Los Angeles herald., 1892-06-23


south. ard injures the colored citizen more
than the white; II means hordes of deputy mar
shals at every polling place, armed with federal
troiled by federal authority; the outrage OF the
electoral rights of the people in the states; the
sublection OF the colored people to the control
antagonism now happily abated. This policy,
of the utmost peril to the safety and happiness
OF all, was Incorporated in Republican meas
ure deliberately and justly described by
leading Republican Senator as the most in
famous bill that ever crossed the threshold of
the senate. such a policy, If sanctioned by
party first entrusted with the machinery o ! gov
ernment could be dislodged from power only
py IN appeal TO the reserved right Of the people
sell 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 deiantly declared in its latest authoritative
utterances that its success at the coming cleo
t1ons viii mean the enactment Of force bill
ele ctions.
Believing that the preservation of rspubli.
can government Is dependent upon the defeat
invite ethesupport of all citizens who desire to
see the constitution maintained In its in eg-
rity, With the laws pursuant thereto, which
nave given our country hundred years of un-
And we pledge the Democratic party, not
only to defeat the force bill. but also to relent-
proaigate expenditures which in the hhH-I short #
space OF two years has squsndered the enor-
nous surplus and emptled the overHowing
upon the already over taxed labor Of the coun-
try
TARIFF REFORM.
We reiterate the oft-repeated doctrines of the
Democratic party that the necessity of the gov
ernment is the only justification for taxation.
and whenever tax is unnecessary, it ia un-
justifable; that when custom house taxation il
levied upon articles Of any other Kind bro.
duced in this country, the difference between
the. cost of labor here and labor abroad, when
such differences exist, 1uliy measures any pos
sible benefits to labor, and the enormous addi-
tional impositiOns of the existing tariff. fall
with crushing force upon farmers and working
men. and for the mere advantage of the few
whom they enrich, exact from labor q grossly
unjust share of the expenses of the govern
ment; and we demand such revision OF the
tariff laws as will remove their ubiquitous in
equalities; tighten the imposftions and put
them on constitutional and equitable basis
But in making a reduction of taxes it is not
proposed to in1ure any domestic industries, but
the foundation of the government taxes col
lected at the custom houses have been the chief
source OF federal revenue. Such they must
have come TO rely upon legislation for their
successful continuance, SO any change in che
law must be at every step regardful of the labor
form must be subject in the execution of this
plan to the dictates of justice.
THE M'KINLEY LAW MUST GO.
We denounce the mckinley tariff law as the
eliminating atrocity Of class legislation We
endorse the efforts of the Democrats of the pres.
ent congress to modify Its most oppressive fea-
tures in the direction of free raw material, and
home consumptiOn; and we promise Its repeal
as one of the benefcent results that will follow.
the action Of the people in entrusting power =
since the Mckinley tariff went -. 80,
OF laboring men to or onrrcrease. = The mafss Re
IN .inca the r. - -ze prosperity Of the couD
point to t. a;nn went ipt2 operation. and md W Z
lions - guinness and distress, wage, ,Te1p
T evidence that no such prosperity has resuitef
from the Mckinley act.
We call the attention OF thoushtful Ameri
restrictive taxes against the Importation q
fnfhtEn wealth. In exchange for our agricultn
raj surplus, the homes and farms OF the coun
! try became burdened with real estate mort
| gag amounting to more than So. 5O5. .0O0. 400
exclusive OF all other forms OF indebtedn ess
that IN the chief agricultural states of the
west there appears real estate mortgage AYR
aging $l65 per capita for the total population
and that similar conditions are shown to exisl
In other agricultural states We denounce the
does that of tie sheriff.
SHAM RECIPROCITY DENOUNCED.
Trade interchange on the basis of reciprocal
advantages to the countries reciprocating, is q
time h0nored doctrine of the Democratic faith
but We denounce the sham reciprocity which
juggles with the peoples desire for enlarged
foreign markets and freer EXCHANGES, by pre-.
tending to establish closer trade relations fol
the country whose articles are almost exclu-
sively agricultural products with other coun-
tries hat are also agricultural, while erecting
custom house barrier Of positive tariff ia xes
stand ready to take our entire surplus products
and exchange therefor commodities which are
the necessaries and comforts of life among our
people.
TRUSTS MUST BE REGULATED
We recognize in trusts and combinations
which are DESIGNED to enable capital 10 secure
more than its just share OF the joint product OF
capital and labor, the natural consequence of
prohibitive taxes which prevent free competi-
ton. which is the life OF honest trade; but be-
and we demand a rigid enforcement of the
laws madeto prevent and control them, togeth-
er with such further legislation in restraint Of
essary.
THE PUBLIC DOMAIN.
The Republican party, while protesting the
policy of reserving the public land for small
holdings by actual settlers, has given away the
peoples heritage, till now few railroads aud
non resident aliens, individual and corporate,
possess larger ares than that of all the farms
between the two seas. The last Democratic
administration reversed the improvident and
unwise policy OF the Republican party. touch
Ing the public domain. and reclaimed from
corporations and syndicates. alien and
domestic, and restored to the people nearly
100,OO0,0 900 acres of valuable land to be
sacredly held as homes eads by our citizeus:
and we pledSe ourselves to continue his policy
until every acre of land so unlawfully held
shall be reclaimed and restored to the people.
THE ODIoUs SHERMAN ACT.
We denounce the Republican legislation
known as the Sherman act of 1890, as cow
ordly makeshift, fraught with the possibilities
of danger In the future, which should make all
Its supporters, as well as Its author, anxious for
aspeedy repeal.
BIMETALLIsM FAVORED.
We hold to the use of both gold and silver as
the standard money of the country, and to the
coinage of both gold and silver without dis
elimination against either metal, or charge for
mintage; but the dollar unit of the coinage of
both metals must be of equal intrinsic and ex-
chapgeable value, or adjusted through an inter-
national agreement or by such safeguards of
legislation as shall insure the maintenance
OF the parity OF the two metals; and the eq ual
power Of every dollar ut all times in the mar
kets and In the payment Of debts; and we de-
mand that paper currency be he,d at par with
and redeemable in such coin. We insist upon
this policy as especially necessary for the pro-
lection Of the farmers and laboring classes, the
first and most defenseless victims of unstable
money and auctuating currency.
We recommend that the prohibitory 10 per
cent tax on state bank issues be repealed.
PUBLIC OFFICE is PUBLIC TRUST.
We reaffirm the declaration of the Democratic
national convention Of 1876 for the reform OF
the civil service. and call for an honest enforce
ment of all the laws regulating the same. The
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