The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-07-09

also agricultural, while erecting a GUS
tom house barrier OF prohibitive tariff
taxes against the richest countries of the
world that stand ready to take our entire
surplus OF products and exchange there
for commodities which are necessaries
and comforts OF life among our own peo-
pie.
Antitrust Laws.
Sec. 5. We recognize in the trusts
and combinations which are designed
to enable capital to secure a more than
its just share of product, of CAPITAL and
labor. a natural consequence of the pro
hibitive taxes which prevent the free
competition which is the life of honest
trade, but we believe their worst evils
can be abated by law, and we demand
the rigid enforcement of the laws made
to prevent and control them, together
with such further legislation in restraint
OF their abuses as experience may show
to be necessary.
h Public Lands.
Sec. 6 The republican party, while
protesting a policy of reserving the pub
lie land for small holdings by actual
settlers, has given away the peoples
heritage till 10Y a few railroad and non
resident aliens, individuals and incor-
porations, possess a larger area than
that of all our farms between the two
seas, The last democratic admins
tration reversed the unwise policy of the
republican party touching the public
domain, and reclaimed from corporations
and syndicates, alien and domestic,
and restored TO the people nearly one
hundred million acres of valuable land to
be sacredly held as homesteads for our
citizens, and we pledge ourselves to
continue this policy until every acre of
land 50 unlawfully held shall be claimed
and restored to the people.
The silver Plank.
Sec. I. We denounce republican leg.
islation, as the Sherman act of 1890, as a
cowardly makeshift fraught with posi-
bilities of danger in the future, which
should make all of it's supporters, as we'll
its author, anxious for its speedy repeal.
We hold to the use of both gold and sill
yer as the standard money of the coun-
try and to the coinage of both gold and
silver, without discriminating against
either metal or charge for mintage, but
the dollar unit of coinage of both me-
tails must be of equal intrinsic and ex.
changeable value, or to be adjusted
through international agreement or by
such safeguards of legislation as shall
insure the maintenance of the parity of
the two metals and the equal power of
every dollar at all times in the markets
and in the payment of debts; and we
demand that all paper currency shall be
kept at par with and r%edeemable in such
coin. We insist upon this policy as es-
peclally necessary for the protection of
the farmers and laboring classes, the
first and most defenseless victims of un-
stable money and a fiu~ctuating currency.
Sec. s. We recommend that the prohib-
tory 10 per cent tax on state bank
issues be repealed.
Civil Service Reform Demanded.
Sec. .. Public Office is a public trust.
We reatfirm the declaration of the dem
ocratic national convention of 1876 for
the reform of the civil service and we
call for the honest enforcement of all
laws regulating the same. The nom
~ination of a president, as in the recent
republican convention. by delegations
composed largely of his appointees,
holding office at his pleasure, is ID scand-
alous satire upon free popular institu-
tions, and a startling illustration of the
methods by which Il president may
crafty his ambition. We denounce a
policy under which federal office holders
usurp control of party conventions in
the states and we pledge the Democratic
party to the reform of these and all
other abuses which threaten liberty and
local self. government.
Harrison'- Buidozing Tactics.
Sec. 10. The democratic party is the
only party that has ever given the
country a foreign policy consistent and
vigorous compelling respect abroad and
inspiring confidence at home. While
avoiding entangling alliances, it has aim
ed to cultivate friendly relations with
other nations, and especially our neigh
bors on the American continent, whose
destiny is closely linked with our own,
and we view with alarm the tendency to
a policy of irritation and buster which
is liable at any time to confront us with
the alternative of humiliation or war.
We favor the maintenance of a navy
strong enough for all purposes of nation
al defense and to properly maintain the
honor and dignity of the country
abroad.
Sec. IL. This country has always
been the refuge of the oppressed from
every ~land-exiles for conscience sake
and the spirit of the founders of our
government. We condemn the oppres-
sion practiced by the Russian gov
eminent upon its Austrian and JEWS
subjects, and we call upon our national
government in the interest Of justice
and humanity by all just and proper
means to use it's promised and best
efforts to bring about a cessation Of these
cruel prosecutions in the dominion of
the Gar, and to secur to the oppressed
equal rights.
We tender our profound and earnest
sympathy to those lovers of freedom
who are struggling for home rule aad
the great cause of local self-government
for Ireland.
Pauper Immigration.
Sec. Il. We heartily approve all legit-
innate efforts to prevent the United
States from being used as the dumping
ground for the known criminals and