The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-06-30

as one of the heneficent results that
will follow the action OF the people
in entrusting power to the Democratic rty,
Since the Mckinley tariff went into operation
there have been ten reductions of the wages OF
laboring men to one Increase. We deny that
there has been increase of prosperity to the
country since that tariff act vent into opera
tiOn, and We point to the duneSs and distress,
the wage reductions and strikes i'll the iron
trade, as the best possibleevidence that no such
prosperity has retulted from the Mckinley act.
We call the attention OF thoughtful Americans
to the fact that after thirty years of restrictive
taxes against the importation OF foreign wealth,
in exchange for our agricult ural surplus, the
homes and farms Of the country have become
burdened with a real estate MOI tgage debt of
over So, 500, ,O0O.OO0, exclusive of all other
forms OF Indebtedness; that i'll one of the chief
agricultural st ties OF the world there appears q
real estate mortgage averaging S165 per capita
of the total populations; and that similar condi-
tiOnS aud tendencies are shown to exist i'll other
agricultural exporting states. We denounce Il
policy which fosters no industry so much as it
does that OF the sheriff.
RECIPROCITY DENOUNCED.
Sec, 1. Trade Interchange on the basis OF re-
ciprOcal advantages to the countries partci-
pating is a time-honored doctrine OF the Demo
cratic faith, but We denouUce with shame re-
cIproGty which ugIes with the peoples desire
for enlarged foreign markets and ireer exchanges
by pretending o establish closer trade relations
for a country whose articles of export
almost exclusively agricultural products with
other countries that are R,so agricultural,
While erecting Il custom house barrier OF protec
the world that stand ready to take our entire
surplus of products and to exchange therefor,
commodities which are necessaries and COM
forts of life among our own people.
TRUSTS AND COMBINES.
Sec. 5. We are eogniz mt that trusts ana
capital to secure more tn III its just share OF the
Joint product Of capital and labor are a natural
consequence OF the prOhibitive taxes which pre-
vent the Tree competition which is the lie OF
honest trade, but We believe the worst evils can
be abated by law and we demand the rigid en-
forcement OF the laws made to prevent and con-
troll them, together with such furt her legislation
in restraint of their abuses experience may
show to be necessary.
PUBLIC LANDS.
Sec. 6. The Republican party, while pro
fes>ing policy OF re. erving the public land for
small holdings by actual settlers, has given
away the peoples heritage till now p few rail
rOal and nonresident aliens, individual and
corporate, possess a larger area than that OF all
our farms between the two seas. The last
Democratic administration reversed the i'm
provideut and unwise FOL cy of the Republican
PARTY touching the public domain, and reclaimed
from corpora tions and sYndicates and restored
to the people nearly one hundred mi! ion acres
OF valua BILE land to Ee sacredly held as home
steads for our citizens, and we pledge ourselves
to continue this policy until every acre of land
so wrongfully held shall be reclaimed and re-
stored to the people
THE SILVER QUESTION.
Sec Z. We denOunce the Republican leglsla-
tion known as the Sherman act of 1890 as n
cowardly makeshift fraught with possibilities
of danger III the near future. which should make
all OF lis supporters. as we'll ah IFS author, anx-
ious for it's speedy repeal, We hold 70 the use
of both gold and silver as the standard money
OF tile country and to the coinage OF both gold
AN silver without discriminating against either
metal or charge for mntage, but the dollar unit
OF coinage of both metals must be OF equal
intrinsic and exchangeab!e value or be adjusted
through International agreement or by such
safeguards OF legislation shall insure the
maintenance Of the parity OF the two metals, and
the equal power Of every dollar at all times in
The markets lnd iii the payment '4f debts; and