The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-09-20

rules Tor the government of Congress,
placing all representatives of the peo-
pie upon an equal footing, and taking
away from committees a veto power
| greater than that of the President
! f3. We demand government of the
people, by the people, and for the peo-
pie, instead of a government of the
bondholder, by the bondholder, and
for the bondholder; and we denounce
every attempt to stir up sectional strife
as an effort to conceal monstrous crimes
against the people.
Il. In the furtherance of these ends,
we ask the cooperation of all fair
minded people. We have no quarrel
classes, but only against vicious insti-
tutions. We are no. content to endure
further discipline from our present
actual rulers, who, having dominion
over money, over transportation, over
land and labor, and largely over the
press and the machinery of govern
ment, WELD unwarrantable power over
oItr institutions and over fe and prop
erty.
1880.
| REPUBLICAN, CHICAGO, JUNE I'd.
The Republican party, in National
| Convention assembled, at the end of
twenty years since the Federal Gov
erpment was first committed to it's
charge, submits to the people of the
United States this brief report of it's
administration. Itsuppressed a rebel
lion which had armed nearly a million
of men to subvert the National author
ity. 1t reconstructed the union of the
States, with freedom instead of slavery
as its corner stone. 1t transformed
A oR IooS-,
| likeness of things to the rank of citi-
Infamous work of hunting fugitive
slaves, and charged it to see that
slavery does not exist. It has raised
the value of our paper currency from
38 per cent. to the par of gold. 1t has
restored, upon a solid basis, payment
in coin for all the National obligations,
and has given us currency absolutely
good, and equal in every part of our
extended country. It has lifted the
credit of the nation from the point
| where per cent. bonds sold at 86c., to
that where 4 four per cent. bonds are
eagerly sought at premium. Under
it's administration, railways have in
creased from 81, 900 miles in 1860, to
more than 80, 600 miles in 1879. Our
foreign trade has increased from $780,,
600, 900 to $1,150, 900, ,00C in the same
tirle, and our exports, which were
! ~ 81. y, 600 lesf5, tlsC3 our imports in
| 1860, were 1854, ,OOO. 900 more than our
imports In 1879. Without resorting to
loans it has, since the war closed, de-
frayed the ordinary expenses of gov
ernment, besides the accruing interest
on the public debt, and has annually
disbur5ed more than thirty millions
| for soldiers pensions. 1t has paid
| $888, 900, 900 of the public debt, and by
refunding the balance at low rates, has
reduced the annual interest charge
| from nearly $151, 900, 900 to less than
$89, 900, 600. All the industries of the
country have revived, labor is in de-
mand, wages have increased, and
! throughout the entire country there is
evidence of a acoming prosperity greater
than we have ever enjoyed.
Upon this record, the Republican
party asks for the continued conf dence
and support of the people, and this
convention submits for their approval
| the following statements of the prin-
clples and purpOs 3s which will continue
to guide and inspire it's efforts:
First-We affirm that the work of
the last twenty. one years has been
such as to commend itself in the favor
OF the nation, and that the fruits of
the costly victories which we have
achieved through immense difficulties
should be preserved; that the peace re-
gained should be cherished; that the
discovered Union, now happily restored,
should be perpetuated, and that the
liberties secured to this generation
should be transmitted undiminished to
future generations; that the order
established and the credit acquired
should never be impaired; that the
pensions promised should be extin-
guished by the full payment of every
dollar thereof; that the reviving indus
tries should be further promoted, and
that the commerce, already so great,
should be steadily encouraged.
Second-The Constitution of the
United States is supreme law and not
a mere contract; out of confederated
States it made a sovereign nation.
Some powers are denied to the nation,
while others are denied to the States,
but the boundary between the powers
delegated and those reserved, is to be
determined by the National, and not
by the State tribunals
Thlrd-The work of popular educa
tion is one left to the care of the several
| States, but it is the duty of the National
| Government to aid that work to the
extent Cf its constitutional duty. The
intelligence of the nation is but the
aggregate of the intelligence in the
several States, and the destiny Of the
nation must be guided, not by the
genius of any one State, but by the
average genius Of all.
Fourth-The Constitution wisely
forbids Congress to make any law re-
specting an establishment of religion,
but it is idle to hope that the nation
can be protected against the influence
of sectarianism while each State is ex-
posed to its domination We there
e.