Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1892 — Principal Points of the Platform. [ARTICLE]

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, q,, We demand that on all imports competing ■with the products of American labor duties should be levied equal to the tween wages at home and abroa-i. We ask the people to pronounce a’venlict upon the cowardly course of the Democrats in attacking the tariff piecemeal. We believe in reciprocity, which has opened new markets for the products of Jthe .workshop and thefar nt. . - We believe in the use of both go'd-and silver money.' We demand that every dollar ,2>Tetherjof gold, silver.or paper, shalllbe other dollar- “' ‘ We believe in an international conference out the w.erld. -7 demapd that every, citizen, r ich er poor native er foreign b£rn, w hito or. black, shall be permitted to cast one ballot and have it counted as he cast it. * We propose to keep on lighting t ill we hat e honest elections in every State. We favor the revival of ouriforelgn com-, merce in American ships. a •< We demand a navy to protect our interests and maintain the honor of our flag. WWdemsnd that arbitrary combinations o capital to control trade conditions shall be rigidly regulated. We believe in wise and consistent civil service reform. ‘S” 4 . We believe in admitting all the Territories into the Union as soon as they are qualified for entrance.

We reaffirm the Monroe doctrine. We demand the restriction Of criminal) pauper, and contract immigration. We demand that the employees of railroads, minesand factories shall be protected against all needless dangers. ' We sympathize with the oppressed in every land. We demand freedom of speech and of the press. We believe in popular e location. We favor the construction and control of the Nicaragua canal by Americans. We bob eve in self government for territor les. We believe that the Columbian Expositions should be msde a success worthy of the s-aity and progress of the nation, and that tire government should aid in this if necessary. We'sympathiz- 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 an other administration Just as good for the next four years

A BRITISH VIEW OF OtJR TARIFF. “The promoters of the McKinley tariff meant it to push forward the policy of America for Americans. ' Ohe method of realizing it was to keep all work uf thin their own dominions. The Country was to be made self-supplying; what could be produced at home was not to be bought abroad.' That was the key-note of the McKinley scheme, and it is working the idea, of its designers with the precision and effectiveness of a mapApie.—Sheffield Daily Telegraph.