The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-04-09


home industries against injurious foreign
competition, and recognize the Mckinley
bill as the ableSt expression of that prin-
ciple enacted in fulfillment of Republican
promises and as affording equal protec-
ton to the manufacturers, the mechanics
| and workingmen of America from an un-
just and degrading competition with the
pauperized and poverty-stricken labor of
European countries, and as preserving
American markets for the products of
| American labor.
| FREE TRADE DENOUNCED.
| Second-We denounce the Democratic
| doctrine of free trade in So-called raw
materials, " while insisting upon high
| protective tariff on goods manufactured
| therefrom, as calculated to benefit en-
| tirely the foreign at the expense and to
| the injury of the American producer We
regard the reciprocity clause of the Nc
Kinley law as wise and mastery stroke
OF Republican craftsmanship, under the
| operation OF which protection guards the
home market, while reciprocity reaches
| out to the foreign market While pro-
\ lection establishes, builds up and main
| tains American industries, reciprocity
opens new outlet for the surplus prod
uctS of our farms, workshops and fac
| tories.
Third-We favor such legislation by
congress, and in this state as will encour-
age, protect and promote the interests of
| agriculture in all of its departments. Pro-
lection of labor and the rights of laborers
| such as will grant to toll its full and just
!, rewards, is among the first obligations of
| the government.
Fourth-We demand protection for
the wool industry equal to that accorded
the most favored manufacturer of wool,
| so that in due time American wool-grow-
ers will supply all wool of every kind re-
quired for consumption in the United
| States, and we denounce the Springer
free wool bill now pending in congress
as unjust and unpatriotic.
THE SHERMAN ACT INDoRsED.
Fifth-Thoroughly believing that gold
! and silver should form the basis Of all
| circulating medium, we indorse the
| amended coinage act'of the last Republi-
can congress, by which the entire produc-
ton of the silver mines of the United
States is added to the currency of the
people.
Sixth-We commend the patriotic SER
| vices OF our senators and representative
| in congress and approve their efforts and
I llSdouiSo III lilS SCilCldi pClCnt Vi tilC
state, and we especially commend their
| industry in behalf of measures for the
| opening up and improvement of the Co
lumbia river, and we deplore all factional
opposition to these measures.
Seventh-That we are heartily in favor
OF the passage by congress of the bill
providing for boat railway at the dalles
of the Columbia river, which has been
! twice passed through the senate by the
! efforts of Senators Mitchell and Dolph;
that we believe it to be the most practi-
cable plan for the relief of the vast terri
! tory of country tributary to the Columbia
4 river, and we are in favor of liberal ap-
| preparations for internal Improvements,
| especially for all our rivers and harbors.
Eighth-We demand the appropriation
by congress of sum sufficient to COM
plete the work at the Cascade locks, and
that the work OF completing the same be
let by contract.
Ninth-That we are in favor of a fair
and equal distribution of taxation, and
| believe that all property not exempt bv
law should contribute its due proportion
in payment of the legitimate expenses of
the government and to this end we are
in favor of such amendment to our as
| SeSSment laws as will secure the assess
ment and taxation of all property at its |
| true cash value
Tenth-We are in favor of the early |
survey of the unsurveyed public lands of |
| this state in order that the same NAV be |
claimed and occupied and titles thereto |
speedily procured by bona fde settlers |
under the laws of the United States.
RAILROAD DEVELOPMENT FAVORED.
Eleventh-We favor the development
OF our state by the construction of rail-
roads and other systems of tranSpOrta-
tfon, and we hold all corporations to be
strictly responsible to their liabilities un-'
der the law, and recognize the right of
the legislature to exact all reasonable
limitations on corporate power.
Twelfth-The producer and laborer of
the country, should not be taxed to main
tain convicts in idleness, and the state
should give such employment to its GRIM
inals as will relieve the taxpayers without
forcing free laborers from their vocations
or reducing their wages by unnatural
competition.
Thirteenth-We indorse the action of
the state railroad commission in its efforts
to secure cheap transportation, and con-
gratulate shippers upon the success it has
attained; and we recommend that the
law be SO changed as to provide for the
election of commissioners by the people.
Fourteenth - The Republican party,
ever mindful of the services of the heroic
men who saved the union, favors liberal
per sions to the sailors and soldiers of the
republic and generous care of their
widows and orphans
ECONOMY ON GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS.
Fifteen-We favor economy in the ad-
ministration of national and state affairs;
prompt and effective restraint of combinations
of capitalists for purposes unlawful or at
variance with sound public policy; ample
educational facilities for the whole people, by
the maintenance inviolate of our public
school system; the reservation of the public
lands of the United States for homesteads
for Americans citizens, and the restoration to
the public domain of all unearned railroad
grants, and we contemplate with pride the
progress of Republican legislation and adj
ministration in all of the directions named.
Sixteenth-While inviting to our shores
the worthy poor und oppressed of other ma
tons, we demand the enactment of laws that
Will protect our country and people against
the influx of the vicious and criminal classes
of foreign nations and the importation of '
laborers under contract to compete with our
own citizens, and earnestly approve the rigid
enforcement of the existing laws by the
present national administration.
Seventeenth-We are opposed to the mmi.
grafton of Chinese laborers to the United a
States, and demand such an extension of ex-
ist'ng laws as shall effectually and forever ex-
clude Chinese laborers from American soil.
Eighteenth-We are in favor of an amend
ment to the constitution of the United States
providing for the election of United States
senators by direct vote of the people. a
Nineteenth-Good roads being essential to "
The welfare of all communities, and especially :
he farming community, we favor such :
amendment to the existing laws as will enable u
he several counties of the state to levy tax t
not exceeding mills for road purposes. n
THE FIFTY-FIRsT CONGRESS.
Twentieth-We take pride in commencing :
he work of the last Republican congress,
which, in the face of Democratic filibusterng, Oh
passed the Mckinley tariff law, reducing the Il
surplus revenues many millions of dollars, r,
the free list by adding thereto q
many of the great necessaries of our daily life ~
lot produced here in sufficient quantities to al
upply the demand, and otherwise readiusted er
he tariff laws, passed the customs administra- w
i've act, the pension law, the land grant for
eiture act, restoring many million acres of :.
and to the public domain, the postal subsidy Y
ct, the antitrust law, and many other great th