People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-05-27

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that the strictest economy should be
exercised in all governmental expend-
iture, whether local, state or national !;
that legislation should be confined to
the legitimate objects of the govern
ment; that public Office is a solemn
public trust.
2. We believe that the same care and
caution should be used by the govern
ment, both state and national, in the
expenditure of public money as is used
by prudent men in their own private
affairs.
3. We believe that the right of taxa
ton was delegated to the government,
both state and national, to be used only
for absolute necessities, and any other
use of this power is dishonest and ty-
ranical.
f. A surplus revenue in the treasury
is glitter!ng prize to be sought after
by political thieves and plunderers.
S. We are uncompromising opposed
to the enlargement and concentration
of federal powers; to the usurpation
by the central government of the func-
tons of state; to every species of class
legislation and government partner
ship with private enterprises; to the
whole theory and practice of pattern
alism.
6. We, who have within generation
seen elections opened by the tap of a
drum, and the judicial powers of the
state usurped by courts martial, and a
legislature seized by military clerk,
and the legally elected representatives
of the people turned out Of office to
make by force h subservient majority,
have no desire TO take any chances on
the political. future.
Z. We consider the government con-
troll of post0ffices as necessary and
proper, because the seal of the letter,
protects the private affairs of the clti-
zen from governmental espionage, but
we protest except in the regulation of
prices against extending this control
over telegraphs and telephones, and
placing in our midst horde of office
holders who will only be amendable to
national laws and may at any time, by
the will of the majority, or, as often
happens in our federal affairs, by the
will of minority, be turned into spies
and informers. While we oppose gov
ernmental ownership of railroads we
endorse our state railroad commission
the interstate railroad commission be
enlarged so as to provide a "rigid, hon
est and lust control of railroad trans
portatiOn.
s. We demand the free and unlimited
coinage of both silver and gold on parity
with each other to the end that the
money of the people shall be such in
quality and quantity as was originally
contemplated by the constitution.
8. We demand that the prohibitory 10
per cent. tax on state bank issues be
stricken out of the national bank law,
and when this is done, we desire that
a uniform system of banking be provided
for by the legislature of Georgia, with
flexible, expansive state bank currency.
We further demand that the prohibition
in the national bank law against accept
ing real estate as security for loans shall
be stricken therefrom.
10. We demand that the amount Of
the circulating medium be speedily in
creased on a sound basis sufficient to
meet the needs Of the country.
IL. We demand that congress shall
pass such laws as will effectually prevent
the dealing in futures of al agricultural
and mechanical productions providing
a stringent system of procedure in trials
that will secure prompt conviction, and
impose such penalties as shall secure the
most perfect compliance with the law.
u. Believing in the doctrines of equal
rights to all and special privileges TO
none, we demand
a. That our national legislation shall
be so framed in the future as to not
build up one industry at the expense of
another.
b. We regard as the most important
issue before the people reform of the
present iniquitous tariff, and we demand
a removal of the existing heavy tariff
tax from the necessities of life, that the
poor of our land must have.
c. We further demand just and
equitable system of graduated tax on
income.