The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-06-08

Up to the iaue presluentlai electlOn TN
Republican party had declared that Demo
cratic success meant national ruin, an(
that whatever might he said of the crimes
and transactions OF those then in authority
yet to no other keeping could the welfare Of
the United States be safely confided. Thii
doctrine was repudiated at the polls, and
the experience of almost four years has de-
monstrated that those assertions and charges
were unwarranted, and that the people were
right In demanding and compelling rad
ical change
No public servant ever responded to the
call Of duty more fully or in better faith
than our honored president
Unostentatious in the discharge of his
trust, he has never failed to apply to affairs
of state those sound business maxims,
the observance of which is even more
necessary in public than i'm private station
The lesent administration has realized
the PROMISES made by the | emocratic con-
vention of 1881. 1t has sought to reduce
taxation and tighten the burdens Of the
people, and to reduce the revenue so as to
prevent undue accumulation in the
treasury, and has at the same time taken
the requisite steps to foster and protect
domestic industries. 1t has discouraged
abled, so far as circumstances would per-
nit those in the less favored walks of life
to enjoy the benefits of their exertions In
other words, the Democratic administra-
tion has set its utmost endeavors to carry
out the platform on which our great reform
victory was achieved If the tariff has not
been modified, it is because of Republican
obstruction.
he "a ISfp f,f IN,
the treasury threatens the industry of the
country, and is constant source of injury
to the consumer and men of moderate
means who find it difficult to obtain
monetary assistance, because of the with
drawal OF large portion of the circulating
medium This unfortunate situation is
directly attributable to the policy of the
Republican party. whose aim has ever been
to encourage and enrich monopolies and to
ignore the interests Of the masses.
During Republican domipancy many
millions of acres Of the public domain
passed into the hands of corporate and
foreign syndicates, formed for the creation
Of individual fortunes. The obligations
imposed as conditions precedent
to =. thc - jay stitnre of title were per-
sistently Violated by the beneficiaries,
and those violations passed unheeded
until the Democratic administration, in
conformity with the doctrines OF the party,
declared forfeiture, thus rendering to
those seeking homes in good faith, more
than 40,000,000 acres, which had been
withheld by the Republican party for the
benefit of a selfish few. In conformity
with the views of the president, statute
has been enacted preventing the acquisi-
tion of lands by those not citizens Of the
United States and restricting the power of
corporations to obtain title to realty in the
territories If preceding Republican ad-
minstrations had adopted the present
Democratic policy there would have been
preserved as homes for settlers locating in
good faith, immense tracts of fertile soil
now in the hands of corporations and for
eign spectators.
This administration has entered into a
treaty with the Chinese empire which must
result in excluding the Mongois from our
shores, and which, for the first time, makes
it possible to prevent the perpetuation of
the frauds on our immigration laws now
practicable by that race, and to preserve us
from the evils OF servile corruption. Thus,
after repeated Republican failures, we
reach a successful settlement of the ques-
tion which justly agitated vast number of
our citizens, and with which Republican
leaders have proved themselves incompetent
to deal
Unable to reinstate themselves on any
issue, corrupt politicians whose
have excluded them from
office seek restoration to authority by en-
deavoring to reanimate the buried issue of |
. past generation. But these unseemly |
efforts must fail Those who participated |
in the struggle are not anxious to renew it.
The agitators of to-day were in most in
stances non -combatahts.