The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-06-28

Alien 20 our civilization and our constiss
Iutlon and we demand the rigid en-
-0Fcement of the existing laws against
{ and favor such immediate legislation L
3 viii exclude such labor from our
shores.
We declare our opposition to all COM
0lnatlOne Of capital organized in trusts /
D. otherwise TO control arbitrarily the /
5ondIt1on Of trade among our citizens; /
and we recommend to congress and the |
state legislatures In their respective /
jurisdiction, such legislation as viii /
prevent the execution OF all /
schemes to Cypress the peo-
pie by such charges on their /
supplies or by unjust rates for the |
transportation Of their PRODUCTS to
market. We approve the legislation by |
congress to prevent alike unjust bur-
dens and unfair discrimination be-
tween the states.
We reafirm the policy of appropriat-
ing the public lands of the United
States to be homesteads for American
citizens and settlers, not aliens, which
the republican party established in
1867, against the persistent opposition
or the democrats IN congress. and which
has brought our great western domain
into such magnificent development.
The restoration of unearned rail-
road land grants to the public
domain for the use of aetual settlers
which was begun under the adminiStra-
tion OF President Arthur should be con-
tinued. We deny that the democratic
party ever restored an acre To the peo-
pie, but declare that by the joint action
OF the republicans and democrats about
SO GOO, 600 acres of unearned lands orig
inally granted for the construction of
railroads have been restored to the pub
lie domain in pursuance of the condi-
lions inserted by the republican party
IN the original grant. We charge the
democratic administration with failure
to execute the laws securing to settlers
the title to their hOmesteadS and with
using appropriations made for that pur-
pose to harass innocent settlers with
spies and prosecutions under the false
pretense of exposing frauds and vindi-
eating the government.
A congress of the territories is based
upon necessity only. to the end that
they may become states in the union.
Therefore whenever the conditions of
population, material resources, public
intelligence and morality are such as to
insure stable local government there
in the people of such territories should
be permitted, as a right inherent In
them, to form for themselves constitu-
tions and state governments and be adj
mitted into the union. Pending the
preparation for statehood, all officers
thereof should be selected from the
bOnafide residents and citizens OF the
territory wherein they are to serve.
South Dakota should OF right be 1mme-
diately admitted as state in the union
under the constitution framed and
adopted by her people, and
of the republican senate in twice
passing bills for her admission. The
refusal of the democratic house for
partizan purposes to favOrably con-
slider these bills is a Willful violation
of the sacred American principle OF
local self government and merits the
condemnation of all just men. The
bills in the senate for acts to enable
the people of Washington, North Da-
kota and Montana to form consti-
buttons and form state governments
should be passed without necessary de-
lay. The republican party pledges
itself to do all in its power to facil-
| itate the admission of the territories
of New Mexico, Wyoming, Idaho and
Arizona to the enjoyment as states
or such of them as are. now
qualified as soon as possible
and the others as soon as they may be-
come so. The political power of the
Norman church in the territories as
exercised in the past is a menace to
free institutions too dangerous longer
/ to be suffered. Therefore we pledge
the republican party to appropriate
| legislation asociating the sovereignty OF
the nation in all territories where the
same is questioned and in furtherance
of that end to place upon the statue
books legislation stringent enough to
divorce the political from the ecclesias-
tical powers and thus stamp out the
attendant wiekedness of polygamy.
The republican party is in favor OF
/ the use OF both gold and silver as
money and condemns the policy OF the
democratic administration in its efforts
to demonitize silver.
We demand the reduction of letter
postage to one cent per ounce, in a re-
public like ours where the citizen is the
Sovereign and the official the servant.
/ Where no power is exercised except by
will of the people, it is important that
the sovereign, the people, should pos
seSs intelligence. The free school is
the promoter of that intelligence which
/ is to preserve US free nation. There
fore, the state or nation, or both COM
bined, should support free institutions
of learning sufficient to afford to every
child growing up in the land the oppOr-
| tunity of a good common school educa-
ton.
We earnestly recommend that prompt
action be taken by congress in the en-
actment of such legislation as will best
secure the rehabilitation of our mer-
chant marine, and we protest against
the passage by congress of free ship
bill as calculated to work injury to la
Dor by Iessening the wages of those en-
gagged in preparing material, as well as
those directly employed in our ship
yards. We demand appropriations fol
the early rebuilding of our navy, fol
the construction of coast Notifications,
modern ordnance and other approved
modern means of defense for the pro
lection of our defenseless harbOrs and
cities, for the payment of just pen.
sions to our soldiers, for necessary
works Of national Importance IN the
improvement of harborS and the chan
neis of internal, coaStWise and foreign
commerce, for the encouragement Of
the shipping interests of the Atlantic
Gulf and Pacific states as well as fol
the payment of the maturing public
debt. This policy will giyt
employment to our labor, &C
tivfty to our various industries
increase the security of our country
promote trade. open new and direc
markets for our produce and cheaper
the cost of transportation. We affirm
this to be better for our prosperity thar
the democratic policy of lOaning thG
public funds without interest to t'pe
banks"
The conduct of foreign affairs by thu
Il present administration has been dis
tinguished by It's inefficieney and it
eoWardice, having withdrawn from tn.
senate all pending treaties effected b,
the republican administration for thi
removal of foreign burdens and re-
strictions upon commerce for its extern
sion into better markets. 1t has Meth
or effected nor proposed and other II
their stead. Processing adher
ence to the Monroe doctrine i
has seen with idle complacency the ex
tension of foreign influence in Contra
America, and Offering trade every
where among our neighborS. It has re
age any American organization 70
constructing the Nicaragua canal, /;
work of vital Importance to the main
tenance of the Monroe doctrine AMI