Appletons' annual cyclopædia and register of important events of the year .. . thrice that aggregate hasdisposed of less than a sixth directly to tillers of thesoil. Reform is necessary to correct the omissions of aRepublican Congress, and the errors of our treatiesand our diplomacy, which have stripped our fellow-citizens of foreign birth and kindred race recrossingthe Atlantic of the shield of American citizenship,and have exposed our brethren of the Pacitic coastto the incursions of a race not sprung from the samegreat parent stock, and, in fact, now by law deniedcitizenship through natural
Appletons' annual cyclopædia and register of important events of the year .. . thrice that aggregate hasdisposed of less than a sixth directly to tillers of thesoil. Reform is necessary to correct the omissions of aRepublican Congress, and the errors of our treatiesand our diplomacy, which have stripped our fellow-citizens of foreign birth and kindred race recrossingthe Atlantic of the shield of American citizenship,and have exposed our brethren of the Pacitic coastto the incursions of a race not sprung from the samegreat parent stock, and, in fact, now by law deniedcitizenship through naturalization, as being neitheraccustomed to the traditions of a progressive civili-zation nor exercised in liberty under equal denounce the policy which thus discards theliberty-loving German, and tolerates a revival of thecoolietrade in Mongolian women imported for im-moral purposes, and Mongolian men held to performservile-labor contracts, and demand such modifica-tion of the treaty with the Chinese Empire, or suchlegislation within constitutional limitations, as shall. PRESIDENTS HOUSE, WASHINGTON, D. C prevent further importation or immigration of theMongolian race. Reform is necessary, and can never be effected butby making it the controlling issue of the elections,and lifting it above the two false issues with whichthe office-holding class and the party in power seekto smother it: 1. The false issue with which they -would enkindlesectarian strife in respect to the public schools, ofwhich the establishment and support belong exclu-sively to the several States, and which the Demo-cratic party has cherished from their foundation,and is resolved to maintain without prejudice orpreference for any class, sect, or creed, and withoutlargesses from the Treasurv to any. 2. Tne false issue by which they seek to lightanew the dying embers of sectional hate betweenkindred peoples once estranged, but now reunitedin one indivisible republic and a common destiny. Reform is necessary
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