Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-06-23
TttE ARGUS.
THURSDAY. JUNE % 1892
GROVER CLEVELAND.


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senate
Such a policy, if sanctioned by law. would
mean the dominance of self-per1,etuating
olgarchy of office holders, and the PARTY first
entrusted with its machinery could be dis.
lodged from power only by an appeal to the
reserved right of the people to resist oppres-
sion which is inherent i'll all selfgoverniag
communities. Two years ago this revolution
airy policy was emphatically condemned by the
people az The polls; but in contempt Of that
verdict The Republican party has detiantly de-
clared in its Lar, authoritative utterauce that
its success in the coming elections will mean
the enactment of the Force bill and the usur-
patton of despotic control over elections in
all the states.
Believing that the preservation of Republi
can government in the United States is de
pendent upon the defeat of this policy of legal
lied force and fraud, we invite the assist ance
OF all citizens who desire to see the constitution
maintained in its integrity with the laws pur-
suant thereto which have given our country a
hundred years of uneXampled prosperity; and
we pledge the Democratic party, if it be en-
trusted with power, not only to the defeat of
the Force bill, but also to relentless opposition
to the Republican policy of profligate expendi-
ture, which in the short space of two years has
squandered an enormous surplus and emptiei
an overfowing treasury, after piling new bur.
dens Of taxation upon the already oyeytaxed
labor OF the country.
SEC. 3.-We reiterate the oft repeated doc
trines of the Democratic party that the neoes-
sity OF the government is the only justifica ton
Tor taxation, and whenever tax is unneccs-
sary II is unjUstihable; that when custom house
taxation is levied upon articles of any kind
produced in this country the difference be-
tween the cost of labor here and Labor abroad,
when such difference exists, fully measures any
possible benefits to labor, and the enormous sd
ditional impositions of the existing tariff fall
with crushing force upon our farmers and
workingmen, and for the mere ADVANTAGE of
the few whom i enriches exacts from labor a
grossly unjust share OF the expenses of the
government; and we demand such revision
OF the tariff laws as will remove their iniaui-
tous inequalities tighten their expressions. a ID
put them on constitutional and eQuitabhe
basis
But in making reduction in taxes il is not
proposed to injure any domestic industries
but rather to promote their healthy growth
From the foundation of this government the
taxes collected at the custom house have been
the chief source Of federal revenue Such thew
must continue to be. Moreover. many indus
tries have come 70 rely uDoH legislation for
successful continuance, so that any change of
law must he at every step regardful Of the la
Dor ana capital thus, involved. Tn process of
reform mast be subject in the execution TO This
plain dictate Of justice.
We dcuoUrce tn, Mckinley tariff law en-
acted by the fly first congress as the cIllruiu-
ating atrocity Of class legislation; we cpdorsn
ent congre @ notify its most oppressive feat
ures in the direction o. free raw materials and
cheaper manufactured goods that enter iuro
home cUnsump ion. and We pr, =, se It's rrucal
as one OF the beLetCeut results Il at will follow
The action Of the people IN eutTustlag bower 70
the Democrat party. Since the Mckinley
tariff Went into operation there have been ten
reductions of wages Of lahoTing men to one in
crease. We deny that there Las been any in.
crease Of pro, pcTlty 70 the country since that
~fTrT INT FnT.a #..Hr q r--.,
dullness and distress the wage reductions ana
strikes N the iron trade Is the best possible
evidence that 10 such pros. Gritty has resulted
from the Mckinley act.
We cal the attention Of thoughtful Amer
ic ans 10 The fact that after thirty years OF re-
strictive taxation against i'm; or atious of for
eign products the homes and farms of the
country have become burdeuel with a real es
tate mortgage Of over SD .UD0UG exclusive
of all other forms of in .ebtedness; that in one
OF the chief agricultural states of the west
there appears real estate mortgage debt av-
eraging Sltj per capita, and that similar con.
d1tions are shown to exist in other agricultural
exporting states. We denounce a policy which
fosters no industry so much as it does that Of
the sheriff.
SEC. 4.-Trade interchange on the basis of
reciprocal advantages to the countries partici-
pating is a time-honored doctrine of the Demo.
cratic faith, but we denounce the sham reci-
procity which juggles with the peoples desire
changes by pretending to establish trade rela-
tions for a country whose articles of export are
almost exclusively agricultural while erecting
o custom house barrier of prohibitive tariff
taxes against the richest countries of the
world that stand ready to take our entire sur.
plus OF products, and TO exchange therefor
commodities which are necessary and are COM
/ forts of life among our own people.
SEC. 5.-We recognize in trusts and monopo
lies, which are designed by capital to secure
more than their just share of the joint product
of capital and labor, a natural consequence of
prohibitive taxes which prevent the free com
petition which is the life of honest trade: but
we believe their worst evils can be abated by
law, and we demand the rigid enforcement of
laws made to prevent and control them, to-
gether with such further legislation in re-
strant OF their abuses as experience may show
to be necessary.
SEC. 6.-The Republican party while profess
ing policy of reserving the public lands for
small holdings by actual settlers has given
away the peoples heritage until now a few
railroads and non resident aliens, individual
and corporate, possess a larger area than that
4of all our farms between the two seas The
last Democratic administration reversed the
ttmprovident and unwise policy Of the Repub-
7lican party touching the public domain, and
proclaimed from corporations and syndicates.
alien and domestic and restored to the people
naarly 100000 acres of valuable land 10 be
ennd we pledge ourselves to continue this policy
until every IRE OF land unlawfully held
snail De reclaimed AMI restored to the people.
SEC. I've denounce the Republican legisla-
ZION Known as the Sherman act of 1890 as .
cowardly makeshift, frausht with possibilities
OF danger in the future which should make all
pi It's supporters as well as its author, anxious
tor its speedy repeal We hold to the use of
lDotn gold and silver the standard money of |
fhe country, and TO the coinage of both gold
and silver without discrimination against
5itner metal or charge for mintage; but the |
dollar unit Of coinage of both metals must be Of
|fqual intrinsic and exchangeable value, or be !
ad1usted by international agreement, or by |
7uch safeguards of legislation as shall insure |
me maintenance Of the parity of the two
metals and the equal power of any dollar at all |
Zines In the market and in the payment of
lebts; and we demand that all paper currency |
ilhaL be Kept at par with and redeemable in \
,nch coin. We insist upon this policy as espec-
ally necessary for the protection Of the farm
Prs and laborip0 classes the first and most de-
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