St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-17
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roads of this state that will be sufficient
to paw interest on the actual cost of said
railroads and their expenses and repairs,
but not one cent of interest on watered
stock.
Ninth That we hold that mortgage
indebtedness should be deducted from
The tax upon realty, whether such mort
gage is held at home or abroad: and we
ask such laws as Will make the hidden
property pay equal taxes with the WIS.,
ible property.
Tenth-That we favor a material re-
ductlon of interest on money, and de-
mand that severe penalties be attached
to the practice of uSury.
Eleventh-That we favor an Increase
in the volume of money equal to the
requirements fan ever-increasing trade
and business, without the intervention
of banks, which shall be made full legal
tender, and that we demand free coin
age of silver.
Twelfth-That we insist that our
members in congress shall support such
legislation as will positively suppress
the beef combination, which has prac-
ticaIly destroyed cattle culture in the
whole country and robbed both the
farmer and the consumer to create mill
ionalres.
Thirteenth--That the exchange sys-
tenn adopted by the milers, whereby
they practically take one-fourth instead
of one-eighth, as allowed by law. is I'M
just tax upon the farmers, and we urge
such measures as Will prevent the
wrong.
Fourteenth-That we look with alarm
upon the invasion of our country by
li-t, fol ctc WIN rEi
upon great local industries, giving alien
control to these interests which are
purely domestic and American, and in
creasing the power of home monopolieS
by the power of foreign money.
Fifteenth-That we deprecate the use
of money by candidates for Office. as it
debauches the public conscience and
leads to the decay of the body polite.
SiXteenth-That we urgently ask of
congress the immediate passage of Sen
ator Davis bill for the enlargement and
Improvement of the Sault Ste. Marie
canal.
Seventeenth-That we ask the next
legislature to establish the Australian
system of voting for the whole state.
Eighteenth-That all public offices
which directly affect the people should
be made elective, and that United States
senators anu IdIllOdu COIuullOOlOllO1C
should be elected by the people.
the war tariff which has too long
survived the object of its creation, shall
be radically revised. giving very ma
terial reductions on the necessaries of
life, and placing raw materials on the
free list, to the end that we may COM
pete with the world for market; and
that such luXuries as whisky and to-
baccO shall in no measure be relieved
from internal taxation till the high pro
tectiye tariff has been wholly Invested
of its eXtOrtlOn.
Twentieth-That we are not satisfied
with the board of control of the state
prison in not introducing the manufact-
ure of binding Irvine.
Twenty First-That we favor cooper
alive union of all the agricultural and
laboring classes of the nation to protect
themselves from the robberies OF non
producers.
TWenty-Second-T we deem it I'M
wise and injudicious to establish an
organ. but we regard with favor and
| will encourage all papers winch WILL
eSpouSe our cause.
Twenty-Third-Tha we demand that
the next legislature shall submit to a
vote of the people an amendment to the
| constitution of the state forever prOhlb-
| iting the liquor traffic.
TWenty-Fourth--T in the abandon
ment of the railroad between Breckin-
ridge and GAINESVILLE, which is part
| of the chartered line known as the Man.
| itoba and Great Northern system, a
grievance, wrong and damage has not
only been done to prOperty-holders
along said line. but to Wilkin county:
and as a matter of public policy, if al
| lowed to stand as a precedent, to the
| State of Minnesota; and whereas, in the
petition of Edwin S. Templeton against
| the st. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba
| railroad. majority of the railroad and
warehouse commission decided, Feb. 6,
1890. that the said railroad company had
a perfect right to vacate said piece OF
railroad, the state alliance considers
the vacation of said road violation OF
the law and all outrage upon the peo-
pie: and we call upon the attorney gen.
eral of the state to institute proceedings
at once to test the right of said road to
take such action.
TWentv-Fifth- this alliance urge
upon the senators and representatives
in congress that they use their best en-
deavOrs to secure the passage OF law
for the relief of the settlers in the Red
river valley, upon the certain odd mum
bered sections of land in Marshall, Kilt
son and Polk counties now claimed by
the Great Northern Railway company,
but which has no legal title to the same,
by permitting settlers to enter the same
as public lands, giving the railroad com.
panieS other lands in lieu OF the same ii
necessary.