Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-12-04

tration of the Government should DE
raised by levying the burden on what
the people possess, instead OF upon what
they consume.
(5l Railroad, telegraph, and other
nnblic corporations should be controll-
cd by the Government in the interest
of the people. and no higher charges
allowed than necessary to give fair in
terest on the capital actually invested.
(6) Foreign immigration has become
a burden upon industry, one OF the fac
tors in depressing wages and causing
discomfort; therefore, our Immigration
laws should be revised and strictly en-
forced. The time of residence for nat
urali2ation should be extended, and no
naturalized person should be allowed
to vote until one year after he becomes
citizen.
ca Nonresident aliens should not
be allowed TO acquire land in this coun-
try. and we favor the limitation of in
dividual and corporate ownership OF
land. All unearned grants of lands to
railroad companies or other corpora
lions should be reclaimed.
81 Years of inaction and treachery
on the part of the Republican and
Democratic parties have resulted In
the present reign of mob law, and we
demand that every citizen be protect
ed in the right of trial by constitution
al tribunals.
f9)All men should be protected by
law in their right to one day of rest in
seven.
1O) Arbitration is the wisest and most
economical and humane method of set
Ting national differences.
I'D Speculations in margins, the
cornering of grain, money and prod
ucts, and the formation of pools, trusts,
and combinations for the arbitrary adj
vancement of prices should be sup
pressed.
~ We pledge that the Prohibition
Party, if elected to power, will ever
grant just pensions to disabled veter-
ans of the Union army and navy, their
widows and orphans.
Q3) We stand unequivocally for the
American public school and opposed
to any appropriation of public moneys
for sectarian schools. We declare that
only by united support of such com
mon schools, taught in the English Ian
guage, can we hope to become and re-
main homogeneous and harmonious
people.
(14) We arraign the Republican and
Democratic parties as false to the stand
ards reared by their founders; as faith
less to the principles of the illustrious
leaders of the past to whom they do
homage with the lips, as recreant to
the higher law, which is as infiexible in
political affairs as in personal life; and
as no longer embodying the aspirations
of the American people, or inviting the
confidence of enlightened, progressive
patriotism. Their protest against the
admission Of moral issues" into poll
tics is a confession of their own moral
degeneracy. The declaration of an en-
inent authority that municipal misrule
Is the one conspicuous failure OF
American politics." follows as natur-
al consequence of such degeneracy,
and is true alike of cities under Re-
publican and Democratic control. Each
accuses the other of extravaganza in
Congressional appropriations, and both
are alike guilty. Each protests, when
out of power, against attractions of the
civil service laws, and each when in
power violates those laws in letter and
In spirit. Each processes fealty to the
interests of the toiling masses, but both
covertly truckle to the money power in
their administration of public affairs.
Even the tariff issue, as represented IN
the Democratic Mills bill and the Re-
publican Mckinley bill, is no longer
treated by them as an issue between
great and divergent principles OF gov
ernment, but is mere catering to diff
ferent sectional and class interests.
The attempt in many States to wrest
the Australian ballot system from its
true purpose, and so to deform it as to
render it extremely difficult for new
parties to exercise the right of suffrage,
is an outrage upon popular govern
ment. The competition of both old
parties for the vote of the Slums, and
their assiduous counting of the liquor
power and subservency to the money
power, have resulted in placing those
powers in the position of practical arbi-
tiers of the destinies of the nation. We
renew our protests against these peril
GUS tendencies, and invite all citizens to
Join rs in the upbuilding of party
that has saown, in five national cam
paigns, that it prefers temporary de-
feat to an abandonment of the claims
of justice, sobriety, personal rights and
the protection of American homes.
15) Recognizing and declaring that
Prohibition of the liquor traffic has be-
come the dominant issue in national
politics, we invite to full party fellow
ship all those who, on this one domi-
nant issue, are with us agreed, in the
full belief that this party can and will
remove sectional differences, promote
national unity, and insure the best well
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