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Show ADOPT PLATFORM FOR REPUBLICANS National Convention Formulates Principles for Party. AMERICANISM IS THE THEME Favors Peace, but Peace With Honor Compromise on Suffrage Indorses -Literacy Test and Demands Bigger Army and Navy. ' ' The Republican platform as adopted by the national convention follows: In 1861 the Republican party stood tor the Union. As it stood for the union of states, it now stands for a united people, true to American ideals loyal to American traditions, knowing no allegiance except to the Constitution, Constitu-tion, to the government, and to the flag of the United States. We believe in American policies at home and abroad. We declare that we believe in and will enforce the protection of every American citizen in all the rights secured se-cured to him by the Constitution, treaties, and the law of -"nations, at home and abroad, by land and sea. 'These rights, which in violation of the specific .promise of their party made t Baltimore in 1912, the Democratic president and the Democratic congress have failed to defend, we will unflinchingly unflinch-ingly maintain. We desire peace, the peace of justice jus-tice and right, and believe in maintaining main-taining a straight and honest neutrality neutral-ity between the belligerents in the great war in Europe. We must perform per-form all our duties and insist upon all our rights as neutrals without fear and without favor. We believe that peace and neutrality as well as the dignity and influence of the United States cannot be preserved by shifty expedients, by phrase making, by performances per-formances in language, or by attitudes ever changing in an effort to secure groups of voters. The present administration has destroyed de-stroyed our influence abroad and humiliated hu-miliated us in our own eyes. The Republican Re-publican party believes that a firm, consistent and courageous foreign policy pol-icy always maintained by Republican presidents in accordance with American Ameri-can traditions, is the best as it is the only true way to preserve our peace and restore us to our rightful place among the nations. We believe in the pacific settlement of international disputes dis-putes and favor the establishment of a world court for that purpose. MEXICAN POLICY DENOUNCED. We deeply sympathize with the fif "teen million people of Mexico, who for three years have seen their country devastated, their homes destroyed, their fellow citizens murdered, and their women outraged by armed bands of desperadoes led by self-seeking, conscienceless agitators, who, when temporarily successful in any locality, have neither sought nor been able to . restore order or establish and maintain main-tain peace. We express our horror and indignation indigna-tion at the outrages which have been and are being perpetrated by these bandits upon American men and worn-en worn-en who were or are in Mexico by invitation in-vitation of the laws and of the government govern-ment of that country, and whose rights to security of person and property prop-erty are guaranteed by solemn treaty obligations. We denounce the indefensible inde-fensible methods of interference employed em-ployed by this administration in the internal affairs of Mexico, and refer with shame to its failure to discharge the duty of this country as next friend to Mexico, its duty to other powers "who have relied upon us as such friend, and its duty to our citizens in Mexico, in permitting the continuance of such conditions, first by failure to act. promptly and firmly, and. second, toy lending its influence to the continuation continu-ation of such conditions through recognition rec-ognition of one of the factions responsible re-sponsible for these outrages. We pledge our aid in restoring order and maintaining peace in Mexico. We Iremise to our citizens on and near our border, and those in Mexico, wherever wher-ever they may be found, adequate and absolute protection in their lives, lib erty and properly. MOiNROE DOCTRINE AFFIRMED. We reaffirm our approval of the Monroe doctrine and declare its maintenance main-tenance to be a policy of this country essential - to its present and future peace and safety and to the achievement achieve-ment of its manifest destiny. We favor the continuance of Republican Repub-lican policies which will result in drawing more and more closely the commercial, fina?icial and social rela tions between this country and the countries of Latin America. We renew our allegiance to the Philippine Phil-ippine policy inaugurated by McKin-:ley. McKin-:ley. approved by congress, and consistently consist-ently curried out by Roosevelt and Taft. liven In this short time it has enormously improved the material and social' conditions of the Islands, given the Philippine people a constantly increasing in-creasing participation in their government, govern-ment, and if persisted in will bring still greater benefits in the future. We accepted the responsibility of the islands as a duty to civilization and the Filipino people. To leave with our task half done would break our pledges, injure our prestige among nations, and imperil what has already been accomplished. We condemn the Democratic administration admin-istration for its attempt to abandon the Philippines, which was prevented only by