The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-07-02

ON iDASe barrier OF prOhibitive tariff
taxes "~,ainst the richest countries of the
worli t.'at 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. ). We recognize in the trusts
md 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 VIZ 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.
The 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 now d few railroad and non
resident aliens, individuals and incor-
p%orations, 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 so unlawfully held shall be claimed
and restored to the people.
The silver Plank.
Sec. :. We denounce republican leg
islatiOn, as the Sherman act of 1880. as A
cowardly makeshift fraught with posi-,
bilities of danger in the future, which
should make all of its supporters, as well
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 ant
silver. without discriminating against
either metal or charge for mlntage, bu,
the dollar unit of coinage of both me.
tails must be of equal intrinsic and pv.
changeable value, or to be adjus. I'd
through international agreement or by
such safeguards of legislation as shall
insure the maintenance of the parity of
the two metals and the equal mower of
every dollar at all times in the markets
and in the payment Of debts; and we
demand that ali pape currency shall bc
kent at par with and redeemaEle in such
coin. We insist upon this policv as es.
peclally necessary for the protection OF
the farmers and laboring classes. tht
first and most defenscless victims of nm.
stable money and a fiuctuating currency
Sec. s. We recommend that the nrohih
itory 10 per cent tax on stare hanl
issues he repeaIpd.
o''' service reform DEMANDED
Scr. 9 public Office is a nnbli,. trust
We r"eaftirm the declaration of the dem
ocratic national convention OF 1876 FOR
the reform Oh the civil service anu We
call Tor the honest enforcement OF al
laws regulating the same. The nom
nation OF a president as in the recen'
republican convention. by delegations
composed largely OF his appolntees
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