Lincoln County leader., June 29, 1900, Image 4

Lincoln County Leader.
CHARLES F. ROXJLE, )
ADA E,; SOULE, Phoprietobb.
Official County Paper.
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Fon PttKBiniiNiVf
William MeKinley
For Vice Piikhidknt
Theodore liooserelt
HEPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
Tlio following in the complete text of
the platform adopted by the Republican
National Convention :
The UepublicniiH of the United States,
through their chosen representatives,
met in National 1 convention, looking
back upon an unsurpassed word of
achievement and looking forward into a
great field of duty and opportunity, and
appealing to the judgment of their coun
trymen, make these declaration:
The expectations in which the Ameri
can people, turned from the Democratic
party, entriinted the jwwerof the United
State four years ago to a Republican
Chief Magistrate and a Uopublican Con
gress, has been met and satisfied. When
llic people tlien assembled at the polls,
after a term of Democratic legislaion
and administration, business was dead,
industry paralyzed and the National
credit disastrously impaired. The couii
try's capital was hidden away and its
labor distressed and unemployed. The
Democrats had no other plan with which
to improve the ruinous conditions which
they hail themselves produced than to
coin silver at the ratio of hi to 1. The
Republican party, denouncing this plan
as sure to produce conditions even worse
than those-from which relief was sought,
promised to restore prosperity by means
of two legislative measures a protective
tariff and a law making gold the stand
ard of value. The people, by great ma
jorities, issued to the Republican party
a commission to enact these laws. This
commission has been executed, and the
Republican pledge is redeemed; and
prosperity more general and more abun
dant tin m we have ever known has fol
lowed these enactments.
There is no louger any controversy as
to the value of any government obliga
tions, Kvcry American dollar is a gold
dollar or its equivalent, and American
Credit stands higher than that of any
oth.r nation. Capital is fully employed,
and everywhere labor is profitably oc
cupied. No Bingle fact can more strikingly tell
the story of what Republican govern
ment means to the country than this
that while during the whole-period of i)G
years from 1801 to 1897 there was an ex
cess of exports over imports of only
J:i8:i,0i!8,497, there has been in the short
three years of the present Republican
administration an excess of exports
over iipixirts in the enormous sum of
$1,483,738,040, and while the' American
people, sustained by this Republican
legislation, have been achieving these
splendid triumphs in their trade and
commerce, they have conducted, and in
victory concluded, a war for liberty and
human rights. No thought of national
aggrandizement tarnished the high pur
pose wjth which American standards
were unfurled. It was a war unsought
anil patiently resisted, but when it came
the American Government was ready.
Its HeoU were cleared for action. Its
jinnies were in the licld, and the quick
and signal triumphs of its forces on
lain! and sea bore equal tribute to the
courage of American soldiers and sailors
and to the foresight of Republican
statesmanship. To ten millions of the
human rce there was given "a new
birth of freedom," and to the American
people a new and noble responsibility.
e endorse the Administration of
Wiliiani McKiutcy. Its acts have been
established in wisdom and in patriotism,
and at home and abroad it has distinctly
elevated and extended the intlueuce of
the American Nation. Walking untried
paths and facing unforeseen responsibil
ities, President MoKinley 1ms been in
every situation the true' American pa
triot and upright statesman, clear in
vision, strong in judgment, linn in
action, always inspiring and deserving
the confidence of his countryni'Mi.
In asking the American people to iiw
dorso thin Republican record and to,
renew their commission to the Repub
lican rurty, wo remind them of the fact
that the menace to their prosperity has
always resided in Democratic principle
and no less in the general incapacity of
the Democratic party to conduct public
affairs. The prime cscntiil of business
prosperity is public eontideneo in the
good sense of the liovernment and iis
ability to deal intelligently with Mil new
problems of administration and legisla
tion. That confidence the lMnocriitie
jmrty has never earned U is hopelessly
inadequate, aiui the country prosper
ity, vt hen iVmocralie success'at W polls
is uniu'iinced, halts ami cease in mere
luiticipation of Democrat ie blunder and
(ailures.
We renew our allegiance to the princi
ple of the gold standard, and declare our
eontidence in the wisdom of the legisla
tion of the Fifty-sixth Congress, by
which the parity of all our money and
the stability of our currency mi a gold
basis bus been seiu ed. We recognize
that interest rates are a potent factor in
protection and business activity, and for
the purpose of further equali.ing and of
further lowering the rates of interest we
favor siti'li monetary legislation as will
pliable the varying heed of (lie sea-on
(mil of all sectiomi to be properly met in
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 canita as it is todav. '
- .
e declare our steadfast opposition to
the free and unlimited coinage of silver.
jo measure to that end could be consid
ered which was without the support of
the leading commercial countries of the
world. However firmly Repulican legis
lation may seem to have secured the
country against the peril of a 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 ujwn
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.
Wc recognize the necessity and propri
ety of the honest co-operation 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 crey.te 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
lished, diversified and maintained. Hy
Erotecting the home, competition has
cen stimulated and production cheap
ened. Opportunity to the inventive
genius of our people has been secured
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 self-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.
