Connecticut western news., 1892-06-30
ADLAI K. STEVENSON.

prosecutions in the dominions of the ezar and tc
 secure to the oppressed equal rights.
 We tender profound and earnest sym
 pathy to those lovers of freedom who arc
 struggling for home rule and the great cause
 of self government in Ireland.
 Sec. l2. We heartily approve all legitimate ef
 forts to prevent the United States from being
 used as the dumping ground of the criminals and professional paupers of Europe, and we demand the rigid enforcement of the laws against Chinese emigration and the importation of
 foreign workmen under contract to degrade
 our labor and lessen its wages, but we condemn and denounce all attempts to restrict the i'm
 migration of the industrious and worthy of foreign lands.
 Sec l3. This convention hereby renews the expression of appreciation of the patriotism of
 the soldiers and sailors of the Union in the wal for its preservation, and we favor just and. liberal pensions for all disabled Union soldiers, their widows and dependents, but we demand that the work of the pension office shall be done
 industriously, impartially and honestly. We denounce the present administration of that office as incompetent, corrupt, disgraceful and dishonest.
 Sec. IA. The federal government should care for and improve the Mississippi river and other
 great waterways of the republic, as to secure for the interior states easy and cheap trans portation to the tdewater. When any water way of the republic is of sufficient importance to demand the aid of the government that such aid should be extended definite plan of continuous work until permanent improvement
 is secured.
 Sec 15 For purposes of national defense and the promotion of commerce between the states we recognize the early construction of the
 Nicaragua canal and its protection against
 foreiga control as of great importance to the United States.
 National Aid for the Fair. Sec. 16. Recognizing the Worlds Columbian exposition as national undertaking of vast imnortancs i'm uybirb +ba ,,aparaI ,,ovarpment
 has invited the cooperation of the nations of the world. and appreciating the acceptance by many such powers of the invitation so extend ed and the broad and liberal efforts being made by them to contribute to the grandeur of the
 undertaking, are of the opinion that con- gress should make such necessary financial pro
 vision as shall be requisite to the maintenance Of national honor and public faith. Sec. l7. Popular education being the only safe basis of popular suffrage. we recommend to the
 several states most liberal appropriations for the public schools. Free common 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. Freedom Of educa- tion being an essential of civil and religious liberty, as well as necessity for the develop
 ment of intelligence, must not be interfered
 with under any pretext whatever. We are op- posed to state interference with parental rights and rights of conscience in the education of children an infringement of the fundHIlen:al Democratic doctrine that the largest n'iividual liberty consistent with aha rights og others, in sures the highest type of American citizenship
 and the best government
 Sec. Is. We approve ttve action of the present house Of representatives in passing bills for
 the admission into the Union states of the
 territories of New Mexico and Arizona, and
 we favor the early adns; ;ssion of all the ter ritories having the mecca xary population and rssosroes to sntsls thsA to statehood. aud