Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-07-23

as money by national banks, as in
derogation of the Constitution, and
we demand that oil paper which is
made legal-tender for public and
private debts, and which is receivable
Tor dues to the United States, shall
be issued by the Government of the
| United States, and shall be redeem.
able in coin.
THE TARIFF.
We hold that tariff duties should
be levied for purposes of revenue,
such duties to 80 be adjusted as to Cd.
crate equally throughout the country,
and not discriminate between class
or section, and that taxation should
be limited by the needs of the gov.
ernment, honestly and economically
administered.
We denounce, as disturbing to bust.
ness, the Republican threat to restore
the Mckinley law, which has twice
been condemned by the people in
national elections, and which, en-.
acted under the false plea of protec.
tion to home industries, proved q
prolific breeder of trusts and mo.
nopolies, enriched the few at the eX.
pense of the many, restricted trade,
and deprived the the producers of
the great American staples of access
to their natural markets.
INCOME TAX.
Until the money question is set.
tied we are opposed to any agitation
for further changes in our tariff laws,
except such as are necessary to meet
the deficit in revenue caused by the
adverse decision of the Supreme
Court on the income-tax. But for
this decision by the Supreme Court
there would be no deficit in the reye.
nue. under the law passed by Demo.
cratic Congress in strict pursuance of
the uniform decisions of that court
for nearly 100 years, that court hav-
ing In that decision sustained consti-
tutional objections to its enactment
which had previously been over
ruled by the ablest judges who ever
sat on that bench.
We declare that it is the duty of
Congress to use all the constitutional
power which remains after that do.
cision, or which may come from its
reversal by the court as it may here
after be constituted, so that the bur-
dens of taxation may he equally and
impartiially laid, to the end that
wealth may bear its due proportion
OF the expenses of the government.
PROTECTION OF LABOR.
We hold that the most efficient
way of protecting American labor is
to prevent the importation of foreign
pauper labor to compete with it
in the home market, and that the
value of the home market to our
American farmers and artisans is
grealy reduced by a vicious mone-
tary system, which depresses the
cost of their products below the cost
Of production, and thus deprives
them of the means of purchasing the
products of our home manufactures,
and as labor creates the wealth of
the country, we demand the passage
OF such laws as may be necessary to
protect 1t in all its rights.
We are in favor of the arbitration
of differences between EMPLOYERS en-
gagged in Interstate commerce and
their employees, and recommend
such legislation as Is necessary to
carry out this policy.
CONTROL OF RAILROADS..
The absorption Of wealth by the
few, the combination of our leading
railroad systems, and the formation
OF trusts and pools, require q stricter
control by the Federal Government
of those arteries of commerce. We
demand the enlargement of the
powers of the Interstate Commerce
Commission, and the addition of such
restrictions and guarantees In the con-
troll Of railroads as will protect the
people from robbery and oppression.
We denonce the profiigate waste
OF the money wrung from the people
by oppressive taxation and the lavish
appropriation of recent Republican
Congresses, which have kept taxes
high, while the labor that pays them
Is unemployed, and the products of
the peoples toll are depressed in
price, till they no longer repay the
cost of production. We demand
return to that simplicity and
economy which best BELTS q Demo-
cratic government, and a reduction
in the number Of useless offices, the
salaries of which drain the substance
of the people.
GOVERNMENT BY INJUNCTION"
We denounce arbitrary interference
by the Federal authorities in local
affairs as violation of the Constitu-
tion of the United States and a
crime against free institutions, and
we, especially object to government
by injunction as a new and highly
dangerous form of oppression, by
which the Federal judges, in con-
tempt Of the laws of the States and
the rights Of citizens, become at once
Legislators, judges, and executioners
and we approve the bill passed at
the last session Of the United States
Senate and now pending i'm the
House Of Representatives relative to
to contempt in Federal courts, and
providing trials by jury in certain
cases of contempt.
No discrimination should be in
dulged by the Government Of the
United States in favor of its debtors.
We approve of the refusal of the
Fifty.third Congress to pass the
Pacific railroad funding bill, and de-
nounce the efforts Of the present Re.
publican Congress to enact a similar
measure.
PENSIONS.
Recognizing the just claims of de-
serving Union soldiers, we heartily
endorse the rule Of the present Com
missioner of Pensions that no names