Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1892 — Principal Points of the Platform. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Principal Points of the Platform.

We believe in the American doctrine of ■protection. We believe that articles, except luxuries, which can not be produced in the United States should be admitted free of duty. We demand that on all imports competing with the products of American labor duties should be levied equal to the difference between wages at home and abroad. We ask the people to pronounce a verdict upon the cowardly course of the Democrats in attacking the tariff piecemeal. We believe in rtriproclty, which has opened new markets for the products of the workshop and the farm. We believe in the use of both gold and silver money. We demand that every dollar, whether of gold, silver or paper, shall be equal to every other dollar. We believe in an international conference to secure a party of gold and silver throughout the world. - We demand that every citizen,' rich or poor, native or foreign born, white dr black, shall be permitted to cast one ballot and have it counted as he cast it- a We propose to keep on fighting till we have honest elections in every State. We favor the revival of our foreign commerce in American ships. We demand a navy to protect our interests and maintain the honor of our flag. We demand that arbitrary combinations o capital to control trade conditions - shall be rigidly regulated. We believe in wise and consistent ch 11 service reform. We believe in admitting all the rerrltories into the Union as soon as they are qualified for entrance. We reaffirm the Monroe doctrine. We demand the restriettod of criminal pan per, and contract imm igrat ion. We demand that the employees of railroads, mines and factories shall be protected against allneedless dangers. We sympathize with the oppressed in every land. We demand freedom of speech and of the press. We believe in ~>opular education. We favor the construction and control of the Nicaragua canal by Americans. We bebeve in self government for territories. .2 , _L : We believe that the Columbian Exposition Should be made a success worthy of the dignity and progress of the nation, and that the government should aidinhhis if-neccssary. We sympathize with all legitimate efforts to promote temperance and morality. We pledge to the loyal veterans of the war for the Union the recognition that is theirs by right. We are proud of President Harrison's mag nificent administration. *> And we propose to give the country another administration just as good-for the next four years.

Fulton County will present the name of Valentine Zimmerman before the Democratic congressional covention. Pulaski county will name Judge George Burson and Cass will fight for the nomination of Judge John C. Nelson. Senator Hill has lost none of his political shrewdness, as his remarks about the tariff plank of the Democratic platform shows. He said: “The Tariff plank of the platform adopted at Chicago has made every worshop and factory in the United States a Republican campaign head-quarters.”

Canada is solid for the Democratic ticket Of course ,it is; the pinching of her toes which the protection given by the McKinley tariff law to American agricultural products is responsible for, is far from pleasant to Canada, which wants what the Democratic ticket and platform stands for—free trade. r ~~r-

“General the Prohibition candidate for president, destroyed $250,000 worth of vineyards,” we are told, but what did Cranfil of Texas destroy? Did he cut down his apple orchard because the fruit could be made into cider, deaden his peach trees because they would make brandy, burn his corn shocks because corn makes whiskey, or plow up his barley because it could be made into malt? So only the front end of the ticket is notably good? Let us hear of something the Texan has done.

To vote a straight Republican ticket staanip within the closing the eagle at the top*of the ballot, and nowhere else. If any other square is stamped in addition to the large square the ballot will be thrown out After stamping fold the ballot so as to* leave the initials of the poll clerk, on theoutside and hand to the electieo officers.

The followingquatrain is going the rounds of the democratic press. Poor souls,talent is so scarce among them that they call it a campaign song; they fairly howled themselves sick over it at the Chicago convention where it wae sung, by its great and gifted author Samuel Josephs, whoever he may be. Here it is:

Gro—ver, Gro— ver Four years more of In we go—out they go Then we’ll be in clo—ver. i.. This is the entire song including the chorus. Not much you’D say to make people wild with enthusiasm; but land !—when they found that nne of their number could write anything at- all that would do to sing their delight was boundless. The other side can sing back at them something probably like this: Gro—ver. Gro—vtr No more years of Gro—ver In we stay,—you can’t play Your game of “pigs in clo—ver.”

The free traders, anarchists and demagogues have long “had it in” for Andrew Carnegie, the principal owner of the Homestead iron works of Pittsburg, because through his gehius and application he has built up several great manufacturing establishments and thereby amassed a rather large fortune. To become possessed of a fortune through manufacturing enterprise and to be a Republican at the same time, is a mortal sin and as Senator Voorhees expresses it, if he could have his w£y he would hang them. If Carnegie had made his money like the Rockefellers and Whitney by building up a great monopoly, and freezing out all cnmphtition J or like Gould and Brice by wrecking railroad companies, and with it all been a democrat, as they are, he would have been a great and a good man.

False and misleading words and phrases may deceive the people at first, but the fraud cannot last long. The people have been thinking the matter over, and know that a “tariff for revenue only” means practically the same thing as free trade. A duty on coffee, for instance, would not protect American labor or. industry since we cannot grow that product. In all such cases the duties imposed is one for revenue only, and not in any sense for projection. Even where duties are levied on imports that ccme in competition with

home products, the tariff, if so. lbw that it does not check or abate importation, will be one for revenue alone, and not for protection. A revenue tariff is one adjusted so as to avoid any protection or discrimination in favor of home industry or labor. That acute old Democratic free trader, John C. Calhoun, aptly summoned up the whole question in this way: “No two things, Senators, are more different than duties for revenue and protection*. They are as opposite as light and darknessi The one is friendly and the other hostile to the importation of the article on which they may be imposedL”' '■ - - - ~" r Protection handicaps the foreign manufocturer, so he must compete with the home-producer on terms of equality. The revenue-only doctrine puts on only such light duties a» make it certain that the foreigner must win and hold the market.

In spite of the tremendous lying of the free traders and communists, the strike and> bloody battle at the Homestead- iron works, is nob a question of politics atTall nor even of wagest It is simply a question as to whether the mill should be controlled: by the owners orrby the labor unions The so-called cwt on wages which was the immediate pretexts for the strike affects only 325 out of the 3800 men employed irr the works, and reduces their earnings only 12 per cent on the averages What is mere,, the. 325 men, even at the reduced wages offered by comnanywould still ointlie average, earn at least double the daily - wages-, in days of eight hours length, thafcttie best mechanma in Rensselaer make in days of labours length. These workmen are paid by the ton.' for the iron and with thenew and improved machinery lately added to the works, it is a common figure for the men> toearn from $6 to $8 and evemsLoi per day.