The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-07-23
VOL. XVIII.--NO. II.

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S and Of all such legislation as viii
: tend to enlighten the people. as u
v the true relations of capital and Ia
f Dor be believe that the public lanC
t ought as far as possible to be kept
; as hOmesteads for actual settlers
| that all unsarned lands heretofore
improvidently granted to railroad
corporations by the action of the
Republican party, should be restored
to the public domain, and that no
more grants of land shall be made
to corporations or be allowed to fall
into the ownership ofalien absenteSs.
We are opposed to all propositions
which upon any pretext would cons
vert the general government into
a machine for collecting taxes to be
distributed among the States or the
citizens thereof
In reafirming the declaration Of
the Democratic platform of 1869,
that the liberal principles embodied
by Jefferson in the Declaration Of
Independence and sanctioned in the
constitution which make ours the
land ofiberty and the asylum Of the
oppressed of every nation, have ever
been cardinal principles IL ...e
Democratic faith, we nevertheless
do not sanction the importation of
foreign labor or the admission of
servile race untitled by habits, train
ing, religion or kindred. for absorp-
tion into the great body Of our peo-
pie, or for the citizenship which our
laws confer. American civilization
demanns that against the immigraA
ton or importation Of Mongolians to
these shores our gates be closed.
RIGHTS OF AMERICAN CITIzRNs.
The democratic party insists that
it is the duty of this government te
protect with edual fidelity and vigi.
lance the rights of its citizens, ma
tive and naturalized, at home and
abroad, and to the end that this prO>
lection may be assured, United
States papers Of naturalization is
sued by courts of competent juris-
dictiOn must be respected by thA
executive and legislative departs
ments OF our own government and
by all foreign powers. 1t is an i'm
perative duty of this government to
efficiently protect all the rights of
persons and property of every
American citizen in foreign lands,
and demand and enforce full repa.
ration for any invasion thereof An
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 ac-
cOrding 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 we'll defined and executed fer
eign policy save under democratic
administration. That policy has
ever been in respect to foreign ma
tions so long as they do not act dets
rimental to the interests Of tho
country or hurtful to our citizens, to
let them alone. That, as the result
of this policy, we recall the acquisi-
ton of Louisiana, Florida, Califor-
MIA, and of the adjacent Mexican
territory by purchase alone, and
contrast these grand acquisitions of
democratic craftsmanship with the
purchase of Alaska, the sole fruit of
a republican administration Of near
ly quarter of a century.
The federal government should
care for and improve the Missis
sippi river and other great water
ways of the Republics SO as to secure
for the interior States easy and
cheap transportation to tide water.
OUR MERCHANT MARINE.
Under long period of demo
cratic rule and policy our merchant
marine was fast overtaking and on
the point of outstripping that Of
Great Britain; under twenty years
of republican rule and policy cur
commerce has been left to British
bottoms and almost has the Ameri-
can flag been swept off the high
seas Instead of the republican
party's British policy we demand
for the people of the United States
an American policy. Under demos
CT attic rule and policy our merchants
and sailors, flying the Stars and
Stripes in every port, successfully
searched out a market for the va
ried products of American industry.
Under quarter of century, of re-
publican rule and policy; despite
all our manifest advantage over all
other nations in high paid labor, fa-
verable climates and teeming soils
despite freedom of trade among all
these United States; despite their
by the foremost races Of
men and an annual immigration of
the young, thrifty and adventurous
of all nations; despite eur freedom
here from the inherited burdens of
life and industry in Old World moss
arches, the costly war vavies, their
vast tax-consuming, non-producing
standing armies; despite twenty
years of peace, that republican rule
and policy have managed to sur
render to Great, Britain along with
our commerce the control OF the
markets of the world. Instead of
the republican party British policy
we demand in behalf of the Ameri-
can democracy an American policy.
Instead of the Republican party's
discredit scheme and false pretence
of friendship for American labor,ex-
pressed by imposing taxes, we de-
mand ia behalf of the Democracy
freedom for American labor by re-
ducing 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.