The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-06-14

disusteI, Dus greaty P1onotod the prosperity
II has reversed the improvident and nm
wise policy OF the Republican party touch
ing the public domain, and has reclaimed
from corporations and syndicttes alien and
DOMESTIC. and restored to the people nearly
one hundre millions of acres OF valuable
land to be sacredly held as homesteads 70,
our citizens. S..
While carefully guarding the interest in
the principles Of Justice and equity, it has
paid out more for pensions and bonnties to
the soldiers and sailors Of the republic than
was ever paid before during an equal period.
It has adopted, and consistently pursued a
firm and prudent ferelgn policy, preserving
peace with all nations, while scrupulously
maintaining all the rights and interests Of
our W government and people at home
and abroad.
The exclusion from our shores of Chinese
the provision of a treaty, the operation of
which has been postponed by the action of q
Republican majority in the senate.
Honest reform in the civil service has been
inaugurated and maintained by President
Cleveland, and he has brought the public
service to the highest standard Of efficiency,
not only by rule and precept, but by the ok
ample Of his own untiring and unselfish ad-
ministration of public affairs.
In every branch and department. of the
government under Democratic control, the
rights n the welfare Of all the people have
been guarded and defende1; every public
interest has been protected. and the equality
of all our citizens before the law, without
regard to race or color, has been steadfastly
maintained.
Upon It's record thus exhibited, and upon
the pledge of a continuance to the people Of
the benefits of democracy. it asks u renewal
of popular trust by the election Of a chief
magistrate who has been faithful. able and
prudent. It invokes in addition to that
trust the transfer also to the Democracy
OF the entire legislative power.
The Republican party, controlling the SEN
ate and resisting in both houses of congress
o reformation Of unjust ard unequal tax.
laws, which have outlasted the necessities of
war and arc now undermining the abundance
of a long. peace, deny to the people equality
before the law, and the fairness and the
OF American labor for q better share in the
rewards of industry is stif1ed with false pre-
lenses, enterprise Is fettered and bound
down to home markets, capital ia dlscour-
aged with doubt, and unequal, unjust laws
can neither be properly amended or re-
pealed.
The Democratic party will continue. with
oil the power contided 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.
OF all the industrious freemen OF our land,
the immense majority, including every tiller
Of the soil, gain no advantage from ex-
cessive tax laws, but the price of nearly
| everything UnSV Duy S luCE6uScU Dy the
favoritism Of an unequal system of tax legis-
latlon. ALI unnecessary taxation is unjust
taxation.
1t is %repugnant TO the creed of Democracy
that by such taxation the cost of the neces-
saries of life should lie Enthusiastically i'll
creased to all our people. Judged by Demo
cratic principles, the interests OF the people
are betrayed when, by unnecessary taxation,
trusts and combinations are permitted to
! exist, which, while unduly enriching the few
| thof oorphjrn rn, Tho hD1y IF 1y,c itir.r
by depriving them of the benefits of natural
competition. Every democratic rule OF
governmental action Is violated, when,
through unnecessary taxation, q vast sum of
money, far beyond the needs of an economi-
Cal 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 su%per1uous
taxation, amounts to more than 1925, OOO,-
600, and the surplus collected is reaching
he sum Of more than $50, 600, 600 annually.
Debauched by this immense temptation, the
remedy of the Republican party is to meet
and exhaust by extravaganza appropriations
the accumulation of extravagan, taxation.
The Democratic policy is to enforce frugal
ity in public expense and abolish unneces-
sary taxation.
Our established domestic industries and
enterprises should not, and need not, be en-
dangered by the reduction and correction of
the burdens OF taxation. On the contrary,
a fair and careful revision Of our tax laws,
with due allowance for the difference be-
tween the wages of American and foreign
labor, must promote and encourage every
branch Of such industries by giving them as
surance Of an extended market and steady
and continuous operations. In the interests
of American labor, which should in no event
be neglected, the revision of our tax laws
contemplated by the Democratic party
should promote the advantage of such labor
by cheapening the cost Of necessaries of life
in the home Of every working man, and at
the same time securing to him steady and
remunerGtive employment
Upon this question Of tariff reform, so
closely concerning every phase of our ma
tional life and upon every question involved
In the problem of good government, the
Democratic party submits its principles and
professions to the intelligent sufrages of the
American people.
Mr.. Watuerson then moved the previous
question:, and the report was adopted. He
then said:
The platform committee has approved the
report, and request to be passed without dis
cussion three resolutions. The first of these
will be presented by the Hon. ". l. Scott OF
Pennsylvania, and is as follows:
Resolved, That this convention hereby en-.
dorses and recommends the early passage OF
the bill for the reduction of the revenue now
p0AO1AS ~ IA AOuoc w. representatives.
The previous question was ordered and the
resolution adopted. Frederick Lamon OF
CALIFORNIA then presented the following,
which was also adopted:
Resolved, That a just and liberal policy
should be pursued in reference to the terri
tories; that the right of self-government is
inherent in the people, n guaranteed un:
der the constitution; that the Territories o1
Washington, Dakota, Montana and New Mex
leo are by virtue of population and develop.
meut entitled to admission into the Union as
states, and we unqualifiedly condemn the
course of the Republican party in refusing
statehood and selt-government to their peo'
pie. ,
Murder and Suicide.
The wife OF George Herkimer Of Eau Claire,
Wis, proprietor Of a knit goods factory,
left her husband and went to Fairchild, a
village thirty miles from Eau Claire, tax.
ing her baby with her. She claimed her
husband did not provide for her and the
child. and she took refuge with her sister,
Mrs. Thompson of Fairchild. Herkimer,
who remained at Eau Claire was observed