Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-06-30

mean the enactment. OF the. force bill
and the usprpation OF despotic
f Believing that the preservation Of republican
government in the United States is dependent
upon the defeat OF the policy OF lesalized force
who desire to see the constitution maintained inJ
its integrity with the laws pursuant thereto.
which have given our country a hundred years.
Democratic party. II it be entrusted with power,
not only to the defeat OF the force bill, but also
to relentless opposition to the Republican policy
Of proflRate expenditure, which in the short
space OF two years has squandered an enormous
surplus aud emptied an overfowing treasury,
after pilirG new burdens of taxation upon the
already over-taxed labor OF the country.
TAXATION.
Sec. 8: We reiterate the oft-reneated doc
trlnes OF the Democratic party that the neces-
sity OF the government is The only justification
for taxation. and whenever tax is unnecessary
it is uniustiiable; that when custom house tax.
alton is levied upon articles OF another kind
produced in this country the difference between
the cost OF labor here and lator abroad. when
such II difference exists. fully measures any pos
sible benefits to labor and the enormous addi-
tional imapositions OF the existing tariff fall
with crushing force upon our farmers and work
inemen. and for the mere advantage Of the few
whom it enriches exact from labor grossly un-
just shares OF the expenses OF the government.
and We demand such n revision OF the tariff
laws as will remove their inqutious inequali-
se the aba put em
it is not proposed to iniure
any domestic industries, but rather to promote
their healthy growth. From the foundation OF
this government. taxes collected at the custom
house have been the chief source OF federal rev.
enue. Such they must continue to be. More
over. many industries have come to rely upon
legislation Tor successful continuance. SO that
any change OF law must be at every step regard
fu. OF the labor and capital thus involved. The
process OF reform must be subject, in the eXecn-
ton of this to the plain dictates of Justice We
denounce the Mckinley tariff law enacted by the
Fifty-first congress as the eliminating Atroci,y
of class LEGISLATION; we indorse he efforts made
by the Democrats OF the present congress to
modify its most oppressive features III the direc-
ton OF free raw materials and cheaper manu-
featured goods that enter into general
consumption; and we promise its repeal
as one OF the beneficent results that
will follow the action OF the people
in entristing power to the Dem ocratic p rty.
Since the Mckinley tariff went into operation
there have been ten reductions OF the wages of
laboriug men to one increase. We deny that
there has bean increase of prosperity to the
country since that tariff act vent into opera
ton, and we point to the dulness and distress,
the wage reductions and strikes in the iron
trade, AS the best possible evidence that no such
prosperity has retuted from the Mckinley act.
We call the attention OF thoughtful Americans
to the fact that after thirty years of restrictive
taxes against the Importation of foreign wealth.
in exchange for our agricultural surplus, the
homes and furns OF the country have become