The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1884-07-23

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bor of the ability to compete successfully
with foreign labor, and without imposing
lower rates Of duty than will be ample
to cover anv increased cost Of production
which may exist IN consequence of the
higher rate of wages prevailing in this
country.
Sufficient revenue to pay all the cx-
penses of Federal government economi-
cally administered, including pensions,
the interest and principal of the public
debt, can be got under our present svs-
tenn OF taxation from custom house taxes
on fewer imported articles, bearing the
heaviest on articles of luxury, and the
lightest on articles Of necessity. We
therefore denounce the abuses of the eX-
listing tariff, and subject to these limita-
tions we demand that Federal taxation
shall be exclusively for public purposes,
and shall not exceed the needs of the
government economically administered.
The system Of direct taxation, known as
the internal revenue" is war tax, and
90 long as the4 law continues the money
derived therefrom should be sacredly
devoted to the relief of the people from
the remaining burdens Of the war, and
be fund to defray the expense Of the
care and comfort Of worthy soldiers dis
abled in the line of duty in the wars Of
the republic, and for the payment of
such pensions as congress may from time
to time grant to such soldiers, and like
fund for the sailors having been already
provided for, and any surplus should be
pail into the treasury.
We favor an American continental
policy, based upon more intimate COM
mercial and political relations with the
fifteen sister republics Of North, Central
and South America, but entailing alli-
ances with none. We believe in honest
money, and gold and silver coinage of
the constitution, and a circulating me-
dunn convertible into such money with
out loss.
Asserting the equality of all men be-
fore the law, we hold that it is the duty
of the government in it's dealings with
the people to mete out equal and exact
Justice to all citizens of whatever nativ
ity, race, color or persuasion. religious or
political. We believe in a free ballot
and fair count, and we recall to the
memory of the people the noble struggle
| of the Democrats in the Forty-titth and
Forty-sixth Congresses, by which re-
luctant Republican opposition was COM
PEELED to consent to legislation making
everywhere Illegal the presence of troops
at the polls. as the conclusive proof that
Democratic administration will pre-
serve liberty with order. The selection
of Federal officers for the Territories
should be restricted to citizens previous
ly resident there. We oppose the s,lmp-
tuary law which vex the citizen and in
terfere with individual liberty. We
favor honest civil service reform in the
compensation of all United States officers
by fixed salaries and the separation of
church and State and the diffusion of
free education by public schools so that
every child may be taught the rights and
duties of citizenship. While we favor
all legislation which will tend to the
equitable distribution Of property to the
prevention of monopoly and to the strict
enforcement of individual rights against
corporate abuses, we hold that the vel
fare of society depends on a scrupulous
regard for the rights of property as de-
fined by law. We believe that labor is
the best rewarded where It is the freest
and most enlightened. We favor the re-
peal of all laws restraining the free
action of labor, and the enactment of
laws by which labor organizations may
be increased, and which will tend to en-
tighten the people as to the true relations
of capital and labor. We believe that
the public lands ought, as far as possible
to be kept as homesteads for actual set.
tiers; that all unearned lands heretofore
improvidently granted to railroad cor
porations by the action of the Republican
party, should be restored to the public
domain, and no more grants shall bs
made to corporations or be allowed tt
fall into the ownership of alien absen
tees. We are opposed to all propositions
which upon any pretext, would conver
the general government into machine
for the collection of taxes to be distri
buted among the States or the citizen.
thereof.
In effecting the declaration of the DE
mocratlc platform of 1856, that ''th'
r liberal principles embodied by Jefferson
in the Declaration of Independence, AM
sanctioned in the constitution, whicl
, make ours the land of liberty and tn
+ asylum of the oppressed of every ma
, ton" are ever the cardinal principles il
, the Democratic faith We nevertheless
r do not sanction the importation of for
eign labor or the admission of servil'
races unfitted by habits, training, reli
gion or kindred for absorption into th'
great body Of our people, or fear th'
citizenship which our laws confer Am
erican civilization demands that agains
, the immigration or importation of Mon
gOlians to these shores, our gates b'
closed. The Democratic party insists
, that it is the duty Of the Government t.
protect with equal fidelity and vigilance
the rights Of its citizens at home ant
abroad, and to the end that this protec
i ton may be assured. United State
papers of naturalization issued by court
, Of competent jurisdiction must he re
spected by the executive and legislatiy'
departments of our government, and b.,
: all foreign powers.
: It is an imperative duty of this Gov
: ernment to efficiently protect all tn
. rights of persons and property Of ever
2 American citizen in foreign lands, an
( demand and enforce full reparation fo
, any invasion thereof An American
D citizen is only responsible to his owl
Government for any act done in hi
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