The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-06-29

Scnd 1raternaI CONCENTRATIONS TO our Fellow
Americans OF Brazil upon their great act OF
emancipation, which completed the abolition of
slavery throughout the two American CONT
nents, We earnestly nope that we may soon
congratulate our felOw-citiZens OF Irish birth
upon the peaceful recovery of home rule for
Ireland.
We reafflrm our answering devotion to the
National constitution and to the indissoluble
union Of the States; to the autonomy reserved
to the States under the constitution; to the per-
sonal rights and liberties OF citizens in all the
States and Territories in the Onion, and es-
pecially to tho supreme and sovereign right
of every lawful tizen rich or poor, native or
foreign born, white or black, to cast one free
ballot in public elections and to have that bal
lot duly counted. We hold the free and honest
popular ballot and the jast and equal represent
at on of all the people to be the foundation of
republican government and demand effective
legislation to secure the integrity and purity
Of elections, which are the fountains Of all pub
lie authority. We charge that the present. Adj
mnstraton and the Democratic majority in
Congress owe their existence to the suppress
sion Of the ballot by criminal null ,ficaton
OF the constitution and laws of the United
States.
We are uncompromisingly in favor of the
American system of protection; we protest
against its destruction proposed by the Pres
ldent and his party. Tney serve the in
terests OF Europe; we will support the in
terests Of america. We accept the issue
their Judgment. The protective system
must be maintained. It's abandonment has
always been followed by general disaster to
all the interests except those of the usurer and
the sheriff. We dcnounce the Mills bill as de-
structive TO the general business, the labor
and the farming interests of the country, and
we heartily indorse the consistent and patriotic
action Of the Republican representatives in
Congress in opposition 10 It's passage.
We condemn the proposition of the Demo-
cratic party to place wool on the free list, and
we insist that the duties thereon shall be ud-
justed and maintained so as to furnish full and
ADEQUATE protection to that industry.
The Republican party would effect all needed
reduction of the National revenue by repeating
the taxes upon tobacco, which are an annoy
nace and burden to agriculture, and the tax
upon spirits used in the arts, and for me chani-
cal purposes, and by such revision of the tariff
laws as will tend to check imports of such art-
elcs as are produced by our people, the
production OF which gives employment to
our labor and release from import duties those
articles of foreign production except luXuries),
the like OF which can not be produced
ut home If there shall still remain q larger
revenue than is reQu site for the wants of the
Government we favor the entire repeal OF the
internal taxes rather than the surrender of any
part of our protective system at the joint be-
hest of the whisky ring and the agents of for
eign manufacturers.
we declare our hostility to the introduction
into this country Of foreign contract labor and
OF Chinese labor, alien to our civilization and
our constitution; and we demand the rigid en-
forcemeut of the existing laws against it, and
favor such immediate legislation as will eX-
Cludc such labor from our shores
We declare our opposition to all combi
nations of capital organized in trusts or
otherwise to control arbitrarily the con-
q tions OF trade among our citizens; and
we recommend to Congress, and the
State Legislatures in their respective
jurisdictions such legislation as will pre-
vent the execution OF all schemes to Cypress
the people by undue charges on their supplies
or by unjust rates for the transportation OF
their products to market, We approve the
legislation by Congress to prevent alike unjust
burdens and unfair determinations between
the States.
We reanirm tho policy of appropratlng the
public lands of the United States 10 be home
steads for American citizens and settlers, not
aliens, which the Republican party established
in 1862, against the persistent opposition of
the Democrats in Congress, and which has
brought our great Western domain into such
magnificent development. The restoration of
uaearned railroad land grants to the public
domain for the use of actual settlers, which was
begun under The administration of President
Arthur should be continued. We deny that
tho Democratic party has ever restored one
ncre to the people, but declare that by the
joint action of Republicans and Democrats
about 2S,000o'0 of acres. of unearned
lands originally granted for the
stored to the public domain, in pursuance
of the conditions inserted by the Republican
party IN the original grants We charge the
Democratic Administration with failure to ex-
ecute tho law securing to settlers title to their
homesteaqs, and with using appropriations
made for that purpose TO harrass innocent set
tiers with spies and prosecutions under the
false pretense of exposing frauds and vindioat-
iny the law.
The government by Congressofthe Territories
IS based upon necessity only, 10 the end that
they may become states in TIE Union; there
fore, whenever the conditions of populat on
material resources, public Intelligence and mo-
raltty are such as TO insure stable local gov
ernment therein the people OF such Territor-
les should ho permitted as q right inhe-
rent in them to form for themselves constitu-
lions and State Governmelt + and be admitted
into the Union. Pending the preparation for
Statehood all officers thereof should be select
ed from the bona tidc residents and citizens
OF the Territory wherein they are to
serve South Dakota should Of right be
Immediately admitted as a State in the
Union, under the constitution framed and
adopted by her people, and we hsarily indorse
the action of tho, Republican Senate in twice
passing bills for her admission. The refusal OF
the Democratic House of Representatives, for
partisan purposes, to favorabiy consider thes,
bills is willtul violation of the sacred Amer
lean principle Of local seltgovernment and
merits the condemnation Of all just men. The
pending bills in the Senate f5T acts to enable the
eople OF Washington, North Dakota and Mon
lana Territories TO form constitutions and eS-
lNultSh State Governments SHOULD be passed
without unnecessary delay. The Republican
party pledges itself to do all III its power to
i@cilit0te the admission OF the Territories of
wv Mexico, Wyoming, Idaho and Arizona to
The enjoyment of Self-government as States,
such of them as are now quail fed as soon as
possible and the others US soon as they may
become so.
The political power OF the Mormon church
IN the Territories, as exercised in the past. is a
nianace to free institutions too dangerous to be
loag suffered Therefore we pledge the Repub-
can party to appropriate legislation asserting
tho sovereignty OF the Nation in all Terri
tvres where the same is questioned, and in
iGrtherance OF thai end to place upon the stat
U,S books legislation stringent enough to di-
N0rce the political from the ecclesiastical pow
or, and thus stamp out the attendant wicked
ness OF polygamy.
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@ both gold and silver as money. and condemns
the policy OF the Democratic Administration in
It's efforts to demonet re silver
We demand the reduction of letter postage
u one cent per ounce.
il Republic Ike ours, where the citizen is
TIE sovereign and the official the servant, where
no poweris exercised except by the will of the
J @0ple. it is important that the sovereign
he people-should possess intelligence
The free school is the promoter of that
Intelligence which is to preserve US q free Ma
t!on therefore the State or Nation or botn
combined, should support free institutions of
lenrning sufficient to afford to every child
growing up in the land the opportunity OF o
COED common-school education.
We earnestly recommend that prompt action
b. taken by Congress in the enactment of such
lr@;slation as will best secure the rehabilita
"a OF our American merchant marine, and We
Protest against the passage byCongress of a free
sup balL as calculated to work injustice to labor
by lessening the wages of those engaged in
preparing materials as we'll as those directly
.uPioS q. ~ az u s sup atus, we demand APP
preparations for the early rebuilding Of our
n9vy; for the construction of coast fortifica-
tons and modern ordnance and other an-
proved modern means of defense for the
! rejection of our defenseless harbors
lid cities; for the payment of just pensions
to our soldiers for necessary works of Ma
email Importance in the Improvement of har
bors and the channels of INTERNAL coastw;se
and foreign commerce.; for the encouragement
OF the shipping interests of the Atlantic, Gulf
lad Pacific States, as we'll as for the payment
OF the maturing public debt This policy will
give employment to our labor, activity to our