Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-08-01

tenn of Tariff for Protection. Under this
policy, which has been constantly sup
ported by the Republican party since its
foundation, our varied industries have
been fostered and extended, and our
laboring classes have enjoyed better
wages than those of any other part of the
world, and the whole country has
achieved unparalleled prosperity. We
denounce the Free Trade policy which
the Democratic party has advocated
since 1840, as dangerous to the Ma
tional interests of the country and
the welfare of American labor. We
arraign the Democratic party OF Cali
fornia for supporting the National Dem
ocratic party which stands upon
a platform that declares for British Free
Trade, as formulated by the Mills bill,
and view with alarm this assault upon
our American labor. We insist that the
success of this British policy would de-
stroy the growing industries of our COM
monwealth, especially the grape, raisin,
nut, wool, lumber, borax, lead, quick
silver, sugar, beet and cereal Industries |;
also, our manufacturing interests, and
would reduce the wages of our working
men to the starvation point. And we
furthermore believe the legitimate efforts
of organized labor to protect itself against
cheap and contract labor is direct step
toward the perpetuation OF the American
Protective Tariff system, sustained by
the Republican party; also that proper
apprenticeship laws should be adopted.
Resolved: That we pledge to the Amer
ican people, and especially to the people
of California, that our candidates for
Congress, if elected, will sustain the pro-
tective policy of the Republican party
and will oppose the British and Solid
South policy of the Democratic party !;
that our American industries shall be
protected for the benefit of the American
people, and that American labor will be
fostered and protected, as against the
competition of foreign labor. We de-
nounce as un-American and contrary to
the best interests of the Republican party
the cheap labor policy Ct the Democratic
Solid South of to-day, as we did the slave
policy OF the Democratic Solid South of
1861; and we declare that was, and the
other, if permitted to continue, will be
destructive to the best interests of the
laboring classes of this Republic.
Resolved: That the purity OF the bal
lot is the pillar of the State, and the de-
NAL of tree ballot to the humblest
American citizen, whatever his color or
race, imperils the liberties of the pee
Pile. We, therefore, denounce as dan
gerous to our country the Democratic
policy of the Solid South, in depriving
the colored people living there of their
right to vote. A Government based
upon frauds committed against the elec-
tive franchise cannot long survive.
RESOLVED: That the financial policy
whereby both gold and silver shall form
basis of circulation, whether the money
used by the people be coin or in certif-
Gates redeemable in coin, or both, as
| convenience may require, is imperative
| ly demanded.
Resolved, That we commend the Repub-
lican members of Congress from Califor-
mia for their fidelity to the interests oi
their constituents, and for the ability
with which they discharged the duties ol
their high and responsible positions.
Resolred, That we commend our repre-.
sentatives in Congress for their efforts in
behalf of restrictive Chinese legislation,
thus redeeming the pledges of the party
made for them, and We renew our deter
mination to make such restriction effec-
tive and every way to prevent the com.
petition of Chinese with American labor
We thank the Republican National Con
vention for it's emphatic declaration or
the subject, and have implicit faith thai
the Republican party of the Nation will
protect us in all our industries against the
Chinese.
The platform and resolutions was unan.
imously adopted. The Convention ad
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