Connecticut western news., 1892-06-30
CANAAN CONN, THURSDAY

changes by pretending to establish trade rela- t1ons for a country whose articles of export are almost exclusively agricultural. while erecting custom house barrier of prohibitive tariff taxes against the richest countries of the world that stand ready to take our entire surplus of products and to exchange therefore commodi ties which are necessary and are comforts of lie among our own people.
 Sec. 5. We recognize in trusts and monopo- lies which designed by capital to secure more thar their just share of the joint prod uct or 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 restraint of their abuses as experience may show to be necessary.
 Sec. G. 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, nonresident aliens-individual and corporate-posSess a larger area than that of all our farms between the two seas. The last Democratic administration reversed the inn provident and unwise policy of the Republican party touching the public domain, and re- claimed from corporations and syndicates- alien and domestic, and restored to the people nearly l00OO0,uO0 acres of valuable land to be sacredly held as homesteads for our citizens and we pledge ourselves to continue this policy until every acre of land unlawfully held shall be reclaimed and restored to the people
 The Money Plank.
 Sec. :. We denounce the Republican legisla- tion known as the Sherman act of lSg0 as a cowardly mskeshift, fraaght with possibilities of danger in the future which should make all of its supporters, well as its author, anxious for its speedy repeal. We hold to the use of both gold and silver the standard money of the country, and to the coinage of both gold and silver without discrimination against either metal or charge for mintage: but the dollar unit of coinage of both metals must be of equal intrinsic and exchangeable value or be adjusted by international agreement or by such safeguards of legislation as shall insure the maintenance of the parity of the two metals and the equal power of any dollar at all times in the market and in the payment of debts; and we demand that all paper currency shall be kept at par with and redeemable in such coin. We insist upon this policy as especially necessary for the protection of the farmers and laboring classes, the first and most defense less victims of unstable money and fuctu- ating currency.
 Sec. g. We recommend that the prohibltive 10 per cent. tax on bank issues be repealed. Sec. @. Public office is public trust. We re affirm the declaration of the Democratic na- tional convention of 1876 for the reform of the civil service, and call for the honest en. forcemeIt of all laws regarding same. The nomination of president, as in the last Repub- hcan convention by delegates consisting large ly of his appointees holding office at his pleas ure, is a scandalous satire upon free popular in stitutions and startling illustration of the methods by which president may gratify his ambition. We denounce policy under which federal officeholders usurp control of party con ventions in the states, and we pledge the Demo cratic party to the reform of these and all other abuses which threaten individual liberty and local self government
 Support for the Navy.
 Sec. 10. The Democratic party is the only party that has ever given the country foreign policy consistent and vigorous, compelling re. spect abroad and inspiring confidence at home While avoiding entaneling alliances, it has aimed to cultivate friendly relations with other the American continent, whose destiny is close ly linked with our own, and we vieY with alarm the tendency to policy of irritation and blus, ter which is liable at any time to confront us with the alternative of humiliation war. We favor the maintenance of a navy strong enough for all purposes of national defense and 10 prop erly maintain the honor and dignity of the country abroad.
 Sec. Il. This country has always been the ref uge of the oppressed from every land-eXileS for conscience sake-and in this spirit of the founders of our government we condemn the oppression practiced by the Russian govern ment upon its Lutheran and Jewish subjects and we call upon national government, in the interest of justice and humanity, by all jus, and proper means, to Use its prompt and lest