The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-10-04
No. "a

IDENTIFY granted to railroad corporations
by the action of the Republican party.
should be restored to thepublic domain
and that no more grants of land shall
be made to corporations or be allowed
to tall into the ownship of alien absen-
tees.
We are opposed to all propositions
which, upon any pretext, would con.
vert the General Government into
machine for collecting taxes to be dis
tribUted among the States or the citi-
zens thereof.
In re affirming the declaration of the
Democratic platform of 1856 that 1.-THE
| liberal principles embodied by Jeffer-
son In the Declaration of independence,
and sanctioned by the Constitution,
which makes ours the land of liberty
and the asylum of the oppressed of
every nation, have ever been cardinal
principles in the Democratic faith, =" we
nevertheless do not sanction the i'm
pOrtation of foreign labor, or the ad-
mission of servile races, untitled by
habits training. religion, or kindred
for absorption into the great body of
our people, or for the citizenship which
our laws confer. American civiliza-
ton demands that against the immi-
grafton or Importation of MongOlians
to these shores our gates be closed.
The Democratic party insists that it
Is the duty of this government to pro
tect with equal fidelity and vigilance,
| the rights of it's citizens, native and
naturalized, at home and abroad, and
to the end that this protection may be
assured, United States papers of natu
ralization, issued by courts of compe-
tent jurisdiction, must be respected by
the executive and legislative depart
ments OF our own government, and by
all foreign powers.
1t Is an imperative duty of this gov
ernment to efficiently protect all the
rights of persons and property of every
American citizen in foreign lands, and
demand and enforce full reparation
for any invasion thereof.
An American citizen is only respon-
slble to his own government for any
act done in his own country, or under
her flag, and can only be tried therefor
on her own sUil and according to her
own laws, and no power exists In this
government to expatiate an American
citizen to be tried in any foreign land
for any such act.
This country has never had we'll
defined and executed foreign policy,
that policy has ever been, in regard to
| foreign nations so long as they do not
act detrimental to the interests Of
! the country, or hurtful to our
ci5Izens, to let them alone; that as
a result of this policy we recall the ac-
| QUESTION of louisiana, Florida, Cali
fornia, and of the adjacent Mexican
territory by purchase alone; and con-
trast these grand acquisitions of Demo
cratic craftsmanship with the purchase
of Alaska, the sole fruit of Republi-
can administration of nearly quarter
of century.
The Federal Government should care
for and improve the Mississippi river
and other great waterways Of the Re
public so as to secure for the interior
States easy and cheap transportation
to tide water.
Under long period of Demo cratic
rule and policy our merchant marine
was fast overtaking and on the point
of outstripping that of Great Britain.
Under twenty years of Republican
rule and policy our commerce has been
left to British bottoms, and almost has
the American flag been swept off the
high seas.
Instead of the Republican party's
British policy, we demand for the peo-
pie Of the United States an American
policy.
Under Democratic rule and policy
our merchants and sailors, flying the
stars and stripes in every port, success
fully stretched out a market for the
varied products of American industry.
Under a quarter of century of Re-
publican policy, despite our manifest
advantages over all other nations In
high-paid labor, favorable climate and
teeming sails; despite freedom of trade
among all these United States; despite
their population by the foremost races
of men and an annual immigration of
the young, thrifty and adventurous of
all nations; despite our freedom here
from the inherited burdens OF life and
industry in old world monarchles-
their costly war navies, their vast tax
consuming, non producing standing
| armies; despite their twenty years Of
peace-that Republican rule and policy
have managed to surrender to Great
Britain, along with our commerce. the
control of the markets of the world.
Instead of the Republican party's
British policy we demand In behalf Of
the American Democracy, an Ameri
can policy.
Instead of the Republican party's
discredited scheme and false pretense
of friendship for American labor, ex
pressed by imposing taxes, we demand,
in behalf Of the Democracy, freedom
for American labor, by reducing taxes
to the end that these United States
may compete with unhindered powers
for the premacy among all nations In
all the arts of peace and fruits OF
liberty.
no BE CoNTNUED.