Wef avor 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 a more effective re
striction of the immigration of cheap
labor from foriegn lands, the extension
of opportunities of education for our
children, to raise the age limit for child
lalxir, 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 a great loss to the industries
of this country. It is also a serious
danger to our trade, for its sudden with
drawal m the event of a European war
would seriously cripple our expanding
foreign commerce. The National de
fence and Naval efficiency of this coun
try, moreover, supply a compelling rea
son for legislation which will enable us
to recover our former place among the
trade-carrying lleets 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
Government's 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 bo liberal and
should be loyally administered, and
preference should' be given, wherever
practicable, with respc ct to employment
in the public service, to soldiers and
sailors and to their widows and oi phans.
We commend the policy of the Repub
lican party in maintaii.iiig the eflieieney
of the civil service. The Administra
tion has acted wisely in its effort to se
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, as far as practicable, to their
inhabitants.
It was the plain purpose of the 15th
amendment to the Constitution to pre
vent discrimination on account of ace
or color in 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 a 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 I.eghlaturefi of
the i-everal states.
We favor the extension of the rural
free delivery service wherever its exten
sion may be justified.
In further pursuance of the constant
policy of the Republican pnr:y to pro
vide free homes on the public' domain,
we recommend adequate National legis
iation to reclaim the arid lands of the
Foiled States, reserving control of the
distribution ot water for irrigation to
the respective states and territories.
We favor home rule for mid the early
admission to statehood of the territories
of New Mexico. Arizona and Oklahoma.
The Pingley aft, amended to provide
Hiitlleient revenue lor the conduct of
the war, has so well perfected its work
that it has been possible to reduce the
war debt iu tlio uui of 1 10,t)00,lXtl. So
amide are t lie Government's revenues
and so great, is the public confidence in
the integrity of its obligations that its
newly funded U per cent boiuU sell ut a
premium. I he country is now justified
in expecting ami it will be the policy of
the Republican party lo bring about u
induct ion of the war taxes.
Wo favor the coiifctriiet ion. owner
ship, control and protection of tut isth- j
niiiin euiuil by the Government of the j
United States. '
New markets Hre necessary for the j
increasing surplus of our farm pro-1
I'ticts. Every effort shuidd bo wade (a.
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open and obtain new markets, especially
in the Orient, and the Administration
is warmly to be commended for its suc
cessful effort to commit all trading and
colonizing nationa to the policy of the
open door in China.
In the interest of our expanding
commerce, we recommend that Co
gress create a Department of Com
merce and Industries in the charge of
a Secretary with a seat in the. Cabinet.
The United States Consular system
should be reorganized underthesupei
vision of this new department, udou
such a basis of appointment and tenure
as will render it still more serviceable
to the Nation's increasing trade.
The American Government must
protect, the person and property of
every citizen, wherever they are wrong
fully violated or placed in peril.
We congratulate the women of Amer
ica upon their splendid record of pub
lic service in the volunteer aid assot.ia-
tion and ns nnryfiS in Mmnnnil Vwisnil-ul
aYi vicinity to the New Spring Goods now
consisting 01
to Wealth $
: IS BMT BUYING. .
The Yaquina Bay Mercantile Co. desires
to call the attention of residents of Toledo
all works of education aiTlVlllfif,
'
co-operation in
and industry.
President McKinley has conducted
the foreign affairs of the United States
with distinguished credit to the Amer
ican people.
In releasing us from the vexatious
European alliance for the government
of Samoa, his course is especially to ba
commended. Tjy securing to our un
divided control the most, important
island of the Samoan group and the
best harbor iu the Southern Pacific,
every American interest has been safe
guarded. We approve the cannexHtion of tlio
Hawaiian Islnnds to the United States.
We recommend the part taken by our
Government in the Dence conference nr.
The HatriiH Wo wnrt oar ntcd'tnt j
adherence to the policy announced in
the Monroe Doctrine. The provisions'
of The JIugue conference were wisely !
regarded wheu President M"Kiuley j
tendered ins triendly omo.es iu the in
terest of peace between Great Britain
and 1 he South African Republics.
While the American Goverunrent must
continue the policy prescribed by
Washington, affirmed by every suc
ceeding President, and imposed upon
ns by The Hague treaty of noninter
vention iu European controversies, the
American people earnestly hope that u
way may soon be found, honorable
alike to both contending parties, to
terminate the strife between them.
In accepting, by the treaty of Paris,
the responsibility of our victories in
the Spanish War, the President anil
Senate won the undoubted approval of
the American people. No other course
was possible than to destroy. Spain's
sovereignty throughout the West In
dies and in the Philippine Islands.
That caurse created our responsibility
before the world the uuorgauized popu
lation whom our intervention had freed
from Spain, to provide for the main
tenance of law and order and for the
establishment of good government and
performance of international obliga
tions. Our authority could not be less
than our responsibility, and wherever
sovereign rights were extended it be
came the high duty of the Government
to maintain its authority to put down
armed insurrection and to confer the
blessings of liberty and civilization on
all the rescued peoples.
The largest, measure of self govern
ment consistent with thoir welfare and
our duties shall be secured to them by
biw. To Cuba, independence and self-
Ktnei nmeiii, were assured 111 me same m tj VTa-ir a 4.
voice by which war was declared, and I A J- X lollj ACIlt,
10 tue letter this pledge shall be per
formed. The Ilepnblioan parly, upon its his
tory. and upon this declaration of its
principles and policies, confidently in
vokes the considerate and approving
judgment of the American people.
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J and Hats at prices to suit all.
Respectfully,
The
Y.
Mere. Co.
Cedar Mill and Fixture Company
0. B. AliTUEE, Manager.
Dealers
in
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