The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-06-06
DELEGATES
| FOR MEMPHIS.
The Peoples Party State E1ecu
tive Committee Approve the
Silver Conference.
INCOME TAX RESOLUTIONS


INCOME TAX RESOLUTIONS
Declaring for . Constitutional Amend
mspt--Which Will Enable Courts 20
Decide in Favor Of just and 70 uita BILE
Taxation.
The State Executive committee OF
the Peoples Party met in Raleigh on
Monday evening, June srd. They met
to take some action and to do some
work looking toward the settlement OF
the great and much agitated question
Of the hour-national finance. And
they did something. OF course
their ideas found expression in the
adoption of resolutions, but they ac-
cOmpanied their declaration with an
action which will send delegates to the
National Silver conference, which will
be held in Memphis, June 18th and
18th. This proceeding, together with
the unequivocal declaration of the
Peoples Party platform, stamps the
party as the only political organization
which honestly and sincerely means
what it says in declaring for free coin
age of silver and gold at the ratio of
l6 to l. There is no coinage of the
American product" business in the
Peoples Party. There is no Limited
amount per month" in it. There is no
international conference foolishness"
-nOtwaddle of wOrds-nO straddling-
no dodging-but a ringing declara-
ton which favors the full restoration
of the money laws of the constitution
to the statute books of the United
States.
In addition to this, the executive
committee declared in favor of a gradu-
ated income tax, and recommended
such action as would make the consti-
tuition too plain to be subjected to
doubtful construction 50 far as relates
to just and equitable taxation.
THE SILVER RESOLUTIONS.
ing resolutions:
WHEREAS, Our North Carolina patri-
otto ancestors, in 1888, at the end of the
Seven Years War for American Inde-
pendence, before the establishment of
the United States government, and
even before single American mint
was open for the coinage of money of
any kind, by an act of the legislature
of N orth Carolina adopted the "Spanish
milled silver dollar" as the unit of coin
value, and thereby regulated" the
values of all foreign coins, both gold
aud silver, and
WHEREAS, The more recent un-
patriotic departure from the wise and
beneficent principles of coinage law
laid down by the patriotic founders OF
United States government in the coin
age act of Congress in 1892, has been
instrumental in bringing financial
ruin to the great masses OF the Ameri.
can people, and now even threatens
the destruction of the fundamental
principles of our republican institu.
lions, and
WHEREAS, A national bimetallic con
ference has been called to meet al
Memphis, Tenn, on June 18th and 18th
in the interest of the money of tn,
United States constitution and of re
establishing the financial policy o
Andrew Jackson aud Thomas Jeffer
son, and to checkmate the unpatrioti
and dangerous gold crusade just starte'
by President Cleveland and his Demo
cratic Secretary of the Treasury, and
WHEREAS, The free and unlimited
coinage of silver and gold at the rati
of Is to and other paramount finan
cial reforms are among the leading
tenets of the Peoples Party and wer
plainly written in our national plat
form before any other party had tn
courage and patriotic fidelity to tn
people to declare unequivOcally TO
such needed reform, and
advocacy of this policy by the People
Party has commended the organization
to the American public, and secure'
for it an expression of confidence whic
has never been equalled for volume il
, limited time by any other politica
organization in America, for it is her
poll of the nation in 1892, discovere
party, the off year political poll of lS9
|
, an approximate increase of one milliO
votes in two years; therefore
l Resolued, 1st. That while we do nc
surrender any of the other principle
of the Peoples Party as expressed i
, the Omaha platform; that we do reitel
q ate the former declarations of tn
party that the financial question tower
D above all others, and therefore we wi
doln fn of
phis conference to assist in advancin
this principle of the Peoples Part,
and to urge upon the conference til
s necessity for uniting all of the ell,
ments of the old parties who fave
honest financial reform under the fire
and unlimited, 16 to bimetallie bar
! ner of the Peoples Party.
a End. That our delegates be and al
hereby instructed to request the col
5 ference to declare for the People
! Party, it being the only political organ
!, izatiOn that has been and is now solid
united for the money Of the cOnstit'
r ton and an American financial systeI
t THE INCOME TAX RESOLUTIONS.
Q WHEREAS, The Peoples Party in o,
,, national platform declared in favor
a graduated United States income ia
SuppOSlng at the time That It mad Dee
r settled by precedent and former jud
o cial decisions of the United States S.
q preme court; that Congress might Law
= fully impose such taxes under the pr
4 visions of the United States const
n tuition; and
v WHEREAS, The recent decision of tt
majority of the judges of the Unit
States Supreme court has, in effet
le paralyzed the powers of Congress {
r the subject of all just and equitab
,. income tax; and
WHEREAS, An overwhelming m
" jority of the American people u
doubtedly favor the equalization of Il
,, burdens of taxation through Il
lie medium of a national income tax; al
WHEREAS, In view of the said s
Is preme court decision, an amendme
D. to the constitution of the United Stat
- do tn opSv off fD