The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-07-13
inals and other dangerous and undesirable

tnalS ana other dangerous and undesirable
classes of immigrants.
| 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-
ton and at reasonable rates convenient
and ample elevator and warehouse accom-
N odations, 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
or places
Ninth - The pensions awarded by a
| generous nation to the disabled and I'M
fortunate veterans of our late war, their
widows and orphans, should be given
them with a 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 its
| treatment of the beneficiaries 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
labor1ng 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 emplO T.
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 100000 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
Thirteenth-We commend and indorse
the wise, economical and statesmanlike
administration of the affairs of the state
of Minnesota under Governor Knute
| Nelson.
We commend the wise and patriotic
course OF our senators, Cushman K.
Davis and William d. Washburn and our
Republican representatives j. A. Tawney
J. Z. 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 times
fully and fearlessly discharged their duty
to the people and we give them oul
hearty commentator.