Bent County register., 1888-06-30

can representatives in congress in
opposing its passage.
We condemn the proposition of
the Democratic party to place wool
on the free list, and we insist that
the duties thereon shall be adjusted
and maintained so as TO furnish full
and adequate protection to that in
dustry.
The Republican party would eff
feet all needed reduction of the nat
ional revenues byrepealing the taxes
upon tobacco, which are an annoy
ance and burden to agriculture, and
the tax upon spirits used in the arts,
and for merchantable purposes, and
by such revision of the tariff laws as
will tend to check the imports of
such articles as are produced by our
people, the production of which
gives employment to our labor, and
release from import duties those ar
ticles of foreign production Except
luxuries). the like of which cannot
be produced at home. If there shall
still remain a larger revenue than is
requisite for the wants of the gov
ernment, we favor the entire repeal
of the internal taxes. rather than the
surrender of any part of our protec-
tion system at the joint behest of the
whisky trusts and the agents of for
eign manufacturers.
We declare our hostility to the in,
PRODUCTION into this country of for
eign contract labor. and of Chinese
labor alien to our civilization and
our constitution, and we demand the
rigid enforcement of the existing
laws against it, and favor such I'M
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 ar
bitrarily the condition of trade
among our citizens, and we recon-
mend TO congress and the state leg
Islatures, in their respective iuris-
dictious, such Legislation as will pre-
vent the execution of all schemes to
oppress the people by undue charges
on their supplies, or by unjust rates
for transportation of their products
to market. We approve of the leg
Islation by congress to prevent alike
unjust burdens and unfair discrimi-
nations between the states,
We reaffirm the policy of appro-
priating the public lands OF the
United States to be homsteaded 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
magnificent development. The res
toration of unearned railroad land
grants to the public domain for the
use of actual settlers. which was be-
gun under the administration of
President Arthur, should be con
timed.
We deny that the Democratic par
ty has ever restored one acre to the
people, but declare that, by the joint
action of Republicans and Demo
Gratis. about 5O,ooO,OOo of acres of
unearned lands. originally granted
for the construction of railroads,
have been restored to the public do
main, in pursuance of the conditions
inserted by the Republican party in
the original grants. We charge the
Democratic administration with a
failure to execute the laws securing
to settlers title to their homesteads,
and with using appropriations made
for that purpose to harass innocent
settlers with spies and prosecutions
under the false pretence of exposing
frauds and yindicating the law.
The government by congress of
the territories is based upon neces-
sity only to the end that thev NAV
become states in the Union. There
fore, whenever the conditions of pop
ulation, material resources, public
intelligence and morality are such
as to insure stable local govern