The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-06-24


and combinations the natural conse-
quence of prohibitive taxes which prevent
free competition and demands a rigid
enforcement of the laws made to prevent
and control them. It denounces the re-
publican party for giving away the peo-
ple's heritage to railroads and non-resi-
dents aliens and claims credit to the
democratic party for having restored to
the people 100, 900, 900 acres to be sa-
credly held as homesteads for our citi-
zens. 1t denounces the Sherman act of
1890 as .'a cowardly makeshift; holds to
both gold and silver as the standard
money of the country aud to the coinage
of both, but holds that the dollar unit OF
the coinage of both must be of equal in
trinsic and exchangeable value or adj
justed through international agreement
or by such safeguards of legislation as
shall secure the parity fthe two metals.
1t recommends that the prohibitory 10
per cent. tax on state banks be repealed.
It reaf6rms the declaration of the dem
ocratic national convention of 1876 for
| the reform of the civil service and calls
for an honest enforcement OF all laws
regulating the same.
It claims that the democratic party is
the only party that has ever given the
country foreign policy consistent and
| vigorous.
| 1t favors the maintainence of a navy
strong enough for all purposes of ma
tional defence and to properly maintain
the honor and dignity of the country
abroad. 1t condemns the oppression
practiced by the Russian government
upon Jewish subjects, and tenders pro-
found and earnest sympathy to those
lovers of freedom who are struggling for
home rule in Ireland.
| 1t approves all legitimate efforts to
prevent the United States from being
the dumping ground for the known
criminals and professional paupers of
Europe, and demands rigid enforce
ment of the laws against Chinese i'm
migration and the importation of foreign
workmen under contract, and condemns
and denounces all attempts to restrict
the industrious and worthy of foreign
| lands.
| It favors just and liberal pensions for
all disabled union soldiers, their widows
and all dependents.
| 1t favors the improvement of the
Mississippi river and other great water
ways of the republic and holds that such
aid should be extended on a definite
plan for continuous work-until the per-
manent work is secured. 1t recognizes
that the early construction of the Mica
ragua canal and its protection from for
eign control is of great Importance to
the United States. 1t holds that con-
gress should make the necessary finan-
cial provision for the worlds fair. 1t
recommends to the several states the
most liberal appropriations for public
schools and opposes state interference
with parental rights and the rights OF
conscience in the education of children
It approves the admission into the Un-
ion of New Mexico and Arizona and the
early admission of all territories having
the necessary population and resources
and holds that while they remain terri.
tories the officials appointed to admin
lister the government should be bona
fide residents of the territory or district
in which their, duties are to be performed
1t fayors Legislation to protect the
lives and limbs of railwayIemployees and
those OF hazardous transportation com
panies.
1t favors laws for abolisiing the sweat
ing system and convict contract Labor
and for prohibiting the employment ir
f factories of children under 10 years o
age and opposes all sumptuary laws as
interference with the individual right.
of the citizens.
On this statement of principles it ask.
for change of administration and ;
change of purity and order that there
may be a change of system and a chang,
of methods, thus assuring Il maintain
, ance unimpaired of the institutions un
der which the republic has grown grea
and powerful.
!, All states Represented.
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| has brought here many observant, in