The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1906-01-04
DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

DEMOCRATlC PARTY.
Convention, St. Louis, June 1876.
Samuel J. Tilden nominated. Tariff
plank:
"We denounce the present tariff,
levied upon nearly 1000 articles, as a
masterpiece of injustice, inequality
and false pretense. 1t yields dwindl-
ing, not yearly rising revenue. 1t
has impoverished many industries to
subsidize few. 1t prohibits imports
that might purchase the products OF
American labor. 1t has degraded
American commerce from the first to
an inferior rank on the high seas. 1t
has cut down the sales of American
manufactures at home and abroad, and
depleted the returns of American
agriculture-an industry followed by
half our people. 1t costs the people
five times more than it produces to the
Treasury, obstructs the processes OF
production, and wastes the fruits OF
labor. 1t promotes fraud, fosters
smuggling, enriches dishonest officials
and bankrupts honest merchants.
We demand that all custom house
taxation shall be only for revenue"
REPUBLICAN PARTY.
Convention, Cincinnati, June 1876.
Rutherford B. Hayes nominated. 1t
made the following tariff declaration:
"The revenue necessary for current
expenditures and the obligations OF
the public debt must be largely de-
rived from duties upon importations,
which, so far as possible, should be
adjusted to promote the interests OF
American labor and advance the
prosperity of the whole country
1880
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
Convention, Cincinnati, June 1880.
Winfield S. Hancock was nominated
for president. 1t made simple de-
mand for "Tariff for revenue only
REPUBLICAN PARTY
Convention, Chicago, June 1880;
candidate James A. Garfield. 1t said
on the subject of the Tariff: "We
re-affirm the belief avowed in 1876,
that the duties levied for the purposes
of revenues should so discriminate as
to favor American labor"
1854
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
Convention, Chicago, July 1884;
nominee Grover Cleveland. 1t de.
clared on the Tariff: "The Democratic
party is pledged to revise the tariff in
a spirit of fairness to all interests"
REPUBLICAN PARTY
Convention, Chicago, June 1884;
Candidate James G.. Blaine. Tariff
plank:
ssThe Republican party pledges it.
self to correct the inequalities OF the
tariff and to reduce the surplus, not
by the vicious and indiscriminate
process of horizontal reduction, but
by such methods as will relieve the
taxpayer without injuring the labor
or the great productive interests Of
the country"
1888
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
Convention, St. Louis, 1888; candi'
date Grover Cleveland. Tariff plank;
"Our established domestic industries
and enterprise should not and need
not be endangered by the reduction
and correction of the burdens of taxa.
ton. On the contrary, fair and
careful revision of our tax laws, with
due allowance for the difference be:
tween the wages of American and
foreign labor, must promote and en-
courage every branch of such indus
tries and enterprise by giving them
assurance of an extended market
and steady and continuous operations.
In the interests of American labor
which should in no event be neglected
the revision of our tax laws cen.
templated by the Democratic party
should promote the advantage OF such
labor by cheapening the cost OF neces.
saries of life in the home OF every
workingman, and at the same time
securing to him steady and remunera'
tive employment. Upon this question
lof tariff reform, so closely concerning
LIVERY phase of our national life, and
r.spon every question involved in the
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