The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-06-03

Its "DlllOn dollar congress
enacted appropriations amounting to
five hundred millions annually. 1t
made most of these appropriations
permanent, SO that they cannot be re
duced by the
PRESENT DEMOCRATIC HOUSE
OF representatives without the concur
renee of the Republican senate. 1t
turned magnificent surplus into an
imminent deficiency. 1t went to
lengths of class legislation before un-
heard of by enacting its Mckinley
bill 1t deprived the state of New
York Of its just representation in con-
gress and in the electoral college by
fraudulent census 1t displayed an
utter contempt for economy and
honesty by its fraudulent administration
of the pension Office. 1t reached a
climax Of partisan oppression in its
strenuous endeavor to enact into law
the infamous force bill. Contrasted
with this history of extravaganza and
oppression we recall with ever increas-
ing satisfaction the wise and prudent
Democratic administration OF Grover
Cleveland. He pointed out in his
message Of December 1887, the true
policy OF the Democratic party and
through temporary defeat, brought it
to the magnificent victories of 1890
and 1901. All this has been remem-
bered by our brethren in other states.
M'KINIEY TARIFF CONDEMNED.
"We denounce the Mckinley tariff
We declare that tariff is tax; that
all taxation is burden that 1t should
never exceed the necessities of a gov
ernment wisely and economically ad
ministered. We condemn the present
tariff, not only because it is excessive
and restrictive of the commercial de-
velopment Of the country. but because
it has been enacted in the interest of
few at the expense and for the op-
preston of the mass Of the people. 1t
is class legislation. 1t does not in
crease the receipts of wage earners,
but it turns over to the protected man.
ufacturers, ever becoming more and
more repacious the federal treasury
and the taxing power of the federal
government to use for their own bene-
fit, and it leaves it to them to decide
whether or not the wage earners they
employ shall receive any part of this
enormous bounty. 1t is an inexhaus.
tible source of corruption, constant
menace to free government. 1t has
sapped the independence of industry
and induces men to seek to grow rich
by official favoritism rather than by
their own exertions. An inevitable
consequence is that the class in receipt
of these vast pecuniary favors should
seek to
PERpETUATE THEIR GRASP
upon the government by supplying, in
practically unlimited amounts the
money with which an electorate may
be corrupted and popular government
destroyed. The recent change in the
policy of the Republican party from a
general system Of high tariff taxes to
the reciprocity system is an admission
of the vast benefits to be derived from
the extension of our foreign trade and
of the justice Of the tariff reform prin.
ciples.
1--WE approve the use of both gold
and silver as money and We demand
that all dollars. whether gold or silver,
shall be equal in value to each other
in fact as well as by declaration of the
law. We are opposed to the free
coinage of silver by the United States
alone at the existing rate Of sixteen to
one because we believe free coinage
at that rate will result in the immedi-
ate disappearance of gold from the
business Of this country, the use Of sill
yer with certain loss to every wage
Garner and every savings bank deposi-
tor with the impairment of credit and
disastrous disturbance of business of
every kind.
NECESSITY OF PARTY ORGANIZATION.
'We demand the repeal of the Sher-
man silver law Of 1886 as an obstruc.
tion of international bi-metalism and
because it is rapidly bringing this coun-
try to silver mono .metalism with all of
its attending evils.
"We recognize the necessity of an
organization through which the party
may direct its energies; but when such
an organization claims to be the party
itself instead of its instrument when it
expresses the voice and misrepresents
the desire of the party; when it calls
the caucuses at unaccustomed seasons,
and upon insufficient notice, so then
regardless of the votes cast, it placed
upon the convention roll and admits
to the convention only those who, with
out respect to the voice or wishes oftheir
constituents, will agree in advance to
support the schemes and oligarchy it
has established; when it gives notice
IN advance that they who will not
agree to be as subservient will not