Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1892-06-30

agricultural exporting states.
we denounce the policy which fosters
no industry so much as it does the sher.
if.
RECIPROCITY.
Wefavor trade interchange on the basis
OF reciprocal advantages to the countries
participating, on the -honored doc
trlne OF the democratic faith, but we de-
nounce sham reciprocity which juggles
with the peoples desire for enlarged for.
eign markets and freer exchanges, by
pretending to establish closer trade rela.
tons for the country whose articles of ex.
port are almost exclusively agricultural
products, with other countries that are
also agricultural, while clinging to the
custom-house barrier Of prohibitive tariff
taxes against the richest countries in the
world that stand ready to take our entire
surplus of products and exchange there
for commodities which are necessaries
and comforts of life among our people.
TRUSTS AND COMBINATIONS.
We recognize in trusts and combina-
tions, which are designed to enable cap
ital to secure more than a just share of
the joint product Of capital and labor,
the natural consequence of prohibitive
taxes, which prevent free competition,
which is the life of honest trade, but be-
lieve their worst evils can be abated by
law, and we demand rigid enforcement
OF the laws made to prevent and control
them, together with such further legisla-
ton in the restraint OF their abuses as ex-
perience may show to be necessary
THE LAND QUESTION.
The republican party, while protesting
a policy of reserving public land for small
holdings by actual settlers, has given
away the peoples heritage. till now few
railroads and nonresident aliens, individ-
ual and incorporate, possess larger area
than that Of all the farms between the
two seas. The last democratic admins
tration reversed the improvident and I'M
wise policy Of the republican party touch
ing the public domain, and reclaimed it
from corporations and syndicates. alien
and domestic, and restored to the people
nearly 100,0J0,000 acres of valuable land,
to be sacredly held as homesteads for our
citizens, and we pledge ourselves to con-
tinue this policy until everv acre Of land
80 unlawfully held shall be reclaimed and
restored to the people.
THE SILVER QUESTION.
We denounce the republican legislation
known as the Sherman act OF 1890 as a
cowardly makeshift fraught with the pos
sibilities of danger in the future, which
should make all its supper ters, as we'll as,
author, anxious for speedy repeal. We
hold to the use OF both gold and silver as
the standard money Of the country, and
to the coinage OF both gold and silver
without discrimination against either
metal or charge for mintage, but the dol
lar unit on the coinage of both metals
must be Of equal intrinsic and exchange
able value, or adjusted through interna-
tional agreement, or by such safe guards
of legislation as shall insure the main
tenance of the party of the two metals,
and the equal power of every dollar at all
times in the mints and in the payment Of
debts, and we demand that paper cur
rency be kept at par with and redeem
able in such coin. We insist upon this
policy as especially necessary for the pro-
lection of farmers and the laboiing classes
the first and most defenseless victims of
unstable money and fuctating currency.
THE STATE BANK TAX.
We recommend that the prohibitory 10
per cent tax on state bank issues be re-
pealed.
CIVIL SERVICE.
We reaffirm the declaration OF the dem.
ocratic national convention OF 1875 for
the reform OF the civil service, and call
for an honest enforcement OF all laws reg
ulating the same. The nomination Of the
president, as in the recent republican
convention, by delegations composed
largely of hisappointees, holding office at
his pleasure, is scandalous satire upon
free popular institutions and a startling
illustration of the methods by which
president may crafty his ambition. We
denounce the policy under which Federal
office-holders usurp the control OF party
conventions in states, and pledge the
democratic party to reform these and all
other abuses which threaten individual
liberty and local self-government.
OUR FOREIGN POLICY.
The democratic party is the only party
that has ever given the country foreign
policy consistent and vigorous, compell-
ing respect abroad and inspiring conf
dence at home, while avoiding entang-
ling alliances. 1t has aimed to cultivate
friendly relations with other nations and
especially with the neighbors in the
American continent, whose destiny is
closely linked with our own, and we view
with alarm the tendency of a policy of ir.
ritation and bluster, which is liable at
any time to confront us with the alter
native Of humiliation or war.
THE NAVY.
We favor the maintenance Of a navy
strong enough tor all purposes OF national