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Show 1 jr Jjf f rk GOVERNOR ROOSEVELT JN ROLGII EIDER UNIFORM. We renew our allegiance to the principle of the gold standard, and declare our conlidenee in the wisdom of the legislat ion of the Fit ty-sixth ty-sixth Congress by which lhe parity or all oiir money and ihc stability of our currency on a gold basis has been secured. We recognize that interest rates are a potent factor in production and business activily, and lor lhe purpose of further equalizing and lowering low-ering the rates of interest we favor such mono- etary legislation as will enable lhe varying needs of the season and of alt seetii ns lo be l properly mot in order that trade may be evenly sustained, labor st-adily employed and commerce enlarged. The volume of money In circulation was never so great per capila as it is today. We declare our steadfast opposition to the free and unlimited coinage of silver. No mea- i sure to that end could be considered which was i without the support of the leading commercial countries of the world. However lirmly He- publican legislation m iv seem to have secured I tho country against the'peiii of base and dis- i credited currency, the election of a Democratic I president could not fail to impair the country's i credit and to bring once more intoquestion the I intention of the American people to maintain : upon the gold standard the parity of their j money circulation. Tee De-nocratic party ' must be convinced that the American people ! will never tolerate the Chicago platform. j We recognize the necessity and propriety of I the honest co-operation ot capital to meet new i business conditions and especially to extend ' our rapidly increasing foreign trade, but we : condemn all eonspiraees aud combinations intended in-tended to restrict business, to create monopolies, monopo-lies, to limit produetion or to control pri es and favor sucn legislation ns will effectually restrain re-strain and prevent all such abuses, protect and tendered his friendly offices In the interest ot peace between (.Ircat liritain and the South Airican republics. While tho American government gov-ernment must continue the policy prescribed by Wasnington. alllrmed by every succeeding president, and Imposed upon us by The Hague treaty of non-intervention in European controversies, contro-versies, the American people earnestly hope that a 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 re-sponsibility of our victories in the Spanish war, the president and the senate won the undoubted un-doubted approval of the American people. No other course was possible lhan to destroy Spain's sovereignty throughout the West Indies and in the Philippine islands. That c urse created our res; onlbility before the world, aud with the unorganized population whom our intervention in-tervention hail freed from Spain, to provide for the maintenance of law and order, and for tte establishment of good government, and lor tho pei-formauee of international obligai ions . Our authority could not be less than our responsibility, re-sponsibility, and wherever sovereign rights were extended, it became the high duty of Iho government to maintain Its authority.' to put down armed insurrection and to confer the blessines of liberty and civilization upon all the rescued peoples. The largest measure ot self-government consistent wnli their welfare and our duties shall be secfired to them by law. To Cuba, independence and s'if-govenimenl ore assured in the same voice bv w hich war was declared, and to the letter this plcde shall be pcrlormed. The Hepubliean party, upon its history and upon this declaration of its prineiiles and policies, eontiden: ly invokes the considerate and approving judgment of the American peo- pie. - . ? |