The record-union., 1892-07-01

be made legal tender for payment of all
debts, public and private. Its volume
should be fixed at definite sum per cap
tia, and made TO increase with our in
crease in population.
Fourth-We favor the free and unlim-
tied coinage of silver and gold.
Fifth-Tarif should be levied only as a
defense against foreign governments
which levy tariff upon or bar out our
products from their markets, revenue be-
ing incidental. The residue of means ne
cessary to an economical administration
of the Government should be raised by
levying a burden on what the people pos
sess, instead of upon what they consume.
Sixth-Raiiroad, TELEGRAPH and other
public corporations should be controlled
by the Government in the interest Of the
people, and no higher charges allowed
than necessary to give fair interest on
the capital actually invested.
Seventh-Foreign immigration has be-
come burden upon industry, and is one
of the factors in depressing wages and
causing discomfort. Therefore our imm-
grafton laws should be revised and
strictly enforced. The time of residence
for naturalization should be extended,
and no naturalized citizen should be al
lowed TO vote until one year after he be-
comes a citizen.
Eighth-A nonresident should not be
y Z.
and we favor the limitation of individual
and corporate ownership Of land. All
unearned grants of lands to railroad COM
panies or other corporations should be
reclaimed.
Ninth-Y ears of inaction and treachery
on the part of the Republican and Demo-
cratic parties has resulted in the present
reign of mob law, and we demand that
every citizen be protected in the right OF
trial DV constitutional tribunals
Tenth-All men should be protected by
law in their right to one days rest in
seven.
Observation-Disclosures is the wisest and
most economical and humane method OF
settling national differences.
neutrality-suspicious. in margins COW
ering grain, money and products and the
formations of pools, trusts and combina-
tons, for the arbitrary advancement of
prices, should be suppressed.
Thirteenth-We pledge that the Prohi-
bition party, if elected to power, will ever
grant just pensions to disabled veterans
of the Union army and navy, their
widows and orphans.
Fourteenth-We stand unequivocally
for the American public school, and are
opposed to any appropriation of public
moneys for Sectarian schools. We de-
clare that only by united support to such
common schools, taught in the English
language, can we hope to become and re-
main a homogeneous and harmonious
people.
Fifteenth-We arraign the Republican
and Democratic parties as false standards
reared by their founders, as faithless to
the principles of the illustrious leaders of
the past, to whom they do homage with
lips, as recreant to the 'higher law, -
which is as infieXible in political affairs
as in personal life, and as no longer en-
bodying the aspirations of the American
people or inviting the confidence of en-
lightened, progressive patriotism. Their
protest against the admission Of moral
issues into politics is a confession OF
their own moral degeneracy. A declara-
ton on eminent authority that municipal
miSrule is lone conspicuous failure in
American politics" follows. as a natural
consequence, such degeneracy, and is
true alike of cities under Republican and
Democratic control. Each accuses the
other of extravaganza in Congressional
appropriations, and both are alike guilty
Each protests when out of power against
infraction of the civil service laws, and
each when in power violates those laws in
letter and spirit. Each processes fealty
to the interests of the toiling masses, but
both covertly truckle to money power in
their administration of public affairs.
Even the tariff issue, as represented in
the Democratic Mills bill and Republican
Mckinley bill, is no longer treated by
them as an issue upon the great aud di-
vergent principles of the Government,
but is mere catering to the different
sectional and class interests. The attempt
of many States to wrest the Australian
ballot system from it's true purpose, and
| so deform it as to render it extremely
| difficult for new parties to exercise the
rights of suffrage, is an outrage upon
| popular government. The competition
of both parties for the vote of slums, and
| the assiduouS counting of the LIQUOR
power and subserviency to the money
power, has resulted III placing those
powers in position as practical arbiters OF
| the deStinies Of the Nation. We renew
protest against these perilous tendencies,
and invite all citizens to Join us in up
building the party that has shown in five
national campaigns that ii prefers tempo
rary defeat to the abandonment of the
claims of justice, sobriety, personal rights
and protection to American homes.
MINORITY REPORT.
The minority, composed of almost halt
of the members of the Resolutions Conn
mittee, through Wheeler of New York.
offered the following as substitute for
the financial and silver and tariff blanks:
1.-The issuing of national currency be-
| longs to Congress alone as the represent
alive of the sovereign power OF the ma
ton, and should not be delegated to bri-
vate individuals or corporations. The
| insufficient production of gold and the
variance of the relative values of gold
and silver, render it impracticable to.yelv
upon either gold or silver for a safe.
sound and sufficient currency. We
| favor, therefore, the issue of legal tender
treasury notes, eXchangeable in gold and
silver bullion, on a plan similar to that
! which now floats $40, 200, 900 in green
backs on 500, 100000 gold reserve. and
| makes them more acceptable and conye-
nient than either gold or silver coin. In
the extension OF this plan, rather than in
the coinage of gold or silver, lies the
solution Of the monetary problems that
are disturbing all nations"
For the tariff plank the minority offered
the following:
s.Our tariff should be so LEVIED as toifur-
nish a revenue for the needs of the Gov
eminent, economically administered. re-
lieying the necessities used by the mass
of the people and for the benefit OF labor.
protecting American productions and
manufactures against the competition OF
foreign nations. The details of our tariff
laws having become the football OF party
politics, to the great disturba and
damage of our protective industries and
commerce, we believe such details could
be better adjusted by tariff commission
to recommend to Congress the duties to
meet the wants of the Government, SO
graduated as TO protect American skill