The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-11-03
peopls's Party Platform.

no il convention assembled hereby adopt
the following resolutions - expressive
of its convictions:
First-We endorse the national plat
form Of the Peoples party, adopted q
Omaha, July 4, 1929.
6rcond-The Peoples party is party
Of law and order. Its mission is to re
store, ~ far as law can affect it, equality
of opportunity in the race Tor life. It be.
lieves in the sentiment expressed in thu
Declaration of Independence that ssal
men are by nature created equal and en-
dowed BY their Creator with certain ina.
lienable rights among which are life, lib.
erty and the pursuit of happiness" 1t
declares that human rights are more pre-
cious than vested wrongs, and that all
public wrongs shall be made to yield ia
the demands of equal justice expressed
through the peacssble and orderly use oil
the ballot. We know that through the
ballot only can the people become all.
powerful. We therefore condemn all
acts of lawleaaeess or violence by whom
soever comni and pledge ourselves
to the people e the state that if they
shall entrust u1Wish the reins of state
: governnsk -. lSll4ato it that public
order is preserves Add Seace and tran.
guilty assured tel epaopta,.,
fMrd-We declars s. enforce.
ment aew, no matter how ilsbortant il
may b lily the beginning, not the
end of g6of government. We believe
that true staaesmanship lies in making
good laws far more than in enforcing bad
ones. We, therefore, demand such legis-
lation, both state and national, as will
crush ell monopolies and relieve the peo-
pie from all unjust discrimination by law.
Fourth-Realizing that the financial
question IS one of prominent importance
to our people, we reites1fk our demands
M gold : the ratio ii ' Of
Fifth-That the future welfare Of the
state depends very largely upon its legis.
lation on Ne subject Of the appropriation
and use o. Rater for purposes of irriga-
ton. We, erefore, pledge the Peoples
party to tbs passage, at the earliest op-
portunity, Of law projecting the people
against unreasonable charges for the use
Of water and also creating water districts
in the arid regions of the state, and con-
ferring upon such districts the power to
construct bitches and canals for irrigating
purposes; and also providing for the con-
domination and purchase by such districts
of existing bitches and canals constructed
for the sale, rental or distribution of water
for agricultural uses. That such law
should authorize, under proper safe
guards, such water districts to issue bonds
to construct or purchase such bitches or
canals, which bonds shall be & charge
upon districts only. That the charges
tor the use of water should be no higher
thas suficiegfp pay for the cost of nam
611csl e0f >air of such bitches and
e, sinking fund to pay
Ddch bonds and discharge |
tn c5pal at maturity; and that, after
such bonds are paid, the use Of the water
should be free, except the necessary
charge for the maintenance and repair of
such bitches or canals.
Sixth-We denOunce the effort now be-
ing made by the Northern Pacific Rail.
road company to force upon its employees
contracts in the form of oaths and con-
tanning provisions which. if submitted to,
would in the end reduce such employees
to the condition of industrial slaves. We
demand state legislation that
will not only declare all such contracts
null and void but also inflict upon the Of
ticcrs and agents of any corporation So
Letting. demanding or enforcing such
contracts in Idaho such punishment as
will etfectually teach them that neither
chattel nor industrial slavery will be toll
Grated in this state. We further de-
nounce the practice of mining corpora
tons and companies in running or being
interested in stores and boarding houses,
either by themselves directly or through
their officers and uperintendents, and
making 1t obligatory upon their employees
10 trade and deal in their stores or board
IN their boarding houses, and we demand
such legislation as will effectually stop
md prevent such practices.
Seventh We demand state legislation
~ which the offices of state mining in
'pector and state boiler inspector shall be
Tiled by the qualified voters of the state
instead Of, as now, appointed by the gov
.rnor. {
Eighth-We denounce the practice BY !;
persons and corporations of black listing
aOorers on account of their connection {
nth organized labor. We demand such
tate legislation on this subject az will (
make such practice felony, and, in the Z
:ase of corporation, the infictlon of the ,
additional penalty of the surrender of the !.
harter.
Ninth-We demand law prohibiting I
he entry of deficiency judgments Of
mortgages on real property, and that the
ime for redeeming such property from {
orced sales under foreclosure or execu
ion be extended from six months to two
ears.
Tenth-We are opposed to the further
ale of the school lands of the state and
emand that, in lieu of such sales, such
ands shall be leased to actual occupants =
nd thereby create perpetual school I
und without danger from loss. q
Eleventh-In view of the criminal con- q
uct of both the old parties in granting I
corporations monopoly of the peoples I
loney by which the property of the in.
ustrial classes is being rapidly absorbed =
y the usurers, We favor such an extension n
+ the exemption law of the state as will il
ave the homes of the people and assure b
our wives and children . reasonable n
revision against poverty. We pledge !
ur legislators to revise the homestead
w so that all actual homesteads will he q
xempt from forced sale on execution p
1thout the necessity of declaration.
Twelfth--We favor the submission to 4
le people of constitutional amendment =
onferring upon the legislature the power :
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