Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-06-16


increased from S700,00O,OG0 to 81
$50, 900, 600 in the same time, and
our exports, which were S2O,OOO,OO0
less than our imports IN 1861, were
1854, 600, 900 more than our imports
in 1879. Without resorting to loans
it has, since the war closed, betrayed
the ordinary expenses of government,
besides the accrIing interest on the
public debt, and dispensed annually
more than S30,000,000 for soldiers
pensions. 1t has paid S6SS, 600, 900
of the public debt, and by re-fundlng
the balance at lower rates, has re
duced the annual interest charge
from nearly S15,O00,000 to less than
IS, 100000. All the industries of the
country have revived, labor is In de
mand, wages have increased, and
throughout the entire country there
is evidence of coming prosperity
greater than we have ever enjoyed
Upon this record the Republican
party asks for the continued conf
dence and support of the people, and
this convention submits for their ap-
proval the following statements OF
the principles and purposes which
will continue to guide and inspire It's
efforts.
FIRST. We affirm that the work OF
the last twenty -one years has been
such as to commend itself to the
favor of the nation; that the fruits
of the costly victory which we have
achieved through immense difficulties
should be preserved; that the peace
regained should be cherished; that
the discovered Union, now happily
restored, should be perpetuated; :;
that the liberty secured to this gen
Grafton should be transmitted undl-
minished to future generations; that
the order established and the credit
acquired should never be impaired !;
that the pensions promised should be
extinguished by the full payment of
every dollar thereof; that the reviv-
ing industries should be further pro-
NOTED, and that the commerce al
ready so great should be steadily en-
couraged
Second. The Constitution of the
United States is supreme law, and
not mere contract out of confed-
Grated States it made a sovereign
nation some powers are denied to
the nation while others are denied to
the States, but the boundary between
the powers delegated and those re-
served is to be determined by the
national and not by the State tribu-
male.
Third. The work of popular edu-
cation is left to the care OF the sew
eral States, but it is the duty of the
National Government to aid that
work to the extent of its Constitu-
tional duty. The intelligence of the
nation is but the aggregate of the
intelligence of the several States, and
the destiny of the nation must not
be guided by the genius of any one
State, but by the average genius of
all.
Fourth. The Constitution wisely
forbids Congress to make any law
respecting an establishment of reli-
gion; but it is idle to hope that the
nation can be protected against the
influence of sectarianism while each
State is exposed to it's domination,
We therefore recommend that the
Constitution be so amended as to lay
the same prohibition upon the Legis-
lature of each State, and to forbid
the appropriation of public funds to
the support of sectarian schools.
Fifth. We affirm the belief-avow-
ed in 1S76-that the duties levied for
the purpose of revenue should SO dis
criminate as to favor American labor;
that no further grant of the public
domain should be made to any rail
way or other corporation that sla-
very having perished in the State, it's
twin barbarity-polygamy-mustd die
in the Territories that everywhere
the protection accorded to citizens
of American birth must be secured
to citizens by American adoption,
and that we esteem it the duty of
Congress to develope and improve
our water courses and harbors, but
insist that further subsidies to pri-
vate persons or corporations must
cease; that the obligations of the
Republic to the men who preserved
its integrity in the hour Of battle are
undininished by the lapse of fifteen
years since their final victory. To
do them perpetual honor is and shall
forever be the grateful privilege and
sacred duty of the American people.
Sirth. Since the authority to regu-
late immigration and intercourse be-
tween the United States aud foreign
nations rests with the Congress or with
the United States and its treaty making
power, the Republican party, regarding
the unrestricted immigration Of Chi
nese as an evil of great magnitude, in
woke the exercise of those powers to
restrain and limit that immigration BY
the enactment of such just, humane
and reasonable provisions as will pro-
duce that result.
Serenth. That the purity and patri-
otism which characterized the earlier
career of Rutherford b. Hayes in peace
aud war, and which guided the thoughts
OF our immediate predecessors to him
for candidate, have continued to in.
spire him in his career as Chief Exec
utive, and that history will accord to
his administration the honors which are
due to an efficient, just and courteous
discharge of the public business, and
will honor bis interpretations between
the people and proposed partizan laws.
Eighth. We charge upon the Demo-
aratic party the habitual sacrifice of
patriotism and justice to a supreme
| and Unsuitable lust of office and natron.