Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-10-20

oi ~ the Aoontion OF slavery aud the utte
repudiation of caste and aristocracy by tn,
republican party has opened to free men snC
Tree LABOR every acre OF land within the juria
dietlon OF the United States, and has enabled
tns toiilng millions of the North and OF th'
south to associste in one common brotherhood
Tor the protection of their rights and the nd
Vancement of their intellectual and material
prosperity.
We arrsign the Democratic Administration
OF President cleveland for having failed tc
keep the pledges on which it came into power
IL promised economy and retrenchment and
mas been most extrsvagant in expenditures
and appropriations, which, for the current
year, largely exceed the abundant revenues of
the Government. 1t promised to reduce the
surplus III 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 a large
majority of both Houses OF Congress directing
that such surplus be applied IN payment Of
the interest bearing debt of the country. 1t
promised to cSre for and give attention to the
| disabled soldiers and sailors OF the late war
and has treated with eontemptuous veto every
pension bill against which it could find any
| shadow Of technical obi, ctton. 1t promised
10 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-
| laton with Great Britain 1T has shown itself
| unwilling TO givo 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 Sery.
ice Reform, to which its leading representa-
| tives are pledged, have been bold, insolent and
| lawless. 1t has shown itself no friend to Me-
vada because. among its first acts Of admin
| iBtration, 1t closed the United States Mint in
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| the great detriment of every miner and silver
producer in this Staten particular. and Of the
public In general. 1t has seriously impaired
our mail facilities, without shadow OF lust ex.
cuse. 1t has outraged the express will of
Congress, and denied to this people their
rights by lis 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 refusal to execute the law and pay
out silver for Government dues has kept the
metal out of circulation, ind 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 lsborers out Of employment.
III.
We favor tariff upon the imported pro-
ducts of low-prioed foreign labor, SO as to pro-
tect the interests OF American wage-workers,
and for the development of American indus
tries. We demand in behalf OF our mining
interests the msintensnce of the present tariff
on lead, borax, soda and other mineral pro-
ductions, and in behalf of our wool. growing
interests a restoration of the wool tariff of
1867, and we denounce the recent attempt of
the Democratic majority in the National House
reducing the tariff on the products Of our
mines and placing wool on the free list.
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We bAliayA N American soil for Dariren
citizens, and are opposed to nonresident
aliens becoming landowners. The public do
main should be reserved as homestead 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 70 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 ss 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 is last session in
striking from the bill to compensate the citj-
| 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 a
regDacteI
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 seversls occasions, rejected
| resolution endorsing q free Parliament for
/ Ireland, which is in the following woIds:
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 and patriotic struggle for
right of local self-government
Thereby discouraging the growth of q 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
veys in this State, and we condemn the action
| of the Commissioner of the General Land
| Office 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
| appropriations for this State were under con-
| siderstion by the Senate.
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| We endorse the action of Senator Jones and
| Congressman Woodburn in their efforts to
1 suppress polygsmy in Utah, and to check the
growth of disloyslty to the Government in
| that Territory, and we fully endorse the prin-
| ciples of the bill introdu ed for that purpose
| Nv Conorasama an Wnodhurn We aadoraa the