The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-10-12

certain cases of contempt.
| No discrimination should be INDUCED
| by the government of the United States
( in favor of any of its debtors. We APP
prove of the refusal of the Fifty bird
Congress to pass the Pacific Railroad
| funding bill. and denounce the effort OF
the present Republican Congress to enact
similar measure.
Recognizing the just claims of desery-
ing Union soldiers, we heartily indorSe the
rule Of the Commissioner of Pensions that
no names shall be arbitrarily dropped
| from the pension roll, and the fact Of en-
| listment and service should be deemed
conclusive evidence against disease or
| disability before enlistment.
| We favor the admission OF the Terrific
ries of New Mexico and Arizona into the
| factuTers.
The absorption of wealth by the few,
the consolidation OF our leading railroad
systems and the formatonof trusts and
pools require strcter control by the
Federal Government of those .arte les OF
commerce. We demand the enlargement
Of the powers of the Interstate Commerce
Commission, and such restrictions and
guarantees in the control Of railroads as
will protect the people from robbery and
oppression.
We denounce the proiligate waste Of the
money wrung from the people by oppres-
sive taxation and the lavish appropria-
| tions of recent Republican Congresses
which have kept the taxes high while the
labor that pays them Is unemployed, and
the products Of the peope'ss toll are de-
pressed in price till they no longer repay
the cost OF production. We demand re-
turn Of that simplicity and economy
which BELTS Democratic government and
reduction in the number Of useless Off
ces, the salaries OF which drain the sub
stance of the people.
We denounce arbitrary interference by
Federal authorities in local affairs rs u
violation Of the constitution Of the Unit
ed States and crime against free lnstl-
tutions, and we especially object to gov
ernmcnt by injunction as a new and
highly dangerous form of oppression by
which Federal judges, IN contempt OF the
laws Of the States and the rights OF citl-
zcns, become at once legislators Judges
and eXeCutiOncrS: and we approve the bill
passed at the last session OF the United
States Senate and now pending IN the
House relative TO contempts in Federal
courts and providing for trials by jury in
taxation should be limited by the needs Of
the Government honestly and economic
ally administered. We denounce as dis
turbIng to business the Republican threat
TO restore the Mckinley law, which has
been twice condemned by the people In
national ecctlous and which, enacted
under the false plea OF protection TO home
industry, proved u prolific, breeder Of
trusts and moncDolies. enriched the few
at the expense of the many, restricted
trade and deprived the producers Of the
great American staples of access TO their
natural markets.
Until the money question II settled we
are opposed TO any agitation for further
changes IN our tariff laws, except such rs
are necessary 10 nuke up the dolIclt In
The revenue caused by the adverse doCls-
ion Of the supreme Court on the Income
tax. But for this decision by the Su-
preme Court there would be no deficit In
the revenue under he law passed by n
Democratic Congress IN strict pursuance
Of the uniform decisions Of that court for
nearly one hundred years, that court
having sustained constitutional obiec
tions 10 ts enactment, which have been
oyerrulcd by the ablest Judges who have
ever sat upon the bench. We declare
that II N tho duty OF Congress 20 use al
the constitutional power which remains
after that decision, or which may come
from lls reversal by the court ~ II may
hereafter be constituted, 80 that the bur
dons Of taxation may be equally and Inn
paitIally laid 10 the end that wealth may
helr its due proportion Of the expenses Of
the Government.
We hold that the most efficient way 20
protect American labor IL 10 prevent tho
importation Of foreign pauper labor 10
compete with II In the home market, aud
that the value OF the home market 10 our
American formers nnd artisans II greatly
reduced by u Vicious monetary system
which deprosscs the prices Of their pro
duets below tho cost Of production, and
thus deprlyes them OF the means OF pur-
chasing the products Of our home manu-