Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-10-19

IADor Dy the abolition Of slavery and the utter
reputation OF caste and aristocracy by the
Republican party has opened 10 free men and
Tree labor every acre OF land within the juris-
dlctlon OF the United States, and has enabled
the toil1ng 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 arraign the Democratic Administration
OF President cleveland for having failed to
keep the pledges on which it came into power.
IL promised economy aud retrenehment, and
has been most extravagAnt in expenditures
and appropriations, which, for the current
Year, largely exceed the sbundant revenues OF
the Government 1t promised to reduce the
Surplus in the Treasury, but reversing the rule
of previous Admins trattons, 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 q large
| majority of both Houses Of Congress directing
| that such surplus be applied IN payment OF
| the interest bearing debt of the country. It
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 1t promised
| to protect the persons and property OF citizens
| both at home and abrosd. and to maintain the
dignity and honor of the nstlon, yet in its re-
| lAtion with Grent Britain 1t as shown its,l II
| unwilling to give protection TO either person
/ OF properly, hnu las permitted our nag TO be
| insulted, without proper protest, almost in
| sight of our shorss, while by Aasty and un-
| seemly action it 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, insolept and
| lswless. 1t has shown itself no friend to Ne
vAda, because. among ITS first acts of admin
istration, 1T closed the United States Mint in
Carson ity, in utter violation of the law. to
the great detIiment of every miner and silver
producer in this state In particular and ef the
puulic 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 unexplained and continued re-
fusal to execute the law. for the erection Of
Government bailding in the capital Of this
State. 1t has used the entire power of the
Administration to destroy silver as money,
aud 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 tariff upon the imported pro.
ducts of low-priced 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 maintenance 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
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
nSf and cd IN liant
aliens becoming landowners. The public do
main should be reserved as homesteads for
actual settlers and the accumulation of large
tracts or bodies of land in the hands Of cor
poratious 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 Ls 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-
plnyes by methods OF voluntary arbitration,
or by the establishment of courts of conciia-
| ton, which will avoid the waste. loss and
ill-feeling resulting from strikes and lock
VI.
We denounce the action aof 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
ntshed for the suppression OF Indian HOSTILE
| ties and also for services rendered during that
memorable struggle in which the1ivss Of
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 loc al self-goyernment in Ireland while the
| Democratic House of Representatives, in
Committee of the Whole, iepestedly refused
| to indorse that principle. In the months OF
| April and June last that body, by Democratic
| votes on three severHli occasions, rejected
resolution endorsing free Parliament for
Ireland, which is in the following woids:
| "Resolved, That the House of Representa-
| tives earnestly sympathizes with Right Hon,
| William L. 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 termlna-
| ton of their long aud patriotic struggle for
| right of local self-9overnment
| Thereby discoursging the growth of a 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 Lsnd
| Office in withholding mon ys appropriated for
| that purpose, and particularly condemn the
| action of Senator Fair in absentipg 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 to
| suppress polygamy in Utah, and to check the
| growth of dtsloyalty to the Government in
| that Territory, and We fully endorse the prin-
| ciples of the bill introdu ed for that purpose
hy Congressman Woodburn. We endorse the
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