The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-07-14

OF trusts and m~onopolies, enriched the
few at the expense of the many, re-
strlcted trade, and deprived the pro-
ducers of the great American staples of
access to their natural markets.
Until the money question is settled
we are opposed to any egitation for
further changes in Jul tariff laws, ex
cept 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 de-
felt In the revenu under the law
passed by a Democratic Congress in
strict pursuance of the uniform decis
ion of that court for nearly 100 years,
that court having in that decision sus
tanned Constitutional objections to it's
enactment, which had previously been
overruled by the ablest judges who
have ever sat on that bench. We de.
clare that it is the duty of Congress to
use all the Constitutional power which
remains after that decision, or which
may come from it's reversal by the
court as it may hereafter be constitu
ted, so that the burdens of taxation
may be equally and impartially laid,
to the end that wealth may bear its
due proportion of the expenses of the
| Government.
IMMIGRATION N ARBITRATION.
We hold that the most efficient way
of protecting American labor is to pre-
vent 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 greatly reduced by a vicious
monetary system which depresees the
prices Of their products below the cost
Of production, and thus deprives them
of the means of purchasing the pro
ducts of our home manufactures; and
as labor creates the wealth of the
country, we demand the passage of
such a law ae ~ be necessary to pro-
tect it in all its rights.
We are in favor of the arbitration of
differences between employers engaged
in interstate commerce and their EN-
ployees, and recomm md such legisla-
tion as is necessary to carry out this
principle.
TRUSTS AND POOLS.
The absorption of wealth by the few,
the consolidation of our leading rail
road systems, and the formation OF
trusts and pools require a stricter con
troll by the Federal Government OF
those arteries of commerce.. We de
mand the enlargement of the powers
of the Inter State Commerce Commits
sion and such restrictions and guaran,
tees in the control of railroads as will
protect the people from robbery and
oppression.
DECLARE FOR ECONOMY.
We denounce the profigate waste Of
the money wrung from the people by
oppressive taxation and the lavish ap
preparations of the recent Republican
Congress, which have kept taxes high,
while the labor that pays them is III
employed and the products of the PEG
pies toll are depressed in price till they
no longer repay the cost of production.
We demand a r3turn to that simplicity
and economy which benefits a demo
cratic government and a reduction in
the number of useless Offices, the sala
ries of which drain the substance Of
the people.
FEDERAL INTERFERENCE IN LOCAL AT
FAIRS.
We denounce arbitrary interference
by Federal authorities in local affairs
as a 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 oppres
sion by which Federal Judges, in con
tempt of the laws of the States and
rights of citizens, become at once leg
1slators, Judges, and exscutioners. and
we approve the bill passed at the last
session Of the United States Senate, and
now pending in the House of -presen.
tatives, relative to contempts in Federal
courts and providing for trials by jury
in certain cases Of contempt.
PACIFIC RAILROADS
No discrimination should be indul
ged by the Government of the United
States in favor of any of it's debtors. We
approve of the refusal of the Fifty
third Congress to pass the Pacific Rail
road Funding bill and denounce the
efforts of the present Republican Con-
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