| Show OUT ADOPT U PIA PLATFORM 1 M FOR FO R n republicans national convention formulates principles for party americanism JS IS THE THUM THEME flavors peace but pence peace with honor i compromise on suffrage indorses endorses Indor ses literacy test and and demands bigger army and navy tabe the republican platform as adopted J y the national nation al convention follows f in 1861 the republican party stood or the union As it stood for or the bunion union of states it now stands fora for a united people true to american ideals loyal to american traditions knowing owing no allegiance except to the to the government and to the flag of the united states we believe in an american policies at home and abroad we declare that we wa believe in and will enforce the protection of every american citizen in all the rights secured to him by the con constitution 1 tit ution treaties and the law of na nations t lons at home and abroad by land and sea these rights which in violation of the specific promise of their P party arty made at baltimore in 1912 the democratic wres president ident and the democratic congress have tailed failed to defend le Ale fend we will tingly maintain we desire peace the peace of justice and right a and nd believe in maintaining a straight and honest nestr neutrality between the beill gerenia jr lr t ane great war in europe we taua PU 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 dig mity and influence of the united states cannot be preserved by shifty expedients by phrase making by performances for torman mances cea in language or by attitudes ear ever or changing in or an effort to secure groups of voters the present administration has destroyed our oui influence abo abbad oad a and humiliated mil milia ted us in obrown our own eyes q the e republican party believes that a firm consistent azid arid courageous foreign policy cy always maintained by republican pred dents in accordance with amerl can traditions Is the best as it Is the only true irue way to preserve our peace and restore us to our rightful place among the nations we believe 1 in the settlement of international d disputes and favor the establishment of a horld court for that purpose IM MEXICAN POLICY DENOUNCED we deeply s sympathize with the fifteen million people of mexico who for three years have seen their country deva devastated stated their homes destroyed their fellow citizens murdered and their women outraged by armed bands of despe desperadoes 8 led by self seeking conscienceless agitators who when temporarily successful in any locality have neither sought nor been able to sr restore estore order or establish and main iraln aaen peace we express our horror and tion at the outrages which have been and are being perpetrated by these bandits bandit upon american men and women who were or aarein are an mexico by invitation vi tation ion of the laws andoe and of the government of that thai country and whose security of person and prop erty guaranteed are by solemn treaty obligations we denounce denoun cEi the indefensible fen sible methods of interference em aloyed by this administration in the internal affairs of mexico and refer with shame to its failure fail to discharge the athe duty of this country as next friend tto to mexico its duty to ao other powers who have relied upon us as such friend tri end and its duty to our citizens in mexico in permitting the continuance of such conditions first by failure to i jact act promptly and firmly and second iby lending its influence to the continuation of such conditions through recognition tion of one of the ahe factions responsible tor for these outrages aid la in rest restoring ding order and maintaining peace in mexico we promise to our citizens on and near our border and those in mexico wherever they may be found ad adequate ade equate quat e an and ablutz protection in their lives liberty and property DOCTRINE AFFIRMED we reaffirm our approval of thel the monroe doctrine and declare its maln main Tte ite nance to be a policy of this country essential to its present and future peace and safety and to the achievement of its manifest destiny i we favor the continuance of republican policies which will res result alt in drawing more and more closely the commercial financial and social rela iti between this country and the countries of latin america wo we renew our allegiance to the philippine policy inaugurated by apkin ley approved by congress an and d consistently carried out by roosevelt and tatt even in short tima lime it has enormously improved the material and docial conditions condition of the islands given the philippine people a constantly increasing participation tn in their government and it if persisted in will bring still greater benefits in the future we accepted the responsibility of the lands islands as ii a duty to civilization and people to leave with our task halt done would break our pledges injure our prestige among nations and frap imperil bril what has bae already been bea accomplished we condemn the democratic Democrat id administration tor for its ita attempt to abandon abo ho philippines which was prevented only by the vIgo vigorous tous opposition of re new publican of congress conge qs aided by a few paerl patriotic hotle democrats we reiterate rel torata our unqualified approval ip of the action taken in december 1911 by the president and congress to secure with russia as an with 0 other the r countries a treaty that will recognize reeo reco the absolute right of expatriation and prevent all discrimination of whatever kind hind between american citi cleli zens whether native born or alien and regardless of race religion or previous political allegiance we renew the pledge to observe this principle and to maintain the right of asylum which to Is neither to be surrendered nor restricted and we unite in the ahe cherished hope that the war which la Is j now desolating the world may speedily end ead with a complete and lasting restoration ot of brotherhood among the he nations of the earth and the assurance of full equal rights civil and religious to all men in every land ADEQUATE ARMY AND NAVY in order to maintain our peace and make certain the security of our people within our own borders the country must have not only adequate but thorough and complete national defense ready tor for any emergency we must have a sufficient and and effective regular army anda and a provision for ample ampie reserves air already ehdy drilled and disciplined cip lined who can be called at once to the colors when the hour of danger comes we must have anady a navy so ao strong and so well proportioned and equipped so thoroughly ready and prepared that i no enemy can gain command of the sea and effect a landing in force on either our western or our oar eastern coast to secure these results we must mui t have a coherent and continuous policy of national defense which eve even in these perilous days the democratic party has utterly tailed failed to develop but which chwe 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 lot tariff protection to american ican industries and american labor and does not regard an antidumping provision as an adequate substitute Such protection should ha be reasonable in amount but sufficient to protect adequately Ameri american carf industry and american labor and be so adjusted as to prevent undue exactions by monopolies or trusts it should moreover give special attention to securing the industrial independence odthe of the united states as in the case