San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-10

furnished at cost by the state.
We demand an amendment to
our state constitution authorizing
the loaning of our public school
funds not otherwise invested upon
the lands of the people OF this
state, with proper limitation upon
the quantity of land and the
amount of money.
LABOR.
We demand the establishment
of state bureau of labor.
We favor the creation of state
board OF arbitration to adjust ali
differences between corporations
and employees.
We demand an efficient lien law
that will protect artisan, mechanic,
iaborer and material man.
We demand such amendments
to the vagrant laws as will pre-
vent the prosecution as criminals
of industrious laboring men while
in a condition of enforced idleness.
We demand the enactment of a
law declaring eight hours to be
legal days work for all artisans,
mechanics and laborers in the en-
ployment Of contractors and cor
porations.
MISCELLANEOUS.
We demand free vote by every
qualified elector without reference
to nationality, and an honest
count.
We demand that the state pro-
vide sufficient accommodation for
all its insane, without discrimina-
tion in color.
We favor proportional represen-
tation.
We declare the Peoples party to
be in favor of local self.govern-
ment and the enjoyment by the
of his natural rights to
be the greatest extent compatible
with the good of society.
We demand reformation in the
punishment OF convicts; that con-
vict labor be taken out of competi-
ton with citizen labor; that con-
victs be given intellectual and
moral instruction, and that the |
earnings Of the convict above the
expenses of keeping shall 60 to his
and that all short term con-
victs and county convicts shall be
upon the public roads
where thought practical by the
court.
We favor law making it mis-
demeanor for any railroad CON-
pany to give free transportation to
any state, county or municipal off,
Ger, or any such officer to receive
such transportation.
We demand the repeal OF the law |
conductors on railroads
to charge more than the regular |
ticket fare when tickets are not |
procured by the passengers.
We demand that the state be re-
districted, as to judicial and repre-
sentative districts, to the end that
the number of judicial and repre-.
sentative districts be materially
reduced.
We demand that the present
system Of paying officers by fees
shall be abolished and that all
county officers and district clerks
be paid fixed salaries not to exceed
$4,000 per annum net, and that all
fees collected in excess of this
salary shall be paid into the coun-
ty school fund.
We condemn now, as we did in
our platform of 1894, the policy of
placing raw material on the free
list while every article manufac-
tured from said raw material is
protected.
We are not the enemy Of rail-
roads, and we declare that, while
we favor government ownership of
railroads, yet, so long as such
property is owned and operated,
by corporations it is en-.
tiled to fair and IMPARTIAL treat
ment at the hands of the govern
ment and the people to the
same protection that is accorded
to private property.
We condemn the setting aside
Of large contingent funds, subject
to the draft Of one man, as de-
moralizing to good state govern
ment.
Without committing the party
to the advocacy or rejection of
government bounties as principle
or policy, we condemn the Demo.
cratic state administration because
OF their failure to collect from the
general government the sugar
bounty earned by and due to the
state. We favor also the collection
by the state Of the pro rata of
money due Texas, or It's citizens on
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