The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-06-29

VIC W ACoAbb ODpTteblOu, WHICH
In all salf-governing communities. Two
years ago this revolutionary policy was
emphatically condemned by the people at
the polls; but in contempt of that verdict
the republican party has defantlv de-
clared In its latest authoritative utterance
that Its success in the coming elections
Will mean the enactment of the force bill
and the usurDation OF despotic control
over elections in all the states Believing
that the preservation of republican govern
ment in the United States is dependent on
the defeat of the policy OF legal
lied force and fraud. we invite the sup
port OF al citizens VINO desire to see the
constitution maintained in It's integrity,
with the laws pursuant thereto which
nave gwen our country hundred years
oil uneNampled prosperity; and we pledge
the democratic party, il it be entrusted
with power, not only to the defeat of the
force bill, but also to relentless opposition
to the republican policy of prohigate ex-
penditure, which, in the short space of
two years, has squandered an enormous
surplus and emptied an OVERLOOKING
treasury, after piling new burdens of tax
alton upon the already overtaxed 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 for taxation. and whenever a
tax ls unnecessary il is unjustifiable; that
when custom house taxation is levied
upon articles OF any kind produced in this
country the difference between cost of
labor here and labor abroad, where such
a difference exists. fully measures anv
possible benefits TO labor, and the enor-
nous additional impositions of the exist
ing tariff fall with crushing force upon our
farmers and workingmen and for the mere
advantage of the few whom it enriches,
exacting from labor grossly unjust share
of the expenses of thegovernment; and we
demand such revision of the tariff laws
as will remove their iniquitous inequalities,
tighten their expressions and put them
on constitutional and equitable basis
But in making reduction in taxes, it is
not intended to injure any domestic in
dustries, but rather to promote their
healthy growth. From the foundation OF
this government taxes collected at the
custom house have been the chief source
OF federal revenue. Such they must con-
tinue to be. Moreover, many industries
have come to rely upon legislation for
successful continuance, so that any change
OF law must be at ever step regardful of
the labor and capital thus involved. The
process OF reform must be subjected in the
execution to this plain dictate OF justice.
We denOunce the Mckinley tariff law,
enacted by the FIfty-frst congress. as the
eliminating atrocity of class legislation
We indorse the efforts made by the demo-
Gratis OF the present congress to modify its
most oppressive features in the direction
of free raw materials and cheaper manu-
featured goods that enter into general con-
and W 10 ranaal ac
one of the benefcent results that will fol-
low the action of the people in intrusting
power to the democratic party.
Since the Mckinley tariff went into op-
Grafton there have been ten reductions of
the wages of laboring men to one increase.
We deny that there has been any increase
OF prosperity to the country since that tar
1T went into operation, and we point TO
the dizziness and distress, with wage re-
auctions and strikes in the iron trade, as
the best possible evidence that no such
prosperity has resulted from the McKin-
lev act. We call the attention of thought
full Americans to the fact that after thirty
years of restrictive taxes against the i'm
portation of foreign wealth in exchange
fer our agricultural surplus, the homes
and farms of the country have become
burdened with real estate mortgage debt
of over S2,5OO,OOO0OO exclusive
of all other forms of indebt-
edness; that in one of the chief
agricultural states of the West there ap-
pears real estate mortgage debt averag-
ing Sl65 per capita of the total popula-
ton and that similar conditions and ten
denotes are shown TO exist in the other
agricultural exporting states. We de-
nounce policy which fosters no industry
so much as II does that of the sheriff.
Sec. T. Trade interchange on the basis
of reciprocal advantages to the countries
participating is a time hOnored doctrine
of the democratic faith, but we denounce
the sham reciprocity which iuggles with
the peoples desire for enlarged foreign
markets and freer exchange by pretend
ing to establish closer trade relations for
country whose articles of export are
almost exclusively agricultural products
with other countries that are also agri-
cultural, while erecting a custom house
barrier of prohibitive tariff taxes against
the richest countries of the world that
stand ready 10 take our entire surplus of
products and to exchange therefor COM
modities which ere necessaries and COM
forts of life among our own people.
Sec. g. We recognize in the trusts and
combinations. which are designed to
\
Just share of the joint product of capital
and labor, the natural consequence of the
prohibitive 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 the laws made to
prevent and control them, together with
such further legislation in restraint of
their abuses as experience may show to
be necessary.
Sec. 6. The republican party. while pro-
Tossing policy of reserving the public
land for small holdings by actual settlers,
has given away the peoples heritage till
now a few railroads and nonresident
aliens, individual and corporate, possess a
larger area than all of our farms between
the two seas. The last democratic admin
istration reversed the improvident and
unwise policy of the republican party
touching the public domain and reclaimed
from corporations and syndicates, alien
and domestic, and restored to the people
nearly 100, 100000 acres Of valuable land
to be sacredly held Rs homesteads for our
citizens, and we pledge ourselves 10 con-
tinue this policy until every acre of land
so uulawfully held shall be reclaimed and
restored TO the people.
Sec. I. We denounca tthe republican
legislation known ~ the sherman act OF
1880 az q cOwardly makeshiit iraught with
posi- Utilities oil danger in the future which
chou q make all OF its supporters as well