Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-09-01

HE MUSTN'T PLAl
as are necessary to make up the deficit In
revenue caused by the adverse decision of
the supreme court on the income tax
Favor an Income Tax.
But for this decision of the supreme
court there would be no deficit in the rev.
enue under the law passed by q Demo-
cratic congress, in strict pursuance of the
uniform decisions of that court for nearly
100 years, that court having under that de-
cision sustained constitutional objections
to its enactment which have been over
ruled by the ablest judges who have ever
sat on that bench
We declare that it is the duty of con-
gross to use all the constitutional power
which remains after that decision, or
which may come from the reversal by the
court as it may hereafter be constituted,
SO that burdens of taxation may be
equally and impartially laid to the end
that wealth may bear it's due proportional
expenses offthe government.
No Paupcr Immigration.
=; 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 homo market to our
American farmers and artisans is greatly
reduced by vicious monetary system
which depresses the prices of their pro-
ducts below the price of production and
thus deprives them of the means of pur-
chasing the products of our home manu-
factoreis. .~
The absorption of wealth by the few,
the consolidation of our leading railroad
systems and the formation of trusts and
pools require q stricter control by the fed
eral government Of these arteries Of COM
merce. 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.
Denounce Profligate Waste.
We denounee the prohigate waste of tho
money wrung from the people by oppres-
sive taxation and the lavish appropriations
OF the recent Republican congresses, which
have kept taxes high, while the labor that
pays themis unemployed and the products
OF the peoples toll are depressed in price
till they no longer repay the cost Of produc-
ton. We demand a return to that SIM
plicity and economy which best BELTS a
democratic government, and q reduction
In the number of useless officers, the sala-
ries of which drain the substance of the
people:
No Federal Interference.
We denounce arbitrary interference by
federal authorities in local affairs as a
violation of the constitution of the United
States and a crime against institutions,
and especially object to government by
injunction, as new and highly danger
GUS form of oppression, by which federal
judges, in contempt of the laws of the
states and 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 in the house relative to con-
temptsin federal courts, and providing for
trial by jury in certain cases of contempt.
No discrimination should be INDUCED in
by the governmental the United States,
in favor of any of its debtors We APP
prove of the refusal of the. Fifty third
congress to pass the Pacific railroad fund
ing bill, and denounce the effort Of the
present Republican congress to enact a
similar measure. -.
i Position ON Pensions. $
Recognizing the just claims of deserv-
ing Union soldiers we heartily endorse
the rule Of the present commissioner of
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