New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-09-12

articles of prime necessity which enter into
the ordinary consumption of the people.
1T declares its belief that these measures can
best be conducted under the auspices of a
Republican administration in the future. as
in the past.
1T reiterates its former declarations in fa-
vor of an honest administration of civil serF-
ices laws, and .aTTaigns the Democratic par
ty for the failure to perform its promises in
that respect.
1t points with pride to the pure and clean
administration of Gov. A. r. McGill, to the
measures for the protection of the laborer,
the restraint upon corporate encfoachment6
upon the rights nf the people which have
characterized the Republican administration
of the government, both state and national,
and which it pledges itself to continue to
maintain.
1t declares its continued confidence in the
justice and wisdom of the Interstate law and
demands its enforcement.
1t denounces the attempt of the Democrat
lie party to coerce the senate of the United
States into the ratification of the so-ealled
fisheries treaty by the covert threat of in
jury to the growth and prosperity oftheNorth-
west through the destruction3of certain COM
peting railways.
1t condemns the cowardly and vacillating
policy OF that party in failing to protect a
great American industry from the encroach-
honest course in refusing and delaying the
admission of the Territory of Dakota in or
der to maintain and perpetuate Democrat
control of its government
That a due gratitude to the brave defend
ers OF the nation demands at all times lib
eral recognition of the Union soldiers and
sailors of the late war in the erection and
equipment of soldiers homes and liberal pro-
vision for pensions.
The Republican party of Minnesota, mind
full of its obligations and responsibilities to
the people of the state, hereby declares its
hostility to trusts SO called, and to all mo-
nopolistie combinations of every form which
seek to limit the production or the price. or
Ia any way control the commodities of the
country, ascontrary to Uncommon law. sub
Versive of good morals and injurious to the
public, and pledges the Republican party of
this state to protect as far as possible the
producer and consumer by legal means from
the evil effects resulting from the practices
herein referred to-.
lt1ndorses and approves the reform of the
fotlng system called the Australian system,
and recommends it to the fayorab consider.
alton of the legislature.
:, In view OF the recent revelations showing
the abuses to which the immigration and nat.
urallzatlon laws have been subject we de-
mand of the national congress a thorough
revision OF those laws and, in the meantime.
d mo re emclenG execution by the national
administration of such laws as we have. es-
pecially that prohibiting the Importation of
contract labor to the end that the country
be better protected from the pauper and
CRIMINAL classes of the old world, whose com
ing throws upon our working people an un-
just and grinding competition.
That while the Democrats of the South
nave, by reason of the Acknowledgement Of
G u blacks, under the constitution of the
United States, the benefit of an unjust and
unequal representation, we are assured by
appeals from various Southern states
that in many places a free vote and .
tar counts there unknown, and that ont
RACES and oppression, both physical and no
ntlcal, are common, and while condemninp
all such acts as subYersiye offree government
and an outrage upon the rights of these I'M
offending citizens we extend to them in COM
mon with all others of the oppressed. where
soeVer they may be, q cordial welcome to the
Tree soil, free air and freedom from outrage
which are the common property of all eiti
zens of our state,
We heartily sympathize with the Irish peo
pie IN their struggle for home rule, and with
those brave leaders whose disintereste1 ma
trlotlsm has brought upon them suffering in
person and estate. and shall hail the day as
the dawn of liberty in Ireland, when the
scheme OF the grand old British statesmen
Tor governing Ireland whose name is a house
hold word wherever liberty is known. shall
become q part Of the law of the British
empire.
HOW 1T WAS RECEIVED.
While Mr.. Cole was reading the platform
the delegates listened attentiyely and fire.
Quently interrl1nted NV annlauco TIL,