Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-10-13

LABOR by the abolition of slavery and the ute
Tepudiation of caste and aristocracy by th
nepuoiican party has opened 10 free men ant
Tree LABOR every acre OF land within the juris
oiction OF the United States, and has enabled
the toiling millions of the North and of tn,
soutn 10 associate In one common brotherhood
Tor the protection of their rights and the sd
vancement Of their intellectual and materia
prosperity.
We arraign the Democratic Administratio II on
OF President Cleveland for having failed tc
keep the pledges on which it came into power
IL promised economy and retrenchm ment, and
has been most extravagaut in expenditures
aud 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 10 the
injury Of the business of the country, and has
refused to approve of the action Of q large
majority OF both HonsGs Of Congress directing
that such surplus be applied IN payment Of
the interest bearing debt of the country 1t
promised to care for aud give attention to the
| disabled soldiers and sailors Of the late war,
anu has treated with coutemptuous 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 as shown itself
unwilling to give protec ton 10 either person
| or property, and has permitted our flag to be
| insulted, without proper protest, almost In
sight OF our shores, whils by hasty and un-
| seemly action 1t has unnecessarily jeopardized
| our friendly relations with the Mexi can Re-
public, and made our nation ridiculous in the
| eyes Of the world. Its evasion of Civil Serv-
| Ice Reform, to which its leading representa-
| tives are pledged, have been bold, iusolent and
| lawless. 1t has shown itself no friend to Ne
ysda, because, among Its first acts OF admin
| istration, 1t closed the United States Mint in
0arQ Qny1 tv NIT VII nlofin of fla
| the great detriment of every miner and silver
producer in this State in particular, and Of the
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 unexpiained 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 az money
and by 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 O 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
interest ts the mai ntenance of the present tariff
on lead, borax, soda and other mineral pro.
ductions, ard in behalf of our wool-growing
interests o res torstion 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.
".
We believe in American soil for American
citizens, and are opposed to nonresident
aliens becoming landowners. The public do
main should be reserved as homesteads for
actuel settlers, and the accumulation of large
tracts or bodies of land in the hands of cor
porstions or individuals should lie discour-
sged, 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 Is mutual
education and for the protection Of their in
terests in all things relating to their welfare
and to the industriEl 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
| lli-teeuDB resulting 1fOlu btrlKeS anu LOCK.
outs, and the usual expense of litigation.
VI.
We denounce the action of 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
| nished for the suppression OF Indian host1l1-
4 ties and also for services rendered during that
| memorable struggle in which the lives Of o
| lArp9 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 seversl5 occasions. rejected q
resolution endorsing free Parliament for
| Ireland, which is in the following wolds:
| "Resolved, That the House of Representa-
| tives earnestly sympathizes with Right Hon.
| william 4. 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-
/ tion 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
i of the Commissioner of the General Land
| Office In Withholding mon US 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 and we fully endorse the prin'
cipies of the bill introduced for that purpose
by Congressman Woodburn. We endorse the
action of the Republican Senate In passing in