Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1889-09-12

pleS, ana again cOmmcn0 tDem " inc
electors Of Washington for their appro-
baton. We fully realise that in order to
be eficacious in the highest degree.
protective tariff must be subject to FIRE.
auens revision shall be made BY the
friends Of protection aud not BY its
enemies. We reject the fal!acious idea
that tariff should be levied for revenue
only, aud denounce the democratic party
for it's recent attempt to force into full
competition with the pauper labor Of
Europe aud Asia the intelligent Amer
can workingmen employed in more than
one hundred lines Of industry. We
assert that the republican parsy alone
stands between the workiugmen Of Wash |
ineton and absolute free trade in al the
important products Of the commonwealth,
and We invite those workipgmen to unite
With US 10 sending to congress men who
are friends and not enemies Of American
labor, practical men aud not theorists,
protectionists aud not free traders.
We believe that the debt Of gratitude
which the nation owes to the sailors,
soldiers and marines who saved the
q MON is too great to DO r,paid, and We
are heartily 10 sympathy with all legisla-
ton which has for ito object recogni
ton Of the services or an alienation Of
the suaeriogs Of those grand men who
carried the Gag TO victory.
We favor liberal appropriations for
the improvement Of our rivers and har.
born, for irrigation and the reclamation
Of our desert lands, tor the erection Of
coast deienses, and for the creation Of =
navy in keeping with the strsngth and
greatness Of the American people. We
also favor any wclldirected legislation
which has for its object the restoration
of the American merchant marine to .
position 10 which it will command its
due share Of the carrying trade OF the
world. We pledge the % operation Of
our congressional representatives, with
those Of the state Of Oregon to secure the
speedy opening Of the Columbia river to
navigation.
We are opposed 70 the formation Of
trusts OF combinations whose object 10 to
raise abnormally the psics Of the neces-.
sarios of lite, aud We believe that it is
the duty Vi the government to prevent
the formation at such combinations BY
al neediul legislation. We recognise it
a. a duty Of the government to staud
between the people and the unjust use Of
corporate power and to this end W
believe in the polio, Of regulation Of rail
roads aud other corporations By law.
We demand the rigid enforcement Of
the Chinese Exclusion Act, and heartily
favor such further lsgisla.ion u may b.
deemed necessary 10 order to pat . 6nal
end efFectual stop to the immigration Of
al who are unit for American oitisen-
ship, or unable to comprehend the fun
damental principles Of our government
We believe it the duty Of the state q
provide q rigid system Of inspection d
mines and factories 10 order that th,
health and lives Of employees shall not b
needlessly endangered.
| We recognise the right and duty o.
labor to organise for its own protection
and heartily sympathise with every
movement which has tor ito object TIL
moral, paserial or intelIectusl advance
ment Of any portion Of our fellow citi
zens.
We endorse and rcitcrate the deslar
alton 10 the last national platform thai
"the first concern Of good government
10 the virtue aud sobriety Of the peopl'
and the puristp OF the home. The re
; publican party heartily sympalhizes will
ali wise and we'll directed efforts Tor th,
promotion Of temperance and morality.
We arc 10 favor Of liberal expsndi
ture Of public money to the end that tn
people may have cheap and ample posts
facilities.
! We favor the speedy adjustment o
the vexed lien land question, and plsdg
our dele5stion to congress to use ever.
effort 70 protect the settlers in al thci
rights and TO favor the forfeiture Of 81
uneasped land grants.
We favor the adjustment and paymeo
by the national government Of the claim
presented by the pioneers OF Washiogto'
because Of losses sustained BY IodisI
depredatious
We favor such legislation with reGar'
T to the tide aud school lands % will bes
, protect commerce, and will insure th
} largest possible educational fund to Ii
/. Estate.
Al We favor the opening TO settlement Q
/. sll Indian reservations 10 the state, hav
8 ing due regard for the rights Of th
! Indians.
q Believing in the will Of tho majority
We endorse the action Of the constitu
4 tional convention in submitting to th
} electors as separate articles tho subjec.
of prohibition aud woman suffrage.
. We heartily endorse the administr,
. ton Of Governor Miles G. Moore
In conclusion we invite the voters q
/, this new state 10 cast their lot with III
II party which freed the slave, and nc
, with that wh,chs,rove to weld hi
!. shackles moro firmly, with the part
. which upheld the credit Of the nation
h and. not with that which favored repud
! alton and dishouor, with the part
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