St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-07-19

be empowered to revise the tariff from
time To time in accordance with these
principles, and for the protection OF
American labor.
Fourth-The money and currency of
the nation should be issued by the fed
eral government alone, and should not
be delegated TO private individuals or
corporations. Every dollaE whether of
gold, silver or paper, should be legal
tender for the payment or all debts and
taxes. We demand the reconciliation
of silver, in accordance with the lawson
the nation, as they existed prior TO 1872
In our Judgment. the recent increase of
$50. 900. 900 in the bonded Indebtedness or
the nation was unwise. We at the same
time are positive in our belief that to
turn into the legitimate channels of
trade the enormous sum or Sl,700,Q00
per annun, which is worse than wasted
in the drink bill Of the nation, ana
which amount exceeds the entire circu-
latiOn Medium of gold, silver and paper
now i'll use in the nation; and the par
tial release of the nation from the direct
costs of jails, asylums. ETC., which il
necessitates. would solve the money
question more rapidly than any other
method offered to the American people.
Fifth-No citizen should be denied tAe
right 10 vote oh account Of sex, and
equal labor should rate with equal
wages without regard to sex.
SiXth-Foreign immigration has be-
come burden upon industry and one of
the factors in depressing wages and
causing discomfort, and we declare in
favor of immigration laws SO framed As
to exclude the insane, paupeT, criminal
and anarchist classes.
Seventh-We demand the enactment
and enforcement OF more rigid laws
which will prohibit child labor.
Eighth-Arbitration is wise and Chris
tian, and the most economical and hui
name method of adjusting differences
between nations and between capital
and labor, and compulsory laws to that
end should be enacted as far as posi-
BILE.
Ninth-We demand liberal provision
for public instruction in the English
language, and are opposed to the ap-
preparation of public funds for any
sectarian purposes in the state or ma
ton.
Tenth-Recognizing the value of the
services of our patriot citizens who
bravely defended the government and
preserved the Union, we favor the lib
eral pensioning of all needy veterans.
Eleventh-We demand greater econ
omy in the administration of public
affairs; the looping Off of, useless off,
Gals and the cutting down of exorbitant
salaries and the payment of all official
fees into the public treasury.
Twelfth-We favor the election of
the president and vice president or the
United States and the United States
senators by the direct vote of the peo-
pie.
Thirteenth-All persons should be
protected by law in their rights to one
DAVIS rest in seven.
FOurteeDth-Speeulatio in margins,
the cornering Of grain, money and prod
uets, and the formation of pools, trusts
and combinations for the arbitrary adj
vaneement of prices. and the watering
of stocks, should be prohibited bg law.
FlTteenth-the recent strike" on
the part OF the railroad corporations
and their combined employees confirms
us in the belief that all railroad. tele
graph and other public corporations
should be under the entire control of
the government. and that. as soon as
practicable, the government should own
and operate these great lines of COM
nerce OF the country In the interests of
all the people and without discrimina-
ton, under civil service rules.
Sixteenth - We insist that in this
state the railroads should be required
by statute to resume their common law
duties as common carriers, and espe-
eially to provide warehouses and eie-
vators for the handling of all kinds of
grain and produce for all persons upon
equal terms and without discrimination,
and thus open to all people free mar
ket for grain and produce.
SPyuDtaputh Nonresident aliope
should not be allowed TO acquire land or
real estate interests in this country, and
we favor the limitation OF individual
and corporate ownership Of land. All
unearned grants of land to railroad
companies or other corporations should
be reclaimed and held as homesteads
for the people. s
Eighteenth-Thatw we favor an amend
ment to the Australian ballot law of this
stale. striking out the fee required of
candidates for office as unconstitutional;
and, If that can not be done, we insist
that the fee shall be reduced at least rs
per cent. We declare in favor of the
system known as initiative and referen-
dunn. We also favor such constftu-
topai changes of legislation as will Sc
cure to political parties proportional
representation.
Nineteenth-Ne insist that all laws
of this country should be observed and
obeyed not only by the laboring men,
but by all men, including saloonkeep-
ers and corporation managers. and we
unreservedly condemn at all times the
wanton destruction of property. whether
private or corporate, and insist that
riot and meo violence shall be proEptIy
suppressed and punished. No party
has the right to ask the vote of law
abiding citize to help put 1t in power
to make laws that. when III power, re.
fuses or neglects to enforce the laws.
We arraign the managers of the Re-
publican and Democrat parties of the
past fifteen years as the agents and
servie tools of trusts and railroad cor
poratlons, of the gold bondOcracy and OF
the. saloon combine, and denounce them
as cause OF the recent financial disas-
tiers, labor riots and disturbances. Their
collision with the lawless. vicious and
immoral fof the sake OF votes), and
their refusal to enforce the laws against
vice, crime and immortality, especially
i'll the cities, has bred disrespect for all
law and brought reproach upon the
whole nation. Their protest against
the admission of moral issues into poll
tics is a confession of their moral de-
geDeraey. and we renew our protest
fraW