to open cur mar
kets on favorable terms for what we do
not ourselves produce in return for free
foreign markets.
In the further interest of American
workmen, we favor more effective re-
striction of the immigration of cheap
labor from foreign lands, the extension
of opportunities of education for our
children, to raise the age limit for child
labor, the protection of free labor as
against contract, convict labor and an
effective system of labor insurance.
Our present dependence on foreign
shipping for nine-tenths of our foreign
carrying is great loss to the industries
of this country. 1t is also serious
danger to our trade, for its sudden with.
drawal III the event of a European war
would seriously cripple our expanding
foreign commerce. The National de-
fence and Naval efficiency of this cour-
try, moreover, supply a compelling rea-
son for legislation which will enable us
to recover our former place among the
trade-carrying fleets of the world.
The Nation owes a debt of profound
gratitude to the soldiers and sailors who
have fought its battles and it is the
Governments duty to provide for the
survivors and for the widows and or
phans of those who have fallen in the
cOuntry's wars.
The pension laws, founded on this
just sentiment should be liberal and
should be loyalty administered, and
preference should be given, wherever
practicable, with respect to employment
in the public service, to soldiers and
sailors and to their widows and orphans
We commend the policy of the Repub-
lican party in maintaining the efficiency
of the civil service. The Administra-
ton has acted wisely in its effort to Sc
cure for public service in Cuba, Porto
Rico, Hawaii and the Philippine Islands
only those whose fitness has been deter
mined by training and experience. We
believe that employment in the public
service in these territories should be
confined, rs far MS practicable, to their
inhabitants.
1t was the plain purpose of the 18th
amendment to the Constitution to pre-
vent discrimination on account of race
or color i'll regulating the elective fran
chise. Devices 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 n per-
manent improvement Of the roads and
highways 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.
We favor the extension of the rural
free delivery service wherever its extern
sion may be justified.
In further pursuance OF the constant
policy OF the Republican parry to pro-
vide free homes on the public domain,
we recommend adequate National legis-
iation to reclaim the arid lands of the
United States, reserving control of the
distribution OF water for irrigation to
the respective states and territories.
We favor home rule for and the early
ndmissiNn To statehood OF tho territories