The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1886-10-08
NO. 900

son of the year, whereby the markets of the
United States were ,abnormally disturbed,
great injury being done not only to the own
ers of the cattle and the Indian tribes who
were receiving paw for their pasturage, but
also to the entire industry on the continent
of America. Having inadvertently passed q
law whereby the duties upon imported wool
were decreased to that extent we were
brought into competition with foreign wools.
The Democratic party and administration
has pertinaciousiy refused to restore this pro-
tection to one of the greatest and most prof
liable industries of the country. We demand
the restoration of the tariff on wool of 1867.
Z. The advancing development of the age
recognizing new avenues of commerce auG
new methods of locomotion, bill passed by
the Congress of the United States permitting
the construction of great highway of com.
merce through our northern Indian reserva-
tions was vetoed by the President avowedly
to rescue from foreign influence the savage
life which from time immemorisl has there
prevailed, although the savages themselves,
nearly third of q century ago, had con-
sented that such highway might be built.
In the Department of Justice, scandal in.
volving its head, of character confessedly
more wicked and disreputable than any
thing that has ever before occurred in our
history, meets with no condemnation from
the head of the government, but all the in
strumentalities of that great department
and of the government itself, are being
openly and covertly used to encourage the
high officers of the government in their itch
ing for gain.
s. Although the surplus in the Treasury
at the beginning of his administration was
large, and we were promised its distribution
to the creditors of the government, it has
since been increased by at least sixty mill
ions and although law was passed pro-
viding for the distribution of large portion
thereof, the President of the United States
was able, by the adjournment of Congress,
to prevent the enactment from becoming q
law.
8. The people of the United States, hui
manized by their civilization, have set q
commanding example of the settlement of
National differences by arbitration, and their
solemn word is given to the nations of the
world that there shall be no war until more
peaceable means have failed. Notwith-
standir which, the incarceration of an
nsf hot los af
Republic, under the Jurisdiction of which he
chose to place himself, and where he perps-
trated his offense, and where, with the sit
ustions reversed, the United States would
not surrender the culprit except in the sxer-
else Of entire pusillanimity, was threatened,
upon an eT pGrte examination with all the
horrors of war If it did not instantly release
the prisoner.
The entire administration of President
Cleveland has been ali administration of
broken promises and violated pledges. His
acts have telied his professions, and instead
of being the apostle of reform, be has been
the champion of the Democratic system of
spoils and plunder. He promised economy,
but has been guilty of prohigate extrava-
gance. He promised civil service reform,
but has practiced the most shameless par
tisanship. In violation of his promises and
of law, he has removed from office crippled
soldiers who fought for their country in the
Union army, to make place for those who
fought in the Confederate army to destroy
their country. He has appointed spies and
infoImers to make secret and unfounded
charges, which he dare not make public,
upon which honorable and faithful officers
have been removed In order TO make places
for Democratic psrtisans of the most often.
sive type, while upon our Northwestern
border many thousands of American citizens
in the pursuit of industries more than GEN.
tury old, which they have followed, are
being driven out from the high seas before
the guns of the British navy, and the De.
partment of State has not made up its mind
what to do. In all these Departments, in
frequent instances, grave public trusts and
high honors were sought to be conferred
upon felons who had satisfied or escaped
criminal justice.
For these and other betrayals of official
duty we disagree to resolution endorsing
the administration of Grover Cleveland.
We demand faithful, honest and intelligent
officers to discharge public trusts honest
and economic administration Of government,
of appointment of carpei-baggers
to Office in the Territories, legislative and
action to appreciate the value of
silver and continue 1t as one of the measures
of commercial value in the industrial econ-
omy of the world. To shis end there should
be created a permanent financial commits
sion, whose duty it should be by every pro-
cess occurring to intelligent and fair-minded
men, to induce the civilized nations to rec
ognize that this great commercial measure is
essential to the industries of the world and
The happiness of mankind, and that our
Legisl ature should keep the same objects In
view.
We demand that the system of espionage
which has been given such vigorous growth
and has been animated with such malignant
shall cease, and that reports Of
,peci al agents Of the various departments of
The government shall be published as soon
rs the pretended criminals implicated can be
arrested. ss3a
We demand the abrogation of those regu-
ations which prevail relating to the cutting |
,f timber, and that said law be administered |
IN the liberal spirit which dictated its enact
nent, and that it be so amended as that the |
citizens of the West, on lands unfit for agri- |
culture, shall, without waste, destruction or
,xportation, have the free, untrammeled
light to its use, for all domestic, farming, |
and mining purposes. And we
10 deny that there Is any law extant where
~ the Interior Department can farm out to
avoriles any portion of the public domain,
or the purpose of cutting timber, but assert
hat the rights which that law secures are
quail to every citizen; and that the legula-
ions which propose 10 make 1t matter of
,arty patronage are in violation of the stat
lte itself, and in clear contravension of the
rights Of American citizens.
RESOLVED, That the diminution and entire
destruction of the Indian reservations is
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