Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-07-02
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cause Of local self government In Ireland.
We heartily approve all legitimate eff.
forts to prevent the United States from
being used rs n dumping ground for
known criminals and the profcssional pau
pers of Europe. and demand n rigid In
forcement of the laws against Chinese inn
migration and the importation of foreign
workmen under contract to degrade Amer
lean labor and lessen its wages, but we
condemn and denounce any and all at
tempts to restrict The immigration OF the
industrious and worthy of foreign lands.
This convention hereby W its ex-
preston of appreciation of the patriotism
OF the soldiers and sailors of the union in
the war for preservation, and favor Just
and liberal pensions for all disabled un-
ion soldiers, their widows and dependents ;
but we demand that tho work Of the PEN
sion office shall be done industriously
impartially and honestly. We denounce
I @ present administration of that office
rs incompetent, corrupt, ~disgraccful and
dishonest
The federal government should care for
and improve the Mississippi river and
other great waterways of the republic so
IA to secure for the interior states EASY
and cheap transportation to the tidewa-
ters. When any waterway of the republic
Is of sufficient Importance to demand the
aid of the government that aid st GU q be
extended on n definite plan of continuous
work until n permanent Improvement Is
secured As a support of the national de-
tense and for the protection of
between the states we recognize the early
construction of the Nicaragua eannl and
lts protection against foreign control ms
OF great Importance TO the United States.
Recognizing the Worlds Columbian ex.
position as n national undertaking of vast
importance, in which the general govern
mani IN N q nYttA1 thn nAana.tsa II III
the powers of the world, and approaching
the acceptance by many such powers OF
the invitations so extended, and the broad
and liberal efforts being made by them to
contribute TO the grandeur of the under
taking, we are of tho opinion that con-
gross should make such necessary finan-
cial provisions as shall be requisite to the
maintenance of the national honor and
public faith.
Popular education being the only safe
basis # popular suffrage, we recommend
TO the several states the most liberal mp
preparations for the public schools. The
free common schools are the nursery of
good government and have always re-
ccived the fostering care of the demo.
cratic party, VIII oh favors every means Of
increasing intelligence. Freedom of edu-
cation being essential To civil religious
liberty as well as n necessity for the de-
velopment of intelligence, must not be
interfered with under any p~retext what
ever. We are opposed to state interfer-
cnce with parental rights and the right of
conscience in the education of children ms
an infringement of the fundamental dem
ocratic doctrine that the largest individual
liberty consistent with the right of others
insurcs the highest type of American
citizenship and the best government.
We approve the action of the present
house OF representatives In passing bills
for admission into the union as states
of the territories of New Mexico and Ari-
IONA, and favor the early admission of all
the territories having the necessary popu-
lation to entitle them to statehood, aud
while they remain territ ories we hold that
the officials appointed to administer the
government of any territory together
with the District of Columbia and ALASKA
should be bona fidc residents of the terri
tory or district in which their duties are
TO be performed. The democratic party
believes in home rule and the conduct of
their own affairs by the people of the
~vicinagc.
We favor legislation by congress and
the state legislatures TO protect the lives
and limbs of railway employees and those
other hazardous transportation compan-
les, inc denounce the inactivity of the re-
publican party, and particularly the re-
publican senate, for causing the defeat of
measures beneficial and protective TO this
class of wage workers.
We are in favor of the enactment BY
the states of laws for abolishing the no.
torious sweating system, for abolishipg
contract convict labor and prohibiting the
employment in factories of children under
10 years of age.
We arc opposed to all sumptuary laws
as an Interference with individual rights.
Upon this statement of principles and
policies the democratic party asks the in
telligent Judgment of the American pco-
pie. 1t asks a change in the administra-
ton and n change OF party, in order that
there may be a change in the system aud
n change in the methods, thus assuring
the maintenance unimpaired of the institu-
tions under which the republic has grown
great and powerful.