Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-08
THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC
PLATOON M.


form adopted by the National Demo-
cratic Convention at st. Louis:
We. the Democratic party of the
United States, in national convention
assembled, do hereby declare the adj
ministration of the Federal Govern
ment to be in Urgent need OF imnedi.
ate reform. We do hereby enjoin upon
the nominees of this convention and OF
IT, e Democratic party in each State a
jealous effort and cooperation to this
end, and do hereby appeal to II fell
low citizens of every former political
connection, to undertake with us this
first and most pressing patriotic duty
of the Democracy of the whole Il
try.
We do here affirm our faith in the
permanpncy of the Federal Union, and
our devotion to the Constitution of the
United States, with its amendments
universally accepted as a final settle
ment of the controversies that were en-
gendered by the civil war, and do here
record our steadiaSt confidence in the
perpptuity of republican Selt-govern
m4nt in absolute acquiesccnce to the
will of the majority; the vital princi-
Piles of Republics in the supremacy OF
the civil over the military authority;
in the total separation OF church and
State, for the sake alike of civil aud re-
ligious freedoms; in the equality of al
citizens before iust laws of their own
enactment: in the liberty of individual
conduct, unvexed by suinptuary laws;
in the faithful education of the rising
generation, that they may pre- serve,
enjoy and transmit those best condi
tions of human happiness and hope.
We behold the nobleSt productions
of a hundred years of changrful his
tory, but while unfolding The bond of
our Union and the great charter OF
these our rights, IL behOoves Il free
people to practice also that eternal vigil
lance which is the price of liberty. Re
form is necessary to rebuild and estab-
lish in the hearts Of the whole people,
the Union, eleven years ago happily
rescued from the danger of a corrupt
centralisin, which, after in1icting upon
ten States The rapacity of carpet-bag
%tvrannieS, has honey comled the OF
fees of the Federal Government itself
with incapacitv, waste and fraud, in
fected States and municipalities with
the contagion of misrule, and locked
fast the prosperity of an industrious
people in the paralysis OF hard times.
Reform is necessary to establish "A
sound currency, restore the public
credit and maintain the national honor.
We denounce the failure of all these
eleven years to make good the promise
of the legal tender notes. which are n
changing standard of value in the
hands of the people, and the non-pav-
-ment of which is a disregard of the
uIirhtn1 fifth nf the nptipn-
w. denounce the i'm providence,
which, in eleven years of peace. has
from the people. in Federal tax
es, thirteen times the whole amount of
the legal tender totes and ~sqnaniered
four times this sum in useless expense
without accumulating any reserve for
their redemption.
We denoun 70 the financial itnbecilitv
and iinm raj tv of the party which.
during eleven years of peace, has made
no advance toward resumption; that,
instead, has obstructed resumption by
wasting our and exhauSting
all our surplus income, and while an
nually protesting to intend a speedy
return to specie payment, has annually
enacted fresh hindrances thereto. As
such a hindrance we denounce The re-
sumption clause of the act of 1919, and
we here demand its repeal.
We demand Il iudicious system of
preparation by public economies, by
official retrenchments and by wise fl
nance which shall enable the nation
soon to assure the whole world OF its
perfect readiness to maet any of IFS
promises at the call of the creditor en-.
titled 10 payment. We believe such
a system we'll devised, and above
all in,ruSted to competent hands
for execution, creating at no
an artificial scarcity of cur
rency, and AT no time alarming the
pui,lic mind into a withdrawal
of that waste machinery Of credit, by
which % per cent. of all business
tran Sactions are performed. A system
open. public, AMI inspiring general
confidence. would, from the dav of it,
adoption, bring healing on its wings TO
our harrassed industry, and set in mo-
ton the wheels of commerce, manu-
features and the mechanical arts, re
store employment to labor, and re-
new in all its national force the pros
perity of the people.
We denonnce The present tariff lev
led upou nearly 1000 articles, as a
master piece of inequality ami false
pretenses. 1t yields "A dwindl ny, no,
"A yearly rising evenu 1t has i'm
poverished many industries to sub>i-
die a few. 1t prohibits imports that
might purchase the products of Alner-
lean labor; it has degraded Arneri-
can commerce from the first to an in
ferior rank on the high seas; it has
cut down the sale of American manu-
features at home and abroad, and de
pleted the returns of American agri-
culture-an industry followed by halt
our people; it costs the people five
times more than it produces to the
treasury; ob-tructs the processes OF
production, and wastes the fruits of
labor; it promotes fraud and fosters
smuggling; enriches dishonest Off
cials and bankrupts honest merchants.
We demand hat all Custom-house
taxation shall he only for
Reform is necessary in the scale OF
public expenses, Federal, State and
municipal. Our Federal taxation has
swollen from 500. 200, 900 in gold in
1861 to $3.50, 900, 900 currency in 1870, or
in a decade from less than s. per head
to more than SIS per head. Since the
return of peace the people have paid TO
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