The advocate., 1896-08-12

factor In State legislation We have procured
the enactment Of redemption law, the val
ued policy law, the Australian ballot, the law
prohibiting the making Of gold contracts, the
law reducing the interest on tax sale Csrtih-
Gates and abrogating the March penalty on
delinquent taxes; the law requiring the
weekly payment Of wages and the miners
screen law; also the laws establishing .
Grand Army museum and exempttng the
Grand Army property from taxation.
We condemn the Republican House OF Repre-
ssntstives for failing and refusing 20 pass the
bills sent 10 them from the POpullBt Senate
which provided for the taxation OF foreign
judgments, the reduction Of the legal rate OF
interest and providing . penalty for usury,
placing credits upon an equality with other
property for the purposes Of taxation, the
nti-Plnkerton law, the exemption Of the per-
sonsl earnings Of wAge-workers and the maxi
mum freight rate law.
We condemn the present Republican State
administration for using public funds and
property as the private perquisiteS Of office.
holders, for permitting It's appolntees to hold
up their clerks for . percentage OF their SAL
aries, for its conduct Of the State institutions
where brutality and homicide have been per-
mittsd and for It's cowsrdly, vSclllsting and
contradictory course In attempting to en-
force the laws st some times and places and
failing to attempt to enforce them st other
times and places.
While we expect and demand that our p1b-
lie officials shall do 90 they have sworn to do
in carrying into effect the will Of the people
% expressed in legislation, we especially de-
mand that the Attorney General Of the State
take MEASURES to secure the enforcement OF
section 1859 Of the statutes Of 1896, which pro.
hibits corporations from engaging In other
lines of business than those which are spect'
fed in their charters, and that railroad cor
porations be prevented from engaging In any
other business than that Of common carriers
We condemn the unwsrrantsd and unjust
discrimination practlced by Kansas railroads
and enjoyed by favored shippers which are
destroying the business and prosperity OF
those less fortunately situated and creating q
monopoly at the expense Of the farmers and
producers of the state.
We are In favor Of such legislation In Kan
sas ss will secure to the people Of this State
such reduction in charges by the Transports
tion companies as will place them on an
equality with similar charges paid by the
people Of Iowa, Illinois and other producing
States and to that end we favor the enact
ment of Q maximum freight rate law and the
election Of Board Of Railroad Commission.
ers by the people, with power TO revise such
maximum rates from time to time in case Of
0n fnanmal3ky khaR In Fnakn pnah
charges fair and reasonable, and whose duty
it shall be to enforce such rates as the actual
charges by the transportation companies.
We demand laws which shall prevent
the products Of convict labor coming into
competition with the products Of free labor
and reducing Its rewards.
We demand that all public salaries shall be
reduced to correspond with the prices of labor
and its products.
We demand that the Supreme court clear Its
docket in justice to the people.
The following additional resolutions
were adopted;
Resolved, That we are opposed to the practice
commonly known As nepotism, whereby per-
sons elected to public Office or appointed
heads Of departments fill the positions under
them with members Of their own families
We believe that greater satisfaction can be OBJ.
tslned by distributing such positions among
as many families 80 possible.
Whereas, the Armour Packing Company is
now expressing many Of the Kansas City,
KsS., members of the Anchor Federal
Labor Union, and other unions, therefore be
it resolved that we extend to members Of
that and other unions which are being Op-
pressed our hearty and sincere sympathy.
Colonel Harris appeared and expressed
his satisfaction with the result OF the