The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-08

labor to compete with it in the home
market and that the value of home
market to our American farmers and
artisans is greatly reduced by g, vicious
monetary system, which depresses the
prices of their products below the cost
of production and thus deprives them
of the means OF satisfying their needs
REPUBLICAN EXTRAVAGANCE
We denounce the profigate waste Of
the money wrung from the people by
oppressive taxation and the lavish APP
propriationS of recent Republican con-
crosses which have kept taxes high
while the labor that pays them is un-
employed and the products of the peo-
pies toll are depressed in price till they
no longer repay the cost Of production.
We demand return to that sins
plicity and economy which best BELTS a
democratic government and a reduc-
ton in the number of useless offices.
the salaries of which drain the sub
stance of the country.
ARROGONCE OF COURTS CON-
DEMNED.
We denounce arbitrary interference
by federal authorities in local affairs
as violation of the constitution 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 federal Judges in contempt of
the laws of the state and rights of citi-
zens 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 contempts in
federal courts, and providing for trial
by jury in certain cases of contempt.
No discrimination should be INDUCED
in by the government of the United
States in favor of any of its debtors.
We approve OF the refusal of the Fifty
third congress to pass the Pacific rail-
road funding bill and denounce the ef-
fort of the present congress to enact
similar measure.
PENSIONS TO SOLDIERS.
Recognizing the just claims of de-
serving Union soldiers, we heartily in
dOrSe the rule of Commissioner Muir
ply that no names shall be arbitrarily
dropped from the pension roll and the
fact of enlistment and service should
be deemed conclusive evidence against
disease and disability before enlist
ment.
SYMPATHY FOR CUBA
We extend our sympathy to the peo-
pie of Cuba in their heroic struggle for
liberty and independence.
We are opposed to life tenure in the
public services. We favor appoint
ments based upon merit. fixed terms OF
the civil service law as will afford equal
opportunities to all citizens Of ascer-
tained fitness.
NO THIRD TERM.
We declare it to be the unwritten law
of this republic, established by Gus
tom and usage of 100 years and sane
toned by the examples of the greatest
and wisest of those who founded and
have maintained our government that
no man shall be eligible for third
term of the presidential Office.
Confidence in the justice Of our cause
and the necessity of its success at the
polls, we submit the foregoing declara-
ton of principles and purposes to the
considerate judgment of the American
people. We invite the support of All
citizens who approve them and who de-
sire to have them made effective
through legislation for the relief of the
people and the restoration of the cOun-
try's prosperity.