Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-09-13
Paramount to all 9th
er Issues
Unnecessary Taxation is I'm
: Just Taxation'-The Peo-
pie Are Burdened
With War Taxes in Time of Peace
1t Oppresses Labor,
Confines Legitimate Industry and
Threatens General Calamity.
WASHINGTON, Sept. s, 1888.

WASHINGTON, Sept. s, 1888.
Hon. Patrick A. Collins and others,
COMMITTEES, ETC.: st
GENTLEMEN:-In addressing to you
my FORMAL acceptance Of the nomina-
ton to the presidency of the United
States, my thoughts persistently dwell
upon the impressive relation Of such
action TO the American people, whose
confidence is thus invited, and to the
political party to which L belong, just
entering upon contest for continued
supremacy.
The world does not afford spectacle
more sublime than is furnished when
millions of free and intelligent Ameri-
can citizens select their chief magistrate
and bid one of their number to find the
highest earthly honor and the full
measure of public duty in ready submits
sion to their will. 1t follows that a
candidate for this high office cannot
forget that when the turmoil and the
strife which attend the selection of its
incumbents shall be heard no more,
there must be in the quiet calm which
follows complete and solemn self
conservation by the peoples chosen
president of every faculty and endeavor
to- the service of confinding and
generous nation of free men.
These thoughts are intensified by the
light of my experience in the presiden-
tial Office, which has soberly impressed
me with the severe responsibilities
which it imposes, while it has quicken
ed my love for American institutions
and taught me the priceless value of
the trust of my eountrvmen.
1t is of the highest Importance that
those who administer our government
should iealously protect and maintain
the rights of American citizens at home
and abroad, and should serve to achieve
for our country her proper place among
the nations of the earth, but there is no
people whose home interests are so
great, and whose numerous objects of
domestic concern deserve so much
watchfulness and care.
Among these are the regulation of a
sound financial system suited to our
needs, thus securing an efficient agency
of national wealth and general pros
perity; the construction aud equipment
of means of defense to insure our
national safety and maintain the honor
beneath whsch such national safety
reposes; the protection of our national
domain, still stretching beyond the
needs of "a century expansion, and its
preservation for the settler and the
pioneer of our marvellous growth: a
sensible and sincere recognition of the
value of American labor, leading to the
scrupuIous care and just appreciation of
the interests of our workiDgmen; the
limitation and checking of such mono
polistic tendencies and schemes as
interfere with the advantages and
benefits which the people may rightly
claim; generous regard and care for
our surviving soldiers and sailors and
for the widows and orphans of such as
have died, to the end that while the
appreciation of their services and sac
rifices is quickened, the application of
their pension fund to improper cases
may be prevented; protection against
servile immigration, which injuriously
completes with our laboring men in the
field of toll and adds to our population
an element ignorant Of our institutions
and laws, impossible of assimilation
with our people, and dangerous to our
peace and welfare; strict and steadfast
adherence to the principles Of civil
service reform and q thorough execu-
ton of the laws passed for their enforce
ment, thus permitting to our people the
advantages of business methods in the
operation of their government; the
guaranty to our colored citizens of all
their rights of citizenship and their just
recognition and encouragement in all
things pertaining to that relation; a
firm, patient and humane Indian
policy, SO that in peaceful relations with
the government the civilization of the
Indian may be promoted with resulting