Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1888-10-09
Is1M1GBATIoN, NATURALIZATION, An

IMM1GRAT1oN, NATURALIZATION, ASp
CONTRACT LABOR.
We are in favor of enlarging the OPP
portunities, maintaining the dignity and
increasing the wages of American labor;
and we view with increasing alarm the
immigration into the Union of the CON-
muDist, the anarchist. and the pauper
and criminal classes of Europe. We
demand the unconditional repeal of all
Laws permitting undesirable persons to
land on our shores, or to participate in
the powers and privileges of citizenship,
and the speedy enactment of qua rded,
wholesome and stringent immigration,
naturalization and contract labor laws.
| TRUSTS.
We are opposed to trusts, monopolies
and combinations, organized uulaw-
fully to control the markets, or burden
tho people by unfair rates or unjust
Determinations; aud we demand such
| legislation as will most effectually pre-
vent such encroachmeuts of organized
capital us imperil the prosperity of the
people.
CHINESE
We congratulate our Representatives
in Congress and rejoice with the people
| that the incoming horde of Asfatic serfs
| has been driven back from American
soil by the passage Of the Scott ExcIu-
| sion Act. After long years of Republic
can apathy and opposition it was re-
served for the Democratic Party to af-
ford relief to American workmen and
American homes by locking the gates of
our shores against Coolie immigration,
and throwing away the keys.
PENSIONS.
We are gratified to record the fact
That while carefully guarding against
imposition and'fraud, the present adj
minis'r1tion has poured out more Of the
National treasure for pensions and
bounties to the defenders of the Union
than was ever expended during an
equal period in the history of the Re-
public.
STORAGE AND UTILIZATION OF WATERS.
We regard the question of storage of
waters in the arid regions, and their
distribution and utilization for irriga-
ton, mining, milling and other benefi-
cial purposes, as of immediate and
paramount Importance; and we urge
our Representatives in Congress to be
earnest and diligent in furthering every
effort loo j Ig to h reclamation of her
deserts and the redemption of millions
OF acres of the most fertile and fruitful
lands on the earth.
COUNTY BOUNDARY.
We are satisfied with the territorial
extent and limits of Elko county, and
are opposed to any encroachments up-
on or additions to its boundary lines;
we want no more and will be content
with no less, and We hereby inst NC
our representatives, in the Nevada
Legislature uncompromisingly to resist
any effort at annexation or division.
CLEVELAND AND THURMAN.
In President Cleveland We recognize
wise, con7er' alive and patriotic exc
cutive, to whom "a public Office ia a
public trust" The purity, the dignity
and the unswcryiug honesty of his I'D.
ministration challenges our sincere, It
admiration, and we rejoice in the belief |
that vast majority of the people recog
nize the necessity Of his reelection as
the chief magistrate of this Republic.
With q lively appreciation of the
necessity of placing upon the ticket as q
candidate for the Vice-Presidency O
IMAM of undoubted ability and unswerv-
ing integrity, the st Louis Convention
deserves and receives the hearty APP
provaI of the Democracy of the Nation
If the selection OF Allen G. Thurman;
n man whose ability as a statesman,
whose wisdom as a counselor and
whose character as citizen is second !.
to none in oil this broad laud; all of /
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