Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-08-27

war, and made a fund to defray the ex-
penses for the care and comfort of wounded
soldiers disabled in the line OF battle IN
the wars of the Republic; for the payment
Of such pensions Is Congress may, from
time TO time, grant such soidiers-a like
fund for the sailors having been already
provided, and any surplus should be paid
into the Treasury. We favor the Ameri-
can continental policy, based on more init
mate commercial and political relations
with the sister Republics of North, Central
and South America, but entalling an
alliance with none. We believe in honest
money, gold and silver, the coinage of the
country, or 8 medium convertible into
such money, without loss. Asserting the
equality OF all men before the law. We
hold that il is the duty of the Government
to mete out equal and exact justice to all
citizens, of whatever nativity, race, color
or persuasion, religious or political. We
believe in u free ballot and a fair count.
We will recall to the memory Of the people
the noble struggle of the Democracy in the
Forty-ffth and For.y-sixth Congresses, by
which the reluctant Republican opposition
was compelled to asont to legislation
making everywhere illegal the presence of
troops at the polls. As conclusive proof
| that the Democratic administration Will
preserve liberty with order, the selection
of Federal officers in the Territories should
be restricted to citizens previously resident
therein. We oppose sumptuary laws which
vex citizens and interfere with individual
liberty. We favor honest Civil Service
Reform and compensation of United States
officers by fixed salaries; separation OF
church and State, and the diffusion OF free
education by common schools, so that
--.-- aA.Il - Az anl man hn fonuhr the
/ rights and duties Of citizenship. While we
favor all legislation which will tend to an
| equitable distribution of property, the
prevention of monopoly, and the strict
enforcement of individual rights against
corporate abuses, we hold that the welfare
of society depends on a scrupulous regard
for the rights Of property, rs defined by
law. We believe that labor is best re-
warded where it is freest and most enllght-
ened-it should be fostered and cherished.
We favor the repeal Of all laws restraining
the free action of labor, the enactment of
laws by which labor organizations may be
increased, and such legislation as will
tend to ~enlighten the people as to the true
relations of capital and labor. We believe
that the public lands ought, as far as pos
sible, be kept as homesteads for actual
settlers; that all unesrned lands heretofore
improvidently granted TO railroad corpo-
rations by the Republican party, should be
restored to the public domain; no more
should be made to corporations, or be
allowed to fall into the ownership of alien
absentees. We are opposed to any propo-
osition which, by any pretext, would con-
vert the General Government into q ma
chine for the collection of taxes, to be dis
tributed among the States or citizens
thereof. The declaration of the Demo
cratic platform in 1856, that the liberal
principles embodied by Jefferson in the
Declaration of Independence, and sane
toned in the Constitution, which make
our land one of liberty, and an asylum OF
the oppressed of every nation, have ever
been cardinal principles in the Democratic
faith. We nevertheless do not sanction
the importation Of foreign labor, or the
admission of servile races, untitled by
habits, training. religion or kindred, for
absorption in the great body of our people,
or the citizenship which our laws confer.
American civilization demands that
against the immigration of Mongolians to
these shores our gates be closed. The
Democratic party insists that it is the duty
Of the Government to protect with equal
fidelity and vigilance, the rights of citi-
zens. native or naturalized, at home or
abroad. To the end that this protection
NAV be assured. United States papers of
naturalization. Issued by courts OF compe-
tent inrisdiction. must be respected by the
Exeentiye and Legislative Departments of
our Goyernment by all foreign powers. 1t
is an imperative duty of the Government
to EFFICIENTLY protect all the rights of per-
sons and roperty of every American citi-
zen in foreign lands. and demand and en-
force fnI renaration for any invasion there.
Of. An American citizen ia only respon.
sible 10 His own Government for any act
done in his country or under her flag and
law. and can only be tried therefor on her
own soil and according to her laws. and nc
mower exists in This Government to expa.
triata an American citizen 10 he tried in
any foreipn land for any such act. This
conntrv has never had a we'll defined,
educated foreign policy. save under Demo.
cratic sdm;nisfrstion that policv has ever
hsen in regard to foreign nations. so long
"a tbav do not act de~trimentallv 10 the in,
terests NJ the country or hurtfnlIv 10 our
citizens 10 let them alone. tina. "A a result
~ .his nolicy wa recau the aconiaition ot
Ton;S;ana Florida California. and
~ the adiacant Mexican territory
bv nnrcb.sa alone. and contrast These