Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-10-05

ago was committed TO its trust in the
election of Grover Cleveland, President of
the United States; and it challenges the
most searching inquiry concerning its
fidelity and devotion TO the pledges which
then invited the suffrageS of the people.
During a most critical period of our
/ financial affairs, resulting from overtaNa-
ton, the anomalous condition of our
currency and public debt unmatured. ii
has by the adoption of wise and con
serative course. not only aVeued disaster.
but greatly promoted the prosperity of
the people.
II has reserved the improvident and I'M
wise policy of the Republican party touch
ing the public domain. and has reclaimed
from corporations and syndicateS alien
and domestic, and restored to the people
nearly one hundred millions acres of
valuable land TO be sacredly held as home
SteadS for our citizens.
While carefully guarding the interest of
the taxpayers and conforming strictly to
the principles of justice and equity. it has
paid out more for pensions and bountieS to
the soldiers and sailors of the Republic
than was ever paid before during an
equal period.
BY an intelligent management and a
JudiCiouS and economical expenditure of
the public money ii has set on foot the
reconstruction of the American Navy
upon sytem which forbids the recurrence
of scandal and insures successful results.
1t has adopted and consistently pursued
firm and prudent foreign policy preserv-
ing peace with all nations while sCrup-
ulously maintaining all the rights and in
terestS of our Government and people at
home and abroad.
The exclusion from our shores of
Chinese laborers has been eftectually
secured under the provisions of treaty,
the operation Of which has been post
poned by the action of Republican ma
jority in the Senate
Honest reform in the Civil Service has
been lnaugurated and maintained by Presi-
dent Cleveland and he has brought the
public service to the highest standard of
efficiency. not only by rule and precept
but by the example of his own untiring
and unselhSh administration of pupliC
affairs.
In every branch and department of the
Government under Democratic control,
the rights and welfare of all the people
have been guarded and defended. every
public interest has been protected, and
the equality of all our citizens before law,
without regard to race or section, has
been steadfastly maintained
Upon its record thus exhibited and up
on the rNlaIaa If y 70 ,a
people of the benefits of good govern
ment, the National Democracy nvokes a
renewal of popular trust by the reelection
of Chief Magistrate who has been faith
full able and prudent.
They invoke an addition to that trust
by the transfer also to the Democracy
of the entire legislative power.
The Republican party controlling the
Senate and resisting in both Houses of
Congress a reformation of unjust and
unequal tax laws. which have outlasted the
necessities of war and are now under
mining the abundance of long peace,
deny to the people equality before the
law and fairness and the justice which
are their right
Thus the cry of American labor for
better share in the rewards of industry
is stified with false pretences enterprise is
fettered and bound down to home
markets; capital is discouraged with
doubt, and unequal, unjust laws, can
neither be properly amended nor re-
pealed.
The Democratic party will continue,
with all the power Contided to it, the
struggle toreform these laws in accordance
with the pledges of its last platform
endorsed at the ballot-box by the suffrages
of the people
OF all the industrious freemen of our
land, an immense majority, including
every tiller of the soil, gain no advantage
from excessive tax law; but the price of
nearly every thing they buy is increased
by the favoritisrn of an unequal system of
tax legislation.
All unnecessary taxation is an unjust
taxation. .. ....
1t is repugnant to the creed of Demo-
crazy, that by such taxation the cost of
the neCessaries of life should be unjustifi-
ably increased to all our people.
Judged by Democratic principles, the
interests of the people are betrayed, when,
by unnecessary taxation, trusts and COM
binations are permitted and fOstered,
which, while unduIy enriching the few
that combine. rob the body of our citizens
by depriving them of the benefits of
natural competition. Every Democratic
rule of government action is violated
when through unnecessary taxation a
vast sum of money, far beyond the needs
of an economical administration, is drawn
from the people and the channels Of trade
and accumulated as a demoralizing
surplus in the National Treasury.
The money now lying idle in the
Federal Treasury resulting from super
fuous taxation amounts to more than
SIPS, 900, and the surplus collected is
reaching the sum of more than S6o,ooo,-
900 annually.
Debauched by this immense tempta-
ton the remedy of the Republican party
is to meet and exhaust by extravagant
appropriations and expenditures, whether
constitutional or not, the acCumulations
of extravagant taxation
The Democratic remedy is to enforce
frugality in public expense and abolish
needless taxation.
Our established domestic industries and
enterprises should not, and need not be
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