Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-06-14

esidue of power; encouragement OF
ealous popular vigilance, directed to all
Who have been chosen for brief terms to
enact and execute laws, and are charged
with the duty of preserving peace, en-
suriug equality and establishing justice.
The Democratic party welcomes exacting
scrutiny of administration of executive
power which four years ago was com !
mitted to its trust, in the election OF
Grover Cleveland, President of the
United States, and it challenges the most
inquiry concerning its fidelity
and devotion to pledges which then in
vited the suffrage of the people during
the mo critical period of our financial
affairs, resulting from over taxation, an
omalous condition of our currency and
public debt unmatured. 1t has, by the
adoption of wise and conservative
course, not only averted disaster, but
greatly promoted the prosperity of our
people. 1t has reversed the improvi-
dent and unwise policy Of the Republi-
can party touching the public domain,
and has reclaimed from corporations and
syndicates, alien and domestic, and re-
stored to the people nearly one hundred
million acres of land to be sacredly held
as homesteads for our citizens.
While carefully guarding interests of
tax payers and conforming strictly to
principles of justice and equity it has
paid out more for prnsionsand bounties,
to soldiers and sailors of the republic
than was ever paid before during an
equal period. 1t has adopted and con-
sistently pursued firm and prudent
foreign policy, preserving peace with all
nations while scrupulously maintaining
all the rights and interests of our own
government and people at home and
abroad Exclusion from our shores of
Chinese labor has been effectually secured
under provisionl of a treaty, the opera
ton of which has been postponed by
action of Republican majority in the
Senate. Honest reform fn civil service
has been inaugurated and maintained by
President Cleveland, and he has brought
of efficiency, not only by rule and pre-
cept, but by the example of his own un-
firing and unseltish administration of
public affairs. In every branch and de-
partment of the Government under
Democratic control, the rights and wei
fare of all people have been guarded and
defended, every public interest has been
protected, and the equality of all our
citizens before the law without regard to-
race or color has been steadfastly main
tanned. Upon its record, thus exhibited,
and upon the pledge of continuance to
the people of these benefits, democracy
~, t1,o rono,poI of tha ,Nn,,,rlor
by the reelection of the dhief magistrate
who has been faithful, able and prudent,
we invoke in addition to that trust by
transfer also to the democracy of the en-
tire legislative power. The Republican
party controlling the Senate and resisting
in both Houses of Congress the reforma-
ton of unjust and unequal tex laws,
which have lasted the necessities of
war, and are now undermining an album
dance of long peace, deny to the people
equality before the law and fairness and
the Justice which are their right Then
the cry of American labor for better
share in the rewards of industry is stifed
with false pretence; enterprise is fettercd
and bound down to home markets; CAPT
tai is discouraged with doubt, and I'M
equal, unjust laws can neither be
properly amended or repealed
The Democratic party will continue with
all the power contided to it, to struggle
10 reform these laws in accordance with
the pledges of its last platform, Endorsed
at the ballot box by the suffrage of the
people, of all industrious freeman of our
land by an immense majority, including
every tiller of the soil, gain no advan-
tage from excessive tax laws, but the
price of nearly everything they buy is in
creased by favoritism of an unequal sys-
tenn of tax legislation. All unnecessary
taxation is unjust taxation. 1t is repug-
nant to the ere, d of Democracy that by
such taxation the cost of the necessaries
of life should be unjustifably increased
to all our people. Judging by Democrat
&c principles, the interests of the peo-
pie are betrayed, when, by unnecessary
taxation, trusts and combinations are
permitted to exist, which, while unduly
enricbing the few that combine, rob the
body of our citizers by deprivine them
of natural competition. Whether con-
stitutional or not, the accumulation of
extravagant taxatons, the Democratic
policy is to enforce frugality in public
expense. and abolish unnecessary taxa
ton. Our established domestic indus
tiles and enterprises should not, and
need not be endangered by reduction and
correction of the burdens of taxation.
On the contrary fair and careful revis-
ion of our tax laws, with due allowance
for differences between the wages of
American and foreign labor must promote
and encourage every branch of such in
dustrles and enterprises by giving them as
surances of extended markets and steady
and continuous operations Interests of
American labor, which should in no event
be neglected, revision of our tax laws,
contemplated by tho Democratic party,
should promote the advantage of such
labor by cheapcning The cost of the nee.
tssaries of life in the home of every
workingman, and at the same time secur-
ing to him steady, remunerative employ
ment. Upon the question of tariff reform.
so closely concerning every phase of our
national life, and upon every question
involved in the problem of good govern
ment, the Democratic party submits it's
principles and professions to the intelli-
gent suffrages of the American people,