Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1885-08-29
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good wages.
3. The republican party declares in
the interest Of honest labor and self
government, that there cannot be pollti-
cal inequality maintained among citi-
zens of free republic, and that there
cannot be minority of white men in
the south ruling majority of white men
in the north. The adhesion of the dem
ocratic party to the doctrine OF state
rights is evidenced by the charac-
ter OF the despotic appointments made
by President Cleveland. We censure
his selection of persons to represent
this government at the courts of foreign
countries who deny the lndissoluble
unity of this nation; who, during the re.
belllon, either fought for its success or
justified the principle on which it was
based and which still continues an issue.
We declare that his conduct in this re-
gard is made all the more offensive by
his persistent removal of disabled union
soldiers from government appointments
by means of disreputable devices, of
offensive partyanshlp made by his post
master general and practiced by other
heads of departments and the president
himself.
4. Time does not bar the claims of
soldiers who fought down rebellion or
the gratitude or justice of the country;
therefore, we demand such modification
of tie pension laws as shall secure equal
treatment to all such soldiers emitted
to pensions under said laws by COM
mencing payment from date of disabil-
ity, increase of widows pensions from
$500 to $1,000 per month. and granting
pensions to all such soldiers disabled
from earning support by their own labor
and those who served in the war with
Mexico
5. We condemn the removal by Presi-
dent Cleveland of medical pension ex.
aminers appointed by Lincoln, Grant
and Garfield, who have been steady
friends to union soldiers, and their re-
placement by men who were generally
opposed to the passage OF the pension
laws. American labor is united in the
prosperity and stability of the republic.
The old world theory of Glasses is ab-
horent to the American mind. No
peasant class can be created in America.
The republican party has protected and
fostered the labor of this country so
that Its compensation is larger than
realized in any other nation. It guara.
ed and saved it from the degraded COM
1 Oulua,
and it is pledged to preserve it from the
pauper labor of Europe. We demand
that ample provision be made by law
for the protection of labor and capital
and their varied interests and that laws
be provided for the state board of az
bitration of adjustment and settlement
of disputes between labor and
capital, including, gthe question
of eoraanino cooI . o,,6 %ofbor ,,,,tto..
lpeculiar to the mining interests of the
state, IN order that miners may be as.
sured Of pay for work done by them,
and labor should have its just proper.
tlon of representation on such board
We further declare that provision should
be made by law whereby convict labor
should not be brought in competition
with other labor within the state.
6 We are opposed to the British pol
icy by the democratic party in this coun,
try under the guise of tariff Tor reve.
nue. only. The English theory of free
trade, which has dlsgraced its labor Al
home and been so successfully nsed as q
means of destroying industries and tc
oppress the people Of Ireland, cannot be
imposed, for English interests on the
people of the United States. We invite
all people of Irish blood, who know the
wrongs of their native country undel
English rule, to join Its fate with the re-
publican party and the great body oi
American working men, resisting the in
, PRODUCTION of a free trade policy
in America.
7. We favor closer commercial inter
course with all nations and the exten
sion of American commerce in all pos
/ sible quarters. We especially urge th,
, establishment of better commercial re
lations and the enlargement of our trad.
with South America. We favor the
full measure of American shipping b3
practical means. -,
8. The republican party inauguratet
J civil service reform and enacted th
, present civil service law. It will faith
fully maintain and cheerfully aid an,
needed amendment to give it full force
!, We look with regret on the failure of tn,
, present administration to promote civi
service SO anspiclously begun under re
publican administration.
9.We demand that the public domain
including forfeited and unearned land
8 within the limits of grant made rail
;: roads, shall be disposed of only'to actua
settlers in the limited Quantities pro
vided by law; nominal settlers O.
unearned lands within the limits of th
D Sioux City and st. Paul railroad com
!. pany shall have their rights amply AM
speedily provided for by the prompt en-
actment of laws By congress to effec
8 that result. We are opposed to the ac
qulsition of lands or any part thereof b
nonresident aliens. !.
10. The republican party of low,
: while steady upholders of the right an
j. duty of the state to regulate the traffi
9 in liquor by such methods as will sur
press most of its evils, have never mad
support of prohibition tes
of party fealty. It pledged il
honor to enact, and afterwards di
enact, a law which the people OF low
: at nonpartisan election had ordered b
an unquestioned majority that cam
alike from the votes Of republicans an
It democrats. We declare now for a ia
3 and thorough trial OF that law, that
4 may have time to demolish it's efhcienc
or prove it's ineficiency before it is r
pealed to give way to some other honeI
L and earnest method in the line of fnt
ing true and successful system {
dealing with the liquor traffic. We q
raign and condemn the democratic part
> of Iowa for its action in calling for S2s
|, license, compulsory in every oommunl,
n regardless of local opinion; for legali
u ing again in Iowa the sale of whisi
and all other alcoholic liquors, aud +
al removing restriction from saloons, gi
9 ing freedom in the liquo- traffic that b
hJ NOT existed in Iowa for thirty veuro