Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-07-11
THE ENTRY BOOK CLOSED


dutv than will be ample Il
cover any increased cost Of production
which may exist in consequence OF tn
higher rate of wages prevailing IN TIN
country. Sufficient revenue to pay alb TIM
expenses of the Federal Government eco
nomicaiy administered intending pens,ons
interest and principal Of the public debt
can be get under our present system OF TAX
alton from custom house taxes OF
fewer imported articles bearing heaS
lest on articles of luxury sRd bearing
lightest on articles of necessity. We there
fore denounee the abuses Of the existing
tariff and ob5sct to the preceding limita
tons. :,
We demand that Federal tAxsSon shall
be exclusively for public furposes' and
shall not exceed the needs os the Govern
ment economically administered. The sys-
tern OF direct taxation known az the inter
national revenues is war tax and
so long as the law continues, the
money derived therefrom should be sa-
credby devoted to. the relief OF the
people from the remaining burdensof the
war aad he made sand to defray the ex-
pense- Of the care and comfort Of worthy
soldiers disabled in the line of dutYiR the
wars Of the Republic and for the payment
of such pensions as Congress may from
time to time grant to saeh soldiers. Alike
fund for sailors having been already pro-
vided any surplus, should be
paid into the treasury. We favor
an American continental policy
based Epon more intimate and political re
lations with the fifteen sister republics OF
North. Central and South America, but en-
tangling alliance with none. We believe
in honestmoney, the gold and silver coinage
of the Constitution, and a circulating me-
dunn convertible into such money without
loss.
Asserting the equalay> Of all men before
the law, we hold that IT, is. the duty Of the
government in its. dealings with the
people to mete out equal and
exact Justice to all citizens of whatever
nativity race, color or persuation 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-ffth and forty-sixth Congresses
by which reluctent Republican opposition
was compelled to assent to, legislation max
ing everywhere illegal the presence Of
troops at the polls, az tn" conclusive
proof that Democratic administration will
preserve liberty with order The selection
of Federal officers for the Territories should
BE- restricted to citizens previously resident
Il erein.
We oppose sumptuary laws which vex the
citizens and interfere with individual lib
erty.
We favor honest civil service reform, and
the compensation Of United States officers
br fixed salaries, the separation of Church
and State and the diffusion of free educa-
ZION by common schools, so that every
child in the land may be taught the rights
and duties of citizenship.
While we favor all legislation which will
tend to the equitable distribution of prop
ety, to the prevention of monopoly and
to the strict enforcement of individual
right against cooperate abuses, we hold
that the welfare of the country
depends upon a scrupeous regard
for the rights Of property
US defined by law We believe that labor
is hest rewarded where it is freest and most
enlightened. 1t should therefore be fostered
and cherished. We favor the repeal Of all
laws restricting the free action Of labor and
the enactment of laws by which labor or
CARNATIONS may be Incorporated and OF all
such legislation as will tend TO enlighten the
reople a. to the true relations of Capital and
labor. We believe that the public land
ought as far as possible to be kept as
homesteads for actual settlers. That all
unearned lands heretofore improyidently
granted to the railroad corporations by the
action of the Republican party should be
restored to the public domain and that no
more grants of land shall be made to cor
porations.
We reatiirm the declaration of the Demo
cratic platform of lSj6--that the liberal
principles embodied by Jefferson in the
Declaration Of Independence and sane.
toned in the Constitution, which make our
land the home of liberty and the asylum OF
the oppressed of every nation, have ever
been cardinal principles in the Democratic
faith. We, nevertheless, do not sanction the
importation OF foreign labor or the admIs.
sion of servile races, unified by habits OF
training. religion or kindred accidents for
absorption into the great body of our peo-
ple. or the citizenship which our laws con-
fer. American civilization demands that
against the immigration or importation OF
Mongolians to these shores our gates be
closed.
The Democratic party insists that IT is
the duty Of this Government to protect,
with equal fidelity and vigilance the rights
of its citizens. native and uaturalized, at
home and abroad, and to the end that this
protection may be assured United States
papers of the National organization,
issued by the Court of Competent Jurisdic.
ticn must be respected by the executors and
legislative departments OF our own govern
meat and By all foreign powers. 1t is an
imperative duty of this government to eth.
cir ntly protect all the rights Of persons and
property of every American citizen in for.
e en- lands and to demand and enforce fI.
PREPARATION for any invasion thereof. An
American citizen Is only responsible to his
own government for any act d9ae in his
! % "1sn country or under her dag and can only
he tried thert0r on her own SOIL anu accOru'
ing to her laws and no power exists in this
government TO expatriate an American
citizen to be tried in any foreign
land for any such act. This country
never had well defined and executed for
eign policy, save under Democratic admin
stration. That policy has ever been in re
gard to Iorv;sn nations so long as they dc
no set detrimental to the interests Of the
country or huriul to our citizens, 10 lei
the alone. As the result of this policy We
recall the acquisition Of Louisiana, Florida
California, and of the adjacent Mexican
territory by purchase alone and contrast these
grand acquisitions ofDemocratic statesman
ship with the purchase of ALASKA, the SOC fruit
of a Republican administration Of nearly
quarter ceItury. The Federal Govern
ment shcGld care for and improve the Mis-
sissippi river and other great water ways Of
The Republic 20 as TO secure for the inter
Tor States easy and cheap transportation to
side water.
under long period of Democratic rule
and policy our merchant marine was fast
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