Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-06-15

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has reclaimed from corporations
and syndicatcs, alien and domestic.
and restored to the people nearly
100, 000,0U3 Of acres of land to he
sacrcdly held as hoTestcads for our
citizens. While carefully guarding
the principles OF justice and equity,
it has paid out more pensions and
bountics to the soldiers and sailors
of the republic than was ever paid
before during an equal period. 1t
has adopted and consistently pur-
sued IL firm and prudent foreign
policy, preserving peace with all
nations while Scrupulously main
tanning all the rights and interests
OF our own government and the
people at home and abroad. The
exclusion from our shores Of Chi.
nese labOrers has been eilectually
secured under the provisions of a
treaty, the operation Of which has
been postponed by the action of Il
Republican majority in the Senate.
In every branch and department of
the Government under Democratic
control the rights and the welfare
OF all the people have been guarded
and defended; every public interest
has been protected, and the equal.
ity Of all our citizens before the
law without regard to race or color
has been steadIastly maintained.
Upon its record thus exhibited and
upon The pledge Of Il continuance
to the people of the benefits of
Democracy it invokes u renewal of
public trust by the reelection of "a
Chief Magistrate who has been
faithful, able and prudent, and to
invoke i'll addition to that trust by
the transfer also to the Democracy
of the entire legislative power
The Republican party controlling
the Senate and resisting in both
Houses of Congress IL reformation of
unjust and unequal tax krws which
have outlastc,l the necessities of
war and are now undermining the
abundance of Il long peace, deny to
the people equality before the law
and the fairness and the Justice
which arc their rights. Then the
cry Of American labor for a better
share in the rewards of industry is
stiilcd with false pretense, enter
prise is iettcred and bound down
70 home markets, capital is discour.
aged with doubt, and unequal, un.
just laws can neither be properly
amended or repealed. The Demo
cratic party will continue with all
the power cOnftled to il the strur.
gle to reform these laws IN accoid
ance with the pledges of its last
platform endorsed at the ballot
box by the sulfrages OF the people.
Or all the industrious lrcemen of
our land the immense majority, in.
GLIDING the tiller OF the soil, gain
no advantage from excessive tax
laws, but the price Of nearly every
thing they buy is increased by the
iavorltism OF an unequal system of
tax legislation. All unnecessary
taxation is unjust taxation. 1t is
repngnant to the creed OF Demo.
cracy that by such taxation the cost
OF the nccessalies of life should be
unjustilinbly increased to all our
people. Judged by Democratic
principles the interests Of the peo
pie are betrayed when, by unncces
sary taxation, trusts and combina.
tons are permitted to exist, which,
while unduly enriching the few
that combine, rob the body of our
citizens by depriving them of the
benefits of natural competition.
Every Democratic rule of govern.
mental action is violated when
through unnecessary taxation a
vast sum Of money. far beyond the
needs OF an economical administra
ton is drawn from the people and
the channels Of trade, and accnmu-
lated as II demoralizing surplus in
the National Treasury. The money
now lying idle in the Federal Treas
ury resulting from super tluous tax.
alton amounts to over one hundred
and twenty-five millions, and the
surplus collected is reaching the
sum OF more than sixty millions
annually. Undebarred by this I'M.