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Show HBtjj M U On Sunday morning last The Tribune published HHjj M 1 what purported to be the California platform. Hb' If I But the plank relating to reciprocity with Cuba Hn! H 1 ' was oliminate(1' That is journalism as dishonest ffifti I I and dishonorable as it is contemptible, and dis- HHljj I ' I i graceful. When a newspaper deliberately stoops Han I ', I to deceive the people, it is no longer fit to be read. HjHp! , , The plank reads: BHBi1 I ) 1 "We most heartily commend our Senators and Hljff' I ., I Representatives in Congress for their untiring HSr. I j a zeal in behalf of every material interest of Cali- Hf j I ji a fornia. We declare our firm opposition to all re- Hft I I I k 3 ciprocity treaties inconsistent with the protection Hi 11 I ' I to American labor and in industry to which the B Fill 1 ' Republican party stands pledged and especially Rgf4 ill to any reciprocity arrangement with Cuba or any Bftjj lii other foreign country as being distructed to the MM I ! I interest of the beet sugar raising, citrus and dried- Bjjjjl 1 fruit industries of Californit in which large Hnlj I ; amounts of capital have been invested under the BSIffj 1 1 f v. assurance that the same would be safeguarded Hjili I by the protective tariff as other industries are EJIJe I ' J protected; and we further declare our opposition KfjEP , ' to any reciprocal policy other than that laid Kljjp 1 ' ; down in the Republican platform of 1900, which Hm 1 says: We favor the associated policy of recipro- Hap I city so directed as to open our markets on favor- Hffiji jm '! , able terms, for what we do not ourselves produce HHL I ''8 j in return for free foreign markets." |