The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-07-16

custom house taxes on fewer import
ed articles. bearing the heaviest OF
articles of luxury, and bearing tn
lightest on articles of necessity. W.
therefore denOuuce the abuses of the
existing tariff. and subject to thes'
Limitations we demand that Fedora
taxation shall be exclusively for pub
lie purposes, and shall not exceed thu
needs Of the government econ0mi'
caily administered. The system Of
direct taxation, known as the ''inter
nal revenue" Is . war tax, and &C
long as the law continues the money
derived tberefrom should be sacredly
devoted to the relief of the people
from the remaining burdens of the
war. and be q fund to detray the ex-
pense OF the care and comfort of wOr-
thy soldiers disabled in the line OF
duty in the wars of the republic, and
for the payment of such pensions as
congress may from time to time grant
to- such soldiers, and q like fund for
the sailors having been already pro-
vided for, and any surplus should be
paid into the treasury. We favor an
| American continental policy, based
upon more intimate commercial
aud political relations with
the fifteen sister republics
of North, Central and south
| America, but entailiDg alliances
with none. We believe in honest
money. the god and silver coiuage Of
he constitution, and q circulating
medium convertible into such money
without loss. Asserting the equality
of all men tef..re 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 citizers of whatever nativity, race,
color or pers uasIOn. religious " pO-
litical. We believe in u free ballot
and a fair count, and we recall to the
memory of the people the noble
struggle of the Democrats in the For
ty-fifih and Forty sixth Congresses,
by which q reluctant Republican OPP
position was compelled to consent to
legislation making everywhere il
legal the presence of troops at the
polls, as the conclusive proof that a
Democratic administration will pre-
servo liberty with ORDER. The selec-
ton of Federal officers for the Terri
tories should be restricted to citizens
previously resident there. We OPP
pose the sumptuary law which vex
the citizen and interfere with indi-
vidual liberty. We favor honest civil
service retorm in the compensation
of all United States officers by fixed
salaries and the separation nf church
and State and the diffusion of free |
by public schools &C that !
every child may be taught the rights
and duties of citizenship. While we !
all legislation which will tend
10 the equitable distribution of prop |
erty to the prevention OF monopoly |
and to the strict enforcement of in
tividual rights against corporate
we hold that the welfare of
depends on a scrupulous re-
gard for the rights of property as de-
lined by law. We believe that labor !
the best rewarded where it Is the
freest and most enlightened. We
favor the repeal Of all laws restrain
ing the free action of labor, and the
enactment of laws by which labor
organizations may be increased, and
will tend to enlIghten the
as to the true relations of CAPT.
.al and labor. We believe that the
lands ought, as far as possible,
10 be ket.t as hUmesteads for actual
settlers; that all unearned lands here
;ofore lmprovidently granted to rail-
'oad corporations by the action of
The Republican party, should be re-
10 the public domain, and no
more grants shall he made to corpora.
ions or be allowed to fall into the
ownership of alien absentees. We
nc opposed to all propositions which
lpon any pretext, would convert the
government into a machine
or the collection Of taxes to be dis
ributed among, the States or the citi-
'ens thereof.
In effect-ng the de claration of the
platform of 1856, that 1.-The
LIBERAL principles embodied by Jeffer>
on in the Declaration of Indepen-
and sanctioned in the consti-
utioh, which make our the land Of
liberty and the a asylum of the OPP
'ressed of every nation" are ever the
ardinal principles In the Democratic
aith. We nevertheless do not sane
ion the imuortatlOn of foreign labor
r the admission of servi!e races uu-
tilted oy habits, training, religion or
,indred for absorption Into the great
'ody of u people, or fear the citi-
eDship which u laws confer.
American civilization demands that
gainst The immigration or importa-
of MODgOlians to these shores.
ur gates be closed. The Democratic
arty insists that it is the duty of the
to protect with equal
deity and vigilance. the rights Of it's
ltizens at home and abroad, and to
ne end that this protection may be (
ssured, United states papers of
naturalization issued by courts of I
ompetent jur sdictiOn must be re- 8
by tn, executive and legi>la- q
We departments of our government, 1
by ali foreign powers. It is an t
Imperative duty of this Government t
efficiently protect all the rights of q
ersons and property of every Ameri- '
citizen III foreign lands, and de- b
land and enforce full reparation for d
u y I II ~ CllC1GOis "a k1IlGIlCdu y
tizen is only responsible to his own il
for any act done in his il
or under her fling and law,
ld can only De tried therefor on her q
Vn soil and according to her Jaws, | c
Id no pc er exists in this Govern J
.ent to expatriate an Ameri- s
n citizen to be tried in any tor 81
gu land for any such offense
bis country has a We'll defended
educated foreign policy save
lder Democratic administration. n
nat as the result of this policy we :; i
IL attention to the acquisition of a,
ouisiaua, Florida and California. a
I'd OF the adjacent Mexican Terri ~
~ by purchase alone, and contrast ~
ese grand acquisitions of Demo- ~
attic craftsmanship with the pur- 70
Iase of Alaska, the sole fruit of a -
epublican administration of nearly e.
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