Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-02-06

IT bss long been tLe fav5rite theme
 with the democratic p-ess to charge
 upon the republican party s.l respousI-
 bIlity for giving away vas: tracts of
 the public domain to railroads. As #
 Eas A source of amuseIaen, to that party,
 the statement has been permitted tp go
 uuchuilrnged. IT the reader will turn
 his memory backward and take retro spective view of public aiia;rs, he wIll be
 surprised at the apparent ease with
 with democratic falsehocd Is accepted
 a> fact. It is true that the republicans
 favored land subsidies to a few railroads
 of national importance, and the wisdom
 ot their sclnn is shpvn m he rapid growth and prosperity o5 the country opened Gp by these traE=continental
 lines, wherein ihe government has p-1tiiei by thriuye-tuent. But let us see
 rOw much thc democrats are responsible
 for in this publlc land eZtrsvagance. The
 late NIce President, whose memory IS
 rever=d by every democrat, advocated
 giving away iifty-four millions oi acres
 oi public land tD the Northern Pacific
 railroad. IT the policy was pad, the
 leaders of the democratic party sane
 toned and advocatedit. In ioJO a dem
 o,ratic congress voted more than a mil- iion and q quarter ceres in Alabama and
 MississippI to the Mobile and Ohio
 railroad: more than two and One-half
 millions tO the Illinois Central; in 1855 they gave the Cairo and Fulton rail-
 road a generous tract and in lS5j Rn sd-
 diHonal grant oi nearly two and one
 half million acres. In. other southern
 states nearly ten million acres were also given away by a democratic congress to
 railroads. h 1SJG-7, in the northern
 territories -ueariy t.a ul4ll. .iap l4cres were likewise granted, and the worst feature
 of thcIr pohcy was tine unconditional
 grants made to local enterprises ana speculative schemes. TEe republicans followed their example only SD lar as ex-
 tending a.d to the great national enter prises that partake more of a public nature. To show the republican opp0- siriou to any and aii attempts to squen- der tha public domain. we may cite tine present homestead iav, which the dem ocrats SO stubbornly opposed, and un-
 der the provisions of which millions ot
 homes have been bull; throughout the country tha. would not have been done otherwise. It would be difficult to find any distinctive democratic measure de- signe3 to help the poor and humble, Co 1 encourage progress aud to build up d prosperous country. On the contrary a large majority of the adherents of that party hayr designated the laboring men
 as tine mudsills of society, without any
 rights that thelr financial superIors were bound to respect This is the party tLa. LoWls against republican extrgya- gauce! They have gwen literally with
 out judgment. and opposed giving m worthy causes They arrgyed them selves against the homestead system, ggaIust the protection of American ln- dusirv, and grOtes4uely it mGsquerades
 G. friend of the people--R cunning de-
 wee to roD large class Of credulOus luboring men out Ut their votes. It k party of farce and hypocrisy; of Ftu- pidity and inertia, guided by DO princi-
 ple Of elevation and progress; two de- cEdes behind the times and welded solely to the lu4yss and fishes.