San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-07-12

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trust and agents Of foreign manufact
ures.
We dslare our hostility to intro
duction into this country foreign
contract labor and Chinese labor
and we demand a rigid enforcement
of existing laws against it, and 70
vor such immediate Legislation as
will exclude such labor from our
shores.
We declare our opposition to all
combinations of capital organized in
trusts or otherwise to control arbi-
trarily the condition of trade among
our citizens, and we recommend tC
Congress and state legislatures, in
their respective jurisdictions, such
legislation as will prevent the execu-
tion OF all schemes to oppress the
people by undue charges on their
supplies or by unjust rates for the
transportation of their products to
their market.
We approve Legislation by Congress
to prevent alike unjust burdens and
unfair determinations between states.
We reaffirm the policy of appro-
priating the public lands of the Uni
ted States to homesteads for Ameri-
can citizens and settlers, which the
Republican party established in 1852
against the persistent opposition of
Democrats in Congress, and which
has brought our great western do
main into such magnificent develop
ments; restoration of unearned rail-
road land grants to the public do
main for the use of actual settlers,
which was begun under the admins
tration of President Arthur, should
be continued.
We deny that the Democratic par
ty has ever restored one acre to the
people, but declare that by joint ac-
tion of the Republicans and Demo-
Gratis, about fifty million acres of un-
earned lands, originally granted for
the construction of railroads. have
been restored to the public domain
in pursuance of the condition insert
ed by the Republican party in the
original grants.
We charge the Democratic admin
istration with failure to execute laws
securing settlers titles to their home
steads and with using the appropria-
tions made for that purpose to harass
the innocent settlers with spies and
prosecutions under the false pretense
Of exposing frauds and vindicating
the law.
The government by Congress OF
the territories is based upon the me-
cessity only to the end that they mny
become states in the Union; there
fore, whenever the conditions of pop
ulation, material resources, public in
telligence and morality are such as to
ipsuse stable local government there
in, the people Of such territories
should be permitted, as right in
herited, to form for themselves con-
stitutions and state governments and
be admitted into the Union. Pend
ing preparations for statehood all Of
ficers thereof should be selected from
bona fide residents and citizens Of
the territory wherin 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 endorse the action of
the Republican Senate in twice pass
ing bills for her admission. The refus-
oil of the Democratic House of Repre-
sentatives, for partisan purposes, to
favorably consider these bills is a
willful violation Of the sacred Amer
can principle of local self. government
and merits the condemnation of all
Just men.
The pending bills in the Senate
for acts to enable the people OF Wash
ington, North Dakota and Montana
territories to form constitutions and
establish state governments should
be passed without unnecessary delay.
The Republican party pledges it
self to do all within its power to fa-
cilitate the admission of the terrific
ries of New Mexico, Wyoming, Idaho
and Arizona to the enjoyment of self
government as states; such of them
as are now qualified as soon as posi-
BILE, and the others as soon AZ they
may become SO.
The political power of the Mormon |
church in the territories as exercised
in the past is q menace TO free insti-
tutions too dangerous longer to be
suffered; therefore we pledge tho
Republican party TO appropriate leg
islation, asserting the sovereignty Of
the nation in all territories where the
same is questioned, and in further
aucs of that end TO place upon the
statute books legislation stringent
enough 10 divorce the political from
the ecclesiastical power and thus
stamp out the attendant wickedness
Of polygamy.
The Republican party is in favor
OF the use Of both gold and silver as
money, and condemns the efforts Of
the Democratic administration to de-
monetize silver.
We demand o reduction Of letter /
postage to one cent per ounce
In 9 Republic like ours, where a
citizen is sovereign and the Official.
no power is exercised
except BY the Will Of the people. it is