Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-06-22

protective system must be maintained. Its
abandonment has always been followed by
general disaster to all interests except
those Of the usurer and the sheriff.
THEN WHY DON'T YOU GIVE Us A BETTER
BILL?
We denounce the Mills bill a. destruc-
tive to the general business, the labor and
the farming interests Of the country and
we heartily endorse the consistent and
patriotic action of ths Republican repre-
sentativss in Congress in opposing its pass
age. We condemn the proposition Of the
Democratic party to place wool on the free
list, and we insist that the duties thereon
shall be adjusted and maintained so as to
furnish full and adequate protection to that
industry.
NOT MUCH-YOU WOULD REDUCE THE
SURPLUS BY sQUANDERING 1T.
The Republican party would effect all
needed reduction Of the national revenues
by repeating the taxes upon tobacco, which
are an annoyance aud burden to sgricul-
ture, and the tax upon spirits used in the
arts and for mechanical purposes and by
such revision of the tariff laws as will tend
to check imports of such articles as ale
produced by our people, the production OF
which gives employment to our labor and re-
lease from import duties those articles OF
foreign production, except luxuries, the
like of which cannot be produced at home.
If there shall still remain larger revenue
than is requisite for the wants of the gov
srnment, we favor the entire repeal of in
ternal taxes rather than the surrender of
any part of our protective system at the
Joint behest of the whisky trusts and the
agents of foreign manufacturers.
MR. BLAINE's CHUI, CARNEGIE, DIDN'T
WRITE THIS PLANK.
We declare our hostility 10 the introduc-
ton 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 exist
ing laws against it and favor such imme-
diate legislation as will exclude such labor
from our shores.
STEEL RAIL TRUST, ETC, ETC, ETC, FOR
INSTANCE.
We declare our opposition to all combi-
nations of capital organized in trusts or
otherwise, to control arbitrarily the condi-
tion of trade among our citizens, and we
recommend to Congress and the State leg
islatures, in their respective Jurisdictions,
such legislation AZ will prevent the execu-
tion of all schemes to oppress the people
by undue charges on their supplies by un-
Just rates for the transportation Of their
products to market. We approve the leg
islation by Congress- to prevent alike un-
lust burdens and unfair Determinations
between the States
CLEVELAND HAS RECOVERED OVER 100, :
600. 600 ACRES GIVEN AWAY TO CoRPo-
RATIONS By REPUBLICAN ADMINIsTRA-
TIONS.
We reaffirm the policy of sppropriating
the public lands of the United States to be
homesteads for American citizens and set
tiers not aliens, which the Republican
party established in 1862, against the per.
sistent opposition of the Democrats in
| Congress, which has brought our great
western domain into such magnificent de-
yelopment The restoration of unearned
railroad land grants to the public domain
for the use of active settlers, which was
begun under the administration Of Presi-
dent Arthur, should be continued.
HERE GALL.
We deny that the Democratic party has
ever restored one acre to the people, but
declare that by the joint action of Repub-
licans and Democrats about Fifty millions
of acres of unearned lands originally grant
ed for the construction Of railroads have
been restored to the public domain in
pursuance of the conditions inserted by
the Republican party in the original
grants. We charge the Democratic ad-
ministration with failure to execute the
laws securing to settlers title to their
homesteads, and with using appropriations
made for that purpose TO hsrrass innocent
settlers with spies and prosecutions under
the false pretense OF exposing frauds and
vindicatiDg the law.
DAKOTA WILL BE USELESS AFTER NO
| vEMBER.
The government by Congress Of the
Territories is based upon necessity only,
to the end that they may become States in
| tie union. Therefore, whenever the con-
ditions of population, material resources,
public intelligence and morality are snch
as to insure State local government
therein, the people ofsuch Territories should
be permitted, as right inherent in them,
to form for themselves constitutions and
State governments and be admitted into
the union. Pending the preparation for
Statehood all officers thereof should bt
selected from the bonafide residents and
citizens Of the Territory wherein they are
to serve. South Dakota should of right bt
Immediately admitted as a State in the
union under the constitution framed and
adopted. by her people, and we heartily en-
dorse the action of the Republican Senate
in twice passing bills for her admission
The refusal of the Democratic House O.
Representatives, for partisan pur
poses, to fayorsbly consider these bills
Is a wilful violation Of the sacred Amer
lean principle of local self government,
and merits the condemnation Of all JUS
men. The pending bills in the Senate fol
acts to enable the people Of Washington
North Dakota and Montana Territories Il
form constitutions and establish State con
stitutions, should be passed without un
necessary delay. The Republican party
pledges itself to do all in its power to ia
ciitale the admission of the Territories o
New Mexico, Wyoming, Idaho and Ari
zona, to the enjoyment of self goyernmen
~ States, such OF them as are now quail
fed as soon a. possible and the Others a
soon as they become so. The politica
power of the Mormon Church in the Ter
ritories as exercised In the past is menac
to free institutions, too dangerous longe
TO be suffered. Therefore We pledge thu
Republican party to appropriate legisls
ton asserting the sovereignty OF the Ma
ton in all Territories where the same
questioned and in fdrtherarce of that en-
10 place upon the statute books Legislation
stringent enough to divorce the politics
faom the ecclesiastical power, aud thu
stamp out the attendant wickednsss OF pc
,, lygamy.
: THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS THE ONLY ON
HAVING A DENoNITIzATION RECORD.
The Republican party is in favor Of tn
r use of both gold and silver rs money an
r condemns the policy Of the Democratic ad
| ministration in its Efforts to demonitiz
) silver. We demand the reduction Of lei
E ter postage to one cent per ounce. In
' republic like ours, where the citizen Is th
| sovereign and the official the servant
where no power is exercised except by Ii
n will of the people, it is important that II