St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-22

recovery, tne name Oh one OI our HNIHs
heroes, whose memory will be treasured in
the history both OF Republicans and OF the
republic-tl1e name of that noble soldier and
favorite child of victory, Philip H. Sheridan.
In the spirit of tho e great -aders, and OF our
own devotion to human liberty, and with
that hostility to all forms of depotism and op-.
preston, which is the fundamental idea of
the Republic an p ut-. e send fraternal con.
gratulations to our fellow Americans OF Brazil,
upon their
GRFAT ACT OF EMANCIPATION,
which completed the abolition of slavery
throughout the two American continents.
We earnestly hope that we may soon con-
gratulate our fellow citizens of Irish birth
upon the peaceful recovery of home rule for
Ireland. We reaffirm our answering de-
votion to the national constitution, and to
the indissoluble union of the states; to the
autonomy reserved TO the states under the
constitution; to the personal rights and
liberties of citizens in all the states and ter
ritories in the Union, and especially to the
supreme and sovereign right OF every lawful
citizen, rich or poor. native or foreign born,
white or black to cast one free ballot IN pub
lie elections, and to have that ballot duly
counted. We hold the free and honest popu'
lar ballot and the just and equal representa-
ton of all the people to be the foundation of
effective legislation 10 secure the integrity
and purity of elections, which are the
fountains of all public authority. We charge
that the present administration and the
existence to the suppression of the ballot by
a criminal notification of the constitution
and laws of the United States
We are uncompromiSingly i'll favor of the
American
SYSTEM OF PROTECTION;
we protest against its destruction as proposed
by the president and his party. They serve
the interests of Europe; we will support the
interests OF America. We accept the issue,
and confidently appeal 10 the people for their
judgment. The protective system must be
maintained. Its abandonment has always
been followed by general disaster to all in
terests, except those of the usurer and the
sheriff. We denounce the Mills bill as de-
structiye to the general business, the labor
and the farming interest of the country, and
we heartily lndorse the consistent and patri-
otic action OF the Republican representatives
in congress in opposing its passage. We con-
denim the proposition of the Democratic
party to place wool ON the free list. and we
insist that the duties thereon Shall be adj
Justed and maintained so as to furnish fun
and ADEQUATE protection to that industry.
the Republican party would effect all needed
reduction of the national revenue, by repeal
ing the taxes upon tobacco, which are an an
noyance and burden to agriculture, and the
tax upon spirits used in the arts, and for me
chanical purposes; and by such
REVISION OF THE TARIFF
law as will tend to check imports Of such
articles as are produced by our people, the
production of which gives employment to
our labor, and release from import duties
those articles of foreign production Except
luXuries), the like of which cannot be pro-
duced at home. If there shall remain a
larger revenue than is requisite for the wants
of the government, we favor the entire re-
peal of internal taxes. rather than the sur
render of any part of our protective system,
at the joint behest of whisky trusts and the
agents of foreign manufacturers. We declare
our hostility to the introduction into this
country of foreign contract labor, and of
Chinese labor, alien to our civilization and
our constitution; and we demand the rigid
enforcement of the existing laws against it.
exclude such labor from our shores. We de-
clare our opposition to all
COMBINATIONS OF CAPITAL
organized i'll trusts or otherwise, to control
arbitrarily the condition of trade among our
citizens, and we recommend to congress, and
the state legislatures in their respective juris-
dictions, such legislation as will prevent the
execution of all schemes to oppress the peo-
pie by undue charges on their supplies. or by
unjust rates for the transportation of their
products to market. We approve the legisla-
ton by congress to prevent alike unj just bur
dens and unfair determinations between the
states, We reatfirm the policy of appropriat-
ing the public lands of the United States to
be homesteads tor American citizens and
settlers, not aliens, which the Republican
party established in 1862, against the per-
sistent opposition of the Democrats in con-
gress and which has brought our great West
ern domain into such magnificent develop
ment. The restoration of unearned railroad
land grants to the public domain for the use
of actual settlers, which was begun under
the administration of President Arthur,
should be continued. We deny that the Dem
ocratic party has ever
RESTORED ONE ACRE
to the people, but declare that by the joint
action of the Republicans and Democrats,
about 50,O00,O 600 acres of unearned lands,
originally granted for the construction of
railroads, have been restored to the public
Al
serted by the Republican party in the original
grants. We charge the Democratic ad-
ministration with failure TO execute the laws
securing to settlers titles to their homesteads,
and with using appropriations made for that
purpose to harass innocent settlers with
spies and prosecutions under the false pre-
tense of exposing frauds and vindicating the
law. The government by 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 in
telligence and morality are such as to insure
a staple local government therein, the people
of such territories should be permitted. as a
right inherent in them, to form for them
selves constitutions and state governments
and be admitted into the Union. Pending
the preparation for statehood, all officers
therefore should be selected from the bona
tide residents of the territory wherein they
are to serve.
SOUTH DAKOTA SHOULD OF RIGHT
be Immediately admitted as a state in the
Union, under the constitution framed and
adopted by her people. and we heartily in
dorse the action of the Republican senate in
twice passing bills for her admission. The
refusal of the Democratic house of repre-
sentatives for partisan purposes to favor
ably consider these bills, is wiliful viola
ton OF the sacred American principle of
local self-government, and merits the con-
demnation Of all just men. The pending
bills in the senate for acts to enable the peo-
n M nd
tana territories to form constitutions and es-
tablish state governments should be passed
without unnecessary delay. The Republican
party pledges itself to do all in its power to
facilitate the admission of the territories of
New Mexico. Wyoming, IdadO and Arizona
to the enjoyment of Self-government as
states, such of them as are now qualified, as
soon as possible, and the others as soon as
the Mormon church in the territories, as ex-
ercised in the past is a
MENACE TO FREE INSTITUTIONS
too dangerous longer TO be suffered. There
fore, we pledge the Republican party to ap-
propriate legislation asserting the sovereignty
OF the nation in all territories where the same
is questioned, and in furtherance of that
END, to place upon the statute books legisla-
ton stringent enough to divorce the political
from the ecclesiastical power. and thus
stamp out the attendant WickedneSs of po-
lygamy. 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 demonetize
silver. We demand the reduction of letter
postage to 1 cent per ounce. In republic
like ours, where the citizen is the sovereign,
and the official the servant, where no power
is exercised except by tn e will of the people,
1t is important that the soyereign-the peo-
ple-should possess intelligence;
THE FREE SCHOOL
is the promoter of that intelligence which is
to preserve us a free nation; therefore the
state or nation. or both combined, should
support free institutions of learning suffi-
cient to afford to every child growing up in
the land the opportunity of a good common
school education. We earnestly recommend
that prompt action be taken by congress in
the enactment of such legislation as will best
secure the rehabilitation of our American