The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1892-06-28

cneir iniquitous inequalities, ngnJen rhelr
| expressions and put them on consfitu1
tional and equable basis. But in mRSing
reductions in taxes, it is not proposed I'd
| injure any domestic industries, but to pro-
mote their healthy growth. From the
foundation o. this government the taxes
! collected at the custom house have been
the chief source of federal revenue. Such
| they must continue to be. Moreoveia 6aapy
| industries have come to rely upon Ii M
ton for successful continuance, SO that
any change of law must be at every step
regardful of the labor and capital thus in
| volyed. The process of reform must be
subject in the execution to this plain die
| tate of justice
We denounce the Mckinley tariff law
enacted by the Fifty-frst congress as thd
eliminating atrocity of class legislatione
we endorse the efforts made by the Demo-
Gratis OF the present congress to modify r.
most oppressive features In the direction
free raw material and cheaper manufa
tured goods that enter into general Cd
sumption, and we promise its repeal as o.
of the benefcent results that will foN
the action of the people in entrls
power to the Democratic party Sine
Mckinley tariff went into operation
have been ten reductions of wages of
to one increase. We deny that ther
been any increase of prosperity t(
country since that tariff went into 81
ton, and we point to the dizziness and ~
tress, the wage reduction and strikes
the iron trade as the best possible evidend
that no such prosperity has resulted frouH
the Mckinley act We call the attention.
of thoughtful Americans to the fact thai
after the thirty years of restrictive taxa
ton against importations of foreigIH
wealth in exchange for our agricultural
products, the homes and farms of thu
country have become burdened with real
estate mortgage of over two thousand fvd
hYIndraA mil Toll .csx, Il
other forms of Indebtedness; that in one
OF the chief agricultural states of the westl
there appears a real estate mortgage debit
averaging Sl65 per capita of theI
total population, and that similar|
conditions are shown to exist in other az
ricultural states. We denounce a policy
which fosters no industry so much as itf
does that of the sheriff.
SEC. 4-Trade interchange on the basisN
OF reciprocal advantage TO this country
participating is a time-honored doctrine
the Democratic faith, but we denounce FL
sham reciprocity which juggles with
peoples desire for enlarged fore
markets and freer exchange by prete
ing to establish trade relations fore COZ
try whose articles of export are almost
clusively agricultural with other count
that are also agricultural. while euectiI
custom house barrier of prohibitfSe Ia
taxes against the richest countries OF
world that stand ready to take our en-
surplus of products and to exchange the
for commodities which are necessary
are comforts of life among our own n
pie.
SEC. 5.-We recognize in trusts and
nopolies, which are designed by capita
secure more than their Just share OF
joint product of capital and labor
natural consequence OF prohibitive tai
which prevent the free competition WI
is the life of honest trade, but we bel
their worst evils cau ba a bQtad nv law.
we demand the rigid enforcement OF
made to prevent and control them,
gether with such further legislation :
straint OF their abuses as experiences II
show to besnecessary
SEC. 1.-THE Republican party, W
protesting policy of reserving the pu
lands for small holdings by actual sett
has given away the peoples heritage u
now a few railroads and non-resit
aliens, Individual and corporate, posse
larger area than that of all our farms
tween the two seas. The last Democr
administration reversed the improvid
and unwise policy of the Republican n
touching the public domain, and rsQaei
from corporations and syndica6ees,
and domestic. and restored TOT he IA
nearly 100, 100000 acres of valuable IA
be sacredly held as homesteads Of ou,l
zens, and we pledge ourselves to COM
this policy until every acre of land, SO =
lawfully held, shall be reclaimed and
stored to the people. 4.
(Continued)
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