Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-07-15

the people remaining q burden Dy the
war, and made q fund TO defray the e.
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 as Congress may, from
time to time, grant such soldiers 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 lnti-
mate commercial and political relations
with the sister Republics Of North, Central
and South America, but entailing an
alliance with none. We believe in honest
money, gold and silver, the coinage OF the
country, or q medium convertible into
such money, without loss. Asserting the
equality Of oil men before the law. We
hold that it 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 q free ballot and q fair count.
We will recall to the memory OF the people
the noble struggle OF the Democracy in the
Forty-ffth and Forty-sixth Congresses, by
which the reluctant Republican opposition
was compelled to assent 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
every child in the land may be taught 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 q scrupulous regard
for the rights Of property, as defined by
law. We believe that labor is best re-
warded where it is freest and most enlight-
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 e~nlighten 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 homestesds for actual
settlers; that all unearned 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 9 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
may be assured, United States papers of
naturalization, Issued by courts Of compe-
tent Jurisdiction. must be respected by the
Executive and Legislative Departments of
our Government by all foreign powers. II
is an imperative duty of the Government
to efficiently protect all the rights Of per-
sons and property of every American citi-
zen in foreign lands, and demand and en-
force full reparation for any invasion there
of. An American citizen is only respon-
sible to 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 no
power exists in this Government to expa-
sr;ate en- American citizen to be tried in
any foreign land for any such act. This
country has never had q we'll defined,
educated foreign policy, save under Demo-
cratic administration that policy has ever
been in regard to foreign nations, 30 long
as they do not act detrimentally to the in.
terests OF the country, or hurtfully to our
citizens, to let them alone; that as a result
Of this policy we recall the acquisition of
Louisiana, Florida, California, and
of the adjacent Mexican territory
by purchase alone, and contrast these
grand acquisitions of Democratic states
manship with the purchase of Alaska, the
sole fruit Of Republican administration for
nearly Q quarter Of q century. The Federal
Government should care for and improve
the Mississippi river and other great water
ways Of the Republic. so as to secure to the
inter-States easy and cheap transportation
to tide-water. Under q long period of
Democratic policy our merchant marine
was fast overtaking, and on the point of
outstripping that Of Great Britain. Under
40 years Of Republican rule the policy of
commerce has been left to the British, and
almost has the American flag been kept off
the high seas. Instead of the Republican
British policy, we demand for the people of
the United States an American policy
under Democratic rule, and a policy for
our merchants, flying the stars and stripes
in every part, successfully searching out q
market for the varied products of Ameri-
can industries. Under a quarter of a CEN
fury Of Republican rule. q policy despite
the manifest advantages over all other
nations, in ,high-paid labor, favorable
climates and fertile soils; despite the free
dom of trade among the United States;
despite q population Of the foremost races
Of men, and a n annual immigration of
thrifty adventures of all nations; despite