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commerce, and requiring all corpora
tions to show, before doing business
outside of the state of tlieh origin,
that they have no water in their stock
and that they have not attempted and
are not attempting to monopolize any
branch of business or the production'
of any articles of merchandise, and
tho whole constitutional power of
congress over interstate commerce,
the mails and oil modes of interstate
communication hall be exercised by
the enactment of comprehensive Jaws
upon the subject of trusts. Tariff laws
should be amended by putting tl'o
products of trusts upon the tree list
to prevent monopoly under the pica
of protection.
The failure of the present adminis
tration, with an absolute control ver
' all the branches of the national gov
ernment, to enact any legislation de
signed to prevent or even curtail the
absorbing power of trusts and illegal
combinations, or to enforce the anti
trust laws already on the statute
books, proves the insincerity of the
high sounding phrases of the repub
lican platform.
Corporations should -be protected in
all their rights and their legitimate in
terests shouldbe respected, but any
attempt by corporations to interfere
with the public affairs of the people
or control tho sovereignty which cre
ated, them, should be forbidden under
such penalties as will make such at
tempts impossible.
"We condemn the Dinsley tariff law
as a trust-breeding measure, skillful
ly devised to give the few favors
which they do not deserve and to
place upon the many burdens which
they should not bear.
We " favor such an enlargement of
the scope of the interstate commerce
lav as will enable the commission to
protect individuals , and communities
frpm discriminations and-the" public
from unjust and unfair transportation
fates!
. .We reaffirm and indorse- the prin
ciples of the national democratic plat
form adopted at Chicago in 1896, and
we reiterate the demand of that plat
form for an American financial sys
tem made by the American people
for themselves, which shall restore
and maintain a bimetallic price level,
and as part of such system the imme
diate restoration of the free and un
limited coinage of silver and gold at
the present legal ratio of 16 to 1
without waiting for the aid or consent
of any other nation.
We denounce the currency bill en
acted at the last session of congress
as a step forward in the republican
policy which aims to discredit the
sovereign right of the national gov
ernment to issue all money, whether
of coin' or paper, and to bestow upon
national banks the power to issue
and control the volume of paper mon
ey for their own benefit. A perma
nent national bank currency, secured
by government bonds, must have a
permanent debt to rest upon, and it
the bank currency is to Increase with
population and business, the debc
must also increase. The republican
currency scheme is, therefore, a
scheme for fastening upon the tax
payers a perpetual and growing debt
for the benefit of the banks. We a:e
opposed to this private corporation
paper circulated as money, but with
out legal tender qualities, and demand
the retirement of the national bank
notes as fast as government paper or
silver certificates can be substituted
for them.
We favor an amendment to the fed
eral constitution providing for the
election of United States senators by
direct vote of the people, and we favor
direct legislation wherever practica
ble. We are opposed to government by
injunction; we denounce the blacklist
and favor .arbitration as a means of
settling disputes between corporations
and their employes.
In the interest of American labor
and the upbuilding of the working
man as tho corner stone of the pros
perity of our country, we recommend
that congress create a 'department of
labor, in charge of a secretary, with
a seat in the cabinet, believing that
the elevation of the American laborer
will bring with it increased produc
tion and increased prosperity to our
country at home and to our com
merce abroad.
We are proud of tho courage and
fidelity of the American soldiers and
sailors in all our wars; we favor lib
eral pensions to them and thoir de
pendents, and we reiterate the posi
tion taken in the Chicago platform in
1896 that the fact of enlistment and
service shall be deemed conclusive
evidence against disease and disability
before enlistment.
We favor tho immediate construc
tion, ownership and . control of the
Nicaraguan canal by the United
States and we denounce the insincer
ity of the plank in the republican na
tional platform for an isthmian canal
in the face of the failure of the re
publican majority to pass the bill
pending in congress.
We condemn the' Hay-Pauncefote
treaty as a surrender of American
rights and interests, not to be toler
ated by the American people.
We denounce the failure Of the re
publican party lo carry out its pledges
to grant statehood to the territories
of Arizona, New Mexico and Okla
homa, and we promise the people of
those territories immediate statehood
and hometiie during their condition
as territories, and we favor home rule
and a territorial form of government
for Alaska and Porto Rico.
We favor an intelligent system of
improving the arid lands of the west,
storing the' ;ers for purpose of ir
rigation am!TO1Q holding of such lands
for actual scttlera, ,
We favor tho continuance and strict
enforcement of- th"e Chinese exclusion
law and its application to the same
classes of all Asiatic Taces.
Jefferson said: Teace, commerce
and honest friendship with all nations,
entangling alliances with none." We
approve this wholesome doctrine and
earnestly protest against the republi
can departure which has involved iu
in so-called world politics, including
the diplomacy of Europe and the in
trigue ancMand grabbing of Asia and
we especially condemn the ill-concealed
republican alliance with En
gland, which must mean discrimina
tion against other friendly nations,
and which has already stifled the na
tion's voice while liberty is being
strangled in Africa.
Believing in the principles of self
government, and rejecting, as did our
forefathers, the claim of monarchy,
we view with indignation the purpose
of England to overwhelm with force
the South Africa republics. Speaking,
as we believe, for the entire American
nation, except its republican office
holders, and for all free men every
where, we extend our sympathies to
the heroic burghers in their unequal
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