, 1888-06-22

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nations of capital organized in trusts or
otherwise to control arbitrarily the condi-
ton of trade among our citizens, and we
recommend to congress and the state leg
islatures in their respective Jurisdictions
such legislation as will prevent the execu-
ton of all schemes to Cypress the people
by undue charges on their supplies OF by
unjust rates for the transportation of their
products to market; we approve the legis-
latlon by congress to prevent alike unjust
burdens and unfair determinations be-
tween the states.
H PUBLIC LANDS.
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 1862, against the per-
sistent opposition of the Democrats in
congress, and which has brought our
great Western domain into such magnifi-
cent development. The restoration of I'M
earned 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 restored one acre to the people and
declare that by the Joint action of Repub-
licans and Democrats about fifty millions
of 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 admin
istration with failure to execute the laws
securing to settlers title to their home
steads, and with using appropriations
made for that purpose to harass innocent
settlers with spies and prosecutions under
the false pretense of exposing frauds and
indicating the law.
H TERRITORIES.
The government by congress of the
territories is based upon necessity only to
the Union, therefor, whenever the con-
ditions of population, material resources,
public intelligence and morality are such
therein, the people Of such territories
in them, to form for themselves constitu-
tions and state governments and be ad-
mitted into the Union. Pending the
preparation for statehood all officers there
of should be selected from the bonafide
residents and citizens of the territories
wherein they are to serve.
SOUTH DAKOTA
should of right be Immediately admitted
as a state in the Union under the consti-
tuition framed and adopted by her people.
and we heartily endorse the action of the
Republicans in twice passing bills for her
admission. The refusal of the Demo
cratic house of representatives Tor parti-
san purposes to favorably consider these
bills is a wllful violation of the sacred
American principle of local self govern
ment and merits the condemnation of all
just men. The pending bills in the senate
for acts to enable the people of Washing
ington, North Dakota and Montana Ter
~ritories to form constitutions and estab-
lish state governments should be passed
without unnecessary delay. The Repub-
lican 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
self government as states, such of them as
are now qualified as soon as possible
and the others as soon as they may be-
come so.
THE
The political power of the Mormon
church as exercised in the past is a men
ace to free institutions and dangerous to
be long suffered; therefore, we pledge the
Republican party to appropriate legisla-
ton asserting the sovereignty of the ma
ton in all territories where the same is
questioned, and in furtherance of that end
to place upon the statute books legisla-
ton stringent enough to divorce the polit-
ical from the ecclesiastical power and thus
stamp out the attendant wickedness of
polygamy.
COINAGE AND FREE SHOOTS.
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 efforts to dcmonetize
silver.
We demand the reduction of letter
postage to / cent per ounce.
In a republic like ours where the citi-
zen is sovereign and the official the ser
want, where no power is exercised except
by the will of the people, it is important
that the sovereign-the people-should
possess intelligence. TheFree school is the
promoter of that intelligence which is to
preserve us a free nation. Therefore,
state or national, or both combined,
should support free institutions of learn
ing, sufficient to afford to every child
growing up in the land the opportunity of
o good common school education.
THE MERCHANT MARINE.
We earnestly recommend that prompt
action be taken by congress in the enact
ment of such legislation as will best secure
the rehabilitation of our American mer-
chant marine, and we protest against the
passage by congress of the free ship bill
as calculated to work injustice to labor by
lessening the wages of those engaged in
preparing materials, as well as those
directly employed in our ship yards. We
demand appropriations for the early re-
building of our navy, for the construction
of coast Notifications and modern ord
nance and other approved modern means
of defence for the protection of
our detenceless harbors and cities,
for the payment of Just pensions to our
| soldiers, for the necessary works of ma
tional importance, an improvement of
harbors and channels of internal, coast
| wise and foreign commerce. for the en-
enlargement Of the shipping interests of
the Atlantic gulf and Pacific states, as well
as for the payment of maturing public