Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-07-11

We declare that it is the duty of congres
to use all constitutional power which r.
mains after that decision or which ma
come from its reversal by the court, as
may hereafter be constituted, 80 that tn
burdens of taxation may be equally an
impartialy divided, 10 the end tha
wealth may bear its due proportion c
the expenses of government.
ARBITRATION.
We are in favor of arbitration of dill
ferences between employers engaged i
Interstate commerce and their employees
and recommend such Legislation as
necessary to carry out this principle.
RESTRICTING IMMIGRATION.
We hold that the most efficient way O
protesting American labor is to preven
the importation of foreign pauper labo
to compete with it in the home market
and that the value of the home market t
our American farmers and artisans i
greatly reduced by the vicious monetar
system which depresses the prices O
their products below the cost of produc
tion, and thus deprives them of tn
means of purchasing the products of ou
home manufactures.
RAILWAYS AND CORPORATIONS.
The absorption of wealth by the few
the consolidation of our leading railway
systems, and the formation of trusts anC
pools require stricter control by tn,
federal government of the arteries o
commerce. We demand the enlargmen
of the powers of the interstate com
merce commission and such restrictions
and guarantees in control of railroads a
will protect the people from robbery ant
oppression.
REPUBLICAN ExTRAvAGANCE.
We denounce the prohigate waste o
money wrung from the people by oppres
sive taxation, and the lavish appropria
tions 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 de,
pressed in price till they no longer repay
the cost of production. We demand a
return to that simplicity and economy
which BELTS Democratic government,
and reduction in the number of useless
offices, the salaries of which drain the
substance of the people.
FEDERAL INTERFERENoE.
We denounce arbitrary interference by
the federal authorities in local affairs as a
violation of the constitution of the United
States and crime against free institu-
tions, and we especially bject to govern
ment interference by injunction as a new
and highly dangerous form of oppression
by which federal judges, in contempt of
the laws Of states and the rights of citi-
zens, become at once legislators, Judges
and executioners, and we approve the bill
passed at the last session of the United
States senate and now pending in the
house, relative to contempt in federal
courts and providing for trials by jury in
certain cases of contempt.
PACIFIC FUNDING BILL.
No discrimination should be INDUCED
in by the government of the United States
in favor of any of its debtors. We ap-
prove of the refusal of the SD congress
to pass the Pacific railroad funding bill,
and denounce the effort of the present
congress to enact a similar measure.
UNION SOLDIERS.
Recognizing the just claims of deserv-
ing Union soldiers, We heartily indorse
the rule of the present commissioner of
pensions that no names shall bearbtrari-
ly dropped from the pension rolls, and
that the fact of enlistment and service
should be deemed conclusive evidence
against disease or disability before enlist
ment.
NEW MEXICO AND ARIZONA.
We favor the admission of the terri.
tories of New Mexico and Arizona into
the Union as states, and we favor the
early admission of all territories having
the necessary population and the resour.
ces to entite them to statehood, and
while they remain territories we hold that
the officials appointed to administer the
government of any territory, together
with the District of Columbia and Alaska,
should bs bona tide residents Of the terri
tory or district in which their duties are
to be performed. The Dem ocratic party
believes in home rule, and that all the
public lands of the United States should
be appropriated to the establishment of
free homes for American citizens.
We recommend that the territory of
Alaska be granted delegate in congress,
and that the general land and timber laws
of the United States be extended to said
We extend our sympathy to the people
of Cuba in their heroic struggle for liber-
ty and independence.
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.
The federal government should care
for and improve the Mississippi river
and other great waterway of the repub-
llc, so as to secure for the interior states
easy and cheap transportation to tide
water. When any waterway of the re-
public is of sufficient Importance to de-
mand aid of the government, such aid
should be extended upon definite plan
of continuous work until permanent i'm
provement is secured.
CIVIL SERVICE AND THIRD TERM.
We are opposed to life tenure in pub.
lie service. We favor appointments
based upon merit, fixed terms of office
and such an administration of the civil
service laws as will afford equal oppor-
tunities to all citizens of ascertained fit
ness. We declare it to be the unwritten
law of this republic, established by the
custom and usage of 100 years and sane
toned by the examples of the greatest
and wisest of those who founded and have
maintained our government, that no man
shall be eligible for third term of presi.
Dental Office.
APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE.
Confident of the justice of our cause
and the necessity of its success at the
polls, We submit the foregoing declara.
tion Of principles and purposes to the