Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1888-06-15

VPeAoAOo VI WuAOu ooo O0CA PSOtPO10o
By the action Of Republican majority
in the Senate.
In every branch and department of
tho Government under Democratic con-
troll, tho rights and welfare of all tho
people have been guarded and defend
cd; every public interest has been pro-
tected, and the equality of oil our citi-
zers before the law, without regard to
race or color, has been steadfastly main
tainej.
Upon its record thus exhibited and
upon the pledge of continuance to
the people of the benefits of Democra-
cy, it invokes a renewal of popular trust
by the reelection OF Cnief Magistrate
who has been faithful, able and pru-
dent, and invokes an addition to that
Trust by the transfer also to the Democ-
racy of the entire Legislative power.
The Republican party. controlling
the Senate and resisting in both houses
of Congress a reformation Of unjust and
unequal tax laws, which have outlasted
the necessities Of war, aud are now un-
dermining the abundance of a long
peace, deny to the people equality be
fore the law, aud the fairness aud the
justice which are their right.
Then the cry of American labor for o
better share in the rewards of industry
is stihed with false pretenses; enter
prise is fettered and bound down to
home markets; capital is discouraged
with doubt, and unequal, unjust laws
can neither be properly amended nor re-
pe"led. The Democratic party will con
tinue with all the power confided to it,
the struggle to reform these laws, in ac-
cordanoe with the pledges of it's last
platform, Endorsed at the ballot box by
the SURFACES of the people.
OF all the industrious freemen of our
land, the immense majority, including
every tiller of the soil, gains no advan-
tags from excessive tax laws, but the
price of nearly everything they buy is
increased by the fnvoritism of an uu-
equal system Of sax legislation.
The money now lying lille in the Fed
eral Treasury resulting from superfu-
GUS taxation, amounts to more than
$125, 000, ZOO, and the surplus collected
reaches the sum OF more than $50, O00,-
900 annually. Debsuched by this i'm
mense temptation, the remedy of the
Republican party is to meet and ex-
huast by extravaganza appropriations
and expenses, whether constitutional or
not, the acou mutations of extravagant
taxations. Tie Democratic policy is to
enforce frugality in public expense and
to abolish unnecessary taxation.
Our established domestic industries
and enterprises should not, and need
not, be endangered by the reduction
and correction of the burdens of taxa
tim. On the contrary, fnir aud care
full revision of our tax laws, with due al
lowance for the difference between the
wages Of American and foreign labor,
must promote and encourage every
branch of such industries and enterpris-
IS, and by giving them assurances of an
extended market and steady and con-
tinuons operation. In the interests Of
American labor, which should In no
event be ne elected. the revision of our
tax laws contemplated by the Demo
cratic party should promote the advant-
age Of such labor by cheapsning the costs
Of the necessaries Of life in ths home Of
every workingman, aud at the same time
securing to him steady and remunerative
employment. ..
AL unnecessary taxation is unjust
taxation. 1t is repugnant to the creed
OF Democracy that by such taxation the
cost of the neoessaries Of life should be
unjustIAably increased to all our people.
Judged by Democratic principles the in
terests Of the people are betrayed. when,
by unnecessary taxation, trusts aud
combinations are permitted to exist,
which, while unduly enriching the few
L. a a.