New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-07-13

cies OF class legislation, and demand that such
as now exists shall be swept from the statutes,
Equal justice to every citizen aud special privis
leee to none should control the letter and spirit
s OF all legislation.
seeend-We denounee the present eunningly
devised scheme OF protective tariff as the
most vicious form OF class leg Station, with
sole purpose in its use TO build up some interest
at the expense OF all the Others; and, there
fore, we insist on radical reduction OF tariff
taxation.
Third-We demand n gradual increase OF the
national money Tor the people, to the minimum
OF $50 per capita and az q part OF this IN
crease we favor the Issuance OF legal tender
treasury notes in sufficient volume to transact
the growing business OF the country OH a cash
basis without. damage or adv, advantage to any
ment of all debts, and to be paid out by the
government for all PURPOSES and TO all classes
& OF The people; and we insist that silver shall
OF legal tender which gold possesses. az our
fathers did before us.
THE WHEAT QUESTION.
Feurth-The wheat question is the para
mount Issue in this state. and by its Importance
oyershadeWing all other interests, We call es-
pecial attention to the minority report made
by H. j. Moore, Of the committee appointed bv
the last legislature to investigate the public
elevators OF the state. Theevidenee is sufficient
to convince uuprejudiGed minds that the price
OF wheat il arbitrarily fixed each day and sent
to producing points throughout the Northwest;
also that the powerful combine embraces this
% asa
gantie trust the efforts of individual enterprise
are futile, and all The national laws OF supply
aud demand are ignored. Therefore we invoke
the power the state. and ask our next leeisla-
ture to make suitieent appropriation for the
erection ot elevators at deep water on Lake SUI
perief where grain can be stored, unmixed, at a
nominal cost by individual producers awaiting
sale and shipment to the markets of the world.
We call attention to the report of the
eee which shows that Sse
from the weighing aud inspection Of grain. We
ask that this fund be applied to this purpose.
We ase ask that ehamse u maas
OF grain by the state shall be extended to the
country stations. II s OF the utmost impor-
ali farmers have equal facilities for reaching the
tracks OF railroads Mt country stations and
that 9 law be passed makingit the duty abso-
assoeiatien now or at any inturs time oper.
ating a railroa or acting as n common carrier,
TO furnish side track facilities for erseton OF pr.
not less than {. 900 bushels each for the storage
OF grain awaiting shipment OH such line nfTals
way, aud to permit and allow such elevators to
be ereeted and controlled by any person, asso.
citation or corporation desiring to erect, main.
TAIN control and operate the aAme for said pur-
pose, and further making 1t the duty OF such
line promptly all grain offered for shipment in
car lots without previous storage and az offered,
THE ''PAsH AiuhT GO,
Fitth-We Insist that ali tarInu OF dieertmina-
tton by railway corporations, including free
pReses, transient rates and terminal charges
shall cease; and We demand such n schedule of
Charges Hs shall be based on aetufl cost wit nec-
essary expense and net on watered stocks. and
we believe that both the state and IN tlel should
control such corporations with renewed vigor
sixth--We demand o radical reform in the
present unequal system Of taxntion; that hid
den property be made TO pay equal taxes with
ne.s aa' from sss asx On
realty; that al equitable systenl OF graduated
tax on incomes shall be established, and also u
reaiduary tax upon great estates
ii eeyentn--W favor a material reduction OF
interest, aud demand tnat severe penalties be
attached to the practice OF usury,
ElRhth--We ask OF congress- the passage OF
laws prohibiting the alien ownership OF lands,
and II possible to reclaim all 30 held by allen
and foreign syndicates, and all held by railroad
thai these and al athsp IS ss
& Tor actual SETTLERS only; ana W. favor protec-
ton to our forests.
should own and operate the telegraph and tvle-
phcne lines as part OF The postal system,
Icnth-We favor laws for tho suppression 81
optioA gambling and the abolition 81 all torms
OF trusts aud / omhilee.
CAPITAL Va LABOR.
Eleyenth-We demand the repeal OF all laws
which place capital above labor and we favor
law. y factory insreetion law, an employers
liability act, the prohibiting the employment Of
children under fifteen years Of aee, Tree text
books Tor public schools, and the eight hour
work day on all national, 81 ate or municipal
work. Ss
Twelfth Regarding life as more sacred than
property We hold that neither corporations nor
private persons shall be permitted to retain in
f their employ armed bodies OF men to take life
Tor the sake Of defending property,
8 Tnirteentll--We demand g. more vigorous I'm
miRration policy, to the end that European
paupers, criminals and vicious classes shall not
DC permitted to enter this republic. and that
pQltiug LABOR to cOnDAtA with froa a Nariaaj,