Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-06-06
New York Democracy.

"As goes New York, so goes tn,
Union" is now getting to be the popu
lar expression; so anything from tha
interesting seat of war is of interes
nrw: In their convention last week tn,
Tammany Hall democracy adopted tn,
following well-timed and Sensible reso
tions:
The democracy of the city of New
York, assembled in Tammany Hail
again declares Its opposition to ever,
kind of monopoly, cehtralizstion and
governmental injustice. We arraigi
the republican party for its monopolistii
tendencies, its unlimited ayariciou.
greed of place and power, and its land
grants to railroad corporations without
proper consideration for its star route
steals and the connivance of the admin
istration III the acquittal of the stal
route thieves for its treasury frauds
whose gigantic proportions can only bs
aseettained by a change IN the admins
tration.
To institute reforms in every branch
of the general government, and to bring
the culprits to summary and condigr
punishment, it is necessary that the de-
mocracy of the city, state and country
should be united, aggressive and self
reliant.
RESOLVED, That we protest against
the injustice of the present tariff sys.
TEN, because it protects the wealth,
manufacturer and capitalist at least AZ
per cent, while it discriminates against
the mechanic and workingman, whose
wages Hereunder average less that 81 8
day, and results in taking from the
pockets of the people 500 ,OO0, 600 yearly
in excess of the needs of the govern
ment, contrary to every rule of sound
political economy. We fator a tariff
that will derive our revenue from luxu
ries rather than from necessaries and
we recommend to the National DEMO.
cratic convention, when it assemblies
that the most careful attention and
statesmanlike consideration be given &c
this important subject. Under the pres
ent system of unjust shipping laws and
monopoly determinations, the United
States, from being the equal of England
on the seas, has become her vaSsal; oul
commerce has to seek foreign bottoms
for transportation, and our ships have
been driven from the ocean in order to
foster the protected industries owned
and controlled by few rich individuals
and corporations.
RESOLVED, That the efforts of the
great majority of the democratic party
in the house of representatives to reduce
taxation under the Morrison bill-only
defeated by few misguided democrats
acting with their political opponents
receive our warmest praise, and We here
by tender them our thanks for Their
honest exertions. The representatives
whose action thus rclegated the ques.
ton Of tariff reform TO the future, we
leave to the justice of their constituents
who, by their work, will continue to
pay 100 per cent. tax on rice and blan-
kets, SO per cent. on sugar, and from sc
per cent. to 100 per cent. on many of the
1ecessaries of life. ''By their works fol-
good or evil shalt thou know them.n
RESOLVED, That the severest blow
ever dealt at the liberties of the Ameri-
can citizen and the perpetuity of our re-
publican institutions was the theft of
the presidency by the republican party
in 1876. That fraud will forever be a
stain on our history as a people; it can
never be effaced nor should il ever be
pardOned. 1t was a deadly thrust aim
ed at the life of the Republic. An un-
constitutional commission, created to
override the will of the people, accom-
plished its purpose by vote of to Z.
According to the revelations of Presi-
dent Garfield the army of the United
States was concentrated in and around
the capital by order to prevent the rep
resentatives of the people from electing
president in the mode provided in the
constitution-the rankest tisurpation
practiced by a military tyrant. The
usurpation was consummated and the
assassins of self-goyernment were sew
orally rewarded out of the public treas
ury, and as yet the greatest fraud of the
century has not been punished. To re-
dress this wrong becomes the para
mount duty of the democracy in the
coming campaign. To attain this end
we ask the earnest cooperation of every
democrat and every American citizen.