Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-07-13


and the welfare of the people.
Holding, these views, we believe it should
be the policy of the United States to do
everything in it's power to promote the
restoration OF silver to the worlds cur
rency.
Third-We demand free ballot and a
fair count, and for every citizen the right,
unmolested, to cast one ballot in any cleo
ton, and to have that ballot honestly
counted as cast. The mission of the Re-
publican party will not be ended until in
every state of the Union all citizens, black
or white, native or foreign born, shall be
equal in the courts and at the ballot box
The Democratic party, united in nothing
else, was unanimous in the repeal of the
federal election laws, thus openly confess
ing itself the party of fraud.
Fourth-We are opposed to all trusts
and combinations seeking to control or
unduly enhance the price of commodities,
and we are in favor of eradicating or re-
pressing the same by suitable and effective
laws The manufacture of Irvine at our
state prison has been and still is a most
effective means to protect our farmers
against the monopoly of the Irvine trust
Fifth-The laboring and industrial
classes are entitled to all proper and
necessary protection, and therefore we are
and have been in favor of laws; () to pro-
tect the health, the life and the limb of all
employees of transportation, mining and
manufacturing companies; (2) to establish
and maintain boards or tribunals of con-
Citation or arbitration, whereby the dis
agreements and differences between en-
ployers and employees may be settled and
adjusted by peaceful means, without
strikes or lockouts; (3) to reclaim and to
preserve the public domain for actual SET
tiers under homestead laws.
Sixth-All proper and necessary meas
ures should be adopted and enforced to
exclude from our shores all paupers, GRIM
inals and other dangerous and undesirable
classes of inlmi grants.
Seventh-The farmers and all other pro-
ducing classes are entitled to cheap and
suitable facilities for storing, shipping
and marketing their products, and there
! fore we are and have been in favor of such
| legislation as is requisite and essential to
| secure promptly and without discrimina-
! tion and at reasonable rates convenient
| and ample elevator and warehouse accom-
modations, and proper and speedy trans
| portation to all accessible and appropriate
markets.
Eighth-Telegraph, telephone, railroad
and all other transportation companies
| and all corporations or individuals per-
forming any public service or employ
| ment, are amenable and subject to public
control; and we favor the enactment and
enforcement of such laws as will compel
| them to render efficient and approved
! service at fair and reasonable rates, with
| out favor or discrimination as to persons
I or places
| Ninth - The pensions awarded by q
generous nation to the disabled and un-
! fortunate veterans of our late war, their
| widows and orphans, should be given
them with q fair and generous hand, and
| not grudgingly and with restraint. We
| deprecate the parsimonious, super
critical and harrassing attitude of the
| present Democratic administration in it's
treatment of the benefciaries Of our pen
sion laws.
| Tenth The Republican party has al
ways advocated equal rights and privil-
eyes for all people without any distinction
whatever as to classes or Individuals We
believe in the fullest rights of labor and of
laboring men, and are opposed to class
! privileges of all kinds. The American
workingmen are the producers of our
wealth and greatness, and we are and
should be solicitous for their welfare and
happiness. We earnestly advocate such
legislation as will secure the peaceful adj
justment by arbitration of differences
arising from time to. time between emploJ-
ers and employees, and condemn unquali-
fedly capitalists and others who refuse to
| settle such differences along these peaceful
| lines. The wantOn destruction of prop
| erty, whether private, corporate or public,
| should be prevented and mob violence
promptly suppressed at all hazards. We
| stand for law and order, for the punish
ment of crime and for the lawful redress
of all wrongs.
Observation-Disclosures, There are now in
this state about 4, 0O0, 600 acres Of railroad
| lands which are not held or used for
railroad purposes and do not contribute to
the gross earnings tax or to any state or
local tax, we demand that said lands be
taxed by the ordinary method of direct
taxation, and that such tax be an addition
to the present gross earnings tax upon
railroad property.
Twelfth-We earnestly and emphatically
urge the adoption of an amendment to the
national constitution, extending the term
Of Office of the president of the United
States to six years, and providing that no
person who has been president of the
United States shall thereafter be eligible to
the same office.
We therefore request congress to propose
an amendment to the national constitu-
ton that will speedily accomplish. this
end. *- i T.: .z
i Thirteenth-We commend and indorse
the wise, economical and statesmanlike
administration of the affairs of the state
of Minnesota under Governor Knute
Nelson. #. II. 81 s VA .1=.|s
i We commend the, wise and patriotic
course of our senators, Cushman 4
Davis and William D. Washbuyn and our
Republican representatives j. a. Tawney
J. T. McCleary, A. r. Kiefer and Loren
Fletcher in the congress of the United
States upon all questions appertaining to
the public interests and the welfare Of
their constituents. They have at all time.
! fully and fearlessly discharged their duty
!. to the people and we give them oul
hearty commendation.
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