Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-10-24

labor by the abolition of slavery and the uttel
reputation of caste and aristocrscy by tn,
Republican party has opened TO free men ant
free labor every acre of land within the juris
dict1on OF the United States, and has enabled
the toiiing millions Of the North and of tbs
eouth to associate In one common brotherhood
! for the protection of their rights and the ad
vancement of their intellectual and material
prosperity.
We arraign the Democratic Administration
OF President Cleveland for having failed 10
keep the pledges on which 1t came into power
1t promised economy and retrenchment, and
has been most extravsgant 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 large
majority of both Houses of Congress directing
that such surplus be applied in payment OF
the interest bearing debt of the country. It
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-
lation with Great Britain 1t b as shown itself
| unwilling to give protection to either person
| or property, and has permitted our flag to be
| tnsulted, without proper protest, almost in
| sight of our shores, while by kasty 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 Serv-
| ice Reform, to which its leading representa-
uves are pledged, have been bold, insolent and
lawless. 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, and denied to this people their
rights by its unexplained and continued re-
fusal to execute the law for the erection of
Government building in the capital Of this
State. 1t has used the entire power Of the
Administration to destroy silver money.
and by q refusal to execute the law and pay
out silver for Government dues has kept the
metal out of circulation. and by various de-
vices 1t has reduced the price Of silver since
the Inauguration of President Cleveland more
than fifteen per cent. It 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 low-priced foreign labor, so as to pro.
and for the development Of American indus
tries. We demand in behalf Of our mining
interests the maintenance of the present tariff
on lead borax, soda and other mineral pro-
duotions, and in behalf of our wool growing
interests o 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 homesteads 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 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 Sc 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 concflta-
tion which will avoid the waste, loss and
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 all claims for supplies FUR
nished for the suppression of Indian hostili-
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 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 Democratic
votes on three severals occasions, rejected
resolution endorsing q free Parliament for
Ireland, which is in the following words:
| "Resolved, That the House OF Representa-
| tiyes earnestly sympathizes with Right Hon.
| William e. 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 term1na-
| ton of their long aud patriotic struggle for
| right of local self-government -
1 Thereby discouraging the growth OF upersi
| spirit throughout Great Britain.
VIII.
We commend the efforts of Senator Jones
| and CONGRESSMAN Woodburn in obtaining an
appropriation of $50 900 for public land sur
| yeys in this State. and we condemn the action
of the Commissioners OF the General Land
Ofice in withholding moneys appropriated for
that purpose, and particularly condemn the
action Of Senator Fair in absenting himself
from Washington during all the time when
appropristions 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'
oinles of the bill introduced for that purpose
tby Congressman woodburn. We endorse the
| action Of the Republican Senate in passing IN
/ the EARLY DAYS of the last session of Congress