The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1888-06-30
Republican Representatives in Con-


gress in opposing its passage.
We condemn the proposition of the
Democratic party to place WOO! on
the free list, and we insist that the
duties thereon shall be adjusted and
| maintained so as 10 furnish full and
adequate protection to the industry.
The Republican party would effect
all needed reduction OF the National
revenue by repeating the taxes upon
tobacco which arc an annoyance and
burden TO agriculture, 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
are produced by our people, the pro-
duction of which gives employment
to our labor and release from import
duties those articles OF foreign pro-
duction Except luxuries) the like of
which cannot be produced at home.
Ii there shall still remain larger
revenue than is required tor the wants
of the government, we favor the en-
tire repeal OF internal taxes rather
than the surrender of any part of our
protective system at the joint hehest
of whisky trusts and the agents of
foreign manufacturers.
ALIEN LABOR.
We declare our hostility to the in
tfoduction into this country of for
eign contract labor and of Chinese
labor, alien to our civilization and
our Constitution, and we demand the
rigid enforcement of the existing laws
against il, and favor such immediate
legislation as will exclude such labor
from out shores.
OPPOSITION TO TRUSTS.
We declare our opposition to all
combinations Of capital organized in
10 trusts or otherwise to control arbit-
rariiy the condition of trade among
our citizens, and we recommend to
Congress AMI the State legislatures in
their respective Jurisdictions, such
Legislation rs will prevent the execut-
ion of ali schemes To Cypress the peo
pie by undue charges 0n their supplies
or by unjust rates for the transporta-
tion of heir products to market.
We approve the legislation by Con-
gress to prevent alike unjust burdens
and unfair determinations between
the States.
THE PUBLIC DOMAIN.
We reafiirm the policy of appro-
priating the public lands of the Uni
ted States for homesteads for Ameri-
can citizens and settlers, not alcins,
which the Republican party establish
ed in 1862 against the persistent OPP
position of Democrats in Congress,
and which has brought our great
Western domain into such magnific-
ent development.
The reservation of unearned rail-
ROAD land grants 10 the public domain
for the use of actual settlers, which
was begun under the administration
of President Arthur. should be con-
tinued. We deny that the Democrat
ic party has ever restored one acre to
the people. but declare that by the
Joint action of Republicans aud DEM
ocrats about fifty millions of unearned
lands, originally granted for the con-
struction of railroads, have been re-
stored to the public domain, in pur-
suance of the conditions inserted by
the Republican party in the original
grants.
We charge the Democratic admins
tration with failure tn execute the
laws securing TO settlers their titles
to homesteads, and with using appro-
priations made for that purpose to
harass innocent settlers with spies and
prosecutions under false pretense of
exposing frauds and vindicating the
law.
THE TERRITORIES.
The government by Congress of the
Territories is based upon necessity
only, to the end that they may become
States in the Union, therefore. when
ever the conditions of population,
material resources, public intelligence
and morality are such as to insure n
stable local government therein, the
people of such Territories should be
permitted, as right inherent in them,
to form for themselves constitutions
and State governments and be admit
ted into the Union. Pending the
preparation for Statehood, all officers
thereof should be selected from the
bona fide residents and citizens of
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