No. XVIII. - Page 237. Balance of Trade
(A.)- Annual Imports and Exports of
merchandise, and excess of same for each
year, from 1870 to 1887 inclusive, specie
values; also imports and exports and ex-
cess of gold coin and bullion each year for
same period; also summary of imports,
exports, and excess of both together.
[This and Nos. XIX. and XXI. were fur-
nished to the Senate by Senator Sherman.]
No. XIX. - Page 238. Balance of Trade
(B.). Monthly Imports and Exports of
Merchandise, Coin, and Bullion, and ex-
cess from June 1886 to June 1888 inclusive.
No. XX. - Page 238. Imports and Exports
of Merchandise during Fiscal Years 1887
and 1888.
No. XXI. - Page 239. Balance of Trade
(C.). Monthly excesses, showing July 31,
1888, a balance of $44,484,650 against us.
No. XXII.-Pages 240 to 241. The Free
List Summary of values of imports of
merchandise during the years ending June
30, 1887 and 1888, admitted free of duty.
No. XXIII. Pages 241 to 242. Tremendous
Cost of the Democratic Rebellion Official
details.
We reaffirm our unswerving devotion to the National Constitution, and the indissoluble union of the States; to the autonomy reserved to the States under the Constitution; to the personal rights and liberties of citizens in all the States and Territories in the Union, and especially to the supreme and sovereign right of every lawful citizen, rich or poor, native or foreign-born, white or black, to cast one free ballot in public elections, and to have that ballot duly counted. We hold the free and honest popular ballot, and the just and equal representation of all the people, to be the foundation of our republican government, and demand effective legislation to secure the integrity and purity of elections, which are the fountains of public authority. We charge that the present Administration
Adopted unanimously, by a standing vote, at
and the Democratic majority in Congress owe their existence to the suppression of the ballot by a criminal nullification of the Constitution and laws of the United States.
American system of Protection; we protest We are uncompromisingly in favor of the against its destruction as proposed by the President and his party. They serve the interests of Europe; we will support the inand confidently appeal to the people for their We accept the issue, judgment. The Protective system must be maintained. Its abandonment has always been followed by general disaster to all interests, except those of the usurer and the sheriff. We denounce the Mills Bill as destructive farming interests of the country, and we to the general business, the labor and the heartily indorse the consistent and patriotic action of the Republican representatives in Congress in opposing its passage.
cratic Party to place wool on the free list, We condemn the proposition of the Demo
and we insist that the duties thereon shall be
adjusted and maintained so as to furnish full and adequate protection to that industry throughout the United States.
needed reduction of the national revenue, by The Republican Party would effect all repealing the taxes upon tobacco, which are an annoyance and burden to agriculture, and the tax upon spirits used in the arts and for of the tariff laws as will tend to check immechanical purposes; and by such revision ports of such articles as are produced by our people, the production of which gives emimport duties those articles of foreign proployment to our labor, and release from duction (except luxuries), the like of which cannot be produced at home. If there shall still remain a larger revenue than is requisite for the wants of the Government, we favor the entire repeal of internal taxes rather than the surrender of any part of our Protective System at the joint behest of the whiskey trusts and the agents of foreign manufactur
We declare our hostility to the introduction into this country of foreign contract labor and of Chinese labor, alien to our civilization and Constitution, and we demand the rigid enforcement of the existing laws against it, and favor such immediate legislation as will exclude such labor from our shores.
We declare our opposition to all combinations of capital organized in trusts or other