Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-10-22

labor by the abolition of slavery and the ute
reputation of caste and aristocracy by tn,
hepuoilcan party has opened 20 free men snt
free 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
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 Il
| Keep the pledges on which it came into power
| 1T promised economy and retrenchment and
has 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 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.besring 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 it's re-
lstion with Great Britain 1t las shown itself
unwilling to give protection to either person
or property, and has permitted our flag to be
insulted, without proper protest. almost in
sight Of our shores, while by hasty and un-
seemly action 1t 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-
tives are pledged, have been bold, insolent and
lswless. 1t has shown itself no friend to Ne
vsda, because. among its first acts of admin
atr aln hn nj fad fata Miw<{ Do
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 unex planned and continued re-
fusai to execute the law for the erection of a
Government building in the capital of this
State. 1t has used the entire power of the
Administration to destroy silver as 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 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 low-priced foreign labor. SO as to pro-
t6CL Iuc lutcrcStS VI WdSt-W t-WuTkcTH,
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-
ductions. and in behalf of our woolgrowing
interests q restoration of the wool tariff of
1867, and we denounce the recent attempt of
the Democratic majority ia 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
IN ain should be reserved as homesteads for
actusl 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 IS 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-
ton, 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 hostilt-
ties. and also for services rendered during that
memorable struggle in which the lives OF a
large number Of our most respected citizens
were sacrthced.
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 severslH occasions, rejected q
resolution endorsing free Parliament for
Ireland which ts in the following words:
"Resolved, That the House Of Representa-
tives 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 termina-
| ton of their long and patriotic struggle for
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 an
appropriation of $50 900 for public land sur.
yeys in this State, and we condemn the action
of the Commissioner Of the General Land
Ofice in Withholding moneys appropriated fol
that purpose, and particularly condemn the
| action Of Senator Fair in absenting himself
| from Washington during all the time when
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 tC
| suppress polygamy in Utah, and to check th'
| growth of disloyalty to the Government IL
/ that Territory, and we fully endorse the prin
ciples of the bill introduce ed for that purpose