The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-07-07
IOWA DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.

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Moines, last month. they were re-
ported by that old Democratic war
horse Hon. A. G. Dodge, and we re-
gard them as having ring than
any Platform yet adopted since the
Vallandigham Departure:
Rcsolud, That we recognize our
binding obligation to the Constitu-
ton of the United States as it now
exists, without reference 10 themeans
by which the same became tho su-
preme law of the land.
ResolUed, That we will faithfully
support the Constitution OF the Uni
ted States as it now exists, and that
we demand for it quick construction
SO as to protect equally the rights of
States and individuals.
Hcsolred. That we cherish the
American system OF State and local
governments, and that we will forev-
er defend the same against central
;zed federal power 3
Resotred, That universal suffrage
having been, established should now
be coupled with its twin measure,
universal amnesty.
BesolUed, That we denounce all ri
otons combinations and conspiracies
against law, and demand the same to
be suppressed by the proper State
authorities, and that the Federal
power ought not to intervene except
when such Intervention is demanded
by the State authorities.
Resolred, That the proposed annex
alton Of the Dominican Republic
meets with our earnest opposition,
partly OH account OF the character of
its mongrel population and OF their
unftness to become American citi-
zens-but more especially on account
of the corrupt motives in which that
measure had its inception, and of the
reprehensible means by which it wos
sought to be consumated.
Iiesofred, That while we have n
tariff on imports, it must be regulated
! with an eye singly to reUenue and not
with view to what is termed Tpotec-
fion, which il only another name for
the legalized plupdering Of one in
dustry to bestow fayois upon another;
and that the recent election TO the
United States Senate, by the Legisla-
ture of Iowa, OF n man wholly and
openly committed to protective tar
jff, =monstrates that the party are in
antagonism to the great agricultural
interests of the State.
Resolred, That the profigate cor
ruption and wanton extravagance
which pervade every department of
the federal government, the sacrifice
of the interests of the laborer to az
grandize handful of aristocrats, the
wicked deprivation Of the people of
their rightful her ,tage IN the public
lands, which have been made q gift
to railroad and other monoI olists,
the payment of more than SIC, 900, :
900 premiums during the admins
tration OF President Grant on gov
ernment bonds. payable at par, the
maintenance at an annual cost to the
people of nearly $50, 900 900 of an
uncon stitutional, oppressive ana ex-
tortionate system of banking, where
by money is made scarce and interest
high, are abuses which call for wise
and thorough remedies.
/ Resoired. That we are in favor of
strict economy, of large reduction
in the expenditures of the Federal
and State Governments, of civil SER
vice reform, of the collection Of in
ternal revenue by State authorities
and the return TO honest labor the
myriads of tax gatherers who afliict
our land and eat up its substance,
and of the speedy trial, conviction
and punishment of the thieves who
have stolen the taxes paid by the
people.
Resolred, That we reject the idea
of reputation Of the national debt,
and believe it to be the duty of the
Government to pay according to law
and in lawful money, all its lia-
bilities.
Resotred, That it is fragrant out
rage on the rights of the free labor
ers and mechanics of Iowa, that the
labor of penitentiary convicts should
be brought into conflict with theirs,
and that it is the duty of the next
legislature to enact such laws as will
certainly and effectually protect them
from such unjust and ruinous COM
petition.
Re<oired, That section 2, article s,
of the Constitution of Iowa, which
declares that the property of all
corporations for pecuniary profit shall
be subject to taxation the same as
that of individuals, should Q rigidly
and strictly enforced, and that by
virtue thereof we demand that rail
roads and railroad property shall be
taxed just as the property of the me-
chanic and farmer are taxed, and we
affirm the right of the people by leg
islative enactment to regulate and
control oil corporations doing busi-
ness within the borders of the State.
Resolved, That with the watchword
of reform, we confidently go to the
country !; that we believe the interests
of the great body of the people are
the same that without regard to past
political associations they are the
friends of free government, that they
are equally honest, brave and patri-
otic, and we appeal to them as to our
brothers and countrymen. to aid us
to obtain relief from the grievous
abuses which wrong and oppress
every one except the wrong-doers
and oppressors themselves.
A funny story is going the rounds
in Paris. A lady in the first society
was recently obliged to dismiss her
nurse on account of an excess of fire.
mon md nriyata soldiers too often