Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1896-09-16

| c"ui az " may hereafter be- conSti.
Uuted, 81 that the burdens of taxation
may Oe equally and impartially laid
70 Uhe end that wealth may bear its
uue proportion Of the exnense of the
| government.
LABOR.
we hOld that the most efficient way
Oh protecting American labor is to
prevent the importation of foreign
pauper labor To compete with IL i'm tho |
nome market. and That the yalue of |
the home market to our American |
farmers and artisans is greatly reduced |
! oy vicious monetary system which |
depreSseS the prices of their products |
below the cost Of production, and thus
deprlyes 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 may be |
necessary to protect itin all its rights. |
We are in favor of the arbitration |
OF differences between employers en-
gagged in interStare commerce and
their employees, and recommend such
legislation as is necessary to carry out
this principle.
The absorption Of wealth by the
few. the consolidation of our leading
railroad systems, and the formation
of trust aud pools require a sticter
control by the federal government of
| those arteries Of commerce. We de-
mand the enlargement of the powers
or 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 profigate 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 a 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 sub
stance of the people.
FEDERAL INTERFERENCE.
We denounce arbitrary interferepces
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
a 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 SEN
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 a similar
measure.
PENStIiSC claims or de-
serving union soldiers we heartily en-
dorse the rule of the present commits,
sioner of pensions that no names shal'
be arbitrarily dropped from the pen
sion roll; and the fact or enllSImenI
and service shonld be deemed con,
elusive evidence against disease and
disability before enlistment.
TERRITORIES.
We favor the admission of the ter
ritories of New Mexico, Arizona ana
Oklahoma into the United States,
and we favor the early admission OF
ali the territories having the neces-
sary popuiatiOn and resources TO en-
title them to statehood, and whlle
they remain territories, we hold tnat
the officials appointed to administer
the government of any territory To-
gether with the District OF Columbia
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 land'
lof the United States should be appro
nriated to the establishment OF fIe'
homes for American citizens. W.
recommend that the territory o.
Alaska be granted a delegate In con
gress. and that the general iand ano
| 1imber laws of the United States o'
extended to said territory.
MONROE DOCTRINE. >,
The Monroe doctrine is originally
declared and as interp reted by succeed
inc presidents, is permanent part o.
the foreign policy of the Unltet
States, and must at all times be main
tained'
CUBA.
We extend our sympathy 10 Illt
neonle of Cuba in their heroic struB
Gle for liberty and independence.
THIRD TERM.
We are opposed to life tenure In Ih'
nuhlic service. We favor appoint
ments based upon merit, fixed term o.
office, and sach an administrative y y
: the civil service laws as, VIII anoIl
: equal opportunities to all cltllens o .,
oSscertained fitness. We declare u U
be the unwrltten law OF TINS TINS repuniic ,tlono y
Established by custom and usage ., .
one hundred years and sanctioned Q,
the examples of the greatest au'
! ,YiSest nf those who founded ana hav'
0 maintained our government, that n.
c man should be eligible I0E u uh'I'
: term in the presidential once
WATERWAYS.
M. ,o5oral Government should car