Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-06-30

great leader, the immortal champion of lib
erty and the rights of the people-Abrahau
Lincoln, and to cover also with wreaths q
imperishable remembrance and Rratitud,
the heroic namss of late leaders who hav,
more recently been called sway from on,
councils Grant, Garfield, Arthur, Loeaz
and Conkling. May their memories bI
faithfully cherished. We also recall viii
our greetings and with prayer for his re-
| covery, the name of one of our living heroe.
| whose memory will be treasured in the his
! tory both of republicans and Of the republic
tho name of that noble soldier and favor
ito child of victory, Philip Sheridan. In
the spirit of those great leaders and Of on,
own devotion to human liberty and witt
that hostility to all forms of despotism and
oppression which is the fundamental ideal
of the republican party, We send fraternal
congratulations to our fellow Americans OF
Brazil upon their great act of emancipation
which completed the abolition of slavery
throughout the two American continents
We earnestly hope that We may soon con.
graduate our fellow citizens of Irish birth
upon the peaceful recovery of
HOME RULl FOB IRELAND.
We reaffirm our answering devotion to
the national convention and to the indisso-
luble union of the states, to tho autonomy
reserved to the states under the constitu-
ton, to the personal rights and liberties of
citizens in all the states and territories in
and sovereign right of every lawful citizen,
rich or poor, native or foreign born, white
or black, to cast one free ballot in public
elections, and to have that ballot duly
counted. We hold the free and honest pop
.lar ballot and the just and equal represen-
tation of all the people, to be the founda-
ton of our
REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT
and demand effective legislation to secure
the integrity and purity of elections which
are the foundations OF all public authority.
We charge that the present administration
and the democratic majority in congress,
and their existence to the suppression of the
ballot by criminal notification of the con-
stitution and laws of the United States. We
are uncompromisingly in favor Of the Ameri-
Its destruction by the president and hia
party. They serve the interests Of Europe,
we will support the interests of America.
We accept the issue and confidently appeal
to the people for their Judgment,
THE 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. We denounce the Mills bill as
destructive to the general business, the a.
Dor and the farming interest of the country
and we heartily endorse the consistent and
patriotic action of the republican represent
atives in congress in opposing its passage.
We condemn the proposition of the demo-
cratic party to place wool on the free list,
and We insist that the duties be adjusted and
maintained so as to furnish full and ade-
quate protection to that industry. The re-
publican party would effect all needed re-
ductiOn to the national revenue, by repeal
ing the taxes upon tobacco, which are an
annoyance and burden to agriculture, and
the tax upon spirits used in the arts, and for
purposes; and by such revisions
of the tariff laws as will tend to check the
imports of such articles as are produced by
our people, and the production of which
gives employment to our labor, and release
from import duties those articles of foreign
production Except lu1uries) the like of
which cannot be produced at home. If
there shall still remain larger revenue than
is requisite for the wants of the govern
melt, we favor the entire repeal of the in
ternal taxes rather than the surrender of
any part of our excellent protective sys-
tenn, at the joint behest of
THE WHISKY TRUST
and the agents of foreign manufactures.
We declare our hostility to the Introduction
into this country of foreign contract labor
and of Chinese labor alien to our civiliza-
lion and our constitution; and we demand
The rigid enforcement of the existing laws
against Chinese and such immediate legis-
lation as will exclude such labor from our
shores. We declare our opposition to all
combinations of capital organized in trusts
and otherwise to control arbitrarily the con-
dition of trade among our citizens; and we
to congress and the state legis-
latures in their respective jurisdictions for
such legislature as will prevent the execu-
lion of all the schemes to Cypress the people
by such charges on their supplies, or unjust
rates for the transportation of their pro-
ducts to market. We approve legislation
by congress to prevent alike unjust burdens
md unfair discrimination between the
states. We reaffirm the policy of appro-
priating the public lands of the United
States to be homesteads for American Cit
zens and settlers, not aliens, which the re-
publican party established in 1862 against
he persistent opposition of the
DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS,
md which has brought our great western
domain into such magnificent development.
The restoration of unearned railroad land
grants to the public domain for the use of
lctual settlers which was begun under the
of President Arthur should |
70 continued. We deny that the democratic |
party has ever restored one acre to the peo- |
lie, but declare that by the joint action of
he republicans and democrats about sc, OOO,- |
100 of acres of unearthed lands, originally |
.ranted for the construction of railroads, |
las been restored to the public domain IN
pursuance of the conditions instituted by |
he republican party in the original grants. |
We charge the democratic administration |
With failure to execute the laws securing to
ettlers the title to their homesteads. and
With using the appropriations made for that
purpose to harass innocent settlers with
pies and prosecutions, under the false pre-
ense of exposing frauds and indicating |
he law. The government by congress of
he territories is based upon necessity only,
o the end that they may become states in
he Union, therefore whenever the condi-
ions of population, material resources, pub
ic intelligence and morality are such as to
insure q stable local government therein,
he people of such territories should be per-
nitted as right inherent in them to form
or themselves constitutions and state gov
rnments and be admitted into the Union.
ending Il
THE PREPARATION FOB STATEHOOD