San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1886-10-21

uh'iohui hhu htheo otkuihlhsioho oha "uaiih
istrations.
o. We demand of the next Legislature the
submission OF u constitutional amendment
TO prohibit the manufacture and sale OF in
toxicating liquors as beverage in Texns.
We demand that tho local option law DO
amended 10 that IL can be efficiently enforced
by making It's violation felony punishable
by confinement at hard labor In the state
poni,entary.
@. We demand that our state legislature
enact scientific temperance instruction bill
similar 10 the bill lately passed by the con-
gress Of tho United States.
z, We demand that the Legislature OF
Texas shall inhibit by law all sale and pur-
chase of futures Of every character and de-
clare the violation Of this law felony, pun
ishable by hard labor in the ponitentiary.
8. We denounce the action of the late
democratic state convention, which pledged
the support of that party TO corporations
but refused aid or sympathy to the laboring
or producing classes. We claim that labor
il the creator of all wealth, the handmade
of virtue and the source of all material pros
perity and happiness We demand that
labor be protected, and that corporations be
rigidly regulated by such laws rs will pre-.
vent oil combinations, determinations and
granting of rebate by transportation COM
panies; that we denounce and condemn the
theory established and maintained by the
courts of the country that so-called char
tered rights are above and superior to leg
islative enactment and government control.
We also demand that q law providing for a
simple, speedy aud effective system of arbi-
tration be enc cted for the settlement OF oil
issues and controversies between corpora
tions aud their employees in reference to
the wages of labor, and we favor legislation
encouraging cooperative and proft-sharing
associations. We recognize the right oil
labor to organize for its protection and we
solicit the assistance of the grent laborine
classes in the overthrow of monopoly, nj
the head and front of which stands the II.
quor traffic.
8. We denounce the action of the demo
cratic party in giving away and nominally
selling the public lands at 80 cents per acre
to capitalists and cattle syndicates just Of
the time when they were becoming valuable,
thereby permitting them to fence up whole
counties and prevent the settlement and
civilization OF the west. And we demand
the forfeiture of all land grants to individ-
uals and corporations where the title has moi
absolutely vested, and that these lands, to-
gether with the public domain yet remain
ing, be reserved for homesteads for our cit
liens and sold only to actual settlers. We
declare that all the fences and other i'm
provements illegally placed on the public
school lnnds are part of the realty as il
they had been placed on private property,
and we demand that the state shall at onct
take control of these lands and tho i'm
provements thereon, and prosecute oil par
ties who may unlawfully interfere with OF
destroy the same; and we demand that the
Attorney General shall at once proceed K
recover such damages from the trespnssers
on those lands as have been sustained by
the use and occupation thereof.
10. We favor an efficient system Of free
schools.
PROHIBITION TICKET.
For Governor-E. L. DOHONEY.
Lieut. Governors. G. MULLINS,
Treasurer-W. d. JACKSON.
Comptroller-W p. HULL.
Land Commissioner-C. T. HOGAN.
Sup't. Public Instruction-A. p. ATEN,