The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-08

specifying every granted power, and expressly
Teservlng to the states or people the entire resi-
que OF power and the announcement of ieal
GUS popular vigilance toward all who have been
ehosen for brief terms to enact and execute the
laws, and are charged with the duty of pre-
serving the peace, insuring equality and eStab-
| fishing Justice.
CLOSEST SCRUTINY INVITED,
The democratic party not only welcomes ex-
acting scrutiny of the administration Of the
ecutlve power which four years ago was COM
mltted to its trust in the election of Grover
Cleveland as President of the United States, but
| u shall urge most reSearching inquiry concern
ing It's fldelity and it's devotion to the pledges
which then involved the suffrages of the people.
During the most critical period of our financial
| AFFAIRS, resulting from over r-taxaton the
| anomalous condition of our currency and the
| public debt unmatured, it has by the adoption
OF Its policy not only avoided disaster but
greatly promoted the prosperity of the people.
! IL has revoked the imprudent and unwise
| poncy or the republican party touching the
pubic domain, and has reclaimed from corpora
| tlons and syndicates, alien and domestic, and
restored to the people nearly 100 900 900 acres of
| land to be sacredly held as homesteads for cti-
| zenS
While carefully guarding the interest of the
| taxpayers and conforming strictly to the prin-
ciples OF justice and equity, IL has paid out
| more for pensions and bounties to the soldiers
ana sailors or the republic than was ever paid
before during an equal period
IL mas adopted and consistently pursued a firm
and prudent foreign policy, preserving peace
with all nations, while scrupulously maintaining
all the rights and interests of our own govern
ment and people at home and abroad
EXCLUSION OF CHINESE.
The exclusion from our shores of Chinese
laborers has been effectually secured under a
| provision of a treaty, the operation of which
| has been postponed by the action OF the repub,
| hcan majority in tue senate
Honest reform in the civil service has
| been inaugurated and maintained by
President Cleveland and hehas brought
| the public service to the highest
standard of efficiency, not only by rule aud
| precept but by the example of bis own untirng
and unsefsh administration of public affairs.
In every branch and department OF the gov
| ernment 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 cur citizens
under the law, without regard TO race or color
has been steadfastly maintained.
Upon its record, thus exhibited, and upon
the pledge of continuance to the people of
these benefits, the democracy involSes renewal
of the popular trust by the reelection of a
chief magistrate who has been faithful, able
and prudent. We invoke in addition to That
trust the transfer to the democracy of the en-
tire legislative power.
The republican party, controlling the senate,
and obstructing in both houses of congress
reformation of the unjust and unequal tax laws
which have outaSted the necessities of war and
are now undermining the abundance of long
peace, deny TO the people equality before the
law and the fairness and the justice which are
their rights.
LABOR GARRoTED.
There the cry of American labor for a better
share in the rewards of industry is silenced with
false pretences, enterprise is fettered and bound
down to home markets, capital is discouraged
with doubt, and unequal and unjust laws can
neither be properly amended nor repealed.
The democratic party will continue with all
tho power confided to it, the struggle to reform
these laws in accordance with the pledges of its
last platform; endorsed at the ballot box by the
suffrages Of the people and of all he Industrious
freemen of our land. An immense majority
including every tiller of the soil, gain no ad-
vantage from excessive tax laws but the price
| of nearly everything they buy is increased by
| the favoritiSm of the unequal system of tax
| legislation. All unnecessary taxation is unjust
taxation. 1t is repugant to the creed Of the de-
| mocracy that by such taxation the cost of the
neceSsaries of life should be uniustifably in
crease to all our people.
THE FOE OF TRUSTS.
Judged by democratic principles the inter
estS of the people are betrayed when by unnec
essary taxation trusts and combinations are
permitted to exist which, while unduly enrich
ing the few that combine, rob the body or
our citizens by depriving them of the benefits
of natural competition
Every democratic rule of governmental action
is violated when through unnecessary taxation
a vast of money far beyond the needs of
its economic administration is drawn from the
people and channels of trade and accumulated as
demoralizing surplus in the national treasury
The money now lying idle in the federal treasury
resulting from suDerilouS taxation amounts to
more than S12S, ,00O0G0 and the surplus collected
is reaching sum of S60000,000 more annually.
Debauched by this immense temptation the
remedy of the republican party is to meet and
exhaust it by eXtravagant appropriations and
expenses, whether constitutional or not--an
accumulation of extravagant taxatons Tho
democratic policy is to enforce frugality in the
public service and abolish unnecessary taxation.
INDUSTRY NOT THREATENED.
Our established domestic industries and enter
prises should not and need not, be endangered by
areduction and correction of the burdens of taxa
ton. On the contrary. fair and careful revision
of our tax laws, with due allowance for the
difference between the wages of American and
foreign labor, must promote and encourage
every branch of such industries and enterprises
by giving them assurances of an extended
market and steady and continuous operations
In the interest of American labor, which should
in no event be neglected, the re-
vision Of our tax laws contemplated
by the democratic party should
promote the advantage of such labor, by cheap
ening the cost of the necessaries of life in the
home of every workingman, and at the same
time securing to him steady, remunerative
employment.
Upon this question of tariff reform, so closely
concerning every phase of national life, and
upon every question involved in the problem of
good government, the democratic party sub
nits its principles and professions to the intel
ligent suffrage of the American people,