Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-06-24

will follow the action of the people in en-
trusting power to the democratic party.
Since the Mckinley tariff went into oper-
alton there has been ten reductions of the
wages of laboring men to one increase
We deny that there has been any in
crease in the prosperity of the country
since the tariff went into operation, and
we point to the dullness and distress, wage
reductions and strikes in the iron trade as
the best evidence that no such prosperity
resulted from the Mckinley act. We call
the attention of thoughtful Americans to
the fact that after thirty years of restrict
i've taxes against the importation of
foreign wealth, in exchange for our
agricultural surplus, the homes and farms
of the country have become burdened with
real estate mortgages of $500, 000, 900
exclusive of all other forms of indebted
ness; that in one of the chief agricultural
states of the west there appears real es-
tate mortgages averaging S165 per capita
OF the population; and that similar condi-
lions are shown to exist in other agricul-
tural exporting states. We denounce the
policy which fosters SO much as it does that
Of the sheriff.
''Trade interchange ON the basis of
reciprocal advantages to the countries
participating is the time-honored doc
triDe of the democratic faith, but we de-
nounce the sham reciprocity which Jug
giles with the peoples desire for enlarged
foreign markets and freer exchanges by
pretending to establish closer trade rela-
tions for a country whose articles of ex-
port are almost exclusively agricultural
products, with other countries that are
also agricultural, while erecting a custom
house barrier Of prohibitive tariff taxes
against the richest countries Of TIE world
that stand ready to take our entire sur
plus of products and exchange therefore
commodities which are the necessaries
and comforts of life among our people.
We recognize in the trusts and combi-
nations, which are designed to enable
capital to secure more than their Just
share of the joint product of capital and
labor, the natural consequence of prohib-
tive taxes, which prevents competition,
which is the life of honest trade, but we
law, and we demand the rigid enforce
ment of the laws made to prevent and
control them, together with such further
leg isIation In restraint of their abuse as
experience may show to be necessary.
The republican party, while protesting
policy of yeserving the public land for
small holdings by actual settlers has given
away the peoples heritage till now rail-
road and nonresident aliens, individual
and corporate, possess larger area than
that of all the farms between the two seas.
The last democratic administration revers-
ed the improvident and unwise policy of
the republican party touching the public
domain and reclaimed from corporations
and syndicates, alien and domestic and
restored to the people nearly 10O, 900, 900
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 so unlawfuliy
held shall be reclaimed and restored to
the people.
1--WE denounce the republican legisla-
tion known as the Sherman act of 1890
as a cowardly makeshift fraught with pos
sibilities of danger in the future which
should make all of its supporters, as we'll
as its author, anxious for it's speedy re-
peal. We hold to the use of both gold
and silver as the standard money of the
country and to the coinage of both gold
and silver, without discriminating against
either metal or charging for mintage; but
the dollar, the unit of coinage of both
metals, must be OF equal intrin-
sic and exchangeable value, or adjusted
through international agreement or by
such safeguards of legislation as shall in
sure the maintenance of the parity of the
two metals and equal power of every dol
lar at all times in the markets and in the
payment of debts; and we demand that
paper currency be kept at par with and re-
deemable in such coin. We in sist upon
this policy as especially necessary for the
protection of farmers and the laboring
classes as the first and most defenseless
victims Of unstable money and huctuat-
ing currency
We recommend that the prohibitory
ten per cent. tax on state bank issues be
repealed.
'Pabiic Office is public trust. We
reaffirm the declaration of the democratic
national convention of 1878 for reform Of
the civil service and call for an honest en-
dorsement of all laws regulating the same.
The nomination Of president, as in the
republican convention, by delegations
composed largely Of mis- appointees
holding office at his pleasure, is
scandalous satire upon free popular in
situations and startling illustration of
the methods by which a president may
crafty his ambition. We denounce the
policy under which federal office holders
usurp control Of party conventions in
states, and pledge the democratic party to
reform these and all other abuses which