The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-06-30
Ia of America. We accent the issna


and confidently appeal to The people
for their judgment. The protective
susten, must 6en1di,atGined. Its aban-
donment has always been followed
by general disaster to all interests,
except those of the usurer and the
sheriff. We denounce the Mills bill
as destructive to the general business,
the labor and the farming interests
of the country, and we heartily en-.
dorse the consistent ana patriotic
action of the Republican representa-.
tives in Congress in opposing Its
passage. We condemn the PROPOSE.
ton of the Democratic party to place
wool on the free list, and we insist
that the duties thereon shall be ad.
justed and maintained so as to furn.
ish
FREE AND ADEQUATE PROTECTION
to that industry. The Republican
party would effect all needed reduc.
ton of the National revenue by re-.
pealing the taxes upon tobacco, which
are an annoyance and burden to agr.
culture, and the tax upon spirits used
in the arts and for mechanical pur
poses, and by such revision of Tie
tariff laws as will tend to checAss
ports of such articles as are produce
by our people, the production o
which gives employment to OF
labor, and release from import dues
those articles of foreign producton,
except luxuries, the like of vllch
cannot be produced at hom. Ii
there shall still remain large reye-
nue. than is requisite for the pants OF
the government, we favor tP entire
repeal of the internal taxes rather
than the surrender of any pTt Of our
protective system at the JOINT behest
of the whisky ring and tn agents OF
the foreign manufacturers
CONTRACT LABOR AM TRUSTS.
We declare our hostiIty to the in
PRODUCTION into this country OF for
eign contract labor AMI of Chinese
labor-alien to our civilization and
our Constitution-anc we demand
the rigid enforcement of the existing
laws against it, and iavor such i'm
mediate 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 the con-
dition of trade among our citizens,
and we recommend to Congress and
the State legislatures in their respec-
tive jurisdictions, such legislation as
will prevent the execution Of all
schemes to Cypress the people by un-
due charges on their supplies, by UNI
just rates for the transportation of
their products to market. We ap-
prove the legislation by Congress v
prevent alike unjust burdens AMI
unfair Determinations between the
States.
PUBLIC LANDS.
We reaffirm the policy of appro-
Driating the public lands of the
United States to be homesteads for
American citizens and settlers not
aliens, which the Republican party
established in 1862 against the per.
sistent opposition of the Democratic
party in Congress, which has brought
our great Western domain into such
magnificent development. The res
toration of unearned railroad land
grants to the public domain for the
use of actual settlers. which was be-
gan under the administration of
President Arthur, should be contin.
ued. We deny that the Democratic
party has eUer restored one acre to the
people, but declare that by the joint
action of Republicans and Democrats
about fifty millions of acres of IN.
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 the
laws securing to settlers title to their
home-steads, and with using appro-
priations made for that purpose to
harrass innocent settlers with spies
and prosecutions under the false pre-
tense of exposing frauds and yin4~
eating the law.
ADMISSION OF TERRITORIES.
The Government by congress of
the Territories is based upon neces.
sity only. to the end that they NAV
become States in the Union. There
fore, whenever the conditions of
population, material resources, pub-
lie intelligence and morality are such
as to insure stable local govern.