Nevada County picayune., 1892-02-18
GOV. BOIES' SPEECH.

Denver Col on the 9th inst
"The Democracy in 1892" What
will the people expect OF it: On
what lines must its battle be fought?
For what principles must it stand
to be worthy Of success?
These and kindred questions crowd
the mind as we look forward to the
political struggle in which we are so
soon to engage.
In broad sense the Democratic
party must continue to stand rs the
champion of the personal rights of
the individual.
1t must at all times recognize the
fact that men inherit from their
maker certain natural rights that
neither kings, potentates or majori-
ties can rightfully despoil.
That chief among these in a gov
ernment of the people is the right of
each individual to be as fairly and
justly treated by the laws thereof, as
is every other member of the
same.
That extending the scale from the
| individual to the smallest unit of
organized society, and thence upward
until each in the order of its import
ance in our form OF government is
included, every one of these so long
as they act within constitutional
limits in matters that pertain 10 their
own welfare and affect their own
interests must be permitted to be the
sole judges of their own affairs, from
whose decisions there can be no ap-
peal.
Separating those who compose the
factors of our Government into
groups and considering them as
distinct parts the grand aggregate
of which the nation is composed,
Democracy must stand for the
intlexible rule that between classes.
as between individuals, there shall
be no distinction of right, no favor
to one at the expense of another.
Applying these principles to prac-
tical questions with which the Ameri-
can people must deal. and remember
ing the position to which the Re
publican party is committed, it is
easy to foresce the supreme issue on
which parties will divide in the con-
test of 1892.
Three years ago a Democratic
President aroused the country by
his declaration that unnecessary
taxation is unjust taxation" and by
that declaration incorporated into
the political creed of his followers,
as one OF its cardinal principles, to
remain l hope forever, the doctrine
that the rightful power of this Gov
ernment TO levy assessments, direct
or indirect, is limited to its neccssi-
ties for revenue alone.
This was no declaration of hostili-
ty to the manufacturing industries of
this country 1t was the assertion
of Il principle that put into practice
would give to them raw material
that would stimulate the commerce
of the nation and open to the prod
ucts of their mills the markets of
the world-that would send the
American flag at the masthead of our
own merchant marine into ports from
which it has been banished for a
: generation.
Nor does Il tariff for revenue only
imply that American manufacturing
industries are to be deprived of all
benefits therefrom.
1t does, however, imply that the
, purpose of the levy must be revenue,
not protection, and it follows that it
should be so laid as to place the
burden of the tax it imposes on the
shoulders of those best able to bear
it.
Carried to its logical result the
doctrine would place upon the free
list all articles of prime necessity.
1t would lift the burden of taxa
ton from the shoulders of the toiling
millions Of this country and place il
where it belongs, on the shoulders
of those who possess its wealth.
The United States is to-day, in its
agricultural advantages, the Egypt
of the whole world.
1t is from her granaries the food
should come to supply constantly
increasing deficit in the markets OF
the more prosperous counties of the
Eastern Hemisphere. Nearly as
many of our people are engaged in
this one industry as in all others
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