The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1884-07-19

lief OF the people from the reiI'ainins
burdens of the war aud be made q
fund to defray the expense OF are
and comfort of worthy soldiers us
abled In the line of duty III the wars
of the republic and for the payment
of such pensions as Congress may
from time to time grant TO sucn SOL
diers, q like fund for the sailors nav
ing been already provided, and any
surplus should be paid into Inc Treas
ury.
We favor an American continental
policy, based on more intimate coul-
mercial and political relations win
the fifteen sister republics OF North,
Central and South America, out en-
falling alliances with none.
We believe in honest money, the
gold and silver coinage, and OF the
cultivation and circulation OF d med
ium convertible into such money,
without loss.
Asserting the equality OF all men
before the law, we hold that 1t 10 the
duty oil the Government ! II its deal
inys with the people to mete out equal
and exact justice to all c~ltizens, OF
whatever nativity. race, color or per
snasion, religious or political.
We believe in q free ballot and a
fair count, and we recall to the mem
ory of the people the noble struggle OF
the Demdcrats Ia tho Forty-hfth anu
Forty-sixth Congresses, by which a
reluctant Republican opposition was
--. IN naaanf In lnUlaIHtl0lI
making everywhere illegal the pres
ence of troops at the polls, as the
conclusive proof that a Democratic
administI alton will preserve liberty
with order.
The election OF Federal officers for
the Territories should be restricted TO
citizens previously resident therein.
We oppose sumptuary laws, which
vex the citizen aud interfere with in
di,idual liberty.
We favor honest civil service re-
form, The compensation OF all United
States officers 10y fixed salaries, The
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
aud duties of citizenship.
While we favor all legislation which
will tend to the equitable distribution
OF property, to the prevention OF mon
opoly and TO the strict enforcement OF
individual rights against corporate
abuses, we hold that the welfare OF
society depends on n serdpulouS re-
gard for the rights of properly as de
fined by law. W. believe that labor
is best rewarded " hen it Is ir"eNt aud
most enlightened. l. should b." fpS-
tered and cherished. We favor the
re peal of all laws restoring the ffee
&C ION of labor and the enactment
of all laws by hicb labor organi
Eat ons may be- increased aud of all
such legislation a. will tend TO en- :
Tighten the people a. tn the true re-
lation Of capital and labor.
W believe that Tho public lands
ought, as lar as possible to be To kel I
for homesteads for actual settlers;
that all unearned land here fore i'm
pro, identity granted to railroad cor
poralions by the action of the Repub-
lican party, should be restored to the
public domain, aud no more gran 5
shall be made to corporations, or be
allowed to fall into the ownership OF
alien absentees.
We are opposed to all propositions
which, upon any pretexi, would con.
vert the general government into a
machine for the collection oftaxes 10
be distributed among the States or the
citizens thereof.
In effect the declaration OF the Dem
ocratic platform of 1856 that ''The
liberal principles embodied by Jetfer-
son In the Declaration OF Independ-
ence and sanctioned in the Consiitu-
ton, which makes ours the land OF
liberty and the asylum OF the oppress-
ed OF every naiion.p have ever been
the. cardinal principles in the Demo-
cratic faith. We, nevertheless, do not
sanction the importation Of foreign
labor or the admission OF servile
races, untitled by habits, training, re-
ligion or kindred, for absorption into
the great body of our people, or for
the citizenship which our laws con
fer. American civilization demands
that against the immigration or iIn-
portalion OF Mongolians to these
shores our gates be closed.
The Democratic party insists that II
Is the duty OF the Government tn pro-
tect with equal fidelity and vigilance
the rights OF its citizens-native and
naturalized nj home and abroad.
and to the end that this protection