The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-10-18
RALEIGH N. c.. OCTOBER 18. 1892.

w WAu0 CcbI 04uA4y SuCaGO44S OAO pin
ciples of justice and equity it has paid
out more for pensions and bounties to
the soldiers and sailors of this Republic
than was ever paid before during an
equal period. 1t has adopted and con-
stantly pursued a firm and prudent
foreign policy, preserving peace with
tanning all the rights and interests of
our own government and people at
home and abroad.
The exclusion from our shores of
Chinese laborers has been effectually
under the provisions of a
treaty, the operation of which has been
postponed by the action of Republi
can majority in the Senate. Honest
reform in the civil service has been
inaugurated and maintained by Presi-
dent Cleveland and he has brought the
public service to the highest standard
of efficiency not only by rule and pre-
cept, but by the example of his own
untiring and unselfsh admin stration
of public affairs. In every branch and
of the government under
Democratic control the rights and the
welfare of all the people have been
guarded and defended every public
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equality of all our citizens before the
law, without regard to race or color,
has been steadily maintained.
Upon its record thus exhibited, and
upon pledge of a continuance to the
people of the benefits Of democracy in
vokes a renewal of popular trust by
the reelection of a chief magistrate
who has been faithful, able, and pru-
dent, and invokes in addition to that
trust by the transfer, also to the De-
mocracy OF the entire legislative power.
The Rep Iblican party, controlling
the Senate and resisting in both houses
of Congress a reformation of unjust
and unequal tax laws, which have out
lasted the necessities of war, and are
now undermining the abundance of a
long peace, deny to the people equality
before the law, and the fairness and
the Justice which are their right Then
the cry OF American labor for a better
share in the rewards of industry is
stlt1ed with false pretences, enterprise
Is fettered and bound down to home
markets, capital is discouraged with
doubt, and unequal, unjust laws can
neither be properly amended or re
pealed
The Democratic party will continue
with all the power confined to 1t the
struggle to reform these laws in &C
cordance with the pledges of it's last
platform indorsed at the ballot-box by
the sutfraSes of the people. OF all the
industrious freeman of our land the
immense majority, mcluding every
riller of the soil, gain no advantage
from excessive tax laws, but the price
of nearly everything they buy is in
creased by the favOritism of an unequal
system of tax legislation. AIlunneces-
sary taxation is unjust taxation.
Tt isrepugnant to the creed of Democ-
racy that by such taxation the cost of
the necessaTies of life should be un-
iustifiably increased to all our people.
Judged by Democratic principles, the
interests of the people are betrayed
when, by unnecessary taxation, trusts
and combinations are permitted and
fostered which will unduly enrich the
few that combine to rob our citizens
by depriv;ng them of the benefit of
natural competition. Every Democratic
rule of governmental action is violated
when, through unnecessary taxation,
vast sum of money. far beyond the
needs of an economical administration
is drawn from the people and the chan
nels of trade, and accumulated as a
demoralizing surplus in the national
treasury.
The money now lying idle in the
Federal Treasury, resulting from
superf1uous taxation amounts to more
than 1926, 900, 600; and the surplus col
lected is reaching the sum of more than
$50, 900, 900 annually. Debauched by
the immense temptation, the remedy
of the Republican party is to meet and
exhaust it by extravagant appropria
tions and expenses, whether constitu-
tional or not, the accumulations of
extravagant taxation.
The Democratic remedy is to enforce
frugality in public expenditures and
abolish unnecessary taxation. Our
established domestic industries and en-
terprises should not and reed not be
en- iangered by reduction and correc
ton of the burdens of taxation. On
the contrary, fair and careful revision
of cur tax laws, with due allowance
i1F the difference between the wages
of American and foreign labor, must
promote and encourage every branch
of such industries and enterprises bY
giving them assurance of an extended
market and steady and continuous
operation, In tIe interest OF American
labor, which should In no event be
neglected. The revision of our TAX
laws contemplated by the Democratic
party is to promote the vantage Of
such labor by cheapening the cost of
the necessaries of life in the home of
every workingman, and at tie saf
time securing to him steady and
munerative employment.
Upon this question of tariff reform,
so closely concerning every phase 9f
our national life, and upon every ques
tion involved in the problem of good
government, the Democratic party sui
mits its principles and professions to
the intelligent sufrages of the An1eriy
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