Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-07-16
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Po.S0 " IJuio Wy 09meou0 ndu!trle1, but
the foundation Of this government taxee coliected
e the custom-house have been the chief source o.
Such they must continue e
upon legislation for succenful continuance, g
that any change Of law must b ct every Stsp %.
&srdful of the labor and capital thus Involved
ecution to this plain dictate Of justice.
Al taxation shall be limited to the require
ments of economical government. The Necessary
without depriving American labor Of the ability
! to compete successfully with foreign labor. and
without imposing lower rates Of duty than VIII
6s AMPLE to cover any cot Of
h'ghsI rate Of Wages prevailing in this country.
Sufficient revenue to pay all the expenses Of the
Including pensions, interest and principal Of tho
public debt can be got, under our present system
OF taxation, from custom house taxes on fewe1
1mported a,tcles, bearing heaviest on articles o.
We therefore denounce the abuses of the exist.
Ing tariff: and. subject to the preceding limita'
exclusively for public purposes, and shall moi
exceed the needs ofthe government economically
The system Of direct taxation known q, III,
internal revenue Is war tax, and 50 long d
the law continues the money derived therefforn
should be sacledly devoted to the relief Of the
people from the remaining burdens of the war
and be made fund to detray the expense Of tht
care and comfort of worthy soldiers disabled n
line of duty In the wars of the republic, and fol
lynne to OF such pensions q cone
| fund for the sailors having been already pro.
vided; and any surplus should be paid Into the
We favor an American continental policy based
upon more intimate commercial and political ne
lat1ons with the fifteen sister republics of North
Central, and South America, but entangling ALI
We believe in honest money. tho said and all.
yer coinage of the constitution and circulating
medium convertible into such money without
Asserting the equality of all men before thu
law, we hold that It il the duty Of the govern
1nent In its dealings with the people, to mete Out
nativity, race, color, or persuasion-religious d
We believe In free ballot and fair count: and
struggle Of the Democrats in the forty fifth and
tOrtysixth Congresses by which reluctant
Republican opposition. was compelled to assent tt
legislation making everywhere illegal the pres
ence OF troops at the polls the conclusive proc
that Democratic administration will preserve
The selection Of federal officers for the terri
tories should be restricted to citizens Previously
resident therein.
w We oppose sumptusEy laws which veS the citi
pensation of all United States officers by fixed
salaries: the separation Of church and state; and
the diffusion. OF free education by common
taught the rights and duties of citizenship.
While we favor all legislation which will tend
to the equitable distribution of property, to the
prevention Of mon9poIy, and to the strict en-:
| abuses, we hold that the welfare of society do,
ponds upon scrupulous regard for the rights Of
properly prop as defined by law;
10 freest and most enlightened. It should there
fore be f0stered and cherished. We favor the 10
peal OF al laws restricting the free action o
organizations may be incorporated, and Of ali
such legislation as will tend to enlighten the
people as to the true relations of capital and
We believe that the public lands ought, as ia,
as possible, to be kept as homesteads for actual
settlers; that all unearned lands heretofore i'm
Rrovidently granted to railroad corporations by
the action of the Republican party should be re.
stored to the public domain; and that no more
grants of land shall be made to corporations, OF
be allowed to fall into the Ownership Of alien ab.
sentees.
We are opposed to all propositions which upon
any pretext would convert the general govern.
ment into a machine for collecting taxes to be
distributed among the states, or tho citizena
thereof.
In reafirming the declaration of the Demo.
cratic Platform of 1856, that 'the liberal prlnci
pies embodied by Jefferson in the Declaration 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 principles in the Democratic
portation Of foreign labor, or the admission Of
servile races, untitled by habits training, relig.
ion, or kindred for absorption Into the great
o coh ss eS wan
that against the immigration or Importation OF
Mongolians to these shores our gates be closed
The Democratic party insists that 1t is the duty
and vigilance, the rights of its citizens, native
and naturalized at home and abroad; and to the
end that this protection may be assured, United
States papers Of naturalization, issued by courts
of competent jurisdiction, must be respected by
the executive and legislative departments of oul
own government. and by all foreign powers.
efficiently protect all the rights Of persons ant
property Of every American citizen in foreign
lands, and demand and enforce full PREPARATION
for any invasion thereof
All American citizen is only responsible to hi
own government for any act done In his OWL
country, or under her flag, and can only be tried
On her soil and to h
expetriate an American citizen to be tried in any
foreign land for any such act.
This country has never had we'll defined and
executed foreign policy, save under Democratic
administration; that policy has ever been, in re-
gard to foreign nations so long as they do not ac
detrimental, to the interests Of the country OF
the result of this policy recall the acquisition
Of Louisiana, Florida, California, and Of the ad.
1acent Mexican territory by purchase alone; and
statesmanship with the purchase of Alaska, tho
sole fruit of a Republican administration oil
nearly %sG g quarter Of century ,,
improve the Mississipp River and otber f eresi
waterways Of the republic SO as to secure for the
interior states easy and cheap transportation "a
tidewater.
Under long period of Democratic rule and
policy, our merchant marine was fast Overta king,
and on the point of outstripping, that Of Great
IIn6o. twoptv ro.r. NJ po,,h,.,.,, -.
policy our commerce has been left to British bot
toms, and almost has the American flag been
swept of the high seas.
Instead Of the Republican perty's British policy
American policy.
Under Democratic rule and policy, our mer.
chants and Sailors flying the stars and stripes In
the varied products of American industry
Under quarter century Of Republican rule
and policy, despite our manifest advantage over
all other nations in high-paid labor, favorable
trade among ali these United States despite thei'
population By the foremost races Of msn; and e
adventurous Of all nations; despite our freedom
here from the inherited burdens Of life and in
dustry in old world monarchies--their costly wa
naviCs, their vast tax-consuming, on-producin{
standing armies; despite twenty years OF peace
that Republican rule and policy have managei
to surrender to Great Britain, along with ou
commerce, the control Of the markets Of thu
Instead of the Republican party's British polio,
we demand In behalf of the American Democra
cy an American policy.
Instead of the Republican party's discreditei
scheme and false pretense Of friendship for Amer
mand In behalf Of the Democracy, freedom fo
American labor by reducing taxes, to the end Tia
these United States may compete with unhin
dered powers for the primacy among nations IL
oil Of the arts of peace and fruits Of liberty.
With profound regret we have been appr1set
by the venerable statesman through whose per
son was struck that blow at the vital principle o.
republics (acquiescence in the will of the major
hands &c e
for the reason that the achievement of reform IL
the administration Of the federal government Il
an undertaking now too heavy for his age and
failing strength.
Rejoicing that his life has been prolonged unit
the general judgment Of our fellow countrymel
united in the wish that that wrong were righted
in his person. for the Democracy Of the United
States we offer to him In his Withdrawal from
public cares not only our respectful sympathy
and esteem but also that best homage of freemeI
the pledge of our devotion to the principles and
the cause now inseparable in the history of THU
republic from the labOrs and the name of Samuel
J. Tilden.
With this statement of the hopes. principles
and purposes of the Democratic party, the greai
issue of reform and change In administration Il
submitted to the people in calm confidence that
the popular voice will pronounce In favor of new
men aud new and more favorable conditions fol
the growth Of industry, the extension of trade