The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-06-23

Wntn CUSTOM nOu5o thxhtlou IL ltVltu
upon articles OF any kind produced in
this country, the difference between the
cost OF labor here and labor abroad, when
such a case exists, fully measures any
possible benefits to labor, and the enor-
nous additional impositions oS the ex-
isting tariff, fall with crushing force up
on our farmers and workingmen, and for
the mere advantage of the few whom it
enriches, exacts from labor grossly un-
just share of the expenses of the govern
ment, and we demand such revision of
the Eariff laws as will remove their ini-
quitous inequalities, tighten their OPP
pressions and put them on a constitu-
tional and equitable basis.
But in making reduction in taxes, II Is
not proposed to injure any domestic in
dustries, but rather to promote their
healthy growth. From the foundation
of this government taxes collected at the
custom house have been the chief
Source or Federal Revenue.
Such they must continue to be. More
over, many industries have come to rely
upon legislation for successful contin-
uance, so that any change OF law must be
at every step regardful OF the labor and
capital thus involved. The process OF re-
form must be subject in the execution to
this plain dictate of Justice.
We denounce the Mckinley tariff law
enacted by the Fifty-first Congress as the
eliminating atrocity OF class legislation;
we endorse the efforts made by the DEM
ocrats OF the present congress to modify
it's most oppressive features in the direc-
tion of free raw materials and cheaper
manufactured goods that enter into gem
eral consumption; and We promise its
repeal as one OF the beneficent 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 reductions
OF the wages of laboring men to one in
crease. 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 as the best possible evidence that
no such prosperity has resulted from the
Mckinley act.
We call attention OF thoughtful Ameri-
cans to the fact that after thirty years OF
restrictive taxes against the importation
OF foreign wealth in exchange for our ag-
ricuitural surplus, the homes and farms
OF the country
Have Become Burdens
with real estate mortgage debt of over
two thousand five hundred million dol
lars exclusive Of all other forms OF in
debtedness; that in one of the chief agri-
cultural states of the west there appears
real estate mortgage debt averaging
$l53 per capita OF the total population;
and that similar conditions and tenden-
cies are shown to exist in the other agri-
cultural exporting states. We denounce
a policy which fosters no industry 30
much as 1t does that of the tariff
Section 4.-Trade interchange on the
basis of reciprocity advantages to the
countries participating is time honored
doctrine OF the Democratic faith, but we
denounce the sham reciprocity which
juggles with the peoples desire for en-
larged foreign markets and freor ex-
changes by pretending to establish closer
trade relations for country whose arti-
cles OF expert are aimest exclusively Hg-
ricultural products with other count~yes
that are also agricultural, while erecting
a custom house barrier
Prohibitive Tariff Taxes
against the richest countries of the world
that stand ready to take our entire sur
plus of products and to exchange there
for commodities which are nee q saries
and comforts Of life among our own peo-
pie.
Section 5.-We recognize in the trusts
and combinations, which are designed to
enable capital to secure more than its
just share of the joint product OF capital
and labor, q natural consequence OF the
prohibitive taxes which prevent the free
which Is the life of honest
trade, but we believe that tho worst evils
rigid enforcement OF the laws made to
prevent and control them, together with
such further legislation in restraint of
their causes as their experience may show
to be necessary.
Section 6.-The Republican party while
protesting policy OF reserving the pub
lie land for small holdings by actual set
tiers, has given away the peoples herit-
age till now a few railroads and nom
resident aliens, individual and corporate,
possess larger area than that of all our
farms between the two seas. The last
Democratic administration reversed the
lmprovident and unwise
Policy of the Republican Party
the public domain and reclaim
ed from corporations and syndicates,
alien and domestic, and restored to the
people nearly one hundred million 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 unlawfully
held shall be reclaimed and restored to
The people.
Section I've denounce the Republi-
ian legislation known as the Sherman act
of 1890 as cowardly makeshift fraught
with possibilities Of danger in the future
which should make ali of Its supporters,
rs we'll as its author, anxious for its
speedy repeal. We hold to the use of
both gold and silver as the standard
money of the country, and to the coinage
,f both gold and silver without discrim-
mating against either metal or charge for
but the dollar unit OF coinage
}: both metals must be Of equal intrinsic
Ind exchangeable value, or be adjusted
through international agreement or by
such safeguards of legislation as shall in
Iure the maintenance OF the parity of the
metals and the equal power of every dol
ar at all times In the markets and in the
payment OF debts; and we demand that
III paper currency shall be kept at par
With and redeemable in such coin. We
insist upon this policy as especially nec-
'ssary for the
Protection Of the Farmers.
md laboring classes, the first and most
lefenscless victims OF unstable money and
! fiuctuating currency.
Section s.-Wo recommend that the