Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-10-26

labor by the abolition of slavery and the utter
reputation of caste and aristocracy by the
republican party has opened TO free men and
Tree labor every acre OF land within the juris.
dtct1on OF the United States, and has enabled
the toiling millions Of the North and of the
south to associate in one common brotherhood
Tor the protection of their rights and the ad.
vancement Of their Intellectual and material
prosperity.
We arraign the Democratic on
OF President Cleveland for having failed TO
keep the pledges on which it came into power.
1t promised economy and retrenchment, and
mas 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 TO the
injury of the business of the country, and has
refused to approve of the action OF 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 care for and 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 abroad, and to maintain the
dignity and honor of the nation, yet in its re-
lation with Great Britain 1t has shown itself
unwilling to give protection to eithe ~ pers on
| or property, and has permitted our flag to be
| insulted, without proper protest, almost In
| sight OF our shores, while by kasty 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. It's evasion of Civil Serv-
ice Reform, to which its leading representa-
| ttves are pledged, have been bold, insolent and
| lswless. 1t has shown itself no friend to Me-
/ yada, because, among ats first acts Of admin
fstration, 1t closed the United States Mint in
Il ~ IN Mt vi n1atf m nj fha law 20,
| the great detriment of every miner and silver
producer in this State in particular, and of tho
| 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 unexplained and continued re-
fusai 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
| Administratio to destroy silver money
| and by refusal to execute the law aud pay
out silver for Government dues has kept the
metal out of circulation, and by various de-
vices 1t 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 a tariff upon the imported pro.
ducts of low-priced foreign labor, so ss 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 mai ntenance of the present tariff
on lead, borax soda and other mineral pro- |
duotions, 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.
w.
We believe in American soil for American
citizens, and are opposed to nonresident
aliens becoming landowners. The pTblic do
main should be reserved as homestesds for
actusl 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 whore 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 te 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 conctlia-
| 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 Represen tatives at its last session in
| striking from the bill to compensate the cttt-
/ zens OF this State for losses sustained In the
| Indian war of 1860 all claims for supplies fur
nished for tho suppression of Indian HOSTILE
| ties and also for services rendered during that
| memorable struggle in which the lives of a
| 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 severslS occasions rejected
resolution endorsing q free Parliament for
Irelsnd. which is in the following woids:
| "Resolved, That the House of Representa-
tives earnestly sympathizes with Right Hon.
william K. 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 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-
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 disloyalty to the Government in
that Territory, aud we fully endorse the prin-
| ciples of the bill introduced for that purpose
iby Congressman Woodburn, We endorse the
action Of the Republican Senate in passing in
the early days OF the last session OF congress .