Nevada County picayune., 1890-10-23
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
Adopted by the Third Congression-
 al District of Arkansas.

RESOLVED, We, the Democratic party of the Third Congressional Dls- trict, through it's representatives ss- sembled, renewing it's faith in the fundamental principles of Democra- cy as the best security for the per petuatiOn of free government. do make these declarations of princi- ples:
 l. We endorse and reiterate the platform adopted by the Democratic State Convention at Little Rock on the 18th inst. (June IS, 1890)
 ,. We demand an increase in the volume of money so as to meet the demands of trade, labor and the gen eral wants of the people of a growing country, and to that end we favor the free and unlimited coinage of both gold and silver, the immediate increase in the issue of United States legal tender Treasury notes to amount not less than the total annual taxes and revenues collected from the people by the Government, and for the repeal of all laws providing for the sale of bonds of the United States and those requiring the accu- mutation of reserve for the re- demption of Treasury notes, and that all morey shall be legal tender for all debts public and private, in- cluding import taxes. The issue of sufficient amount of fractional paper currency to facilitate exchange through the medium of the United States mail.
 3. The power to issue money be- longs to the Government and should not be delegated to the National Banks, and we demand that the bank circulation shall be retired, it's further issue prohibited, and the United States Treasury notes sub stituted therefor.
 i. We favor the forfeiture of all land grants, where the grantees have failed to comply with the condition of grants, and oppose all alien owner ship of lands. We point with pride to the 100, ,000, ,000 acres of land re- claimed from corporations, and syn dicates, alien and. domestic, and re- stored to the public domain during Cleveland's administration, to be held sacredly as homesteads for our citizens, and the law passed by the Forty-ninth Congress prohibiting alien ownership of any interest in public lands.
 ). We are opposed to all trusts and the dealing in futures, and de- mand that Congress shall use all it's constitutional powers to suppress the one and prevent the other.
 6. Believing in the doctrine of equal rights to all, and special favors to none, we demand that taxation, National or State, shall not be used to build up an interest or class at the expense of another. We believe that the money of the country should be kept as much as possible in the hands of the people, and hence, we demand that all revenues, national, State and county, shall be limited to the necessary expenses of the Gov ernment, economically and honestly administered.
 :. We approve the position maintained by the Democratic Rep resentatives in Congress, with respect to revenue legislation, and most heartily favor such q revision of the tariff as will give people cheaper necesaarics of life, and that the rev enues to defray the expenses of the Government economically admins tered be derived mainly by a tax up- on luxuries, and We denounce as in equitable and unjust the present sys- tcm under which gigantic trusts and combinations have been enabled to fasten themselves upon the people, increasing the cost of everything purchased by the farmer and the la borer, while decreasing the price of all the products of the Western farms. We declare ourselves unal- terably opposed to Republican tariff legislation which has depressed the laboring interests of the country, and decreased the average individual wealth, while syndicates and trusts have amassed colossal fortunes.
 &. We denounce the rules and methods adopted for the government of the present House of Representa- tives by the Republicans as arbitrary and revolutionary, and as depriving the minority of the heretofore recog- nized and necessary rights, and a suppression of free and intelligent discussion, and as intended to carry through under gag law without de- bate the schemes of corporation monopolies and subsidy grabbers, and we point to the continued un- seating of Representatives honestly chosen by the people and replaced by others not elected. as part of the plan to accomplish these results. -----.--------------