The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-08-30

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| less officers. The best interest of the
public service demands that these dis
! tinctions be respected that Senators
! and Representative who may be
| judges and accUsers should not dictate
! appointments to office. TheinvariabIe
rule in appointments should have ref
erence to the honesty, fidelity, and
capacity of the appOintees, giving to
the party in power tn )se places where
| harmony and vigOr Of administration
require it's policy to be represented,
| but permitting all others to be filled by
| persons selected with sole reference to
the efficiency of the public service, and
the right of all citizens to share III the
honor Of rendering faithful service to
! the country.
6. We rejoice in the quickened con-
| science Of the people concerning politi-
cal affairs, and will hold all public
officers to a rigid responsibility, and
engage that the prosecution and punish
ment of all who botray official trusts
| shall besWlft, thorough, and unsparing.
7. The public school system of the
several States is the buIwark Of the
American Republic; and, with a view
| to its security and permanenCe, we
| recommend an amendment to the Con
stitution of the United States, forbid
ding the application Of any public
funds or property for the benefit of
any schools or institutions under sec
tartan control.
s. The revenue necessary for current
expenditures, and the obligations Of the
public debt, must be largely derived
from duties upon impOrtatiOns, which,
so far as possible, should be adjusted
to promote the interests Of American
labor and advance the pros 3erity of
the whole country.
We re affirm our opposition to
further grants Of the public lands to
corporations and mOnOpolies, and de-
mand that the national domain be de
voted to free homes for the people.
10. 1t is the imperative duty Of the
government to so modify existing
treaties with European governments,
afforded to the adopted American citi-
zen that IS given to the native born;
and that all necessary laws should be
pa sed to protect emigrants in the alb
sence of power in the Sta 5es for that
purpose.
Il. It is the immediate duty Of Con
gTe85 to fully investigate the effect of
! the immigration and importation of
MOngOlans JIpOn the moral and mate
! rial interests of the country.
! - The Republican party recognizes,
with approval, the substantial advances
| recently made towards the establish
ment of equal rights for women by the
many important amendments effected
! by Republican legislatures in the laws
which concern the personal and prop,
| erty relations Of wives, mothers ana
widows, and by the appointment and
&C - !,
ency Of education, charities, and other
public trusts. The honest demands Of
this class of citizens for additional
rights, privileges, and immunities,
should be treated with respectful coa-
sideration.
13. The Constitution Confers upon
| Congress sovereign power ever the ter
ritories Of the United States for their
government and in the exc rcise of this
power it is the right and duty Of Con-
gress to prOhibi5 and eXtirpate, in the
territories, that reIi; of barbarism-
polygamy and we demand such legis-
lation as shall secure this end and the
supremacy of American institutions in
all the territories.
The pledges which the nation has
given to her soldiers and sailors must
be fulfilled, and grateful people will
always hold those who imperiled their
lives for the cOuntry's preservation IN
the kindeSt remembrance.
IS. We sincerely deprecate all sec
tional feeling and tendencies. We,
! therefore, note with deep sOlicitude
| that the Democratic party counts, as
| it's chief hope of success, upon the cleo
| tOral vote of united South, secured
through the efforts as those who were
recently arrayed against the nation;
and we invoke the earnest attention Of
the country to the grave truth that a
success thus achieved would reopen
sectional strife, and imperil national
! honor and human rights.
| Is. We charge the Democratic party
with being the same in character and
spirit as when it sympathized with
| treason; with making it's control Of the
House Of Representatives the triumph
and opportunity of the nations recent
foes; with re asserting and applauding,
in the national capital, the sentiments
of unrepentant rebellion with sending
Union soldiers to the rear, and pro
noting Confederate soldiers to the
front; with deliberately proposing to
repudiate the plighted faith Of the
government, with being equally false
and imbecile upon the OvershadOwing
financial questions, with thwarting the
ends of justice by its partisan misman-
agement aud obstruction Of investiga-
ton; with proving itself, through the
period of it's ascendancy in the lower
house of Congress, utterly incompetent
to administer the government, and we
warn the country against trusting a
party thus alike unworthy, recreant,
and incapable.
ITO. BE CONTINUED.