The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-08-07

Wu8Ch A0NO OPP4O0OON gAO POOp1OR dIlu
| especially do we denounce the unneces,
sarv and burdensome increase in the
tax on sugar and other necessaries of
life, so largely used by the poorer por-
| ton of our people, while the taxes have
been lowered on some of the luxuries
of the rich, which should bear the
heaviest burden. We especially. de-
| noUnce the pending tariff bill as a cow
| ardlv makeshift for tariff reform. It
not onlv substitutes Democratic pro
lection for Republican protection on
certain manufactured articles, but also
/ strives to discriminate against the pro-
ducers of wealth by putting the raw
materials which their labor produces
upon the free list while it forces them
and every citizen to pay a high tax on
the manufactured article. The revenue
of the government can and should be
raised without such unjust and in
creased discrimination.
6. We favor q graduated tax on in
comes that will tax all incomes, private
or corporate, of $4,000 n per cent,
and on all larger incomes a proportion.
ate increase so that the wealthy will
bear their share of the expenses of the
government in proportion to their abil-
ity to pay. If such a law was in force,
and properly executed, we believe that
sufficient revenue would be raised from
that ource to enable us to reduce the
burdens on those in moderate circum-
stances, now so heavily taxed, at least
one-half.
Z. We favor the enactment of such
laws by Congress as shall effectually
prevent the dealing in futures of all
agricultural and mechanical produc-
tions. We do not believe that the bill
now pending before Congress is sum-
cient to remedy the evil.
s. That when the State and National
platform comes in conflict our Repre-
s%entatIves in Congress shall be bound
by the State platform.
g. That we are unalterably opposed
to the promiscuous immigration of for
eigners into this country, and favor
stringent national legislation to scrutin
ize, regulate and control the same IS as
to exclude from Our shores the vicious,
corrupt and degraded class of emf
grants.
We are in favor of electing United
States Senators by a direct vole of the
people.
10. We depIore the existence of con
ditions which fill a land of ''overpro.
duction" with enforced idleness, des,
titution and lawlessness. These are
the legitimate fruits of Republican
and Democratic NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., be-
trayal of popular confidence, and per-
version of the peoples government to
the use and advantage of q destructive
money trust and to other monopolies.
We sympathiZe with the oppressed
everywhere; but we are opposed to all
lawless combinations of men, whether
representing capital or labor. We be
lieve in peace and strict obedience to
law. We IRE opposed to strikes as
tending to infractiOns of the law, as
wrong in principle, and condemn them
as we do the unlawful and unprose
cuted combinations of capital against
which they contend. We urge upon
labor the wise use of the ballot as the
only peaceable solution of the grave
conditions that confront our social
progress, conditions which cannot be
| converted into social peace except on
the basis of social righteousness.
IL. For thirty years riotous living.
debauchery and shameless disregard
for the rights of the people has been
the rule rather than the exception at
Washington. The present adninistra
ton, the present Senate and Congress.
seem TO be composed largely of men
who are Outstripping their predecessors.
Some of them r old timers, and their
new associates have caught the infec
ton. The money power, whiskey,
sugar and other mon oIolies are repre-
sented in the Cabinet and IN both
Houses Of Congress. At present we
have a government of, for and by
trusts and monopolies. In striking
contrast to the above we point with
1 nrj1O tn tho nlnoY ronOr2S MAZDA hu OI1r
little band Of Peoples party Senators
and Congressman, Always at the post
of duty, never arrested to make a quo
rum, unselish, fearless, incorruptIble,
like true Spartans, they have stood by
their pledges to a With this
record In our favor we assert that
honesty in politics is not an iridescent
dream" and can invite all who earnest
ly desire good government to leave
their monopoly ridden parties and help
US to fill National Legislative halls
with honest statesmen.
IL We favor the running of the pub
lid schools of u State at least four
months in each year as required by our
Constitution, for both races, in order
that the blessings of education may be
extended to all the people Of u State
alike.
ID We condemn the Democratic ad-
ministration of North Carolina for it's
failure to execute the anti trust laws
now on our statute books, also for the
failure to prosecute the officers of
broken banks through whose criminal
carelessness and dishonesty large
amounts of both public and private
funds have been lost and our citizens,
widows and orphans have been made
to suffer.
IA. We favor the establishment OF a
State institution for the reformation Of
young criminals.
IS. We condemn the last General
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