The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-07-17

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The necessary
ana must be effected without depriVing
American labor Of the abIiitP % com
pete successfully with foreign latcE, and
without imposing lower gasEa o. duty
than viii be ample to cover any increas-
ed cost OF production which may exiet
in consequence OF the hIEheE Eate q
wages prevailing in this country SUM
cient revenue to pay all the expenses Of
the federal govern nent economically adj
ministered, including pensions. interest
and principal Of the public debt, can be
got under our present system Of taxation
from custom house taxes. on fewer i'm
ported articles, bearing heaviest on artl-
cles OF luxury and lightest on articles of
necessity. We therefore denounce the
abuses Of the existing tariff and subject
to the processing Limitations,
We demand that federal tax
pubic purposes and shall not exceed
the needs of the government economic
ally administered. The system of di-
rect taxation known as the "Inter State
Revenue'' is q war tax and so long IS
the Law continues the money derived
therefrom should be devoted TO the re-
lief of the people from the remaining
burdens Of the war, and be made fund
to detray the expenses of the care and
comfort OF worthy soldiers disabled in
the line of duty in the war of the ge-
public, and IN payment Of erch pensions
as congress may from time grant to such
soldiers, like fund for the sailors hav.
ing been alike provided, and If any sur
plus il should be paid into the treas
| ury.
We favor an amendment to the contin.
entail policy based upon more intimate
commercial and political relations with
the fifteen sister republics OF North
Central and South America, but an en-
tanglIng alliance with none.
We believe IN honest money, all the
gold and silver coinage of the constitu
ton, and the circulation of q medium
convertible into such money without
loss.
Asserting the equality of all men be
fore the law. we hold that it is the dutI
of the government in its dealings will
the people 10 mete out equal and exac
Justice TO oil citizens of whatever naiiVi
~, race, color or persuasion, religious o.
political.
We believe in free ballot and q fail
count, aud we recall to the memory o
the people the noble struggle of thu
Democracy in the Forty fifth and Forty
eighth congresses, by which a reluctan
Republican opposition was compelled t
assent to legislation making everyWher
illegal the presence of troops at the poll
as the conclusive proof that Democrat
&c administration will preserve Iibert!
with order.
The selection of federal officers for tn
territories should be restricted TO citiz
ems previously resident therein.
We oppose sumptuarY laws which We.
the cities and interfere with persona
liberty.
We favor honest civil service reform
and the compensation of United State
officers by fixed salaries, the separation
of church and state and the diffusion Q
free education by common schools, 8
that every child in the land may b
taught the rights and duties of citizeI
) ship.
While IN favor of all legislation whic
will tend to the equitable distribution {
properly to the preYentIon OF moRope
ly and to the strict enforcement OF IND
Yidual rights against corporate abuse
the platform favors the repeal {
all laws restricting action 4
|, labor, calls for restoration OF unearDe
: land grants, and that no more lands b
/, |
, alien abseDtees; 1t declares that our IL
; terests demand that our gates be close
|, against Chinese immigration; declare
that it is the imperative duty of the go'
, ernment to guard the interests OF Amer
, can citizens abroad, declares an Ameri
can citizen is only responsible to Its oW
, government for any act done in his ow
country, or under her flag, and can only b
! tried therefor on her own soil and al
. cording to her own laws, and that q
. power exists in this government to e.
tricate an American citizen to be triR
in any foreign land; declares the go'
eminent should care for and improve th
Mississippi and other great water way
and regarding shipping Interes's 1t d
a mands instead of the Republican party
: British policy, an American policy, il
= stead of the republican party's discreC
tied scheme and false prctence of frien'
: ship for American labor, we demand, i
behalf of the Democracy, freedom fl
|. American labor by reducing taxes,
. the end that the United States may con
: pete with unbindered powers for the 81
premacY among nations.
SUMMARY OF VOTES.
J. The following is an abstract OF II
J. vote cast at the convention by states: