Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1888-10-10

Convention of Virginia City; endorses
the views of President Cleveland as ex-
pressed in his last MESSAGE to Congress
and Letter of Acceptance; approves the
spirit of the Mills B:Ll, and is in hearty
accord with our Democratic Representa-
tives in Congress in. their efforts to
tighten the burdens of the tax payer
by revision of the oppressive and dis
eliminating tariff laws now III force.
The great underlying sentiment of
the Mills Bill is that oil unnecessary
taxation is unjust taxation; to none ex-
elusive privileges, to all equal rights;
every man in free government should
pny his share of the public burdens, but
no more. It's tendency and effect ia to
encourage and foster domestic indus
tries, to promote vigorous growth of
home manufactures, and at the same
time divert surplus millions from an
overlooking treasury to and through the
legitimate channels of industrial pur-
suits.
FREE RAW MATERIAL.
We demand that all those articles
which enter az raw materials into the
manufactures of the country be ad-
mitted free of duty, go that this country
COP stand on an equality with other
nations in the markets of the world,
Free raw material makes low cost of
product; low cost of product makes in
crease of markets; increase of markets
makes increased demand for goods; in
creased demand for goods makes in.
creused demand for employment and
increased demand for employment
makes increased wages.
THE AMERICAN POLICY.
The true American Policy, unfettered
by the schemes Of demagogues and
monopolists. is the extension mud ex.
pansion of American commerce 80 as to
encompass and control the markets of
the world, and to dispose of our sui
plus in that market which offers the
greatest inducements.
We are opposed to the great Wall of
Protection with which the Republican
Party desires to encircle the United
States, which il backed by policy the
tendency of which is to enrich the few
at the expense of the many by building
up monied aristocracy. The great
Wall of China, coupled with q Repub-
lican policy of protection, excluded
competition and commerce for two
thousand years and to-day the Chinese
Empire remains in the darkness of rner-
camille ignorance ana the infancy Of
industrial and manufacturing enter
prises.
THE REPUBLICAN SYSTEM.
We denounce the system ,of unequal
taxation. fostered aud fathered by the
Party, as vicious, inequit.
able and illogical 1t bears lightest
on Injuries and heaviest on necessaries.
1t enables few men to control trade,
direct employment, regulate wages and
absorb the profits of laboring thousands.
SILVER.
While the present administration has
coined more silver than any Of it's pre-
decessors, it is but step in the right
direction, We ask more: and will not
be satisfied short OF ita full and COM
plete restoration to it's rightful position
among the money metals of the world.
We earnestly recommend the passage
of an Act of Congress providing for the
free and unrestricted coinage OF silver,
and giving it in all respects equal
rights, equal privileges and equal rank
with gold.
IMMIGRATION, NATU EALIzATIoN, AND
CONTRACT LADoR.
We are in favor of enlarging the OPP
maintaining the dignity and
increasing the wages of Amen lean labor;
md we view with increasing alarm the
into the Union OF the CON-
the anarchist, and the pau,er
aud criminal classes of Europe. We
demand the unoon iitional repeal OF all
laws permitting undesirable persons to
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