The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-06-08

sions aud boanties TO soldiers ard sail
ors of the republic than was ever paid
| before during an equal period. 1t has
adopted and consistently pursued a firm
and prudent foreign policy. f'rrSerging
| such with all nations while $cru s,..,ously
maintaining all tie RIGHTS and interests
OF cur own government anu people at
home and abroad
The exclusion from our shores CT
Chinese laborers mas been eHectually
secured under the provisions of the
| treaty, tie operation Of which has been
postponed by the action of the Republi-
can majority in the Senate.
In every branch aud department of
government under Democratic control
the rights and welfare of all the people
have been guarded and defended. every
pu oiic interest has been protected and
the equality of all our citizens before
the law. without regard to race or color,
| been steadfastly maintained.
Upon its record thus exhibited and
| upon the pledge of continuance of the
benefits, the Democracy invokes re-
newal OF the popular trust by the re-
election of the chief magistrate who
had been faithful, able and prudent. To
invoke in addition to that trust by the
transfer also to the Democracy of the
entire legislative power. The Repub
lican party controlling the Senate and
existing in both houses of Congress
against the reformation of the unjust
and unequal tax laws which have out
lasted th7 necessities of the war and are
now undermining the abundance of a
long peace, deny to the people equality
before the law and the fairness and JUS
tice which are their right.
| The cry of American labor for bet
ter share in the rewards of industry is
stified with false pretenses. Enterprise
is fettered and bound down to some
markets, capital, discouraged with
doubt, and unequal. unjust laws, can be
neither properly amended nor repealed.
| The Democratic party will continue
with all the power conhded to it, the
struggle to reform these laws in &C
cordance with the pledges of its last
platform, endorsed at the ballot box by
the sufrages of the people. OF all the
industrious freemen of our land, the
tiller of the soil, gain no advantage
from the excessive tax laws, but the
price OF nearly everything they buy is
Increased by the fsvoritism of an IN
equal system of tax legislation.
ALI unnecessary taxation is unjust
taxation. It Is repugnant to the creed
of the Democracy that by such taxation
the cost Of necessarles of life should be
unjustly increased to all our people.
Judged by the Democratic principle,
the interests OF the people are betrayed
when, by unnecessary taxation, trusts
aud combination are permitted to exist
which while unduly enriching a few
that combine to rob the body OF our cit
| liens, by depriylng them of the-bene6ts
of natural competition. Every Demo
| cratic rule Of government and action IS
violated, when through unnecessary
taxation vast sum of money, far be-
yond the needs of economical admins
trstion, is drawn from the people and
the channels of trade, and accumulated
as emoralizing surplus in the National
Treasury. The money now lying idle
in the federal treasury resulting from
superhuous taxation amounts to more
than one hundred and twenty-five mill
lions, and the surplus collected is reach
ing the sum of more than sixty mil
lions annually. Debauched by this i'm
mense temptation. the remedy OF the
Republican party is to meet and ex-
haust by extravagant appropriations
and expenses, whether constitutional
VI nObs Vic lllttt1Ol1 VI CAtAa
taxation.
The Democratic policy is to enforce
frugelity in the public expense and
abolish unnecessary legislation. Cur
established domestic industries and
enterprises should not and need not be
endangered by the reduction and COR
rection of the burdens of taxation. On
the contrary, a fair and careful revision
of our tax laws with due allowance for
the difference between the wages OF
Am erican and foreign labor, must
promote and encourage every branch of
such industries and enterprises by
giving them assurances of an
extended market, and steady and
continuous operations. In the in
terests, of American labor, which
should in no event be neglected,
revision of our tax laws, contem-
plated by the democratic party, should
promote the advantage of such labor
by cheapening the cost of the neces-
saries of life in the home of every
workingman, at the same time securing
to him steady and remunerative en-
ployment. Upon this question OF
tariff reform, so closely concerning
every phase of our national life, and
upon every question involved in the
problem of good government, the
Democratic party submits its princi-
pies and professions to the intelligent
sutrages Of the American people.
THE sTAR.KYED GODDESS.
at the conclusion of the reading of
the platform Watterson addressed the
convention:
"Fellow Democrats" he said.
I'VE bring you a platform by
which Democrats may stand
without feeling that they are
away from home. daughter and ap-
plause.) 1t embraces principles to
which Democrats may subscribe with
out looking around the corner. Gap
plsuse and laughter.) 1t embodies
statement OF facts incontrovertible. It
delocalizes the use of the cause of re-
form. Its face is set in the right direc-
ton, and It's eyes look over the rising,
not the setting sun. (Applause.)
Henceferward the Democratic party,
which has been the voice of the people,
will become the hands (applsuse); but
it will be the hands of construction,
not the hands of destruction, and it
will remove the occupants from
the house before ii has taken
off the roof" (Applause.) In con-
clusion he said Two good Democrats
anUcr know 0uo another NJ N clI1 nv Ioya