Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1893 — What They are Pledged to Do! [ARTICLE]

What They are Pledged to Do!

The Democratic Congress That Met last Monday is Pledged to the Following, as Laid Down in Their Platform Adopted at Chicago in June of : i nß * U • 'J “AVe denounce the Republican policy of protection as a fraud on the labor of the great majority of the American people for the benefit of the few. We declare it to •ben fundamental principal of the -Democratic'party that the federal government has no constitutional power to impose and collect tariff duties except for purposes for revenue only, and we demand that the collection of such taxes shall be limited to the necessities of the government when honestly and economically administered.” “We denoudee the McKinley Tariff Law enacted by the Fiftyfirst Congress as the culminating atrocity of class legislation; we endorse the efforts made by the Democrats of the present Congress to modify its most oppressive features in the direction of free raw materials and cheaper manufactured uoods that enter into general consumption; and we promise its repeal as one of the benifieent results that will follow the action of the people in intrusting power to the Democrtic party.”