Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-07-18
: MEDICINE LODGE. BARBER co. KANSAS. JULY I8, 1884

SiSO W oii OiliIcliS vi whatever n3JlOn
ality, race, color or persuasion-relig
ious or political. We believe in a fire,
ballot, and fair count and we recall K
the memory of the people the no
bic struggle Of the democrats in tn,
Forty-ffth and Forty-sixth congress b,
which reluctant republican opposition
was compelled to assent to legislation
making everywhere illegal the presence
of the troops at the polls as the. conclu.
sive proof that democratic administra
tion Will preserve liberty with order. The
selection of federal officers for the ter.
ritories should be restricted to citizens
previously resident therein. We op.
pose sumptuary laws which vex the citi.
zens and interfere with individual lib.
erty. We favor honest
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM
and tie compensation of United States
officers by fixed salaries, the separation
of church and state and the diffusion OF
free education by common schools, Sc
that every child in the land may be
taught the rights and duties OF citizen
ship, while in favor of all legislati on
which will tend to the equal distribu
ton OF property; to the prevention of
monopoly, and to the strict enforce
ment of individual rights against cor
poral abuse. We hold that the welfare
of society depends upon scrupulous re-
gard for the rights of property, as de-
fined by law. We believe that labor is
best rewarded where it is free and most
enlightened; it should therefore be fos-
tered and cherished. We favor the re-
peal of all laws restricting the free ac-
tlon of labor and the enactment of laws
by which labor organizations may be
Incorporated, and of all such legislation
as will tend to enlighteD the people as
to the true relation of capital and labor.
We believe that
THE PUBLIC LANDS
ought as far as possible to be kept as
homesteads for actual settlers; that all
the unearned lands heretofore improyi.
IDENTIFY granted to railroad corporations
by the action Of the republican party,
should be restored to the public do.
main, and that no more grants of land
shall be made to corporations or be al
lowed to fall into the ownership of alien
adsentees.
We are opposed to all propositions
which upon any pretext will conver,
the general government into machine
for collecting taxes to be distributed
among the statesor the citizens thereof
In reaf1irming the declarations of the
democratic platform of 1850 that "the
liberal principal embodied by Jefferson
III the declaration of independence and
sanctioned in the constitution, which
makes ours the land of liberty and the
home OF the oppressed of every nation
have ever been cardinal principles il
the democratic faith" We nevertheless:
do not sanction the importation of
FOREIGN LABOR
or the admission of seryial races untitled
by habits, training, religion or kindred
for the absorption into the great bod,
of our people, or for the CITIZENSHIP
which our laws confer. American civ
llization demands that against the i'm
migration or Importation of Mongoliar
to these shores, our gates be closed.
The democratic party insists that il
is the duty of this government to pro
tect, with equal fidelity and vigilance
the rights of its citizens native and na
turaliZed, at home and abroad. and
to the end that this protection may bt
assured, United States papers of natu
ralization issued 10y courts of compsterli
Jurisdiction must be REPRESENTED b,
the executive and legislative depart
ments of our own government and h,
all foreign powers. 1t is an imperative
duty OF this government Of efficlentl,
protect all the rights of person and
property of every American citizen in
foreign lands. and demand and enforce
full reparation for any invasion there
of. An American citizen is only re-
sponsible to his own government fol
any act done in his own country or un
der her flag, and can only be tried there
for on her own soil and according tc
her law, and no power exists in thi.
government to eXpatriate an American
citizen to be tried in any foreign land
for any such act. This country has a
well defined and executed foreign polics
Saye under democratic administration
that policy has ever been in regard tt
foreign nations, so long as they do nc
act detrimental to the interests of Tho
country or hurtful TO our citizens, to lei
them alone; that as the result of this
policy we recall the acquisition oi
Louisiana, Florida; California and 9th.
er adjacent Mexican territory by pur-
chase alone, and contrast these gran6
acquisitions of democratic statesman.
ship with the pttrchase Of Alaska, the
sole fruit of republican administra
ton OF nearly quarter of century.
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS:
The federal government should care
for and improve the Mississippi river
and other great Waterways of the re
public, so as to secure the interior state:
easy and cheap transportation to tide
water: Under long period of demo
cratic rule and policy our merchant
marine was fast overtaking and on thu
point Of outstriyping that Of Great
Britain. Under twenty years of repub
lican rule and policy our commerce ha.
been left TO British bottoms, and al
most has the American flag been swep
off the high seas: Instead of the re
publican party's British policy, we de
mand for the people of the United State
an American policy, under the demo
cratic rule and pelicy, our mefehant
and sailors flying the stars and stripe
In every port, successfully searching on
market for varied products of Ameri
can industry. Under a quarter of
century of republican rule and policI
and despite our manifest afyantae