The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-08-28

WOrklQgmen TeS1SLluS bhC nv O-~AN NAS-- |
OF free trade policy in America.
Seventh-We favor closer commercial
intercourse with all the nations and the
enlargement and extension of Americ: n
COMMERCE in all possible quarters. We
Especially urge the establishment OF
better commercial relations and en-
largement of our trade with South
America. We favor the increase OF
american shipping by practical means.
Eighth-The Republican party in
augurated the civil service reform, and
enacted the present civil service law. 1t
will faithfully maintain and cheerfully
aid in anv way needed amendments to
give it full force. We look with regret
npon the failure of the present admin
istration to promote the reform OF the
evil service SO auspiciously begun under
the Republican Administrations,
Ninth-We demand that the pubhe
domain, including forfeited and I'M
earned lands within the limits OF grants
made to railroads, and other corpora
lions, shall be disposed OF only to
actual settlers in limited quantities.
as nroyided by law. Bona fide settlers
on unearned lands within the limits OF
the Sioux City and st. Paul Railroad
Company. should have their rights
speedily provided for by the prompt en-
actment of laws by Congress to effect
that result. We are opposed to the ac-
ouisition of public lands. or any-part
| thereof, by nonresident aliens.
Tenth-We oppose any change IN the
laws of currency and finance that viii
| increase the burdens of the debtor class;
we favor the revision of the patent laws
for better defense of the people against
! the frauds now practiced thereunder:
we favor such practical improvements
in the national water ways as shall Sc
cure an element of competition IN the
TRANSPORTATION to this country; we favor
a rigid enforcement of all the laws Tor
the suppression of polygamy.
Eleventh-The Republican party IN
Iowa. while the steady upholder OF the
right and duty of the State to regulate
the traffic in liquor, by such methods
as will suppress it most, its evils have
never made the support of prohibition
a test of party fealty. 1t pledged ITS
honor to enact and afterwards did
enact the law which the people OF Iowa
have We declare now for fan
and thorough trial of that law
that it NAV have time 10 demonstrate
its efficiency or prove its inefficiency be-
: fore it is repealed to give way to some
! other honest and earnest method In the
line Of finding a true and successLu
system of dealing with the liquor traffic
/ We arraign and condemn the Dem
5 ocratic party of Iowa for its action II
7 declaring for a $3.50 license. compulsory
2 on every community, regardless OF loca
/ opinion, for the legalizlng again II
4 Iowa of the sale of whisky and al
other alcohol" liquors, and Tor remoV
e ing all restrictions from saloons; glVlnl
< a freedom liz the liquor traffic that ma
Y not existed in Iowa Tor thirty years
4 Tvelfth-We hold steadily TO IN
II doctrine OF the control and regulation
& railways by the people as mrs
e established by the Repubhca
a law in Iowa, which was finall
b approved by the Supreme Court OF til
lie Tinted States. This principle gives
the general assembly power to regulat
D. the State commerce and to Congress To
tie reruia i)n of the Interstate commerc
Of Under the Republican rule and Repul
" lican methods, the cost OF the iran
is portation of produce has been decrease
is from 3 cents per ton per mile IN 1917
N mills per ton per mile III 1852: W
e are opposed to all unjust and arbltral
lie Determinations in pooling and CONT
;, nations, which prevent the legltlma
il competition or work injustice TO cor
IL
a. me fuiL measure of prosperity OF Il
$ agricultural. manufacturing, CONNIE
ut ci9I and mining interests OF our sta
e. depends upon the just and lmpartl
IN service of the great ralwa
r systems operating within its border
er and holding their corporate prlylleg
Mt under its statutes, and the policy OF q
railway management designed to Ell
as barrass a single industry of our col
e. monwealth for the direct benefit OF
of corresponding interest elsewhere, Is
I'd fit subject for legislative inquiry III
Us correction. We favor the creation
Ill Congress of national commission
n the supervision and regulation OF mt
,ie State commerce. We favor the electl,
". lof railroad commissioners by I
m people. Sc :,
ed live stock and dairy interests Oh
yn State are such as TO call for addition
ar legislation for the better protection
re. these interests. We need State a.
of national legislation to more ettectual
D. stop the spread of cattle plaques, a
Id, provide for their eradication.
he Fourteenth-We favor such legs
re- ton as will keep litigation With
3D. corporations doing business III u
/, State III our State courts.
nit Fifteenth-We endorse the action
he the Grand Army of the Republican tn
of last State eneampment, asking that
AN Legislature, at the next session sh
be pass bill and make an appropriate
IAN for the establishment and malntenai
the within the State of Iowa home for
M disabled volunteers soldiers and sallo
in Sixteenth-In the death OF Gene
nd Grant the nation has lost one Oh
Of great st and best known me2 III histo
yed For his services to the nation, we
r of press our unbounded sratlluoe, ioa
ron death. our profound sorro", anu ~
tec- widow and family we extend our
leir cerest sympathy and coincidence
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