Daily Texarkana Democrat. (Texarkana, Ark.) 1890-1894, 1892-10-04
WATERWAY IMPROVEMENTS.

Sec Ii. The Federal Government should
care 70 and improve the Mis3iss ppi River,
snd 9th great waterways CT the Republi +,
so as to secure Tor the interior States easy
and che p transportation to dewa er
When any waterway Of the Republic i of
sufficient importance to demand aid of the
Government, such aid should be extended
upon definite plan of continuous work un-
I'll per naGent improvement is secured,
NICARAGUA CANAL.
Sec. Is. For purposes of national de-
fenso and tho promotion of commerce be-
tween the 5 ates, we recognize the early
constr ct on Of the Nicaragua Canal ana its
protect on against fore gn contro as of
great importance to the Unit States,
THE WORLDS FAIR.
Sc Is. Recognizing the Worlds Col
umbign Exposition as tional undertal-
ing of vast importance IN which the general
Government has invited the cooperation OF
all the powers Of the world, and apprecat-
ing the ceptance by many OF such powers
of the invita- ION &c extended and the broad
and liberal efforts being made by them TO
contribute to the gr ndeur of the undertake
ing, we are Of tte opinion that Congress
should make such necessary financial pro,
yis n as shall be requisite to the mainten-
ance of he national honor and public faith.
THE SCHOOL QUESTION.
Sec II. Popular education being the on
" safe basis OF popular suffrage, we recon-
mend to the several States most liberal up-
preparation for the public schools. Free
common schools are the nursery of good
government, and they have always received
The fostering C re of the Democratic party,
which favors every means of increasing in
telhgence. Freedom of education being an
essential of civil and religious liberty as well
q. necessity for the development of intel
llpence, must not be interiered with under
any preteXt whatever. W." are opposed to
State Interference with parental rights or
RIGHTS OF COINCIDENCE in the education of
children as an infringement Of the funda-
mental Democratic doctrine that the largest
Individual liberty consistent with the rights
Of Others insures the highest type of Ameri-
can citizenship and the best government.
ADMISSION OF THE TERRITORIES.
Sec. IS. Weapprove the action of the
present House of Representatives in passing
bills admitting into the Union as States the
Territories of New Mexico and Arizona, and
we favor the early admission Of all the Ter
liLories having the necessary population and
resources to enLitle them to Statehood, and
while they remain Territories we hold that
the officials appointed to administer the gov
eminent of any Territory, together with the
pistrici Of Columbia and Alaska shonld ha
bona 6de residents Of the Territory or dis
trict in which heir duties are to be per.
formed. The Democratic party believes IN
home rule d the control of their own af-
fairs by the people oftno ylcinage.
PROTECTION OF RAILWAY EMPLOYEES.
Sec. 10. We favor legislation by Con-
gress and State legislatures to protect the
lives and limbs Of railway employees and
those Of other haza 'dous transportation
companies, and donounce the inactivity Of
tho Republican p rty, and particularly the
Republican Senate, for causing tho defeat
Of measures benef ial and protective to
this class of wage-goers.
THE SWEATING SYSTEM DENoUNoED.
We are in favor Of the enactment by
the States of laws tor abolishmg the noto-
rlous sweating system for nbollshlng con-
tract convict labor and prohibiting the
employment in factories of children under
10 years It age.
sUMPTUAR- LAWS,
We are opposed ty all sumptuary laws as
m interference with the individual rights OF
tho citizen.