Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-06-30
wALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, JUNE 80. 1892

the Mississippi river and other great
waterways of the republic, so as tc
secure for the interior States easy
and cheap transportation to the tide
water. When any waterway of the
public is of sufficient importance to
demand the aid of the government.
that such aid should be extended CT
definite plan of continuous work
until the permanent Improvement is
secured.
Section Is. For tie purposes OF
national defences and the promotion
of commerce between the States, we
recognize the early construction OF
the Nicaragua canal and its protec-
tion against foreign control as OF
great Importance to the United States
Section 16. Recognizing the
Worlds Columbian exposition as a
national undertaking Of vast import
ance, in which the general govern
ment has invited the cooperation Of
all the powers of the world, and
approaching the acceptance by many
of such powers OF the invitation
extended, and the broadcast liberal
efforts being made by them to con-
tribute to the grandeur of the under.
taking, we are of the opinion that
Congress should make such necessary
financial provision as shall be requi-
site to the maintenance of the national
honor and public faith.
Section II. Popular education being
the only safe basis of popular suf-
frage, we recommend to the several
States the most liberal appropria-
tons for public schools. Free com
mon schools are the nursery of good
government and they have always
received the fostering care OF the
Democratic party, which favors every
means of increasing intelligence. The
freedom of education being an essen
tial of civil and religious liberty, as
well as a necessity for the develop
ment of intelligence, must not be
interfered with under any pretext
whatever. We are opposed to State
interference with parental rights and
the rights of conscience in the edu-
, cation of children as an infringement
of fundamental Democratic doc
trine that the largest individual lib
erty, consistent with the rights OF
others, insures the highest type OF
, American citizenship and the best
government.
! Section IS. We approve the action
OF the present House of Representa-
tives in passing bills for the admis-
sion into the Union as States II the
Territories of New Mexico and Ari-
zona. and we favor the early admis-
sion of all Territories having the
necessary population and resources
to admit them to Statehood, and
while they remain Territories we
hold that the officials appointed to
administer the government OF any
Territory, together with the Dis
tricts of Columbia and Alaska, should
be bonatide residents of the Territory
or District in which their duties are
to be performed. The Democratic
party believes Ia home rule and the
control of their own affairs by the
people of the vicinage.
Section l9. We favor Legislation
by Congress AMI State Legislatures
to protect the lives and limbs of rail
way employees and those of other
hazardous transportation companies
and denounce the inactivity of the
Republican party, and particularly
the Republican Senate, for causing
the defeat of measures beneficial and
protective to this class of wage work
ers.
Section 20. We are in favor of the
enactment by the States of laws fol
abolishing the notorious sweating
system, for abolishing the contract
convict labor, and for prohibiting the
employment in factories of children
under Is years of age.
Section II. We are opposed to al
sumptuary laws as an interference
with the individual rights of the citl.
zen.
Section %. Upon this statement
of principles and policies the Demo.
cratic party asks the intelligent judg
ment of the American people. Il
asks a>change of administration ant
a change of party in order that there
may be change of system and 8
change of methods, thus assuring the
maintenance unimpaired of the insti-
tutions under which the republic ha:
grown great and powerful.
The monthly report of railroad
earnings for the month of April, just
published, is no improvement on that
of March, published last week. The
earnings of the various roads named
are as follows: Atlanta and Charlotte
Air Line, So, 1880, against s61,-
74s.0I for April of last year,
decrease of s7,31221; Charlotte
Columbia and Augusta, s43,613.37