Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-06-30

/ gravest dangers, scarcely less momentous than
would result from revolution practically es-
tablishing monarchy on the ruins of the repub-
lie. 1t strikes at the north as well as at the
south, and Injuries the colored citizen even
more than the white; it means horde of depu-
ty marshals at every polling place, armed with
federal power, returning boards appointed and
controlled by federal authority, the outrage of
the electoral rights Of the people In the several
states, the subjugation of the colored people to
the control OF the party in power, and the re-
viving Of race antagonisms now happily
abated, of the utmost peril to the safety and
happiness of all; measure deliberately and
justly described by leading Republican sena-
tor as "the most infamous bill that ever crossed
the threshold of the senate"
Such policy, IL sanctioned by law would
mean the dominance of self perpetuating oil
garchy of officeholders, and the party first In
trusted with Its machinery could be dislodged
from power only by an appeal to the reserved
right OF the people to resist oppression which is
inherent in all self governing communities
Two years ago this revolutionary policy was
emphatically condemned by the people at the
polls; but in contempt of that verdict, the Re-
publican party has defiantly declared In its
latest authoritative utterance that its success
in the coming elections will mean the enact
ment of the force bill and the usurpation of
despotic control over elections In all the states
Believing that the preservation Of Republican
government In the United States is dependent
upon the defeat of this policy of legalized force
and fraud we invite the assistance of all citi-
zens who desire to see the constitution main
tanned in its integrity with the laws pursuant
thereto which have given our country a hun
dred years Of unexamped prosperity; and we
pledge the Democratic party II 1t be intrusted
with power, not only to the defeat OF the force
bill but also to relentless opposition to the Re-
publican policy OF profigate expenditure, which
In the short space of two years, has squandered
a a1lrplua and iad IN Anty
ing treasury, after piling new burdens of taxa
ton upon the already overtaxed labor of the
country.
We denounce Republican protection as
fraud =; a robbery of o. great majority of the
American people for the benefit of the few. We
declare 1t to be fundamental principle of the
Democratic party that the federal government
has no constitutional power to enforce and col
lect tariff duties except for the purpose of reve.
nue. only, and demand that the collection of such
taxes shall be limited to the necessities of the
government and honestly and economically ad-
ministered.
The Mckinley Bill Denounced.
We denounce the Mckinley tariff law enacted
by the Fifty first congress as the eliminating
Rtrocity Of GLASS legislation we indorse the Of.
forts made by the Democrats of the present
congress to modify it's most oppressive features
in the direction Of free raw material and cheap
or manufactured goods that enter into home
consum ption, and we promise Its repeal as one
of the benificent results that will follow the
action of the people in entrusting power to the
Democratic party. Since the Mckinley tariff
went into operation there have been ten reduc
tions of wages Of laboring men to one increase
We deny that there has been any increase of
prosperity to the country since that tariff went
into operation, and we point to the dullness
and distress, the wage reductions and strikes
In the iron trade the best possible evidence
that no such prosperity has resulted from the
Mckinley act.
We call the attention Of thoughtful Ameri-
cans to the fact that after thirty years Of re-
striotive taxation against importations OF
foreign products in exchange for our agricul-
tural surplus, the homes and farms of the
country have become burdened with a real
estate mortgage debt of over two thousand
Ave hundred million dollars, exclusive of all
other forms of Indebtedness; that In one OF
the chief agricultural states Of the west
there appears a real estate mortgage debt
averaging Sl65 per capita, and that similar
conditions are shown to exist in other agricul-
tural exporting states. We denounce policy
which fosters no industry so much rs 1t does
that of the sheriff
Sec. L. Trade interchange on the basis Of re-
ciprocal advantage to the countries partici-
pating Is time honored doctrine OF the Demo
cratic faith. but we denounce tho sham reci.