The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-07-10

tary system which depresses the prices of their
thus deprives them of the means OF purchas-
ing the products of our home manufactures.
GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF RAILROADS.
The absorption of wealth by the few, the
consolidation of our leading railroad systems
and the form tion OF trusts and pools require
a stricter control by the federal government of
those arteries of commerce. We demand the
enlargement of the powers of the interstate
commerce commission ana such restrictions
and guarantees in the control of railroads as
will protect the people from robbery and OPP
preston.
ECONOMY IN PUBLIC EXPENDITURES.
We denounce the profiigate waste of the
money wrupg from the people by oppressive
taxation and the lavish appropriations or
recent Republican Congresses, which have
kept taxes high, while the labor that pays
them is unemployed, products OF the peoples
toll are oppressed in price till they no longer
repay the cost of production. We demand
return TO that simplicity ard economy which
BELTS a Democratic government and a reduc-
ton in the number of useless offices, the
salaries of which drain the substance of the
people
FEDERAL INTERFERENCE IN LOCAL AFFAIRS.
We denounce arbitrary interference by fed.
eral authorities in local affairs as a violation
of The Consti ution of the United State and a
crime against fee institutions, and we espec-
tally object to government by injunction as a
new and highly dangerous form of oppression
by which federal judges, in contempt of the
laws of The States and rights of citizens, be-
come al oLce legislators, judges ana eXecu-
TONERS, and we approve the bi passed al the
last session of the United States Senate, and
now pending in the House, relative to con-
tempts in federal courts and providing for
trials by jury in certain cases of contempt
PACIFIC RAILROADS.
No discrimination should be H. dulged by the
government of The United States in favor of
any of its debtors. We approve of the re.
fusal of the Eifty-third Congress to pass the
Pacific Railroad funding bill and denounce
the effort OF the preseot Republican Congress
TO enact q similar measure.
PENSIONS.
Recognizing the just claims Of deserving
Union soldiers, we heartily indoors the rule of
the present com missioner that no n 4mes shall
be aIbtraril, dropped from the pension roll.
The fact of enlistment and service should be
deemed conclusive evidence against disease
or disability before enl ment
CUBA.
We extend our sympathy TO the people of
Cuba in their heroic struggle for liberty and
independence.
CIVIL SERVICE.
We are opposed to life tenure in the public
service. We favor appointments based upon
merit, fixed terms of office and such an ad
mnistration of the civil-service laws as will
affor equal opportunities to all citizens of as
certained fitness.
NO THIRD TERM.
We declare 1t 10 be the unwritten law of this
republic established by custom and usage of
one hundred years and sanctioned by the ex-
amples OF the greatest and wisest of those who
IOunueu anu nave maintained our govern
ment, that no man should be eligible for q
third term of the presidential office.
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.
The federal government should care for and
improve the Mississippi river and other great
waterways OF the republic, so as to secure for
the interior states easy and cheap transporta-
ton to tdewater When any waterway of the
republic is of sufficient Importance to demand
aid from the government such aid should be
extended upon a definite plan Of continuous
work until permanent improvements secured.
SUPPORT INVITED.
Confding in the justice of our cause and the
necessity of its success at The polls. we submit
the foregoing declaration of principles and pur-
poses TO the considerate judgment of the Amer
lean people. We invite the support of all citi-
zenS who approve them and desire to have
them made effective through legislation for
the relief of the people anu The restoration of
the country's prosperity.