Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-10-29

laoor py the abolition OF slavery and the uttel
repudlation Of caste and aristocracy by tn,
Republican party has opened 10 free men ant
Tree labor every acre of land within the juris
diction of the United States, and has enabled
the toiling millions of the North and of tn,
South to associate in one common brotherhood
for the protection of their rights and the sd
vancement of their intellectual and material
prosperity.
We arraign the Democratic Administration
OF President Cleveland for having failed &c
keep the pledges on which ii came into power
1t promised economy and retrenchment and
has been most extrsvagant 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 to the
| injury of the business of the country, and has
refused to approve of the action OF a large
majority Of both Houses of Congress directing
that such surplus be applied in payment Of
the interest bearing debt of the country. 1t
promised to care for and give attention to the
disabled soldiers and sailors OF the late war
and has treated with contemptuous veto every
pension bill against which 1t 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-
| lat1on with Great Britain 1t has shown itself
| unwilling to give protection to either person
1 or property, and has permi tied our flag to be
| insulted, without proper protest, almost in
| sight OF our shores, while by hasty ind un-
seemly action it 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 Serv-
| ice Reform, to which its leading representa-
| ttves are pledged, have been bold, insolent 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 city, in utter violation OF the law. to
|! the great detriment of every miner and silver
producer in this State In 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, gnd denied to this people their
/ fusal to execute the law for the erection of
Government building in the capital of this
l State. 1t has used the entire power of the
| Administration to destroy silver Rs money
| and by a refusal to execute the law aud pay
| out silver for Government dues has kept the
metal out of circulation, and by various de-
vices it 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 laborers out of employment.
III.
We favor q tariff upon the imported pro.
ducts of ow-prioed foreign labor, SO as to pro-
tect the interests of American wage-workers,
ana the development Oh American lQQus-
tries. We demand in behalf of our mining
interests the maintenance of the present tariff
on lead, borax, soda and other mineral pro-
ductions and in behalf of our wool.growing
interests a restoration of the wool tariff of
1867, and we denounce the recent attempt of
the Democratic majority in the National 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 homestesds for
actnul settlers, and the accumulation of large
tracts or bodies of land in the hands OF cor
porations or individuals should be dtscour-
aged, and in the case of land grants to railroad
| corporations where 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.
We favor the intelligent organization Of
labor for such worthy purposes as mutual
| educstion and for the protection of their in
| terests in all things relating to their welfare
and to the industrial welfare of the country.
l 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-
l
ill-feeling resulting from strikes ands 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 all claims for supplies fur
nished for the suppression of Indian HOSTILE
ties, and also for services rendered during that
| memorable struggle in which the lives of q
large number of our most respected citizens
1 were sacrificed.
| We denounce the pretense of the Demo-
cratic party OF having sympathy 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 Democratlc
votes, on three severalE occasions, rejected q
resolution endorsipg free Parliament for
Ireland, which is in the following words:
"Resolved, That the House of Represents
lives earnestly sympathizes with Right Hon.
| william e. Gladstone and his associates In
their efforts to secure a free Parliament for the
people of Ireland, and congratulate the people
of that hitherto unhappy couatry upon the
prospect of an early and successful term1na-
ton of their long aud patriotic struggle foi
right of local self-government"
Thereby discouraging the growth OF liberal
spirit throughout Great Britain.
VIII.
| We commend the efforts of Senator Jones
| and Congressman Woodburn in obtaining al
appropriation of $4,000 for public land sur
yeys In this State, and we condemn the actor
| of the Commissioner of the General Lane
Office in withholding moneys appropriated fol
| that purpose, and particularly condemn thu
| action of Senator Fair in absenting himsel
from Washington during all the time wheI
| appropriations for this State were under con
sideration by the Senate.
| TX.
| We endorse the action of Senator Jones ant
| Congressman woodburn in their efforts t.
suppress polygamy In Utah, and to check tn
growth Of disloyalty to the Government II
that Territory. and we fully endorse the prin
| ciples of the bill introduced for that purpos
iby Congressman Woodburn. We endorse tn
action of the Republican Senate in passing Il
the early days of the last session of Congress
bill we'll calculated to suppress the CROWN
evil of polygamy, and check the growth of tn
hostile power of the Mormon Church, whic
is threatening the peace and furnishing tn
good name of the United States, We condem
the action of the Democratic House of Repre-
sentatives in refusing during all the long ses
sion of Congress which has just closed to cor
slider any measure tending TO relieve ou