The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-07-09

De extended on a definite plan OF con-
tlnuous work until permanent improve
ment is secured.
Sec. 10. Support of national defense
and the promotion of commerce between
the states. We recognize the early con-
struction OF the Nicaragua canal and it's
protection against foreign control OF
great importance to the United States.
The Worlds Fair.
Sec. 1G. Recognizing the Worlds
Columbian Exposition as a national un-
dertaking of vast Importance, in which
the general government has invited the
cooperation OF all the powers of the
world, and approaching the acceptance
by many of such powers of the invitation
so extended and the broad and liberal
efforts being made by them to contribute
to the grandeur of the undertaking. we
are OF the opinion that congress should
make the necessary financial provision
as shall be requisite to the maintenance
OF the national honor and public faith.
Freedom of EDUCATION.
Sec. II. Popular education being the
only safe basis of popular suffrage. we
recommend to the several states most
liberal appropriations for the public
schools. Free public 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 education being an essential
to civil and religious liberty, as well as a
necessity for the development of %intelli-
gence, must not be interfered with un-
der any preteyt whatever.
We are opposed to state interference
with parental rights and rights of con
science in the education of children as
an infringement of the fundamental
democratic doctrine that the largest in.
dividual liberty consistent with the
rights of others insures the highest type
OF American citizenship and best gov
eminent.
New Mexico and Arizona.
Sec. Is. We approve the action of the
present house of representatives in pass.
ing bills for the admission into the unior
as states of the territories of New Mexico
and Arizona.
We favor the early admission of al
territories having the necessary popula.
ton and our to entitle them tC
statehood, and while they remain terri
tories we hold that the officials appointed
to administer the government of any ter
ritory, together with the District of Co.
lumbia and Alaska, should be bona tide
residents of the territory or districts in
which their duties are to be performed
The democratic party believes in home
rule and the control of their own affairs
by the people of the vicinage.
Protection for Laboring Men.
Sec. 10. We favor legislation by con
gress and state legislatures to protect the
lives and limbs of railway employees, ano
those of other hazardous Transportation
companies. and denounce the inactivit,
of the republican party, and particularly
the republican senate, for causing the
defeat of measures beneficial and pro
tective to this class of wage-workers.
Sec. 20. We are in favor of the enact
ment by the states of laws for abolishine
the notorious sweating system; for abol
ishing contract convict labor, and fol
prohibiting the employment in factories
of children under II years of age.
Sumptuary Laws.
Sec. p. We are opposed to all sumpt
uary laws as an interference with The
individual rights of the citizen.
Sec. ID. Upon this statement of prin
ciples and policies the democratic part,
asks the intelligent judgment of tn,
American people. 1t asks a change O
administration and a change of party, il
order that there may be a change O
system and a change of methods, thu
assuring the maintenance unimpaired of
the institutions under which the republl,
has grown great and powerful.
The following is the portion of sec
ton , which was cut out of the plat
form:
We reiterate the oft repeated
doctrine of the democratic party tina
the necessity of the government is the
only justification for taxation and when
ever a tax is necessary it is unjustitiable
that when custom house taxation il
levied upon articles OF another kind pro
duced in this country the difference be
tween the cost of labor here and labol
abroad, when such a difference exists
fully measures any possible benefits t.
labor, and the enormou additional i'm
positions Of the existing tariff fall will
crushing force upon our farmers ant
working men, and to the mere advantag,
Of the few who it enriches, exacts from
labor grossly unjust shares of the ex
penses of the government and we de
mand such a revision of the tariff laws
rs will remove their iniquitous inequali
ties, tighten their expressions and put
them on a constitutional and equitable
basis.
But in making reduction in taxes it il
not proposed to iniure any domestic in
dustries, but rather to promote theil
healthy growth. From the foundation
Of the government taxes collected at the
custom house have been the chief source
of federal revenue. Such they mus
continue, but moreover, man, industries
have come to rely upon legislation fol
success and continuance, so that any
change of law must be at every step re
gardful of the labor and capital thus in
yolved. The process of reform must bt
subject in the execution to the specia
dictates of justice.
Deserving Praise.
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