New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-06-13
THE pLArsoRM.
The resolutions were read by the clerk aa

THE PLATFORM.
The resolutions were read by the clerk aH
| follows:
The Democratic party of the United S5ates,
| in national convention assembled re-
news the pledge of its fidelity to Democratic
| faith and reafirmS the platform adopted by
| its representatives in the convention Of 1884
| and endorses the views expressed by Presi-
/ dent Cleveland in his last annual message 10
ongress us The correcs Interpretation of that
| cplatform upon the question of rariH redac-
Jion; and also endorses the efforts of our
! Democratic representatives in congress to
secure reduction OF excessive taxaSion.
Chief among its principles of party faith
are the maintenance OF all indissoluble
| union of free and indeStructibe states now
about to enter upon its second century Of
IuneXampied progress and renoWn, devoted
! to a plan of government regulated by a
written constitution stricJiy specifying
every granted power ana expressly feserV-
| ing TO the states or people the entire IN
granted residue of power; the encourage
ment OF Jealous popular vigilance. directed
| to all who have been chosen for brief terms
| to enact and execute the laws, and are
charged with the duty OF preserving peace,
ensuring equality and establishing justice
The Democratic party welcome an exact
ing scrutiny OF the administration OF the e1-
ecurive power, which. four years ago, was
committed to its trust in the election OF
Grover Cleveland, president of the United
States, but it challenges the most searching
inquiry concerning its fidelity and devotion
to the pledges which then invited the
snffrages of the people. During mos
criTlcal period OF our financial affairs, re-
sulting from oyertaxation. the anomalous
condition of our currency. anu a pubic Debt
! unmatured, it has, by the adoption or wise
and conservative course, not only averted q
disaster, but greatly promoted the prosperity
| of the people
L Tt =, ;5n-t and
| wise policy of The Republican party touch
| ing the public domain and has reclaimed
| from corporations and syndics ties alien and
domestic, and restored to the people nearly
one hundred millions OF acres OF Valuable
lard to be sacredly held as homesteads for
our citizens
While carefully guarding the interest in
the principles of Justice and equity. ii has
paid out more for pensions and bount;es to
the soldiers and sailors OF the republic than
was ever paid before during an equal period.
1t has adopted, and consistently pursued
firm and prudent fere1gn policy, preserving
peace with all nations while scrupulously
| main tanning all the rights and interests OF
| our own government and people at home
and abroad
| The exclusion from, our shores of Chinese
| laborers has been efectuaily secured under
the provision OF a treaty, the operation OF
| which has been postponed by the action of o
] Republican majority in the senate.
| Honest reform in the civil service has been
| inaugurated and maintained by President
Cleveland, and he has brought the public
| service to the highest standard of efficiency,
not only by rule and precept, but by the ex-
ample of his own unLiring and unselfsh adj
minisuration of public affairs
| In every branch and department of the
government under Democratic control. the
rights and the welfare of all the Ieople have
| been guarded and defended; every public
| interest has been protected, and the equality
OF all our citizens before the law, without
regard to race or color, has been steadfasuiy
| maintained
| Upon its record thus exhibited, and upon
! the pledge of continuance to the people Of
! the benefits of dem ocracy it asks a renewal
! of popular trust by the election of chief
magistrate who has been faithful able and
| prudent. 1t invokes in addition to that
trust The transfer also to the Democracy
! Of the entire legislative power
The RepubIIcan party, controlling tire SEN
ate and resisting in both houses of congress
q reformation of unjust ard unequal tax
| laws, which have outlas5ed the necessities of
| war and are now undermining the abundance
OF a long peace, deny to the people equality
| before the law, and the fairness and the
justice which are their right. Then the cry
| OF American labor for a better share in the
rewards Of industry is stifed with false pre-
| lenses, enterprise is fettered and bound
down to nome markets. capital is discour-
aged with doubt and unequal, unjust laws
can. neither be properly amended or re-
pealed.
| The Democratic party will continue. with
all the power contided to it. the struggle to-.
reform these laws. in accordance with the
pledges OF its last platform, endorsed at. the i
ballot box by the sufrages of the people
VI all the industrious freemen of our land
the immense majority. including every 1iller
| OF the soil. gain no advantage from ex-
cesSive tax laws. but the price OF nearly
/ everything they buy is increased by the
favoritism of an unequal system of tax legis-
/ latIon. All unnecessary taxation is unjust
| taxation. ts#
1t is repugnant TO the creed of Democracy
! that by sucn taxation the cost of the neces-
saries of life should be Enthusiastically in
creased to all our people Judged by Demo-
/ cratic principles, the interests Of the people
are betrayed when, by unnecessary taXation
trusts and combinations are permitted to
exist, which, while undnIy enriching the few
| that combine, rob the body of our citizsns
| by depriving them of the benefits OF natural
competition. Every democratic rule OF =
i governmental action Is violated when
through unnecessary taxation, a vast sum of
money, far beyond the needs of an economi-
| cal administration is drawn from the people
and the channels of trade and accumulated
as a demoralizing surplus in the national
treasury. The money now lying Idle in the
4 federal treasury, resulting from supnrfuous
taxation, amounts to more than S125, OO0-
| 600, and the surplus collected is reaching
he sum of more than Sc 900, 00OannuaIly
| Debaucned by this immense Temptation, the
remedy of the Republican party is to meet
and exhaust by extravagant appropriations
| and expenses, whether constitutional or not,
the accumulation of extravagan5 taxation.
The Democratic policy is to enforce frugal
ity in public expense and abolish aunneces-
i sary taxation.
4 Our established domestic Industries and
enterprises should not, and need not, be en-.
dangered by the reduction and correction Of
the burdens of taxation. On the contrary,
a fair and careful revision OF our tax laws.
with due allowance for the difference be-
tween the wages of American and foreign
labor, must promote and encourage every
branch OF such industries by giving them as
surance of an extended market ard steady
and continuous operations In the interests
of American labor, which should in no event