The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-09-02

wise revisions of the tariff laws from time to
time as have secured these valuable results for
OF IL people
those achievements can be depended upon to
make such future revisions Of those laws as
shall be found TO be wise and advantageous to
the real interests Of American industry. Con-
spicuous among the changes we now deem wise
aud saiutary is the restoration OF the tariff Of
1867 ON wool. The record Of the Democratic
party shows its utter incapacity to deal with
this subject
second-The money OF the Constitution is gold
and silver coin, and the paper representative Of
money, including gold and silver certificates
and Treasury and bank notes, should always be
converted into coin OF equal denomination mt
the will OF the holder. We produce both gold
and silver largely in our own country, and
therefore these metals 30 far IA is consistent
with sound principles OF finance. should be
utilized as money.
The Republican party favor the intelligent
organization Of labor for such worthy purposes
as mutual education and for the protection OF
thar interests in all things relating 70 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 Cancellation,
which will avoid the waste. loss and ill-feeling
resulting from strikes and lock-outs and the
usual burden and expense Of litigation.
Third-We are opposed to the further impor-
tation of Chinese labor into this country or of
any other foreign laborers, under the contract
system, and We favor any plan for the relief of
which does not impose upon free labor greater
expense of supporting convicts in idleness or
useless labor, and we favor the adoption of laws
providing for the protection OF workers in our
mines and other hazardous callings, and for the
regulation of the labor of children, and such
other measures as will sustain and improve the
social and material welfare of Industrial
population. We are earnestly opposed TO the
doctrine of the so-called anarchists and we be-
lieve in the most perfect protection to each and
every individual in the enjoyment of the fruits
OF all his personal efforts to earn an honest live
lihood.
Fourth-we believe that when any consider
able portion OF the State desire TO express them
selves by voting upon change in the organic
law they ought TO be allowed to do so in a con-
stitutional manner and, recognizing the evils
of intemperance and desiring to overcome these
evils, we believe the temperance question Is
one upon which that expression should be
permitted We further demand the thorough
enforcement of the present tax and police laws
as they stand on the statute books
Fifth-We are opposed to the granting of the
Government domain to non resident foreigners
to the exclusion of our citizens, to whose
ownership and use for homes il should be dedi-
Gated
Sixth-We declare our constant sympathy
with the just and consistent Republican policy
and practice of granting out of the nations
abundance generous pensions to the disabled
veterans of our wars whether for the country's
defense or for the preservation of the Union.
We denounce the present national administra-
ton for its indefensible vetoes of meritorious
measures for the relief OF veterans and the wild
ows and orphans of veterans, and condemn the
coarse and insolent terms in which these Ye-
toes were expressed. We protest against the
removal from official places of worthy and dis
abled Union soldiers to make way for partisan
civilians and ex-Confederates.
Seventh-We favor such wise legislation in
regulation of commerce between the States
will prevent extortion by common carriers and
secure for the producer the transportation of his
products to all markets at reasonable and
proper cost and without unjust discrimination
in favor of any class interests sections. We
also favor the amendment of the patent laws so
as to exempt the owners and users of patented
articles purchased in the ordinary way of trade
from any liability to the petentee or his assigns
neutrality-suspicious. the arrogant claim OF
the supremacy of church over state, We insist
that it is the duty of Congress to enact such
laws as shall promptly and effectually suppress
the system OF polygamy, and that the laws SO
enacted shall be rigidly enforced by the civil
authorities if possible, and by the military If
necessary.
NinthEwe reaffirm our sympathy with the
oppressed of other lands, and especially with
the Irish nation in their gallant struggle for the
sacred right of self-government Their cause
is one which should not appeal in vain to n lib
erty-loving and liberty-enjoying people, and we
congratulate them that under the leadership OF
Charles Stewart ParneH that cause has been
espoused by the Liberal party of Great Britain
! and championed by Gladstone, the greatest
Englishman of the age.
Tenth-We commend the wise, economical
and judicous administration of our State af-
fairs during the last two years under our able
and efficient Republican officials, and congratu-
late the people that, owing to thirty years OF
republican rule, Mlcnlgun STANDS among the
! foremost Of the States in education, intelli-
| gence and material prosperity.
Eleventh-We condemn the Democracy in
| Congress for it's fragrant outrages of the spirit
and letter of the Constitution in refusing admis-
sion to the Territory of Dakota, manifestly en-
titled to an honorable place i'll the sisterhood OF
| States.
! Twelfth-Finaliy. we charge the Democratic
| party with gross incompetency in the admins
traton of national affairs, and with the practical
Reputation OF its pledges to the people. We
! charge that the recent alliance between the
! Democratic and Greenback parties in this
| State shows that utmost disregard of
| both for the principles that each prctends
TO sustain; that offices, and not prnci-
| pies, control their action; that alliance
| of such nature and for such ends is un-
worthy OF the support of the people. We con-
| denim the Democratic party for its opposition to
! all proper safeguards TO the ballot and the pro-
lection of citizens and charge that by ntimida-
| ton Of voters, fraud in the returns, and prom
| Uses made only TO be broken, it has secured the
| control of the executive, and Is using the pa
| tronage of the Government TO maintain its SUI
! premacy.
George A. Farr, of Ottawa, submitted
minority report concerning the temperance
plank as follows
l. That we believe that the Republican party
| is the only true temperance party through
which all Legislation favorng temperance must
| be obtained.
p That the vast majority of the party deplore
| the existence of the evil Of the liquor traffic,
| and hope for its ultimate extinction.
| 3. That the mass of that party demand from
| us a clear and distinct declaration of our posi-
| ton upon that question therefore, we submit
| the following as tho temperance plank i'll our
! platform;
Resolved That the Republican party is in
! favor Of the ultimate suppression of the liquor
traffic, and hereby reaiHrms its doctrine of sub
mission Incorporated in the platform Of 1882
| and 1884
The minority report was signed by three
members of the committee. Mr.. Farr de-
bated the question at some length, and
Robert E. Frazier replied to him. r. G..
Horn argued for the majority report, and
said in answer to a question as to how the
committee stood on the subject, that
| twenty-five voted for the majority report
and three in favor of the minority. The
majority report was then adopted by an
overwhelming vote, the opposition coming
from Ottawa and part of the Seventh Dis
trict Mrs. s. G.. X. Ketchum, represent
ing the Woman's Suffrage Association, then
introduced series of resolutions, which
were received with thanks, and the con-
vention adjourned sine die.
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