St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-11

lea and their families, being the
very bedrock on which rests the super
structure of the nations virtue, intelli
gence and freedom are entitled to claim
the sympathetic consideration and CO.
operation of every department of our
government. Entertaining this cOnvic-'
ton, we insist that in the enactment of
legislature. due regard shall be had for
the rights of all who earn their
bread by the sweat of their
brow; that taxation, both local
and general, should be restricted to
the lowest amounts required by an
economical administration OF public af-
fairs; that wage-wOrkers should be pro-
tected by legislation from the oppress-
i've power of monopolies and corpora
tiOnS in whatever form it may find eX-
erciSe; that the importation OF foreign
laborers under contract, thus creating
system of peonage at variance with the
genius of our institutions, be prohib-
tied by an act of congress, and that
generally all existing laws not in har-
mony with an equal measure of justice
and protection, alike to the employed
and employer. be promptly repealed.
Resolved, That in the imposition of
duties on foreign imports, we demand
such revision of our tariff laws as will
correct all inequalities therein, and re-
lieve the taxpayers to the fullest pOsSl-
bic extent without injury to the cause
of American labor or menacing the
prosperity of the great producing
interests of the country, and
we would respectfully invite the atten-
tiOn of the voters of this district to the
fact that all revision of our tariff legis-
latiOn of the war period has been eff
fected by the Republican party, and we
declare our implicit confidence in its
ability and sincere purpose to effect in
the future such reduction of our ma
tional revenues and readjusting OF our
tariff laws as will be most conducive to
the varied industries and interests Of
the American people.
Resolved, that we heartily approve
the system adopted by the Republican
party in providing for the defenders OF
of our country, and in the payment OF
liberal pensions, and we declare in
favor of a policy for protecting and Civ
ing fostering care to these soldiers.
their widows and orphans; that we de-
nounce as unjust and inlquitable the
course pursued by the president OF IN
discriminatory vetoing private pension
bills, calculated to relieve the wants
and sufferingS of these patriarchs who
are justly entitled to the same.
Resolved, That we condemn the ac-
ton of our present representative in
congress in uniting with the Southern
brigadiers in their opposition to and
final defeat of the bill passed by the
United States senate to refund to the
several states of the Union the amount
of the direct war tax to which they are
each justly entitled, thus denying to
the people of our state their just due to
the extent of S10S,000.
Resolved, That we pledge to the
nominee of this convention our earnest,
united and most loyal support, and we
invite the hearty cooperation of all
patriotic citizens, and especially work
ingmen, whose prosperity is seriously
threatened by the free trade policy of
the present administration.
This platform was largely the work of
Chairman Tawney, and the debate over
tits simply a question of its length and as
to how the Chicago platform should be
endorsed. The platform was adopted
by rising vote.