The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1886-10-31

from the competition of convict labor en-
title him to the gratitude of all fair-minded
citizens. The untiriDg energy and integrity
of purpose with which he has discharged
every duty of his Office, have won for him
the high esteem of the people of New Jer-
sey in whose behalf we tender to Leon
Albeit the merited tribute of :" Well done,
good and faithful servant"
We demand that the laws governing
immigration shall be so amended and en-
forced as to absolutely prevent the import
alton of convict and pauper labor. We
welcome manhood in search of liberty and
equality; we will not tolerate the intru-
sion of those who would assail that man
hood by degrading competition.
We are, in the words of the inaugural
address of Governor Abbstt, opposed to
busy prisons and empty workshops"
and pledge the Democratic party to legis-
lation which will make this sentiment
effective.
We applaud the efforts of the Demo
cratic House of Representatives to restore
to the public domain millions of acres de-
livered by Republican Congresses to sat
isfy the greed of corporations and the
grasp of foreign SPECTATORS. The public
lands of the United States should breed
homesteads-not railroad stock. When
ever the conditions upon which those
lands were granted have been violated,
forfeiture must be enforced. Over the
acres which are to be the homes of mil
lions the Democratic party has alone
proven itself capable of enacting and main
tanning the legend, "These lands are held
by the people, for the people" The in
terest-beanng debt of the United States
should be reduced whenever the surplus
in the Treasury can be used for that pur-
pose. Idle dollars discourage honest
hands.
Every child is entitled to fair educa-
ton at the expense of the Commonwealth.
Laws for the regulation of the employment
of children should be so framed and en-
forced that the brains and bodies of the
youth of to-day shall not be untitled for
the healthy comprehension and perform
ance of the duties of the citizen of to-
morrow.
We denounce the failure of the Repub-
lican party to keep the pledges for equal
taxation contained in its State platform for
1883, and we call the attention of the peo-
pie to the following facts:
First-That Governor Albeit, in his in
augural address, and in each of his annual
messages, demanded that all property
should be assessed by uniform rules, and
that the same rate of taxation should be
imposed upon the property of corporations
as is assessed upon the property of pri-
vate citizens.
Second-That, in 1884, a Democratic
House of Assembly passed bill provid-
ing for equal taxation, and that this meas
ure was amended in Republican Senate
by the Limitation of the rate of taxation
upon railroad and canal property for mu-
nicipal uses to one per cent.
Third-That the several bills providing
for equal taxation introduced in the Re-
publican Legislature of 1885 and 1886 were
defeated.
Upon this record we arraign the Repub-
lican Senate of 1854 and the Republican
Legislature of 1885 and 1886, and renew
our demand that the taxation of property
shall be regulated by value and by owner
ship.
The Democratic party sympathises with
the workingmen of the country, and recog-
nizes the justice of their complaints
against the invidious legislative distinc-
tons which have been made in favor of
consolidated capital, and we submit that
an unbiased review of the record of the
A|SAAOSldLAS PdltJ ouPPOAtS CldlIlt u DC
the protector of the workingmen and
women of the United States. We are in
favor of enactments that will remedy the
evils of which labor Justly complains.
We favor the protection of the wage-work-
ers of the country in their right to fair
compensation. and dencunce as unjust the
laws which protect capital in its assaults
upon labor. Labor and capital should be
friends, seeking p common prosperity,
and TO the end kat this friendship may be
promoted we favor legislative encourage
ment of the principles of arbitration.
1t is the duty of the State to encourage
and foster the interests of those who are
engaged in agricultural pursuits. We IA
vor such legislation as will protect the peo-
pie of New Jersey from the imposition of
unjust rates for the transportation of
freight charged in order TO cover the losses
incurred by common carriers in their COM
petition for business to and from points
in other States.
We applaud the heroic work of Glad
stone and Parnell in their struggle to OBJ
tain for the people of Ireland the natural
right of government To those who,
in any quarter of the globe, are endeavor-
ing to break the chains of tyranny and op-
preston, we tender our cheers and hope.