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

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have been more recently called away
from our councils Grant, Garfield,
| Arthur, Logan, Conkling. May their
memories be faithfully cherished. We
also recall with our greetings, and with
| prayer for his recovery, the name of
one OF our living heroes whose memory
| will be treasured in the history both
of Republicans and of the Republic
the name of that noble soldier, and
tavorite child of victory, Philip Fl.
Sheridan
In the spirit of those great leaders
and of our own devotion to human
liberty, and that hostility to all forms
of despotism and oppression, which is
the fundamental idea of the Republican
party we send fraternal congratula
tiOn to our fellow-Americans of Brazil
upon their great act of emancipation,
which completed the abolition of
slavery throughout the two American
continents We earnestly hope that
we may soon congratulate our fellow
| citizens of Irish birth upon the peace
full recovery of home rule for Ireland.
We re affirm our answering devo
ton to the National Constitution and
to the indissoluble union of the States;
to the autonomy reserved to the States
under the Constitution to the personal
rights and liberties of citizens in all the
States and Territories in the Union,
and especially to the supreme and SOW
ereign right of every lawful citizen,
rich or poor, native or foreign born
white or black, to cast one free ballot
in public elections and to have that
ballot duly counted We hold the free
and honest popular ballot and the just
and equal representation of all the
people to be the foundation of our re
publican government and demand
effective legislation to secure the in
tegrity and purity of elections, which
are the fountains of all public author
ity. We charge that the present ad-
ministration and the Democratic ma
jority in Congress owe their existence
TO the suppression of the ballot by a
criminal notification of the Constitu-
tion and laws OF the United States.
We are uncompromisingly In favor
OF the American system of protection;
we protest against it's destruction pro
posed by the President and his party
| They serve the interests of Europe; we
will support the interests of America
We accept the issue and confidently
appeal to the people for their Judgment
| The protective system must be main
tanned. It's abandonment has always
been followed by general disaster to all
] interests except those of the usQrer and
/ the sheriff We denounce the Mil J
bill as destructive to the general bust
ness, the labor, and the farming in
terests of the country, and we heartily
indorse the consistent and patriotic
action of the Republican representa-
tives of Compress in opposing it's pas
sage.
We condemn the proposition of the
Democratic party to place wool on the
free list, and we insist that the duties
thereon shall be adjusted and main
tained so as to furnish full and ade
quate protection to that industry.
The Republican party would affect
all needed reduction of the national
revenue by repeating the taxes upon
| tobacco, which are an annoyance and
| burden to agriculture, and the tax
upon spirits used in the arts, and for
mechanical purposes, and by such re
vision of the tariff laws as will tend to
check imports of such articles as are
produced by our people the production
of which gives employment to our
labor and release from important
duties those articles of foreign produc
tion Except luxuries, the like of which
cannot be produced at home IF there
shall still remain larger revenue than
is requisite for the wants of the gov
ernment we favor the entire repeal of
internal taxes rather than the surren
der of any part of our pro 7ective sys-
tenn at the joint behest Of the whiskey
ring and the agents of foreign manu-
| factursrs.
| We declare cur hostility to the intro
| duction into this country of foreign
contract labor and of Chinese labor,
alien to our civilization and our Con
stitution; and we demand the rigid en-
| fOrcement of the existing laws against
it, and favor such immediate legisla-
ton as will exclude such labor from
our shores.
We declare our opposition to all com
binations of capital organized in trusts
or otherwise to control arbitrarily the
| conditions of trade among our citizens:
and we recommend to Congress, and
the State legislatures in their respec-
tive jurisdictions, such legislation as
will prevent the execution of all schemes
to oppress the people by undue charges
on their supplies or by unjust rates for
! the transportation of the products to
market. We approve the legislation
| by Congress to prevent alike unjust
| burdens and unfair determinations be-
! tween the States
/ We re-af1rm the policy of appro,
! priatlng the public lands of the United
Stssses 70 be homesteads for American
citizens and settlers, not aliens which
lie Republican party established in
I 1862, agalnst the persistent opposition
g0f the Democrats in Congress, and
which has brought Our great western
domain IIlto such magnificent develop
noenb. The restoration of unearned
rhilroad land grants to the public do
nFlln 6or the use of actual settlers,
Whhch was begun under the admins