The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-09-20

The following resolutions were uHuni
mously adopted ht the democratic con-
gressional convention held at Monmouth
on the 14th inst. They are clear. forciblc
and democratic:
Be it Resolced. By the democrats Of the
1lth congressional district Of Illinois, in
convention assembled, That We heartily
approve and endorse the wise and coHser-
vative course pursued by the President of
the United States, Grover Cievelund in
his administration OF public aft Airs. aud
that we recognise just cause for coHgratu-
lation in the manner in which he has full -
filled the pledges made to The people in
the platform of the democratic national
convention at Chicago,
We advocate the enactment of such
laws only as shall do equal and cXlCt
justice to every citizen OF the republic
without granting special privileges 10
any, believing that the protection of life
and property and the maintenance Of ciyi,
and religious liberty is the end of dem
ocratiC free government
We believe TINT capital and labor
SHVhltl Dt HIM bibbbNitd III tIt AAtitiSt'
OF their legitimate activities.
We condemn the republican party for
having fOstered monop0lies. by grants of
power, and by donations Of land. unprc~
cedenled in any age or country. 1t was
crime against American manhood and
equality of right to deprive the individual
citizen of his right to public lands. un
justly bestowed on great mOnopOlies there
By increasing their avarice and their pow
er to reduce labor to vass4lage. Aud in
view of the fact that the republican sen
ate continues to thwsrt every adequate
measure limiting the power of monopoly
in inter state trade, we can hope for no
relief until the senate ceases TO be re
publican.
We condemn lhe yassalatIng course of
the republlCa" senate ID regard to the re
peal Of the pre- cmpiiOn and timber culture
laws, and which has left those laws in
force under which rs administered here
tofore by republican officials, great frauds
have been committed and much of the
public domain allowed to pass into the
hands Of alien syndlcatcs and corpora
lions. We demand the repeal OF those
laws.
In view OF the past record of the re
publican party IN favorin@ the powerful
and the rich as against the weak anG the
poor, We can but regard its late profess
sIons Of sympathy for the laboring man
as rather hypocritical or designed 10
serve the purpose Of deatli-bed repent
ance in order to escape future condemna-
ton. IL is a sad commentary on our in
telligence, that the candidate of thai
party for congress in this district should
now pose as the iabOring mans friend.
High taxes necessarily limit individual
profits and thereby lower wages. The
masses who suffer most have repeatedly
ciamored for relief, yet the republican
party, especially the senate, by system
atic jugglery, defeats every measure Of
substantial reform. War taxes are main
tanned while labor and agriculture are
depressed, in order that wealth may be
concentrated in the hands Of the few who
do not scruple TO make their power felt
IN legislation. They vote the repub>
lican ticket.
We commend. the efforts of the demos
cratic majority in the house of representa-
tives, to effect just and wise tariff reform
and to continue the double standard of
gold and silver currency. and to cause
the interest bearing debt of the govern
ment to be discharged as fast as possible
by paying out the unnecessary surplus in
the national treasury.
We commend the efforts of President
Cleveland and the democratic party in
congress for their untiring zeal and en-
crgy to restore so much of the unearned
railroad lands ESQ called as have. not
been irretrieveably lost by republican
legislation to the public domain, and We
demand that in the future thUse lands
shall be held fol- actual settlers who shall
be citizens of the republic.
RThe practice of importing pauper la
Dor from Europe mas increased with the