Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-10-28

iaOor py the Abolition OF slavery and the ute
reputation of caste and aristocracy by tn,
Republican party has opened TO free men snt
Tree LABOR every acre OF land within the juris
diction OF tho United States, and has enabled
the toiling millions Of the North and of Ia,
South to associate in one common brothe rhoot
Tor the protection of their rights and the ad
vancement of their intellectual and materia
prosperity.
| We arraign the Democratic Administration
OF President Cleveland for having failed t.
| keep the pledges on which it came into power
| 1t promised economy and retrenchment and
mas been most extrAvagant in expenditures
and appropriations, which, for the current
year, largely exceed the abundant revenues OF
the Government. 1t promised to reduce the
surplus in the Treasury, but reversing the rule
OF previous Administrations, has permitted
such surplus to lie idle and accumulate 10 the
| injury OF the business of the country, and has
| refused to approvo Of the action OF q large
| majority Of both Houses of Congress- directiu
| that such su~>lus be applied In payment Of
| the interest bearing debt of the country. 1t
promised to care for aud give attention to the
disabled soldiers and sailors OF the late war
| and has treated with contemptuous veto every
| pension bill against which it could find any
shadow OF technical objection. 1t promised
| to protect the persons and property of citizens
| both at home and abroad, and to maintain the
/ dignity and honor Of the nation, yet in its re-
| lstion with Great Britain IL has shown itself
| unwilling to give protection to either person
| or property, and has permitted our flag to be
| insul:ed, without proper protest, almost in
sight OF our shores, while by hasty and un-
seemly action ii has unnecessarily jeopardized
our friendly relations with the Mexican Re-
public, and made our nation ridiculous in the
eyes OF the world. Its evasion OF Civil Sery-
ice Reform, to which its leading representa-
tives are pledged, have been bold, iusolent and
lswless. 1t has shown itself no friend to Ne
vada, because. among its first acts of admin
istration, 1T closed the United States Mint in
Carson ity, in utter violation Of the law. to
the great detriment of every miner aud silver
producer in this State i'll particular, and Of the
public in general. 1t has seriously impaired
our mail facilities. without shadow OF Just ex.
cuse. 1t has outraged the express will of
Congress-, and denied to this people their
rights by its unexplained and continued re-
fusai to execute the law for the erection Of
Government building in the capital of this
State. 1t has used the entire power of the
Adminis istrstion to destroy silver as money
and by refusal to execute the law and pay
out silver for Government dues has kept the
metal out of circulation, and by various de-
vices IL has reduced the price of silver since
the Inauguration of President Cleveland more
than fifteen per cent. 1t has closed many of
our silver mines, and thrown thousands OF
honest lsborers out of employment.
III.
We favor tariff upon the imported pro-
ducts of low-pr1ced foreign labor. so as to pro.
tect the interests of American wage-workers,
and for the development Of American indus
tries. We demand in behalf OF our mining
interests the mai ntenance of the present tariff
on lead borax, soda and other mineral pro-
ductions, aud in behalf of our wool growing
interests restoration of the wool tariff of
1867, and we denounce the recent attempt of
the Democratic majority in the Natioual House
of Representatives to pass the Morrison bill
reducing the tariff on the products of our
mines and placing wool on the free list.
~.
We believe in American soil for American
citizens, and are opposed to nonresident
aliens becoming landowners. The public do
main should be reserved as homes.eads for
actual settlers, and the accumulation of large
tracts or bodies of land In the hands of cor
porations or individuals should be discour-
aged, and in the case OF land grants to railroad
corporations whore the corporations have
failed TO comply with the conditions Of the
grants the land should be forfeited to the
General Government, and held for the benefit
Of actual settlers.
V.
We favor the intelligent organization of
labor for such worthy purposes mutual
education and for the protection of their in
terests in all things relating to their welfare
and to the industrial welfare of the country,
and We favor the enactment Of State and
National laws providing for the settlement of
controversies between employers and en-
ployes by methods of voluntary arbitration,
or by the establishment of courts of concilia-
ill-feeling resulting from strikes and lock-
outs, and the usual expense of litigation.
vi.
We denounce the action of the Democratic
House of Representatives at its last session in
striking from the bill to compensate the citi-
zens of this State for losses sustained in the
Indian war of 1860 ell claims for supplies fur
nished for the suppression OF Indian host1li-
ties, and also for services rendered during that
memorable struggle in which the lives of
large number of our most respected citizens
were sacrificed.
We denounce the pretense of the Demo-
cratic party Of having sy ympathy for the cause
of local self-government IN Ireland while the
Democratic House of Representatives. in
Committee of the Whole, repeatedly refused
to indorse that principle. In the months of
April and June last that body, by Democratic
votes. on three severalS occasions, rejected q
resolution endorsing free Parliament for
Ireland, which is in the following wolds:
'.Resolved, That the House of Representa-
tives earnestly sympathizes with Right Hon.
William K. Gladstone and his associates in
their efforts to secure free Parliament for the
people of Ireland, and congratulate the people
| of that hitherto unhappy country upon the
prospect of an early and successful termina-
| ton of their long aud patriotic struggle for
right of local self-government
Thereby discoursging the growth OF liberal
spirit throughout Great Britain.
VIII.
We commend the efforts of Senator Jones
and Congressman Woodburn in obtaining an
appropriation of $50. 600 for public land sur
yeys in this State, and we condemn the action
| of the Commissioner of the General Land
Office in Withholding moneys appropriated for
| that purpose, and particularly condemn the
action of Senator Fair in absenting himself
| from Washington during all the time whom
appropriations for this State were under con-
| sideration by the Senate.
TX.
We endorse the action of Senator Jones and
CONGRESSMAN Woodburn in their efforts to
suppress polygamy in Utah, and to check the
growth of disloyalty to the Government In
| that Territory, and we fully endorse the prin-
| ciples of the bill introduced for that purpose
| by Congressman woodburn. We endorse the
| action of the Republican Senate in passing in
| the early days of the last session of Congress q
| bill we'll calculated to suppress the growing
| evil of polygamy, and check the growth of the
| hostile power of the Mormon Church, which
| is threatening the peace and furnishing the
| good name of the United States, We condemn
| the action of the Democratic House of Repre-.
sentatives in refusing during all the long ses
sion of Congress which has just closed to con
slider any measure tending to relieve oui