The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-07-17

all debts, public and private; the enrich
| ment of the money lending class at home
and abroad; prostration of industry and
imDoverishment of the people.
We are unalterably opposed to the sim
the prosperity of an industrial people in
the paralysis of hard times.
Gold monometallism is a British policy,
and its adoption has brought other nations
Into financial seryitude to London. 1t is
and IT can be fastened on the United States
only by the sitting of that indomitable
spirit and love of liberty which proclaimed
our political independence in 1T76 and won
1t in the war of the revolution.
we demand the free and unlimited COIN
legal ratio of sixteen to one without waiting
We demand that the standard silver dollar
shall be full legal tender, equally with
gold. for all debts, public and private, and
we favor such legislation as will prevent
the demonstration of any kind Of legal
tender money by private contract.
obligations of the United States the option
reserved by law TO the government of re-
coin or gold coin.
Bonds.
I'VE are opposed to the issuing of inter-
e5t-bearing bonds of the United States in
time of peace, and condemn the traf1icking
with banking syndicates, which, In ex-
profit to themselves. supply the federal
treasury with gold to maintain the policy
OF gold monometallism.
Congress alone mas the power to coin
and issue money, and President Jackson
declared that this power could not be dele
gated to corporations or individuals. We,
therefore, denounce the issuance of notes
intended to circulate as money by national
and we demand that all paper which is
made legal tender for public and private
the United States, shall be issued by the
government of the United States, and shall
be redeemable in coin.
Tariff and Taxation.
levied for purposes of revenue, and that
taxation should be limited by the needs of
ally administered. We denounce as dis
turbfng to business the republican threat
been twice Condemned by the people In in
national elections, and which, enacted un-
der the false plea OF protection to home
industry, proved n prolific breeder of
trusts and moncpolies, enriched the few
at the S expense Of the the many a5y TestTictsd ri ted
great American staples of access to their
natural markets. Until the money ques-
tation for further changes in our tariff
laws, except such as are necessary to meet
verse decision OF the supreme court on
the income tax. There would be no deficit
the supreme court OF a law passed by a
democratic congress in strict pursuance OF
nearly 100 years, that court having sus-
tanned constitutional objections to its en-
actment, which has been overruled by the
ablest judges who had ever sat on that
bench. We declare that IL is the duty of
congress TO use all the constitutional pow
er which remains after that decision. or
which may come from its reversal by the
court as II may hereafter be constituted,
so that the burdens of taxation may be
equally and impartially laid. to the end
that wealth may bear it's proportion OF the
expenses OF the government.
Paupsr Labor Plank.
I'VE hold that the most efficient way Of
protecting American labor Is to prevent
The importation Of foFeign pauper labor TO
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