St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-26

silver coinage of the constitution, and cir
culating medium convertible into such mon
ey without loss.
Asserting the equality of all men before
the law, we hold that it is the duty of the gov
eminent, in its dealing with the people, to
mete out equal and exact justice to all citi-
zens. of whatever nativity, race, color, or per-
suasion-religious or political.
We belive in free ballot and fair COUNT
and we recall to the memory of the people
and noble struggle of the democrats in the
forty-ffth and forty-sixth congresses, by
which reluctant republican opposition was
compelled to assent to legislation making
everywhere Illegal the presence of troops at
the polls as the conclusive proof that dem
ocratc administration will preserve liberty
with order.
The selection of federal officers for the
territories should be restricted to citizens
previously resident therein.
We oppose sumptuary laws which vex the
citizen and interfere with individual liberty;
we favor honest civil-service reform; and
the compensation of all United States officers
by 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 and duties of
citiz snship
While we favor all legislation which will
tend tc the equitable distribution of proper
ty. to the prevention OF monopoly, and to
the strict enforcement of individual rights
against corporate abuses, we hold that the
welfare of society depends upon a scrupulous
regard for the rights of property as defined
oy law.
We believe that labor is best rewarded
where it is freest and most enlightened. 1t
should therefore be fostered and cherished
We favor the repeal of all laws restricting
the free action of labor, and the enactment of
laws by which labor organizations may be
incorporated, and of al such legislation as
will tend to enlighten the people as to the
true relations of capital and labor.
We believe that the public lands ought, as
far as possible, to be kept as homesteads for
actual settlers; that ali unearned lands here
tofcre improvldentlY granted to railroad cor
porat:ons by the action of the republican
party should be restored to the public do
main; and that no more grants of land shall
be made to corporations, or be allowed TO
fall into the ownership of alien absentees.
We are opposed to all proportions which
upon any pretext would convert the general
government into machine for collecting
taxes to be distributed among the states, or
the citizens thereof.
In reaffirming the declaration of the dem
ooratic Platform of 1859, that ''the liberal
principles embodied by jefferson in the Dec
laratlon of Independence and sanctioned in
the constitution which makes ours the land
of liberty and the asylum of the oppressed of
every nation, have ever been cardinal prin-
ciples in the democratic faith, we never
theless do not sanction the importation of
foreign labor, or the admission of servile
races, untitled by habits. training, religion,
or kindred for absorption into the great
body of our people. or for the citizenship
which ouI laws confer. American civ'liza-
ton demand that against the immigration or
importation of Mongolians to these shores
our gates be closed
The Democratic party insists that it is the
duty of this government to protect with
equal fidelity and vigilance, the right of its
cit1 ems, native and naturalized, at home and
abroad; and to the end that the pro. cotton
may be assured, United States papers of nat
uralization, issued by courts of competent
jurisdiction, must be respected by the exec
utive and Legislative departments of our own
government, and by all foreign powers.
1t is an imperative duty of this govern
ment to efficiently protect all the rights of
persons and properly of every American
citizen in foreign lands, and demand an en-
force full reparation for any evasion 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 therefore on her own soil and
according to her laws; and no power exists
in this government to expatriate an Ameri-
can citizen to be tried IN any foreign land
for any such act.
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and executed foreign policy, save under
Democratic administration; that policy has
ever been, in regard TO foreign nations, so
long as they do not act detrimental to the
interests Of the country or hurtful to our
citizens, to let them alone; that as the 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 craftsmanship with the pur-
chase of Alaska, the sole fruit of a Republl-
can administration of nearly a quarter Of
century.
| The federal government should care fer
and improve the Mississippi river and other
| great waterways of the republic, SO as to Sc
cure for the interior states easy and cheap
tran sportation to tidewater.
Under long period of Democratic 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 our 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 Democratic rule and policy, our
merchants and sailors, flying the stars and
stripes in every port, successfully searched
out a market for the varied products or
American industry.
Under quarter century of Republican
rule and policy, despite our manifest advan-
| tage over all other nations in high-paid labor,
favorable climates and teeming soils; despite
| freedom of trade among all these United
States; despite their population by the fore
most races of men and annual immigration
of the young, thrifty, aud adventurous of
all nations; despite our freedom here from
the inherited burdens of life and industry in
old-world monarehies-their costly war
navies, their vast tax-con Stunning, non-pro-
ducing standing armies; despite twenty
years of peace-that Republican rule and
policy have managed to surrender to
Great Britain, along with our CONNER,
the control of the markets of the world.
Instead of the Republican party's British
policy, we demand in behalf Of the American
democracy an American policy.
| Instead of the Republican party's dscred-
tied scheme and false pretense of friendship
| for American labor, expressed by posing
taxes, we demand in behalf of the democra-
| cy, freedom for American labor by reducing
| 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.
/ With profound regret we have been APP