Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1894-07-26

the American standard of wages. 10
this end we favor tariff on foreign
goods competing with domestic goods
equal to the difference between foreign
and American wages. With the
exception OF articles OF luxury, goods
which by reason Of climatic, or other
conditions cannot be pro6tably produced
in this country should be admitted Free
By adherence to the republican prin-
ciple OF reciprocity, new and larger
markets for our farm products can and
ought to be secured.
We are opposed to the fiat paper
money doctrine Of the populist party and
believe n metallic basis for our cur
rency consisting Of both gold and silver;
the republican party Of North Dakota
demands the use OF both these metals
as standard money. We also demand
that the mints be opened to the coinage
OF silver mined IN the United States with
such restrictions and under such pro-
visions, to be determined by legislation.
as will maintain the parity OF values of
the two metals. The purchasing and
debt paying power of every dollar, must
be alway kept equal to that of every
other dollar. Congress should levy
tax on importation of silver sufficient to
protect fully the products of our own
mines.
We are opposed to the repeal of the
state bank tax, believing that return
to wild cat money would lower the
couDtry's credit, food the land with
worthless currency and bring confusion,
loss OF confidence and national disaster.
Believing in the dignity of labor and
the right OF the workingmen peacefully
to contend for their fnll share of the
product Of their toll, we favor code Of
arbitration or copciliatiop, state and
national, by which both employe and
employer shall be bound, and we recon-
mend that congress so amend the inter
state commerce law as to provide for the
orderly settlement of disputes between
capital and labor.
BY the enactment of the interstate
commerce law republican congress
established the right of the federal
government to regulate and control
railroads engaged in interstate COM
merce. Such control should be freely
exercised TO the end that the people
shall not be compelled to pay
interest on watered stock and fictitious
values, but that rates may be fair and
equal for equal services.
The coal beds undertaking the west
ern half of our state will be an important
factor in the development OF this
commonwealth: therefore we recommend
such Legislation as will, by regulating
freight rates. encourage the use of North
Dakota coal and cause to be spent
among our own people the millions now
yea,ly sent east for fuel.
For the protection OF depositors in
national and STATE banks and to prevent
the withdrawal OF the the money from
circulation. We believe that the federal
and state governments should guarantee
snch depositors against loss, reimbursing
itself by a tax on the banks.
We condemn the present democratic
administration for opposing the reel
procity clause of the act of 1880. We
condemn it for placing WOOL and other
of our farm products on the free list.
We condemn it's disgraceful surrender
to the rapacious sugar trust, the coal
trust, the lead trust and other mon
opolies. We condemn It for its un-
patriotic Interpretation of the pension
laws and for the hardships which it
persists in imposing on the enfeebled
veterans. We condemn it for lowering
the stars and stripes at Hawaii and
for it's attempt to replace a republican
government by rejected monarchy.
In the Young Mems Republican league
We welcome an efficient aid for political
education and party success.
We recommend that at it's next
session the legislature enact a law
requiring state, county and municipal
treasurers to account for and cover into
the treasury all interest and earnings OF
the public funds.
Realizing now, as heretofore, the
evils Of the public saloon, We favor the
enforcement OF our lawe controlling the
liquor traffic.
We commeod to Che favorable con-
sheraton of the next Legislative as
sembly the question of granting the
suffrage to women.
CHARLES A. POLLOCK,
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