The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1888-06-23

general business, the laDOr ana farming inter
ests OF the country, and we heartily endorse the
consistent and patriotic action of the republican
representatives in congress in opposing its pass
age. We condemn the proposition of the demo
insist that the duties thereon shall be adjusted
and maintained so as to 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 are an annoyance ana burden to agricul-
ture, and the taxes upon spirits used in the arts
and for mercantile purposes, and by such reviS-
ion of the tariff laws will tend to cheek the i'm
ports of such articles are produced by our peo-
pie, the production of which gives employment to
our labor, and release from import duties those
articles of foreign production except luxuries)
the like of which cannot be produced at home. If
there shall still remain larger revenue than is
requisite for the wan of the government, we
favor the entire repeal OF internal taxes rather
than any part of protective system at the joint
behest of the whisky trusts and the agents of for
eign manufacturers
We declare our hostility to the introduction into
this country of foreign contract labor and of
chinese labor, alien to our civilization and our
constitution, and we demand the rigid enforce
ment OF the existing laws against it and favor
labor from our shores
We declare our opposition to all combinations
OF capital organized into trusts or otherwise to
control arbitrarily the condition of trade among
our citizens, and we recommend to congress and
the state legislatures in their respective jursdic
tions such legislation as will prevent the execu-
ton OF all schemes to oppress the people by un
for the transportation of their products to market
We approve the legislation by congress to pre-
vent alike unjust burdens and unfair dscrimina
tiOns between the states.
We reaffirm the policy of appropriating the pub
lie lands Of the United States to be hom. .steads
for American citizens and settlers, not aliens,
which the republican party established in 1862
against the persistent opposition of democrats in
congress 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 administra-
ton of President Arthur, should be continued.
We deny that the democratic party has ever
stored one to the people, but declare that by
the Joint action of republicans and democrats
about $1,000 600 acres of unearned lands originally
granted for the construction of railroads have
been restored to the public domain in pursuance
of the conditions inserted by the republican party
in the original grants.
We charge the democratic administration with
failure to execute the laws securing to settlers
their title to homesteads and with using appro-
priatiOns made for that purpose to harrass inno-
cent settlers with spies and prosecutions under
the false pretense of exposing frauds and vindi-
eating the law.
The government by congress of the territories
is based upon necessity only to the end that they
may become states of the union; therefore. when
ever the conditions of popul ation material re-
sources, public intelligence and morality such
as to insure 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 adj
mitted into the union. Pending the preparations
the territory wheres.ss resiaentsto serve, ms OF
Dakota should of right be Immediately admitted
as state of the union under. the constitution
framed and adopted by her people, and we hearth
ly endorse the action of the republican senate in
twice passing bills for her admission. The re-
fusal of the democratic house of representatives
for partisan purposes to pass these bills is will
violation of the sacred American DrinciOleS of
local self government and merits the con.emna-
tion of all just men. The pending bills in the
senate for the acts to enable the people OF Wash
ington, North Dakota and Montana territories to
form constitutions and establish state govern
ments should be passed without unnecessary de-
lay. The republican party pledges itself to do all
in its power to facilitate the admission of the ter
ritories of New Mexico, Wyoming, Idaho and
Arizona to the enjoyment of self government as
states, such of them as are now qualified as soon
as possible and the others as soon as they may
The political power of the Mormon church in
the territories as exercised in the past is menace
to free institutions and dangerous to be long suf
fered. Therefore we have pledged the republican
eregnty of the nation in all the territories where
the same is questioned, and in furtherance of that
end to place upon the statute books Legislation
strong enough to divorce the political from the
ecclesiastical power and thus stamp ont the at
tendant wickedness of polygamy.
The republican party is IN favor of the use of
DOCn gOlO anu silver rs money anu CONDEMNS the
policy of the democratic administration in its ef-
fort to demOnetize silver.
We demand reduction OF letter postage to
one cent.
ereign and the official the servant, where no
power is exercised except by the will of the peo-
pie, it is important that the sovereign people
should possess intelligence The free school is q
promoter Of that intelligence which is to preserve
this free nation. Therefore the state or nation,
or both combined, should support free institu-
tions of learning sufficient to afford to every
child growing up in the land the opportunity OF
good common school education.
We earnestly recommend that prompt action be
taken by congress in the enactment of such legis-
latiOn as will be best to secure re-estabilshment
OF our American merchant marine, and protest
against the passage by congress of free ship bill
as calculated to work injustice to labor by lessen
ing wages of those engaged in preparing materials
well as those directly working in our ship yards.
We demand appropriations for the early rebuild
ing of our navy, for the construction of coast
foTtifcations and modern ordnance and other inn
proved modern means of defense for the prOtec-
tion of defenseless harbors and cities: for the
payment of just pensions to our soldiers; for nee
essary works of national importance; an improve
ment Of harbOrs and channels of internal, coast
wise, and foreign commerce: for the encourage
ment Of the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific states as
well as for the payment of the maturing public
debt. This policy will give employment to our
labor: activity to our various Industries increase
the security of our country, promote trade, open
new and direct markets for our produce, and
cheaper cost of transportation.
We affirm this to be far better for our country
than the democratic policy of loaning the govern
ment money without interest to s'pet banks The
conduct of our foreign affairs by the present ad
ministratiOn has been trlfling with by its inef
cheney and cowardce, having withdrawn from the
senate all pending treaties effected by the repub-
lican administration for the removal of foreign
burdens, the restrictions upon our commerce and
for it's extension into better markets 1t has nei
ther affected nor proposed any others in their
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triDe it has seen with idle complacency the exten-
sive foreign influence in Central America, and of
foreign trade everywhere among our neighbors.
1t has refused to charter, sanction or encourage
any American organization for the construction
of the Nicaragua canal work of vital importance
to the maintenance of the Monroe doctrine and
of our national influence in Central and South
America, and with the island and further coast of
the Pacific ocean. We arraign the present demo-
cratic administration for it's weak and unpatrotic
treatment of the fisheries question, and its pusil-
luminous surrender of the essential privileges to
which our fishing vessels are entitled in Canadian
ports under the treaty of 1878, the reciprocal
itime legislation of 1885, and the comfy of nations
and the treatment which Canadian fishing vessels
received in the ports of the United States. We
condemn the policy of the present administration,
and the democratic majority in congress towards
our fisheries, as unfriendly and conspicuously nn
patriotic, and as tending to destroy national in
dustry and indispensable resource of defense
against foreign enemy.
The name of American applies to all citizens
OF the Republic and imposes ON all alike the
same obligation of obedience to the laws. At the
same time that citizenship is and must be the
panoply and safeguard of him who wears it, and
protect him whether high or low, rich or poor
In all his civil rights 1t should and must afford
him protection at home and follow and protect
him abroad in whatever land he may be on a law
full Grand The men who abandoned the repub.
lican party in 1885 and continue to adhere to the
democratic party have deserted not only the cause
of honest government, Of sound finance, of free
dom and purity Of the ballot, but especially have
deserted the cause of reform in the civil ser vice
We will not fail to keep our pledges, because they
have broken THEIRS because their candidate has
broken his. We, therefore, repeat our declaration
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