The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1884-07-16


cedIng limitations, we demand that
federal taxation shall be exclusively
! tor public purposes and shall not ex-
ceed the needs of the government
economically administered. The
system Of direct taxation known as
THE INTERNAL REVENUE
is war tax and 50 long as the law
continues the money derived there
from should be devoted to the relief
of the people for removing burdens
of the war and be made a fund TO
defray the expenses OF the care aud
comfort Of worthy soldiers disabled
in the line of duty in the wars of the
republic and for the payment of such
pensions as congress NAV from time
to time grant 70 such soldiers, a like
fund for the sailors having been al
ready provided, and any surplus
should be paid into the treasury.
We favor an amendment of the con-
tinental policy based upon more
intimate commercial and political re-
latlons with the fifteen sister repub-
lies of North, Central and South
America. but entangllng alliances
with none.
THE CURRENCY.
We believe in honest money, all
the gold and silver coinage of the
constitution and circulation medium
convertible to such money without
loss. Asserting the equality of all
men before the lay, we hold that it
Is the duty of the government in its
dealings with the people to mite out
equal and exact Justice to all citizens
of whatever nationality, race, color
or rsuasion-religious or political.
We believe in a free ballot and a
fair count, and we recall to the mem
DRY Of the people the noble struggle
of the democrats in the Forty-fiIth
and Forty sixth congress by which a
reluctant republican opposition was
compelled TO assent to legislation
making everywhere illegal the pres
ence OF troops at the poles as the
conclusive prof that democratic ad-
ministration will preserve liberty
with order. The selection OF federal
officers for the territories should be
restricted TO citizens previously resi-
dents therein. We oppose sumptu-
arv laws which vex the citizen and
interfere with individual liberty. We
favor honest
CIlII. SERVICE REFORM
and the compensation OF United
States officers by fixed salaries, the
separation of church and state and
the diffusion of free education by
common schools, so that every child
i'll the land NAV be taught the rights
and duties of citizenship, while in
favor of all legislation which will
tend to the equitable distribution of
property; to the prevention of mo-
nopoly, and to the strict enforcement
of individual rights against corporal
abuse. We hold that the welfare of
society depends upon scrupufous
regard for the rights of property. as
defined by law. We believe tnat
labor is best rewarded where 1t is
free and most enlightened it should
therefore be fostered and cherished.
We favor the rere cal of all laws re-
strIcting the free action of labor and
the enactment of laws by which la
Dor. organizations may be incorpo-
rated. and OF all such legislation as
will tend to- enilghten the people as
to the true relation of capital and
labor. We believe that
THE PUBLIC LANDS
ought as far rs possible to be kept
As honcsteads for actual settlers =:
that all unearned lands heretofore
in,providen,Iy granted to railroad
corporations by the action of the re-
publican party. should be restored
to the public domain. and that no
more grants OF iand shall be made to
.,nr,,nratious or be allowed to fall