Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-06-12

will receive the hearty approval OF every
citizen.
1t is the first duty of good govern
ment to protect tie rights and promote
the interests of its own people. The
largest diversity of industry is most
productive of general prosperity and of
the comfort and independence of the
people. We therefore demand that the
imposition of duties on foreign imports
shall be made not ''for revenue only"
but that in raising the requisite reve-
nues for the Government. such duties
shall be so levied as TO afford security
to our diversified industries, and pro-
lection to the rights and wages of the
| laborer, to the end that active and in
.elligent labor, as well as capital, may
have its just reward, snd the laboring
man his full share in the national pros
perity.
Against the so-called economic sys-
tenn of the Democratic party, which
would degrade our labor to the foreign
standard, we enter our earnest protest.
The Democratic party has failed COM
pletely to relieve the people of the bur-
den of unnecessary taxation by a wise
reduction of the surplus.
The Republican party pledges itself
to correct the inequalities of the tariff,
and to reduce the surplus, not by the
vicious and indiscriminate process of
horizontal reduction, but by such meth
DDS as will relieve the taxpayer without
iniuriDg the labor or the great produc-
| tive interests of the country.
We recognize the Importance of sheep
| husbandry in the United States, the
serious depression which it is now ex-
periencing and the danger threatening
its future prosperity, and we, therefore
respect the demands of the representa-
| tives of this important agricultural IN
terest. for readjustment of duty upon
| foreign wool, in order that such indus
try shall have full and adequate pro-
lection.
We have always recommended the
best money known to the civilized
world, and we urge that efforts should
be made to unite all commercial ma
tons in the establishment of an inter-
national standard which shall fix for
| all the relative value of gold and silver
! coinage.
The grateful thanks of the American
people are due to the Union soldiers and
sailors of the late war, and the Repub-
lican party stands pledged to provide
suitable pensions for all who were dis
| abled and for the widows and orphans
of those who died in the war. The Re-
publican party also pledges itself to the
repeal of the limitation contained in the
| Areas act of 1879, so that all invalid
| hal ch "a oil 20 nd
sions begin with the date of disability or
disch arge, and not with the date of the
application.
The Republican party fayors policy
which shall keep us from entangling al
liances with foreign nations, and which
gives us the right to expect that foreign
nations shall refrain from meddling in
American affairs - the policy which
seeks peace and can trade with all
powers, but especially with those of the
Western Hemisphere.
| We demand the restoration of our ma
Wy to its old-time strength and efficiency,
that it may in any sea protect the rights
of American citizens and the interests
of American commerce; and we call
upon Congress to remove the burdens
under which American shipping has
been depressed, so that it may again be
true that we have a commerce which
leaves no sea uneXplored, and navy
which takes no law from superior force.
ResotUed, That appointments by the
| President to offices in the Territories
| should be made from the bona-fide citi-
zenS and residents of the Territories
wherein they are to serve.
| ReS0tced, That it is the duty of Con-
gress to enact such laws as shall prompt
ly and effectually suppress the system
of polygamy within our territory, and
divorce the political from the ecclesias-
tical power of the So-called Mormon
| Church, and the law so enacted should
be rigidly enforced by the civil authori-
ties if possible and by the military if
need be.
The people of the United States in
their organized capacity constitute a
Nation and not a mere confederacy of
States. The national Government is
supreme within the sphere OF its nation
al duty. but the States have reserved
rights which should be faithfully main
tanned. Each should be guarded with
jealous care, SO that the harmony of our
system of Government may be preserved
and the Union kept inviolate The
| perpetulty of our institutions rests upon
the maintenance of free ballot, and
honest count and correct returns. We
! depounce the fraud and violence prac-
ticed by the Democracy in Southern
| States. by which the will of the voter
is defeated, as dangerous to the pre-
servation of flee institutions, and we
Solemnly arraign the Democratic party
Us being the guilty recipient of the
! fruits of such fraud and violence. We
extend to the Republicans of the South,
regardless of their former party affilia-
tons, our cordial sympathy, and pledge
| TO them our earnest efforts to promote
the passage of such legislation rs will
! secure to every citizen, of whatever
race and color, the full and complete re-
| cognition, possession and exercise of all
civil and political rights.
The regulation of commerce with
| foreign nations and between the States
is one of the most important preroga-
tives of the general Government, and
the Republican party distinctly an
nounces its purpose to support such
Legislation as will fully and efficiently
carry out the constitutional power of
Congress over Interstate commerce.
The principle of the public regulation
| of railway corporations is wise and
salutary one for the protection of all
classes of the people. and we favor
legislation that shall prevent unjust
discrimination and excessive charges
for transportation and that shall secure
TO the people and the railways alike the
fair and equal protection of the laws.
We favor the establishment of ma
tional bureau of labor, the enforce
ment of the eight-hour law, a wise and
judicious system of general education
by adequate appropriation from the
national revenues wherever the same is
needed. We believe that everyw here
the protection to citizen of American
birth must be secured to citizens by
American adoption, aud we favor the
settlement of national differences by
international arbitration.
The Republican party, having it.
birth in hatred of slave labor, and q
desire that all men may be- truly free
and equal. is unalterably opposed t6
placing our workmen in competitor
with any form of servile labor, whether
at home or abroad. In this spirit We
denounce the importation of contrac'
labor, whether from Europe or Asia, as
an offense against the spirit of 4Ameri
can institutions. and we pledge our
selves TO sustain the present law res
trietinp Chinese immiyration and IL