Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1892-06-30

entrusting power to the Democratic
party. Since the Mckinley tariff
went into operation there have
been ten reductions of wages of
laboring men to one increase. We
deny that there has been any in
crease of prosperity to the country
since that tariff went into opera
ton, and we point to dullness and
distress, wage reductions and
strikes in the iron trade, as the
best possible evidence that no such
prosperity has resulted from the
Mckinley act. We call the atten.
ton of thoughtful Americans to
the fact that after thirty years of
restrictive taxes against importa-
ton of foreign wealth in exchange
for II agricultural surplus, the
homes aud farms of the country
have become bnrdened with a real
estate mortgage debt Of over 81
SOC, 700 900, exclusive of all other
forms of indebtedness; that in one
Of the chief agricultural States of
the West there appear real estate
mortgage debts averaging S165 per
capita OF the total population, and
that a similar condition and tenden
cles are shown tc exist in the agri-
cultural States. We denounce the
policy which fosters no industry so
much as it does that of the sheriff
Sec. 4. Trade interchange on
the basis of re ciprocal advantages
to the countries participating is a
timeehonored doctrine Of the Dem
ocratic faith, but we denounce
sham reciprocity, which juggles
with the peoples desire for en-.
larged foreign markets and pre-
tends to establish closer trade re-
lations for e country whose articles
Of export are almost exclusively
agricultural products, with other
countries that are also agricultural.
while erecting the custom-house
barrier of prohibition taxes q gainst
the richest countries of the world
that stand ready to take our entire
surplus OF products and to ex
change therefor commodities which
are necessariee and the comforts o
lite among our own people.
Sec. 5. We recognize in trust
and combinations, which are de
signed 20 enable capital to secure
more than It's just share of the Join
product OF capital and labor, tn,
natural consequence Of prohibitiv'
taxes, which prevent free compe
tition which Is the life Of homes
trade; but we believe these evil
can be abatod by law, and we de
mand rigid enforcement of til
laws made to prevent and contro
them, together with suclr furthe
legislation in restraint of thei
abuses as experience may show t
be necessary.
Sec. 6. The Republican party
while protesting a policy of resery
ing public lands for small holding
by actual settlers, has given ava
the peoples heritage till now a fe,
railroads and nonresident alien
individual or cooperate, possess
larger area than that of all OF
! farms between the two eeas. II
last Democratic Administrative
reversed the improvident and un
wise policy Of the Republics
party touching the public domai
and reclaimed from corporation
s and syndicates-alien and dome
f tic-and restored to the peopl
nearly one hundred million acr
/ of valuable ground, to be sacred.
held as homesteads for our citizen
: and we pledge ourselves to co
tinue this policy until every &C
n of land so unlawfully held, sha
d be reclaimed and restored to Il
e people.
i Sec. Z. We denounce Repub
t can legislation known as the She
Is man act of 1890, as a coward
y make-shift frought with possibi
tiles of danger in the future, whi'
Is should make all its supporters, VIZ
10 as its authors, anxious for its spec;
h. repeal. We hold to the use of DO
# gold and silver as standard mon
r- Of the country, and to coinage
both gold and silver without d
.e eliminating against either metal
- charge for mintage, but the doll
a unit for coinage OF both meta
It must be of equal intrinsic and u
G, changeable value, or be adjust
through international agreeme
Il or by such safeguards of legislati'
y as shall insure maintenance
10 parity of the two metals, and t
20 ennal noWer of every. dollar at