The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-09-11
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be wage laborers. Our party profess against

There is nothing of commercial rature that
is felt quicker or more annoyingly and injuri-
ousiy by the great mass OF the People than
scarcity OF money. We hold, therefose, that the
circulating medium should be increased from
time to time so as to be sufficient in quantity to
meet all requirements for the promst payment
OF labor and for every form of bussiess enter
prise.
Unrestricted immigration of psapers and
criminals from Europe and other psfts OF the
world is yearly increasing the cost Of our ma
tonal and state governments ana sowing broad
cast vice and disease, while the lax aaministra-
ton OF the naturalization laws is continually
introducing to citizenship large nums-ers OF per-
sons too ignorant of our laws and ins.tutions to
be able inteligentiy to cast . ballot. For proper
legislation to remedy these evils s,ur party
stands pledged.
We favor the election OF president and vice
president by direct vote of the people. The
constitutional mode of eecting those officers by
college OF electors two from each st.ite, is en-
tireiy out OF harmony with the f5sent aud
spirit OF each voter in casting his ve.,e at the
quadrennial presidential contest. The votes,
though nOminally for electors, cast as if for
president and vice president. and the usual ulti-
mate effect is as If the votes were NJ counted.
But the effect has repeatedly been otherwise.
and there is an ever recurring danger 4nenacing
the peace of the nation that presideht will be
placed in the White House or a vice president
In the senate chamber for whom ths maj GRITTY
OF the voters did not intend their votes to be
counted and who would never have reen their
choice. To remedy this state OF sfdirs
Quires an amendment OF the national constitu-
ton.
Poll taxes should, as our platforms says, be
abolished. Even if they could be a,sd always
were collected on every poll they 4vould be
wrong, because it Is manifestly negotiable to
raise revenue by apportioning it equassy among
citizens regardless of their capacity e. earn or
command the mesns to pay the tax. gut such
taxes are largely uncoliectabIe and arg foreseen
to be so, and, consequently, not onls. is what
should be borne by all unjustly imposed upon
number less than all, but these saxes are
assessed high enough to yield the required
amount in view of the fact that iess than all
will have to pay them.
Our platform also very properly ana season
ably puts before the people an i'm pof5ant state
measure the need of better PUBLIC roads.
What is needed is a wise and econosnical ex-
penditure oil money and labor so as to afford the
best and most lasting results This As to be
effected, in our Judgment, not by refusing to the
farmer OK laborer the privilege of paying his
road tax In labor, but by adopting Como APP
proved system Of road making suitee to our
soils and climates and by bringing oer public
roads as rapidly as possible to conio4m to the
construction required by that system.
One day of rest in each week is desirable and
Necessary for every human being. EcGnOmy of
work requires that the same rest day setve as far
possible for all. Those hardest dripen need
this opportunity for rest the most, arai yet, as
our laws now stand, are often cOmpeile3 to give
it up under penalty of losing their sstuations.
Therefore our party contends that q day be
guaranteed by law; aud We also iavog for the
working men. in order to give them opportunity
on working days to attend to their owe affairs,
q half holiday on Saturday.
The resolutions Of our convention L, respect
OF labor and capital are timely and 5neet my
hearty approval Conflicts between laberers and
capitalists are mostly unnecessary as;d are al
ways mutually disastrous They frequently
eliminate in violence aud resort to afms. By
the lamentabe disorder aud Enthusiastically
attending such disturbances, particularly in
Pennsylvania and Tennessee, the whole country
has been most imperatively called to consider
what they signify and how they are to DE reme-
died. Hardly any question 30 momelssous and
of such present urgency has ever bee.i before
the public. 1t has its very serious is.terstats
and national aspects, but just now it especially
aud in this state calls for such legislative action
as our state legislature is COMPETENT to give for
the quieting and adjusting of all disputes by
tribunals to be organized with appro-
pirate jurisdiction and powers. The" sweat
ing SYSTEM" so-called, rcsorted to 81 many
corporate employers in this state, to stsile COM
petition in merchandise and the comi0rts and
necessaries OF life in the vicinity Cf the en-
ployment, and wiring back from the employed
by monopolistic and successive profits all the
wages paid them, also demands proI.pt state
legislative action In short, there Is Nc. class OF
our population whose grievances deserv9 a more
attentive hearing or prompt redress tfom our
public officers and legislative bodies t:ian the
wage laborers.
have thus, as in duty bound, expressed my
sell on the positions occupied by our nsrty. 1t
will be noticed upon comparisons OF these posi-
tons with those assumed by the other parties
that the latter lay main stress upon guezti OF
commerce and finance, while the Prohibition
party invites particular attention 10 matters
which have direct bearing on the moral well
fare of the people, welfare which muse under
lie and determine all commercial prosperity and
social well being. Very respectfully,
ROGER 5. GpSENE.