The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-06-07
THE UNION LABOR PARTY

nois, for president, and Chas. E. Gun
ninghan, of Arkansas, for vice presi
dent.
There were from 500 to 1000 dele
gates present. The Sentinel, the prin
ei ipal organ Of the party, published at
Chicago at 81 year. (and, by the way.
every farmer and hboring man should
read it), thus summarizes the platform
adopted:
Government loans to the people!
Land for the landless!
No land for mOnOpOlistS!
Government ownership Of railroads
and telegraphs!
Exemption of the homestead from
taxation and execution!
Arbitration instead Of strikes!
Education of the masses!
No more interest bearing bonds!
a graduated income tax!
The abolition of usury!
In short, "lIomes for the 1Iomelessw
To these should be added, for they
ar. Il part Of the platform:
Pensions to soldiers!
Election Of U. s. senators by the
people!
Prohibition Of imported labor under
tl,r contract system.
Absolute exclusion Of the Chinese!
Woman suffrage!
There is much in this platform to
which the political parties must come
If they expect to retain favor with the
people.
KNUTE NELSON t'UK GO,'ERNOR.
We have before us i copy OF the
"Amerika,n published by the Norwe-
gi,,n publishing company, OF Chicago
/ I tai =
Hon. knute Nelson for governor of
Minnesota What it says Of Mr.. Mel
sons repub!icanism and strength is
undoubtedly true. He is another sort
Of little Stephen \. Douglas, short.
stout, able and full Of pluck us Bau'
tam chicken. Tie Amerika says:
We do not suggest his name ecanse
he is u Norwegian. We are free to con-
f. 8 that the claims Of natiom lity have
often been urged unnecessarily and Of
fensivty. and though we are not "bliv-
IONS to the credit his election would
reflect on the Norwegians, we would be
less than American citizens ii that were
our sole reason for supporting his can
dihacy'
That. no doubt is the main reason,
however, why "Amerika' published in
Chicago, nominates candidate in
Minnesota. The race" claim which
is so often urged. and in the name of
which offices are so often demanded, is
about rs bad as the ''religioIs" claim
or prejudice. 1t once came to he 4 set
tied matter in Ohio that the state
treasury should 60 to the ''fOreign ele.
ment'' and in cities, like Toledo, where
the Germans were strong, they always
claimed andtook the city treasnryship.
It has become so, to a large extent, in
Minnesota. The state treasury is given
to some ''adopted citizen of foreign
birth.'' This ought not to he so.
Hon. knute Nelson would no doubt
make good governor, but if his can
didacy depends on his nationality. he
ought not to be governor. If the pec-
pie want him. leaving out the thought
Of his nationality, let him be governor
by ali means.
The Prohibition National Conven.
tion at indianapolis, completed its Ia
bors on the 3lst ult., by nominating
Gen. Clinton Bowen Fisk. of New
Jersey, founder of the Fisk University
for colored people, in Tennessee, tor
President, and Dr. John s Brooks, of
Missouri, for vice President.
The platform adopted is a shrewd
one. It says that the manufacture.
sale, ETC., of alcoholic beverages shall
be nude public crimes by law, not that
they are crimes. In the same manner
it declares for the preservation of the
Sabbath. If it had dared, it would
have declared for the Constitutional
amendment declaring this a ''Christ.
ian Government" and uniting Church
and State. 1t was little too soon for
Of fl,o I)rOhihitiOn Thir RI
Party 1t is the Church and State
party in disguise.
'BE IT ENACTED"
The ADVANCE has had much to say
in previous issues concerning the craze
of the American people for regulating
everything by law. We have frequent
" asserted that our people are becom
.'Iaw mad" as they have long beer
''mOney mad" aud that these two
tendencies are the cause of the growtl
of Anarchism among us. They must
call a halt or anarchy will surely bt
the result.
On this subject of too much law, WI
notice that MIR. Morton recently deliv
cred q powerful GRAFTON in Omaha
The Herald sums up a notice of thi'
address as follows:
The speaker referred scathinglyto the "bs j
enacted habit of the American legislator: I'M
latter had undertaken to regulate all things
He had made laws. like the protection laws: +"
many. Out of the first laws had grown tn
trusts. Out of the second law came more dis
tinctly divided classes among this people wher
every man should have the right to live rnllaln
percd by artificial weights. He scored tn
It enacted. had attempted to interfere with til
private affairs Of citizens OF 4 nation. He Wa
Particularly severe upon sh0rtsightcdness q
Of aiding a treasury already plethorit
ende;vored to repress one industry that anothe
might thrive In "be 1t euacted" the speake
saw the baisis Of economic disturbance Their
had been too much ''be it enacted" American
had not been let alone to act out each n accordi!
had stood between the people and prosperit
and content. In "be it repealed' he saw til
dawn OF better day.