Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-06-21

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disaster to all interests, except those OF the
usurer and The sheriff We denounce the
Mills bill al destructive to the general busi-
ness, the labor, and the farming interests OF
of the democratic party to place wool on
the free list. The republican party would
effect ali needed reduction of the national
revenue by repeating the taxes upon tobac-
agriculture, and the tax upon spirits used
in the arts and for mechanical purposes; and
By such revision of the tariff laws IS will
tend to check imports of such articles as are
produced by our people. We favor the en-
tire repeal of internal taxes rather
than the surrender of any part of
our protective system at the joint
behest of of the whisky ring and
the agents of foreign manufacturers
We declare our hostility to the introduction
into this country of foreign contract labor
| and of Chinese labor. We declare our oppc-
sition to all combinations of capital organ
iz4d in trusts or otherwise, to control arbi-
trarily the condition of trade among our Cit
liens. We approve the legislation by Con-
gress to prevent alike unjust burdens and
unfair determinations between the States.
We reafirm the policy of appropriating the
public lands of the United States to be
homesteads for American citizens and set
tiers, not aliens. We charge the democratic
administration with failure to execute the
| laws securing to settlers title to their home
steads. South Dakota should of right be
Immediately admitted as a State into the
union under the constitution framed and
adopted by her people, and the republican
party pledges itself to do all in it's power to
| facilitate the admission of the territories Of
New Mexico, Wyoming, Idaho and Arizona
to the enjoyment of self government as
States as soon as possible. We pledge the
republican party to appropriate legislation
asserting the sovereignty of the nation in all
territories where the same is questioned.
And in furtherance OF that end to place upon
the statute books legislation stringent
enough to divorce the political from the &c.
ceslastical power, and thus stamp out the
attendant wickedness of polygamy. The
republican party is in favor of the use Of
both gold and silver as money, and
condemns the policy of the democrat
10 administration in its efforts to de-
monetizs silver. We demand the reduction
of letter postage to one cent per ounce. The
State or nation, or both combined, should
support free institutions of learning, sutii-
oent to afford to every child growing up in
the land an opportunity of good common
school education. We earnestly recommend
that prompt action be taken by Congress on
the enactment of such legislation as will
best secure the rehabilitation of our Ameri
can merchant marine and We protest against
the passage by Congress of q free ship bill.
We demand appropriations for the early re-
building of our navy and for the construction
of coast Notifications and modern ordnance
end other approved modern means of de.
fence for the payment of pensions to our
soldiers; for the encouragement OF the ship.
ping interests of the Atlantic, Gulf and Pa
cfc States as well as for the payment of the
maturing public debt The conduct of
foreign affairs by the present administration
has been distinguished by its it's ineffioiency
and its cowardice. Protesting adherence to
the Monroe doctrine it has seen with idle
complacency the extension of foreign irfiu-
ence in Central America and of foreign trade
everywhere among our neghbors. 1t has
refused 10 charter, sanction or encourage
any American organization for constructing
the Nicaragua Canal, work of vital i'm
portance to the maintenance of the Monroe
doctrine. We arraign the present demo.
cratic administration for its weak and un-
patriotic treatment Of the fisheries question
and its pusilanimous surrender of the
essential privileges to which our fish
ing vessels are entitled in Canadian ports
The reform of the civil service ausplciously
begun under the republican administration
should be completed by the further extern
ton of the system to all the grades of the
service to which it is applicable. The spirit
and purpose of the reform should be OBJ
served in all executive appointments. Con-
gress should provide against the possibility
that any man who honorably wore the fed.
eral uniform shall become an inmate of an
aims house, or dependent upon private
charity. We denounce the hostile epirit
shown by President Cleveland in his numer-
Qua vetoes of measures for pension relief
and the action of the democratic represen.
tatives in refusing even a consideration of
general pension legislation"
The report was unanimously adopted.
The chairman stated that the next order
of business was the call of States for the pre-
sentation of the names Of nominees for the
presidency.