the vigorous opposition of Republican Re-publican members of congress, aided by a few patriotic Democrats. We reiterate our unqualified approval ap-proval of the action taken in December, Decem-ber, 1911, by the president and congress con-gress to secure with Russia, as with other countries, a treaty that will recognize rec-ognize the absolute right of expatriation expatria-tion and prevent all discrimination of whatever kind between American citizens, citi-zens, whether native born or alien and regardless of race, . religion, or previous political allegiance. We renew re-new the pledge to observe this principle prin-ciple and to maintain the right of asylum asy-lum which is neither to be surrendered surrend-ered nor restricted, and we unite in the cherished hope that the war which is now desolating the world may speedily end, with a complete and lasting restoration of brotherhood among the nations of the earth and the assurance of full equal rights, rtvil and religious, to all men in every ev-ery land. ADEQUATE ARMY AND NAVY. In order to maintain our peace and make certain the security of our people peo-ple within our own borders the country coun-try must have not only adequate but thorough and complete national defense, de-fense, ready for any emergency. We must have a sufficient and effective regular army, and a provision for ample am-ple reserves, already drilled and disciplined, dis-ciplined, who can be called at once to the colors when the hour of danger comes. We must have a navy so strong and so well proportioned 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 national defense, which even in these perilous days the Democratic party has utterly failed to develop, but which we promise to give to the country. TARIFF AID TO AMERICAN PLANTS. The Republican party stands now, always has. in the fullest sense, for the policy of tariff protection to American Amer-ican industries and American labor, and does not regard an antidumping provision as an adequate substitute. Such protection should be reasonable in amount, but sufficient to protect adequately American industry and I American labor and be so adjusted as to prevent undue exactions by monopolies or trusts. It should, moreover, more-over, give special attention to securing secur-ing the industrial independence of the United States, as in the case of dye-stuffs. dye-stuffs. Through wise tariff and industrial legislation our industries can be so organized that they will become not only a commercial bulwark hut a powerful pow-erful aid to national defense. The Underwood tariff act is a complete com-plete failure in every respect. Under its administration imports have enormously enor-mously increased in spite of the fact that the intercourse with foreign countries has been largely cut off by reason of the war, while the revenues of which we stand in such dire need have been greatly reduced. Under the normal conditions which prevailed prior to the war it was clearly demonstrated demon-strated that this act deprived the American producer and the American wage earner of that protection which entitled them to meet their foreign competitors, and but for the adventitious adventi-tious conditions created by the war would long since have paralyzed all forms of American industry and deprived de-prived American labor of its just reward. re-ward. It has not in the least reduced the cost of living, which has constantly advanced from the date of its enactment. enact-ment. Welfare of our people demands its repeal and the substitution of a measure which in peace as well as in war will produce ample revenue and give reasonable protection to all forms of American production in mine, forest, for-est, field, and factory. We favor the creation of a tariff commission with complete power to gather and complete information for the use of congress in all matters relating re-lating to the tariff. SUPERVISION OF CORPORATIONS. The Republican party has long believed be-lieved in the rigid supervision and strict regulation of the transportation transporta-tion and great corporations of the country. coun-try. It has put its creed into its deeds, and all really effective laws regulating the railroads and the great industrial corporations are the work of .Republican congresses and presidents. presi-dents. For this policy of regulation and supervision the Democrats, in a stumbling and piecemeal way, are undertaking un-dertaking to involve the government in business which should be left within with-in the sphere of private enterprise and in direct competition with its own citizens, a policy which is sure to result re-sult in waste, great expense to the taxpayer, and in an inferior product. The Republican party firmly believes be-lieves that all who violate the laws in regulation of business should be individually in-dividually punished, but prosecution is very different from persecution, ar.d business success, no matter how honestly hon-estly attained, is apparently regarded by the Democratic party as in itself a crime. Such doctrines and beliefs choke enterprise and stifle prosperity. The Republican party believes in encouraging en-couraging American business, as it believes be-lieves in and will seek to advance all American interests. We favor an effective system of rural credits as opposed to the ineffective inef-fective law