Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-07-18
grants of land shall be made to corpora
tions or be allowed to fall into the owner

grants of land shall be made to corpora
tions or be allowed to fall into the owner
ship of alien absentees.
We are opposed to all propositions whicl
upon any pretext would convert the gen
eral Government into machine for col
lee ting taxes to be distributed among tn,
States or the citizens thereof.
! In reaf1irming the declaration of thu
i Dem ocratic platform of 1856. that the lib
eral principles embodied by Jefferson il
the Declaration of Independence and
sanctioned in the Constitution, which
make ours the land Of liberty and the asy'
lum of the oppressed of every nation, have
ever been cardinal principles in the Dem
ocratic faith. we nevertheless do not sane,
ton the importation of foreign labor, OF
the admission of servile races untitled by
habits. training, religion. or kindred fol-
absorption into the great body of our peo-
pie, or for the citizenship which our laws
confer. American civilization demands
that against the immigration or imp0rta.
tion of Mongolians to these shores ouI
gates be closed. The Democratic party
insists that it is the duty of the Govern
ment to protect with equal fidelity and
vigilance, the rights of citizens, native
and naturalized, at home and abroad; and
to the end that this protection may be as
sured, United States papers Of naturaliza.
tion issued by courts of competent juris-
diction must be respected by the execu-
tive and legislative departments of our
own Government, and by all foreign pow
ers. 1t is an imperative duty of this Gov.
eminent to efficiently protect all the rights
Of person and property of every Ameri.
can citizen in foreign lands, and demand
and enforce full reparation for any inva.
sion thereof.
en- American citizen is only responsible
to his own Government for any act
done in his own country or under her flag
and can only be tried therefor on her own
soil and according to her laws; and no
power exists in this Government to expa-
triate an American citizen to be tried
in any foreign land for any such act.
This country has never had well de.
fined and executed foreign policy save I'M
der Democratic administration. That pol
icy has ever been, in regard to foreign ma
tions, so long as they do no act detrimen-
tai to the interests Of the country or hurt
full to our citizens, to let them alone. AS
the result of this policy we recall the &C.
QUESTIONS of Louisiana, Florida, Califor-
mia, ard of the adjacent Mexican terrific
ry by purchase alone, and contrast these
grand acquisitions of Democratic states
manship with the purchase Of Alaska, the
sole fruit Of Republican administrat ton
Of nearly quarter Of q century.
The Federal Government should care
for and improve the Mississippi River aud
other great waterways of the Republic, so
as to secure for the interior States easy
and cheap transportation to tide water.
Under long period of Democratic rule
and policy, our merchant marine was fast
overtaking and on the point of outstrip.
ping that Of Great Britain; under twenty
years of Republican rule and policy our
commerce has been left to British bot
toms, and almost has the American flag
been swept off the high seas.
Instead Of the Republican party's Brit
ish policy, we demand for the people of
the United States an American policy
Under Democratic rule and policy our
merchants and sailors, flying the Stars and
Stripes In every port, successfully searched
out a market for the varied products of
American industry. Under quarter
century Of Republican rule and polity, de.
spite our manifest advantage over all 9TH
or nations in high-paid labor, favor able
climates and teeming soils; despite freedom
of trade among all these united States; de-
spite their population by the foremost
races of men, and an annual immigration
of the young, thrifty, and adventurous Of
all nations; despite our freedom here from
the inherited burdens of life and industry
In Ole World monarchies. their costly war
navies. their vast tax-consuming, nom
producing standing armies; despite TWEEN.
ty years OF peace, that Republican rule
and policy have managed to surrender to
Great Britain along with our commerce
the control of the market of the world.
Instead of the Republican party's Bril-
fish policy we demand in behalf of the
American Democracy an American po-
Icy.
Instead of the Republican party's dis
credited scheme and false pretence of
friendship for American labor Expressed
by imposing taxes) we demand in behalf
Of the Democracy freedom for American
labor by reducing taxes, to the end that
these United States may compete with
unhindered powers for the primacy among
nations in all the arts of peace and fruits
of liberty.
With profound regret we have been ap-
prised by the venerable statesman through
whose person was struck that blow at the
vital principle of republics-acquiesce
in the will eft the maj ority-that he can.
not permit us again to place in his hands
the leadership of the Democratic hosts,
for the reason that the achievement of re-
form in the administration Of the Federal
Government is an undertaking now too
heavy for his age and failing strength.
Rejoicing that his life has been prolonged
until the general judgment of our fellow
countrymen is united in the wish that that
wrong was righted in his person for the
Democracy of the United States, we offer
to him in his withdrawal from public
cares not only our respectful sympathy
and esteem, but also that best homage of
freemen, the pledge of our devotion to the
principles and the cause now inseparable
in the history Of this republic from the
labors and the name of Samuel J. Tllden.
With this statement of the hopes. prin-
ciples. and purpose Of the Democratic
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