The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-09-05
A WORD OF wARNINeI !


Oregon in view Of the Congressiona
campaign which will be fairly opene,
before the issueo of our next number
The Democratic Convention whiol
meets in Portland ON Tuesday next
will, of course, place before the coun
try a platform of principles and
candidate for Congress in full sympa
thy with the principles then and there
enunciated Principles never change
Different expedients may be resorted
to from time to time to carry out the
principles, but the principle, never
theless, is the same. The principles
that actuated our forefathers in adopt
ing our federal system Of government
in 1889 are to-day, and have ever been
the principles of the Democratic party
as expounded by Jefferson and ad.
hered to by all subsequent Democrat
10 administrations of our general
government. And so long as these
principles were carried out in the ad-
ininistration of our federal govern
ment, SO long were we at peace at
home and respected abroad our gov
ernment was only felt in its benefcence
like the gentle dews of Heaven, it
fell alike upon all,-nourished and pro-
tected all alike; no special legislation
for the interest of capital as against
labor; no exemption by federal legis-
lation Of the taxation Of any species
Of private property; no protective
tariffs to rob the consumer for the
benefit Of the manufacturer and no
interference by the powers at Wash
ington in the looal state government,
nor was there ever, during any Demo-
cratic administration, any effort on
the part of Congress to encroach upon
or diminish or crcumscribe the SOW
ereign powers of State.
1t is idle to say that all these ques.
tions are obsolete, They are as dear
to the patriotic heart to-day as they
were in the first Congress that assem-
bled under the Constitution in 1883, |
when, among others, the 9th and 10th
amendments were proposed, to,wit
lX--"The enumeration in the con
stitution of certain rights, shall not
be construed to deny or disparago
Others retained by the people" And
X-@The power not delegated to the
United States by the Constitution,
nor prohibited by it to the States, are
reserved to the States respectively,
or to the people"
The Republican party have not yet
completed the work they sot out to
accomplish, nor will they complete it
until they have rendered every State
In the Union as powerless for the
purposes of local government as is
any county in any State. Look at
the strides already made to supercede
by federal authority all State gov
ernments. In 1868, in their National
platform, they declared that "the
question Of suffrage rightfnlly belong /
ed to the States and in less than six .
months passed an amendment to the !
Constitution, through Congress taking II
this sovereign right away from the a
States and lodging it in Congress, aud !,
then Congress coerces certain States n
to adopt the fifteenth amendment by a
denying them any representation in o
Congress, upon their failure or refusal
10 ratify the fifteenth amendment. +
We warn the people to place no v
reliance in any promises made by the oi
Republican platform OF Thursday IN
lext They will denounco monopo. y y
les, aud you all know how they build N
hem up and subsidize them, and tax al
'ou to pay the subsidies They will lb
ry out against Chinese immigration, "a
nd you all know that the last session y y
+ Congress increased the Chinese m
iail Steamship subsidy from $780,.
90, to Sl,oO0,OO0, and you certainly ti'
ave not forgotten that it is only Y. "
bout three years since that the u. S. m So
'enate passed bill by large major Sc
W changing our naturalization laws sa
Q as 70 allow Chinese and all Other pc
nferior races immigrating to this VI VI
ountry, to become citizens -entitled ",
the right Of suffrage; and were only WI
ldnced to reconsider the vote by ms
Thich tho bill passed, as was stated en I
y leading radicals, that its passage abI
light lose them the vote Of the Pa. pel
iic States, in tho Presidential con. Pr
eat Of 1872 not that the bill was an m' M
usrago upon American citizenship; NM NJ,
ot that q radical Congress was not Pr