proposed by the present Democratic administration. We favor the extension of the rural free delivery system and condemn the Democratic administration for curtailing curtail-ing and crippling it. In view of the policies adopted by all the maritime nations to encourage their shipping interests, and in order to enable us to compete with them for the ocean carrying trade, we favor the PAYMENTS TO MAIL VESSELS. payment to ships engaged in the foreign for-eign trade of liberal compensation for services actually rendered in carrying the mails, and such further legislation legisla-tion as will build up an adequate American merchant marine and give us ships which may be requisitioned by the government in time of national emergency. We are utterly opposed to the government gov-ernment ownership of vessels as proposed pro-posed by the Democratic party, because be-cause government ownership, while effectively preventing the development develop-ment of the American merchant marine ma-rine by private capital, will be entirely entire-ly unable to provide for the vast volume vol-ume of American freights and will leave us more helpless than ever in the hard grip of foreign syndicates. Interstate and intrastate transportation transpor-tation have become so interwoven that the attempt to apply two and often several sets of laws to its regulation regu-lation has produced conflicts of authority, author-ity, embarrassment in operation, and inconvenience and expense to the public. pub-lic. The entire transportation system of the country has become essentially national. We, therefore, favor such action by legislation or, if necessary, through an amendment to the constitution consti-tution of the United States as will result re-sult in placing it under exclusive federal fed-eral control. "RAIDS ON THE TREASURY." The increasing cost of the national government and the need for the greatest economy of its resources in order to meet the growing demands of the people for government service call for the severest condemnation of the wasteful appropriations of this Democratic administration, of its shameless raids on the treasury, and of its opposition to and rejection of President Taft's oft repeated proposals propos-als and earnest efforts to secure economy econ-omy and efficiency through the establishment estab-lishment of a simple business-like budget bud-get system to which we pledge our support and which we hold to be necessary nec-essary to effect any real reform in the administration of national finances. We believe in a careful husbandry of all the natural resources of the nation na-tion a husbandry which means development de-velopment without waste; use without abuse. The civil service law has always been sustained by the Republican parly par-ly and we renew our repeated declaration declar-ation that it shall be thoroughly and Honestly enforced and extended wherever wher-ever practicable. The Democratic party has created since March 4. 1913, 30.000 offices outside of the civil service serv-ice law at an annual cost of $11,000,-000 $11,000,-000 to the taxpayers of the country. We condemn the gross abuse and the misuse of the law by the present Democratic administration and pledge ourselves to a reorganization of this service along lines of efficiency and economy. Reaffirming the attitude maintained by the Republican party, we bold that officials appointed to administer the government of any territory should be bona fide residents of the territory in which their duties are to be performed. NATIONAL CHILD LAEOR LAW. We pledge the Republican party to the faithful enforcement of all federal feder-al laws passed for the protection of labor. We favor vocational education, educa-tion, the enactment of a generous and comprehensive workmen's compensation compensa-tion law, within the commerce power of congress, and an accident compensation compen-sation law covering all government employees. We favor the collection and collation under the direction of the department of labor of complete data relating to industrial hazards for the information of congress, to the end that such legislation may bo adopted as may be calculated to secure se-cure the safety, conservation, and protection pro-tection of labor from the dangers incident in-cident to industry and transportation. EXTENSION OF VOTE TO WOMEN. The Republican party, reaflirniing its faith in government of the people, by the people, for the people, as a measure of justice to one-half the adult people of this country, favors the extension of the suffrage to women, wom-en, but recognizes the right of each state to settle this question for itself. it-self. Such are our principles, such are our purposes and policies. We close as we began. The times are dangerous danger-ous and the future is fraught with peril. The great issues of the day have been confused by words and phrases. The American spirit, which made the country and saved the Union, has been forgotten by those charged with the responsibility of power. We appeal to all Americans, whether naturalized or native born, to prove to the world that we are Americans In thought and in deed, with one loyalty, one hope, one aspiration. aspir-ation. We call on all Americans to be true to the spirit of America, to the great traditions of their common country and, above all things to keep the faith. |