Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-10-04

Chinese Labor alien to civilization and our Con-
stitutOn, and We demand the rigid enforcement of
the existing laws against IT, and fayaT such im-
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
arbitrarily the condition OF trade among citizens
and we recommend to Congress, and the State
Legislatures in their respective Jurisdictions, such
legislation as Will prevent the execution of all
schemes to OppreSS the people by undue charges
on their supplies or by unjust rates tor the tranSpOr
tatiOn of their products to market. We approve
the legislation by Congress to prevent like unjust
burdens and unfair Determinations between the
States.
We reafirm the policy of appropriating the public
lands of the United States to be hOmesteadS for
American citizens and settlers, not aliens, which
the Republican party established IN iSG2, against
the persistent opposition of the Democrats in Con
gress, and 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 actual settlers which
was begun under the Admins niStratiOn OF President
Arthur, should he continued. We deny that the
Democratic party has ever restored one acre to TIE
people, but declare thai by the joint action of Re
pubhcanS and Democrats about fifty millions of
acres of nearned lands originally granted for the
construction of railroads have been restored to the
public domain in pursuance OF the conditions in
serted by the Republican party in the original
grants. We charge the Democratic AdminiStra-
tiOn with failure TO execute the laws securing to
settlers titles to their hOmesteadS, and with using
appropriations made for that purpose to harasS in
nOcent settlers with spies and prosecutions under
the false pretenSe OF exposing frauds and vlndieat-
ing the law.
The Government by Congress- of tie Territories is
based upon necessity only, 10 the end that they may
become States in the Union; therefore, whenever
the condition Of population, material resources,
public intelligence and morality are such TO in
sure a stable local government therein, the people
of such territories should be permitted as right
inherent in them, to form for themselves COnstitu-
ti0nS and State governments, and be admitted into
the Union. Pending the preparation for Statehood
all officers thereof should be selected from the bona
de residents and citizens of the Territory wherein
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 indOrSe the action Of the
Republican Senate in twice passing bills for her
admission. The refusal Of the Democratic House
of Representatives, for partisan purposes, to favor
ably consider these bills, is willfll violation of the
American principle of local selfgOvernment, and
merits the condemnation of all Just men. The pen
ding bills in the Senate for acts to enable the people
of Washington, North Dakota and Montana Ter
ritorieS to form Constitutions and establish State
governments, should be passed without unneceS-
Sary 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 Sef-gOvernment as
States; such of them now qualified, soon as
possible and the others soon as they become so.
The political power of the Mormon Church in the
Territories exercised in the past is Il menace to
free institutions too dangerous longer to be suffer-
ed. Therefore we pledge the Republican party to
appropriate legislation asserting the sovereignty
of the Nation in all Territories where the same is
questioned, and in furtherance Of that end to place
upon the statute book legislation stringent enough
10 divorce te pOltlcl from the eccleSiaStlc 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
policy of the Democratic Administration in its eff
forts to demOnetize silver.
We demand the reduction of letter postage to
one cent per ounce.
In a Republic like ours, where the citizen is the
sovereign and the official is the servant where no
power is exercised except by the will of the people,
1t is important that the SOvereign-the people
should possess intelligence. The free school is the
promoter of that intelligence which is to preserve
us free Nation; therefore, the State or NatiOn or
both combined, should support free institutions of
learning, sufficient to afford to every child growing
up in the land the opportunity of a good common
school education.
We earnestly recommend that prompt action be
taken by Congress in the enactment of such egiSa-
ton as will best secure the rehabilitation of our
the passage by Congress of free ship bill, cal
cuated to work injustice to labor by leSsening the
wages OF those engaged in preparing materials, as
well as those directly employed in our ShipyardS.
We demand appropriations for the early rebuild
ing OF our navy for the construction of coast fOrt
fiatiOnS and modern ordnance and other approved
modern means of defense for the protection of our
defenSeleSS harbOrS and cities for the payment of
just pensions to our sOldieTS for necessary works
of national Importance in the improvement of har-
bOTS and channels of internal cOaStWise and for
eIgn commerce; for the encouragement OF the
shipping interests of the Atlantic Gulf and Pacific
States, well as for the payment of the maturing
public debt. This policy Will give employment to
our labor activity to our various industries, in
crease the security of our country, promote trade,
open new and direct markets for our produce and
cheaper the cost of transportation We affirm this
TO be lar better Tor our country than the Demo-
cratic policy of lOaning the Governments money
without interest to "pet banks"