Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-06-30


ances that It's success in the coming elec-
tons will mean the enactment OF tie
force bill and the usurpation OF despotic
control over elections in all the states Be
lieving that the preservation OF republi-
can government in the United States Is de
pendent upon the defeat Of this policy OF
legalized force and fraud, we invite the
support OF all citizens who desire 70 see
the constitution maintained in its integrity
| with the laws pursuant thereto which
have given our country a hundred years Of
unexampled prosperity. and we pledge the
Democratic party, il it be entrusted with
power not only to the defeat Of the force
bill, but also 10 the relentless opposition 20
the Republican policy OF profigate expend-
iture, which in the short space Of two
years has squandered an enormous sur
| plus and emp led an overiOwing treasury,
after piling new burdens Of taxation upon
the already orertaxed labor of the country.
! SEC. 3-We reiterate the oft repeated
doctrines of the Democratic party that the
necessity Of the government is the only
| justification ior taxation, and whenever a
tax is unnecessary il is unjustifiable; that
| when custom house taxation is levied upon
articles OF any kind produced in this coun-
/ try the difference between the cost of labor
here and labor abroad, when such differ
| ence exists, fully measures any possible
benefits to labor, and the enormous addi-
|
| with crushing force upon our farmers and
workingmen. and for the mere advantage
| of the few whom il enricheS, exact from
| labor q grossly unjust share of the expense
of the government, and we demand such a
revision of the tariff laws as will remove
their iniquitous inequalities, tighten their
expressions and put them on a constitu-
tional and eqnable basis. But in making
reductions in taxes, it is not proposed to
injure any domestic industries, but to pro-
mote their healthy growth From the
| foundation OF this government the taxes
collected at, the custom house have been
the chief source of federal revenue Such
they must continue to be- Moreover many
industries have come TO rely upon legisla-
tion for successful continuance, so that
any change of law must be at every step
regardful of the labor and capital thus in
volved. The process of reform must be
subject in the execution to this plain die
tate of justice.
We den0unce the Mckinley tariff law
enacted by the Fifty-first congress as the
eliminating atrociby of class legislation;
we endorse the efforts made, ly theu Demo
Gratis of the present congress to modify its
most oppressive features in the direction of
free raw material and cheaper nanufac-
| tured goods that enter into general con-
sumption, and we promise it's repeal as one
N ofothe benehoent results that will follow
the action of the people in rentrusting
power to the Democratic party. Since the
Mckinley tariff went into operation there
have been ten reductions of wages Of labor
to one increase. We deny that there has
been any increase of prosperity to the
| country since that tariff went into opera-
ton, and we point to the dullness end dis
tress, the wage reduction and strikes in
the iron trade rs the best possible evidence
that no such prosperity has resulted fror,
In Ink tVala mt -
of thoughtful Americans to the fact thGt
after the thirty gears of restrictive taxa
tlon against importationS of foreign
wealth in exchange for our agricultural
| products, the homes and farms of the
country have become burdened with real
estate mortgage of over two thousand five
hundred million dollars, exclusive of all
other forms of Indebtedness; that in one
of the chief agricultural states of the west
there appears real estate mortgage debt
averaging Sl65 per capita of the
total population, and that similar
conditions are shown to exist in other ag-
ricultural states. We denounce u policy
which fosters no industry SO much as il
does that of the sheriff
SEC. Trade interchange on the basis
OF reciprocal advantage to this country
participating is a time-honored doctrine Of
the Democratic filth, but we denounce the
sham reciprocity which juggles with the
peoples desire for enlarged foreign
markets and freer exchange by pretend
ing to establish trade relations for a cOun.
try whose articles of export are almost eX-
clusively agricultural with other countries
that are also agricultural, while erecting a
custom house barrier of prohibitive tariff
taxes against the richest countries of the
world that stand ready to take our entire
surplus of products and to exchange there
for commodities which are necessary anC
are comforts of life among our own peo
pie
SEC. 5-We recognize in trusts and mo
nopolies, which are designed by capital t6
secure more than their just share of the
Joint product Of capital and labor, 6
natural consequence of prohibitiye taxes
which prevent the free competition which
is the life of honest trade, but we believe
their worst evils can be abated by law, and
we demand the rigid enforcement OF laws
made to prevent and control them, to
gether with such further legislation in re
straint of their abuses as experience may
show to be necessary.
SEC. 6.-The Republican party, while
protesting policy of reserving the public
lands for small holdings by actual settlers
has given away the peoples heritage unit
now few railroads and nonresident
aliens, individual and corporate, possess s
larger area than that of all our farms be
tween the two seas. The last Democratic
administration reversed the improvident
and unwise policy of the Republican party
touching the public domain, and reclaimed
from corporations and syndicates, alier
and domestic and restored to the people
nearly 100, 900 acres of valuable land tt
be sacredly held as homesteads of our citi
zens, and we pledge ourselves to continue
this policy until every acre of land SO un
lawfully held shall be reclaimed and re
stored to the people.
SEC 7.-W" denoUnce the Republican
legislation known as the Sherman act ol
1890 as a cowartlly makeshift, fraught witt
possibilities of danger in future which
should make all Of its supporters, as wei
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 of both gold and silver with
out discriminP yi0n against either metal OF
charge for inintage, but the dollar unit oil
cdifage of both meta1S must be of equa
intrinsir3 and exchangeablg valueI or be ad
Justed by international agreement or b.
n such Safeguards of legislation as shall in
Esure the maintenance Of the. parity of tht
two metals and the. equal power of any
dollar at all times in the market and ii
the payment of debts: and we demand thai
all paper currency shall be kept at pal
with and redecmable in such coin. Wei in
sist upon this policy as especially neces
Sary Tor the protection OF the farmers anC
laboring classes, the first and most de
i fenseless Nictimsof unstable money and q
j. fuetuating currency. 4l,aE Ffa.. !.
A SEC. 8.-We recommend that the prohibi
aye - Per cent tax en sta staltebank el' issues b
Sec. 9.-Public office Is a public trust
We reaffirm the declaration Of the Demo
cratic national convention of 1876 for tht
reform of the civil service, and we call fol-
the honest enforcement or ali laws regulat
ing same. The nomination of president
as in the last Republican convention by
delegates consisting largely of his ap
, scandalous satire on free popular institu
tions and startling illustration of tht
methods by which president may CRAFTY
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