The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-06-27
The PLATFORM.

rs enunciated i'm the platform adopted
by the Chicago convention are clear,
forcible and patriotic, and such rs
every citizen who desires To see his
country prosper and flourish ought
heartily To endorse There is not Il
'straddle," equivocation or preyarica-
ton To he found in the document from
beginning to end.
1t opens with tribute 10 the memory
of the great leaders of the party who
have fought the good fight and who
have gone To their reward expresses
sympathy for the distinguished sufferer
Gen. +. III. SHERIDAN; congratulates
the Brazilian government on its great
act of emancipation, and expresses a
hope that the oppression of Ireland
may soon cease and that her down
trodden people may speedily secure the
blessing of home rule.
II reaflirms the devotion of the party
to the constitution and the union of the
states, and uncompromisingly demands
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On the question of the tariff, the plat
form gives forth no uncertain sound,
but pronounces squarely in favor of
protection to home industries, de
nounces the policy of the president and
his party, condemns the MILLS bill and
commendS the republican opposition to
it, passage, repudiates free wool and
insists that the duty on that staple shall
be So adjusted rs to afford ample pro-
lection To the llock-masters Of the coun-
try. 1t demands that the revenue be
taxation and such revision of the
tariff laws rs will check the importation
of such articles rs come in competition
with American labor and American in
dustrieS.
1t declares continued hostility to
Chinese immigration and demands the
rigid enforcement of the anti-Chinese
legislation, and opposes the importation
of all contract labor.
1t declares hostility to combinations
and trusts and demands appropriate
legislation for their control and sup
preston. 1t reaffirms the republican
policy of reserving the public domain
for actual settlers and challenges the
pretensionS of the democratic party
that it is to be accredited with restoring
forfeited railroad land grants.
1t asserts that the political power of
Mormonism is menace To our free in
situations, and pledges the. party to
stringent legislation for the divorce
ment of political from ecclesiastical
power and for the suppression of pol
ygamy
On the question Of the admission of
new states, it virtually brands the dem
ocratic party with falsifying the posi-
ton of the republican party, and
declares that South Dakota is entitled
to Immediate admission into the Union,
and also declares that the people of
North Dakota, Washington and Mon
tana should be authorized TO form state
governments without needless delay,
and that other territories should be adj
mitted rs soon aS they possess the
necessary qualifications of statehood.
1t declares i'm favor of both gold and
silver a money and condemns the
attempted democratic dcmonetizatiOn
of the latter. and also demands that
letter postage be reduced TO one cent
per ounce.
1t declares in favor of free schools,
either state or national, or combina-
ton of both; recommends appropria.
tons for rebuilding the navy and foI
the construction Of coast defenSes, fol
the payment of pensions and for national
internal improvements.
1t characterizes the foreign policy OF
the administration rs "cowardice' and
brands the method in which the fisher
les question has been mismanaged Il,
''conspicuously unpatriotic."
1t asserts that American citizenship
should be the panoply and safeguard OF
every one who wears it, reaflirmS the
civil service plank of 1884 and assert,
t that the republican party will not breal
its pledges in reference To pure ant
= honest government because the preSi
dent has broken his.
The last plank in the platform con
tains a ringing declaration, setting
{ forth the obligations that are due from
: the nation To the old soldiers who pre-
served it-a plank that is conSpicuou
z in the democratic platform by its alb
sence-and denounces the president foi
his pension vetoes and the democrati,
majority of the house for its refusal t,
] consider pension legislation.
q The platform appears in full on tn,
2 inside of this paper, and is documen
T. worthy to be read by every American
citizen; it will well repay a careful
perusal.
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