The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1884-07-19
REPUBLICAN FAILURES.

The Republican party, during its
legal, its stolen and its bought tenures
OF rO"-ea, i-s.a at-s,s',i, uecayed in moral
character aud political capacity. Its
platform promises are now a list of its
past failures. 1t demands the restora-
ton of our navy; it has sq1Andered
hundreds Of millions to create navy
that does not exist. 1t calls upon Cor
gress the burdens uuder which American
shipping has been depressed; 1t imposed
and has continued those burdens. 1t
processes the pei cy of reserving the
public lands for small holdings by ac-
tual settlers; it has given away the peo-
pies heritage till now few railroads
and Nonresident aliens. individual ard
corporate, possess larger area than that
of all our farms between the two sens.
1t processes preference for Tree institu-
tions; it organized aud tried to legalize
control of State elections by Federal
troops. 1t processes desire to elevate
labor; it has subjected American work
ingmen to the competition of convict
and imported contract labor. 1t pro-
fesses gratitude TO all who were disabled
or died in the war leaving widows and
orphans; it left TO a Democratic House
of Representatives the first effort to
equalize both bounties and pensions 1t
proffers pledge to correct the irregu-
larilies of our tariff; it created and has
continued them. It's own Tariff Com
mission confessed the need of more than
twenty per cent, reduction; it Congress
gave n reduction of less than four per
ceut II Processes the protection OF
American manufactures; ii has subjected
them to an increasing food of mauufac-
tured goods aud hopeless competition
with manufacturing nations not one OF
which taxes raw materials. 1t Processes
to protect all American industries; it has
impoverished many TO subsidze few.
1t processes the protection of American
laborj it has depleted the returns of Am.
erican agriculture, an industry followed
10y half of onr people. 1t processes the
equality of men before the lawi attempt
ing TO fix the status of colored citizen S,
the acts OF its Congress were overset by
the decisions of it's Court. It "acrepts
anew the duty OF leading in the work of
progress and reformi'' its caught crimin-
ais are permitted to escape through cou-
tinued delays or actual connivanee III the
prosecution.
Honeycombed with corruption, ont.
breaking exposures no longer shock its
moral sense. Its honest members, lts
independent journals, no longer main.
tain a successful contest for authority in
its counsels or a vote upon bad nomiua
tions.
That change IS necessary is proved by
an existing surplus of more than sl00,
! 100000, which has yearly been collected
from suffering people. Unnecessar!
taxation is unjust taxation. We de
, nounce the Republican party Tor haviul
failed to relieve the people from crush
ing war taxes. which have parlyze,
business. crippled industry and deprive,
labor Of employment aud of just reward
REDUCING TAXATION.
The Democracy pledges itself to puri
> fy the administration from corruption, t
restore economy, to revive respect 70
law and to reduce taxation to the loves
A limit consistent with due regard 10 To
preservation Of the faith OF the nation I