The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1888-06-27

/ for the wants of the Government. we favor
the entire repeal of the internal taxes. rather
than the surrender of any part of our pro
tective system at the joint behest of the whis-
ky trusts and the agents of foreign manufac-
| turers.
FOREIGN CONTRACT LABOR
| We declare our hostility to the introduc-
tion into this country of foreign contract la
/ bor alien to our civilization and our con-
stitution and we demand the rigid enforce
ment of the existing laws against it, and IA
vor such immediate legislation as will ex-
| ciude such labor from our shores
We declare our opposition to all combina-
tons of capital organized in trusts or other
wise, to control arbitrarily the condition of
| trade among our citizens and we recon-
mend TO Congress and the State Legislatures.
in their respective jurisdictions, such legisIa-
tion rs will prevent the execution of all
schemes to oppress the people by undue
charges on their supplies. or by unjust rates
for the transportation of their product to
market. We approve the legislation by Con-
gress to prevent alike unjust burdens and un-
fair Determinations between the States
PUBLIC LANDS FOR AMERICANS.
We reaffirm the policy of appropriating
the public lands of the United States to be
homesteads for American citizens and set
tiers, not aliens, which the Republican par
ty established in 1862. against the persistent
opposition Of the Democrats in Congress,
which has brought our great Western do
main into such magnificent development
The restoration of unearned land-grants TO
the public domain for the use of actual set
tiers, which was begun under the Admins
tration of President Arthur should be con-
tinued. We deny that the Democratic party
has ever restored one acre to the people, but
declare that by the joint action of Republi-
cans and Democrats 10000, 900 ofacres of I'M
earned lands originally granted for the con-
struction of railroads have been restored to
/ the public domain, in pursuance of the con
ditions inserted by the Republican party in
the original grants. We charge the Demo-
cratic Administration with failure to execute
the laws securing to settlers title to their
homesteads, and with using appropriations
made for that purpose to harrass innocent
settlers with spies and prosecutions under
the false pretense Of exposing frauds and
yindicating the law.
ADMISSION OF NEW STATES.
The government by Congress of the Ter
riiOries is based upon necessity only, to the
end that they may become States in the
Union; therefore, whenever the conditions
ofpopulation, material resources, public in
telligence and morality are such as to insure
a staple local government therein, the peo-
pie Of such Territories should be permitted
as right inherit in them, to form for them
selves Constitutions and State Governments
and be admitted into the Union Pending
the preparation for Statehood, all officers
thereof should be selected from the bona
fide residents and citizens of the Territory
wherein they are to serve. South Dakota
should of right be Immediately admitted as
State in the Union, under the Constitution
framed and adopted by her people, and we
heartily indorse the action of the Re
publican Senate in twice passing bills for
her admission. The refusal OF the Demo-
cratic House of Representatives, for partisan
purposes, to fayorably consider these bills, is
wilful violation of the sacred American
principles of local selfgovernment and
merits the condemnation of all just men.
The pending bills in the Senate to enable
the people of Washington, North Dakota
and Montana Territories to form Cons;itn-
ton and establish State Governments, should
be passed without unnecessary delay. The
Republican party pledges itself to do all in
its power TO facilitate the admission Of the
Territories of New Mexico. Wyoming, Idaho
and Arizona to the enjoyment OF fseli-govern-
ment as States, such of them as are no1
qualified, as soon as possible and the Others
as soon as they may become so.
PoLY6AyY Must GO.
The political power of the Mormon
Church in territories as exercised in the past,
Is a menace to free institutions, too danger