The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1874-09-10


general understanding OF the community,
were payable in legal tender notes. and
the act of March 1860, which pledged the
faith of the nation to their payment in
coin, was an unnecessary and wicked sac
rifice OF the interests of the tax-paying
bond-holders.
That without equality OF taxation, there
can not be equality of rights, and the eX-
emption of the public bonds from bear
ing their due proportion in supporting
the Federal Government and maintain
ing the law is unwiSe and unjust.
That we are The friends of all the in
dustries of the country, whether agricul-
tural, mechanical or commercial, and be-
lieving that these industries thrive best
when no unequal privilege is conferred
by law upon one over another, we are
therefore opposed to the. unjust and op-
pressive features of the present tariff laws
and insist on their repeal or modification
that revenue tariff shall be substituted
for them.
We are opposed to all combination and
devices of whatever character, that tend
to increase the cost of transportation be-
yond fair remuneration to the carrier,
and demand the exercise of all constitu-
t1onal powers to remedy existing evils in
in this respect, and to prevent their oc-
currence in the future.
We are opposed to excessive taxation,
the deadly foe, as all experience proves
10 every industry and We insist upon the
strictest economy in every department of
the Government, Federal or State, county
or municipal.
We are opposed to grants of the public
domain to railroad corporations, and we
rejoice at the fact that the determined
opposition of Democratic Senators and
Representatives in Congress- and the un-
equivocal condemnation of the people,
have put stop to the scheme OF legisla-
tion that but lately threatened to bestow
upon great corporations, comparatively
few in number the whole body of the
public lands. We favor the policy that
looks to the ownership of these lands by
actual settlers, and therefore approve the
principle of the homestead settlement
! law.
| That the freedom of the press is essen
| tial to the preservation of public liberty
and we denounce the attempts made by
| Radicals at the last session of Congress,
| to subject the proprietors of the principal
newspapers of the United States to indict-
ment and trial in Washington City for
| alleged libel as efforts to revive and en-
body in legislation, the spirit of the gag
and sedition laws of the elder Adams ad-
ministration, which were overthrown, as
it was hoped, forever, by the election of
| Thomas jefferson
That while we admit the equality of
all persons before the law, we protest
| against the attempts that are being made
by the Radicals in Congress to enforce
social equality by unconstitutional pains
and penalties and we call the attention
of the voters of Ohio to the fact that
although our Supreme Court unanimous
| lv decided that our statute, which pro
vldes for separate schools for white and
colored children is constitutional law
and this judgment is supported by recent
judgments of the Supreme Court of the
United States, yet the civil rights BILL sc
called, which passed the Senate at its
last session, and is now pending in the
House of Representatives, seeks to over
throw our statute, and in disregard anC
defiance of it, to compel mixed schools ir
Ohio by the inhiction of severe crimina
punishment, and civil penalties on al
who resist this uncons nstitutional at
tempt.
That we have seen with alarm and re
gret the advocacy influential quarters o
the President of the United States for {
period beyond that which the tradition:
and usages of the country have almos
given the sanction of fundamental law
that such election would be stride OF
the road to practical monarchy and per
sonal despotism, and we are decidedly il
favor of establishing the one term princi
BILE by an amendment to the constitu
ton.
We favor the submission to the people
by the General Assembly, of an amend
ment to the Constitu ton, authorizin Q th
passage of a license law.
That with this declaration of our prin
ciples and policy, we arraign the leader
OF the Republican party for their extrav
agant expenditures and profigate waste
of the peoples money, for their oppres
sive, unjust and defective system of taxa
ton, finance and currency for the con
tinued tyranny and cruelty to the South
ern States of the Union; for their squan
dering of the public funds, for their con
tinuance of incompetent and corrup
men in office, at home and abroad, anC
for their general mismanagement of thu
Government and we cordially invite al
men, without past party associations, t.
cooperate with us in expelling then
from power, and securing such an ad
ministration of public affairs as charac
terized the purer and better days of thu
Republic"