Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1887 — FACTS WORTH PRESERVING. [ARTICLE]

FACTS WORTH PRESERVING.

It is the common practice of republican papers to endeavor in every way to belittle the present administration. To claim +hat nothing of any importance has been done since Grover Cleveland became president, or if anything has been done, it is really ■aorse than nothing. They assume that if any departure from Republican policies has been made it has only wrought injury to the country. — This may seem to them to be good policy, but we think that in this age of newspapers, the people are too well posted to be swayed by any such efforts. A brief glance at some of the more important acts of the last congress will show that not only have important matters been under consideration, but that they have Deen acted upon. Among them may be named: 1. The electoral count bill. 2. The presidential succession bill. 3. Repealing the tenure of office ct. 4. The Mormon bill. 5. Providing for fast cruisers and steel guns. 6. The Canadian retaliatory bill. 7. The inter-state commerce bill. 8. Redeeming trade dollars. 9. Prohibiting the ownership of land by aliens. 10. S nding all private claims to the court of claims. 11. Ordering an inquiry into the management of the Pacific railroad . 12. Relieving the merchants marine of numerous burdens. 13. Extending the free mail delivery system to cities of 10,000 inhabitants. 14. Authorizing the issue, of small silver certificates. 15. Forfeiting forty-four millions of acres of unearned land grants. There is not a bill in that entire list not called for by the necessities of the times. Tie bill which prohibits aliens from holding lands supplemented the forfeiture of 44,000,000 acres of lands for homesteads, is but another illustration of the fidelity of the Democratic party to the interests of the toiling millions. These millions of acres the Republicans had granted conditionally to various railway corporations. The conditions have never been oomplied with. Millions more acres of the public domain have been granted by the Republicans which will be forfeited m the same way. ’’he policy of the Republicans was to give away the public lands; the policy of the Democratic party is a radical change. No injury, except to a lot of grasping monopolies has been wrought. It is a policy which the republicans ought to have inaugurated, but which they failed to do. In fact, it was only because the party became so recreant to duty; so unmindful«of t e interests and rights of the people, and further because she is upon a wrong basis, that she has been beaten. When republicans sneeringly ask what has been done, point to these acts, and ask them whose administrations made it necessary that so remedial legislation should in bahalf of this great people be so promptly placed up n the statute books upon the :c. ... km of the Democratic party to power.—Richmond Democrat