Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-10-30

iapor BY the abolition of slavery and the utter
| reputation of caste and aristocracy by the
Republican party has opened TO free men and
iree labor every acre OF land within the juris.
oiction OF the United States, and has enabled
the tofling millions of the North and of the
South to associate In one common brotherhood
for the protection Of their rights and the ad-
vancement Of their intellectual and material
prosperity.
We srraign the Democratic Administration
Of President Cleveland for having failed to
keep the pledges on which 1t came into power
IT 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 10 the
injury of the business OF the country, and has
| refused to approve of the action OF 9 large
| majority Of both Houses Of Congress directing
that such surplus be applied in payment OF
tho 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 1t could find any
| shadow OF technical objection. It 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 IS shown itself
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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. It's evasion of Civil Sery-
ice Reform, to which its leading represents
| tives are pledged, have been bold, fnsolent and
| lswless. 1t has shown itself no friend to Ne
vsda, because. among its first acts of admin
| istration, 1t closed the United States Mint in
Carson Sity, 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-
| fusal 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 money,
and by a 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 o tariff upon the imported pro.
ducts of low-priced foreign labor. SO as to pro-
tect the interests of American wsge-workers,
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-
duofions, and in behalf of our wool growing
interests q restoration of the wool tariff of
1861 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.
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We believe in American soil for American
citizens, and are opposed to nonresident
main should be reserved as homestesds 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 fot the benefit
| of actual settlers.
We favor the intelligent organization of
labor for such worthy purposes as mutual
| education and for the protection OF their in
| terests in all things relating to their welfare
| aud 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-
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| 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 cih-
\ 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 q
| 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 q
resolution endorsing q free Parliament for
Ireland, which is in the following words:
"Resolved. That the House Of Represents
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 aud 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 al
| appropriation of $50. 900 for public land sur
| veys in this State, and we condemn the actor
| of the Commissioner of the General Land
Office in withholding moneys appropriated fol
that purpose, and particularly condemn thu
action OF Senator Fair in absenting himself
from Washington during all the time wher
appropriations for this State were under con
| alteration by the Senate.
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We endorse the action of Senator Jones ant
| Congressman Woodburn in their efforts Il
suppress polygsmy 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
by Congressman Woodburn. We endorse tn
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