of dye stuffs through wise tariff bariff and industrial legislation our industries can be so organized that they will become not only a commer commercial etaf bulwark but a powerful aid to national defense the underwood tariff act Is 19 a complete failure in every respect under its administration imports have enormously increased in spite of the tact fact that the intercourse with foreign countries has haa been largely cut oft off by reason of the war while the revenues of which wo we stand in such dire need have been greatly redu reduced ced under the normal conditt conditions ons which prevailed prior to the war it was clearly demonstrated that this act deprived the american pio producer ducer and the american wage earner of that protection which entitled them to meet their foreign competitors and but tor for the adventitious conditions created by the war would long sti since e have paralyzed I 1 all forms of american industry and deprived american labor of its just reward w rd it has irot in the least reduced the cost of living which has constantly advanced from the date of its enactment 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 bro production in mine forest field and factory we favor the creation of a bartu tariff commission with complete power to gather and complete information for the use of congress in all matters relating to the tariff supervision SU OF corporations the republican party has long believed in the rigid supervision and s strict regulation of the transportation and great corporations of the country 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 prebi dents for this policy of regulation and supervision the democrats in a stumbling and piecemeal way are undertaking der taking to involve the government in business which should be left within the sphere of private enterprise and in direct competition with its own cid citizens zens I 1 a policy which is sure to result su it in waste great expense to the taxpayer and in an inferior product the republican party firmly believes that all who violate the laws in regulation of 0 business should be individually punished but prosecution la Is very different from bersee persecution ution and business success no matter how honestly attained Is apparently regarded by the democrat democratic tic party part y as in itself a crime such doctrines doctrin eT and beliefs choke choice enterprise and stifle prosperity the republican party believes in encouraging cou raging american business as it believes in and will seek to advance all american interests Ws we favor an effective system of rural credits as opposed to ahe the ineffective law propos proposed id b by the present do democratic mo cratic administration 1 we favor the extension of the rural free delivery system and condemn the i democratic administration for curtailing and crippling it in view of the policies adopted by lu the metri time nations to encourage their interests and in ordet 16 to enable ib ua to compete with them tot the ocean carrying trade we w favor the PAYMENTS TO MAIL VESSELS payment to ships engaged in the foreign trade of liberal libed al compensation tor services actually rendered in carrying them the malls mails and such further legislation as will build up an b adequate american merchant marine marina and give us ua ships which may be requisitioned bythe by the government in time of national emergency we are utterly opposed to the government ownership of vessels as proposed by the democratic party because government ownership while effectively preventing epting the deve development op m e t of tile the american merchant marine by private capital will be entirely I 1 y unable to provide for the vast volume of american freights and will leave us more helpless than ever in the hard grip of foreign syndicates interstate and intrastate transportation have become so interwoven that the attempt to apply two and often several seta of laws to its regulation has produced conflicts of authority embarrassment in operation and and inconvenience and expense to the public 0 11 the entire transportation system of the country has become assenti essentially ally national we therefore favor such action by legislation orif or if necessary through an amendment to the ahe constitution of the united states as will to re suit bait in placing it under exclusive lea fed oral control RAIDS BRAIDS ON TOE the TREASURY the increasing cost of the national government and the need tor for the greatest economy of its resources resource a in order to meet the growing demands of the people for government service call tor for the verest severest se condemnation conde mnason ot of the wasteful wast eaul appropriations ot of this thin democratic administration of its ita sham shameless eless raids on the treasury and of its opposition to and rejection of president tafts ott oft repeated proposals and earnest efforts to secure economy and efficiency through the establishment lish ment of a simple business businesslike 1 like ike 0 budget system to which we pledge our support and which we hold bold to be necessary to effect any real reform in the administration 0 of f national finances we believe in a careful husbandry of all the natural resources c of f the nation a husbandry which means development without waste withOut abuse the civil service law has always been sustained by the tha republican party and wo we renew our repeated declaration that it shall be thoro thoroughly hughly and honestly hon enforced and extended wherever ar practicable the democratic party has created since march 4 1913 offices outside of the civil service law at an annual cost ot 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 e by the republican party we hold that officials appointed to administer the government of any terr territory tory should be e bona fide residents of the territory in which their duties are to be performed T NATIONAL CHILD LABOR LAW we pledge the republican republica n party to the faithful enforcement of all federal laws passed tor for the protection of labor we favor vocational education the enactment of ota a generous and comprehensive work mens compensation compon sm law within the commerce power of congress and an accident compensation law covering all government employees we favor tho the collection and collation under the direction ol of the department of labor of complete data daia relating to industrial hazards tor for the information of congress to the tha end that such legislation may be adopted as may be calculated to secure the safety conservation and protection of labor from the dangers incident aident to industry y and transportation EXTENSION OF VOTE TO WOMEN the tha republican publican party reaffirming its faub faith in government of the people by the people tor 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 but recognizes the right of each state to settle this question for it self belt such are our principles such are our p purposes ur poses and policies we close as we began the times are dangerous and the future is fraught with peril the great issues of the day have been confused cont used 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 to all americana whether naturalized or native born bora to prove to the world that we are americans americana in thought and in deed with one loyalty one hopp hope one ne aspiration wo we call on all americans to be true to the spirited america to the great grea t traditions of their common commo n country and above all things to keep the faith |
