Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1896-09-15

az may hereafter be cOnSti-
tuueu' so that the burdens of taxation
nay oe equally and impartially laid.
~ lle end that wealth NAV bear its
uue proportion of the expense of the
government.
LABOR.
We hold that the most efficient way
OF protecting American labor is toI
prevent the importation of foreign
paupef labor To compete with il i'm the
huihe market, and that the value of
the nome market to our American
farmers and artisans is greatly reduced
oy vicious monetary system which
uepreSSeS the prices of their products
0elOw the cost of production, and thus
deprlVes them of the means of pur-
CHASING the products of our home
manufactures, and, as labor creates
the wealth of the country, we demand
the passage of such laws as NAV be
necessary to protect it in all its rights.
we are in favor Of the arbitration
ol dllIerences between employers en-
gagged IN interStare commerce and
Inelr employees, and recommend such
legislation as is necessary to carry out
this principle.
The absorption Of wealth by the
lew, the consolidation of our leading
railroad systems, and the formation
OF trust and pools require a sticter
control by the federal government of
those arteries of commerce. We de-
mand the enlargement of the powers
OF the interstate commerce commiss-
ION and such and such restrictions and
and guarantees in in the control of
railroads as will protect the people
from robbery and oppression,
TAXATION.
We denounce the profligate waste
of the money wrung from the people
by oppressive taxation and the lavish
appropriations of recent Republican
congresses, which have kept taxes
high while the labor that pays them
is unemployed, and the products of
the peoples toll are depressed in price
till they no longer repay the cost Of
production.
We demand return to that sim
| plicity and economy which benefits
Democratic government and reduc-
tion in the number Of useless offices,
the salaries of which drain the SUBJ
stance of the people.
FEDERAL INTERFERENCE.
We edenounce arbitrary interferences
by federal authorities in local affairs
as a violation of the constitution of
the United States and crime against
free institutions, and we especially
object to government by injunction as
new and highly dangerous form of
oppression, by which federal judges
in contempt of the laws of the states
and rights of citizens, become at once
legislators, judges, and eXecutioners,
and we approve the bill passed at the
last session of the United States sem
ate, and now pending in the house Of
representatives relative to contemptS
in federal courts and providing for
trials by jury in certain cases of con-
tempt.
ANTI-FUNDING.
No discrimination should be in
dulged by the government of the Uni
ted States in favor of any of its debt
ors. We approve of the refusal of the
Pacific railroad funding bill, and de-
nounce the efforts of the present Re-
publican congress to enact similar
measure.
Recognizing the just elaine .qf dc,
serving union soldiers we heartily en-
dOrse the rule of the present commls-
soner of pensions that no names slal'
be arbitrarily dropped from the pen
sion roll; and the fact or enllsImehl
and service shonld be deemed con,
elusive evidence against disease ana
disability before enlistment.
TERRITORIES.
We favor the admission of the ter,
ritOries of New Mexico, Arizona ano
Oklahoma into the United States
and we favor the early admission OF
all the territories haYing the neces
sary population and resources TO en-
title them to statehood, ana Wnlle
they remain territories, we hold thal
the officials appointed to administer
the government of any territory 10
gether with the District OF Columbls
and Alaska, should be bona tide resi-
dents of the territory or district II
which the duties are to be performed
The Democratic party believes II
home rule and that all public lands
of the United States should be appro
nriated to the establishment OF fre'
homes for American citizens. WI
recommend that the territory o
| Alaska be granted a delegate IN con
press, and that the general land an1
| timber laws of the United States On
| extended to said territory.
MONROE DOCTRINE. :,
The Monroe doctrine is originally
declared and as interp reted by succeed
ing presidents, is permanent part O.
the foreign policy of the Unlteo
States, and must at all times be main
tanned
We extend our sympathy TO tht
neonIe of Cuba in their heroic strug
Ole for liberty and independence.
THIRD TERM.
We are opposed to life tenure In th'
nuhlic service. We favor appoint
ments based upon merit, fixed term o.
once. and sach an administration o
| the civil service laws as WIN anoIe
ennaI opportunities to all citizens o
ascertained fitness. We declare ~ U
he the unwritten law Of this republic
estahlished by custom and usage o
one hundred years and sanctioned .!
the examples Of the greatest am
wisest of those who founded ana haY'
maintained our government, lhaC ~
man should be eligible Tor tillr'
term in the presidential once
WATERWAYS.
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