Daily Texarkana Democrat. (Texarkana, Ark.) 1890-1894, 1892-09-30
WATERWAY IMPROVEMENTS.

Sec IA. The Federal Government should
care for and improve the Mississ ppi River,
and other great waterways of the Repubi ,
so as to secure tor the interior States easy
and cheGp transportation to tdewa er
When any waterway of the Republic is Of
sufficient importance to demand aid of the
Government, such aid should be extende
upon definite plan of continuous work un.
I'll permanent improvement is secured.
NICARAGUA CANAL.
Sec. Is. For purposes of national de-
feuse and the promotion Of commerce be-
tween the States, We recognize the early
constr ct on of the Nicaragua Canal and its
protect on against fore gn control as of
great Importance TO the Unltod States.
THE WORLDS FAIR.
Sec. IL. Recognizing the Worlds Col
umbian Exposition rs a national undertake
ing of vast importance in which the general
government has invited the cooperation of
all the powers of the world, and appreciat-
ing the acceptance by many OF such powers
of the invitation so extended and the broad
and liberal efforts being made by them 10
contribute to the grandeur of the undertake
ing, we are of the opinion that Congress
should make such necessary financial pro-
vision as shall be requisite to the manten-
ance of the national honor and public faith.
THE SCHOOL QUESTION.
Sec. II. Popular education being the on
lv safe basis OF popular suffrage, we recon-
mend to the several States most liberal APP
preparations for the public schools. Free
common schools are the nursery of good
government, and they have always received
the fostering care of the Democratic party,
which favors every means of increasing in
telligence. Freedom OF education being an
essential of civil and religious liberty as well
as q necessity for the development Of intel
ligence, must not be interfered with under
any pretext whatever. W are opposed to
State interference with parental rights or
rights of conscience in the education of
children as an infringement of the funda-
mental Democratic doctrine that the largest
Individual liberty consistent with the rights
of others insures the highest type of Ameri-
can citizenship and the best government.
ADMISSION OF THE TERRITORIES.
Sec. Is. Weapprove the action of the
present House of Representatives in passing
bills admitting into the Union as States the
Territories of New Mexico and Arizona, and
we favor the early admission OF all the Ter
ritories having the necessary population and
resources to enttle them to Statehood and
while they remain Territories we hold that
tho officials appointed to administer the gov
eminent of any Territory, together with the
District of Columbia and Alaska, should BIZ
bona fide residents of the Territory or dis.
trict in which heir duties are TO be per.
formed. The Democratic party believes II
home rule d the control Of their own af.
fairs by the people oftne vlcnage.
PROTECTION OF RAILWAY EMPLOYEES.
Sec. 10. We favor legislation by Con
gress and State legislatures to protect the
lives and limbs of railway employees anC
those of other hazardous transportation
companies, and denounce tho inactivity o
the Republican p rty, and particularly tn,
Republican Senate, for causing the defea
of measures beneficial and protective t,
this class OF wage-goers.
THE SWEATING SYSTEM DENOUNCED.
We are in favor of the enactment b,
the States oflaws tor abolishing tho noto
rious sweating system for abolishlng con
tract convict labor and prohibiting tn
employment in factories of children unde
10 years ( age.
sUMPTUAR- LAWS.
We are opposed ty all sumptuary laws a
an interference with the individual rights 9
the citizen.