The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1916-06-14
Full Text of the Republican Platform

absolute right of repatriation and pre-
vent all discrimination of whatever kind
between American citizens, whether
native born or alien, and regardless Of
race, religion or previous allegiance. We
renew the pledge to observe this prin-
ciple and maintain the right of asylum
which is neither to he surrendered nor
restricted, and we unite in the cherish
ed hope that the war which is now desc
lating the world may speedily end, with
q complete and lasting restoration Of
brotherhood among the nations of. the
earth and the assurance Of full equal
rights, civil and religious, to all men
in every land.
protection of the Country.
In order to maintain our peace and
make certain the security of our people
within our own borders, the country
must have not only adequate but thor
ough and complete national defense:
ready for any emergency. We must
have a sufficient and effective regular
army, and provision for ample re-
serves, already drilled and disciplined
who can be called at once to the colors
when the hour of danger comes.
We must have a navy so strong ana
so we'll proportional and equipped, so
Thoroughly ready and prepared, that no
enemy can gain command OF the sea
and effect a landing in force on either
our western or our eastern coast. To
secure these results we must have a
coherent and continuous policy of ma
tional defense, which even in these per
ilous days the democratic party failed
utterly to develop, but which we prom
Use to give to the country
Tariff.
The republican party stands now, ana
ialWays has, in the fullest sense for the
policy of tariff protection to American
| Industries and American labor and does
not regard an anti-dumping provision as
an adequate substitute. Such protection
should be reasonable in amount but
! sufficient to protect adequately Arneri-
can industry and American labor ana
tons by monopolies or trusts. 1t should
moreover, give special attention to Sc.
curing the industrial independence OF
the United States as in the case or
1 dyestuffs. -
lislation our industries can be so organ
| lied that they will become not. only a
commercial bulwark but powerful ala
| to national defense. -
The Underwood tariff act is complete
failure in every respect Under its ad-
ministration imports have increased
enormously, in spite of the fact that in
/ tercourse with foreign countries has
| been largely cut off by reason OF the
war. while the revenues Of which we
| ly reduced. Under the normal cond1-
tons which prevailed prior to the war,
it was clearly demonstrated that this act
| deprived the, AmericaneQroducer ana the
| American wage Garner of that protection
l which enabled them to meet their for
eign competitors, and but for the ad-
ventitious conditions created BY the war
would long since have paralyZed ali
forms of American industry and depriv-
ed American labor of its just reward
| It has not in the least reduced the
lcost of living, which has constantly adj
vanced from the date of it's enactment,
Welfare of our, people demands its re-
peal and the substitution OF measure
! which in peace as well as in war will
produce ample revenue and give reas-
enable protection to all forms OF Amer.
| lean production in mine, forest, field
| and factory.
mission with complete power to gather
| and compile information for the use or
congress in all matters relating to the
| tariff.
l The republican party has long be
|lieved in the rigid supervision and strict
regulation Of .the transportation and
Igreat corporations of the country. II
has put it's creed into its deeds, ana an
really effective laws regulating the rail-
roads and the great industrial corpora
tons are the work of republican con-
crosses and presidents. For this pollcy
Of regulation and supervision the demo-
Gratis, in stumbling and piecemeal way
are undertaking to involve the govern.
il
within the sphere of private enterprise
and in direct competition with its own
citizens. A policy which Is sure to re-
suit in great waste and expense TO the
taxpayer and in an inferior product.
The republican party firmly believes
that all who violate the laws in regu-
lation of business should be lndiVld-
ually punished. But prosecution is very
different from persecution, and business
success, no matter how honestly attain
ed ia apparently regarded by the dem
ocratic party as in itself crime. Such
doctrines and beliefs check enterprise
and stiae prosperity. The republican
party believes in encouraging American
business as it believes in and will seek
to advance all American interests.
". Rural Crsditz
We favor an effective system Of rural
credits as opposed to the ineffective law
passed by the present democratic. admin
istration. .. ~
4 Rural Free Delivery.
We favor the extension. of the rural