The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-20

edge as to the operation of said tariff
laws, so that the same may be from
time to time amended in the interest of
justice, alike to the manufacturer, the
agricultuTist, the miner and the Amer
lean laborer, so that the protective fea-
lures, II any. shall extend to the whole
body OF American industry And we
demand that all tariff legislation be so
framed and enforced as to prevent the
FORMATION of trusts and other combina-
tons, which for their own profit, re-
duce the price OF the product for their
own prof1t, reduce the wages of the
laborer and enhance the price of the
product TO the consumer.
This proposed platform also demands
that the government own and operate
the railroads., that it establish and
maintain schools in which American
youth shall be taught the science of
railroad building, equipment and trans
portatlon; that it own and operate the
telegraph and telephone systems, to be
a part of the postal department. 1t
demands that the government at once
build the Nicaragua canal and operate
1t; that the people should have the
right, through the
INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM,
to declare their will on all questions
touching the domestic and financial
policy of the government and on all
questions pertaining to national and
international improvements and treat
les with foreign nations; that the pres
ident and vice-president be elected by
the direct vote of the whole people,
United States senators to be chosen in
the same way; that women should have
the right to vote; that there should
be graduated income tax; that land
should not be owned for speculative
purposes and that all aliens, resident
and nonresident should be prohibited
from owning any land in this country,
and to prevent and destroy land mo-
nopoly" there should be graduated
land tax; that every enterprise of pub
lie utility which requires the aid of
the sovereign power of eminent do
main or taxation should be owned and
controlled by the government; that
congress should pass an effective law
against foreign Immigration, and that
such law should be rigidly enforced TO
the exclusion of all foreign immigra-
ton which directly or indirectly COM
petes with the American laborer, and
to accomplish this end a per capita
tax is favored; that the Monroe doc
trine should be enforced
SYMPATHY IS EXTENDED TO
CUBA.
The issuance of government bonds is
denounced as unconstitutional in law
and vicious and unjust in morals; in
terest-bearing bonds should not be Is
sued except by act of congress; OPP
position to the Pacific railroad funding
bill is expressed and the demand made
that the government proceed to enforce
the collection of all debts, principal
and interest, due from the Pacific
roads. Liberal pensions to ex-Union
soldiers are favored.
The platform concludes thus:
Believing that the maladministra-
ton of this government during the
last twenty-three years has produced
and brought about a degree of flnan-
cial and Industrial distress to the
people, greater than has
ever been known in the history of the
republic prior to 1878, and believing the
maladministration of the government
has arisen from a disregard of the
enunciated in the foregoing
platform, and being firmly convinced
that the observance of these princi-
pies and the accomplishment of the
reforms hereinbefore demanded will
preserve our institutions and make
this truly a government of the people,
by the people and for the people, we
earnestly invite the voters of the
United States, without respect to for
mer party utilization, to unite with US
in the coming election and by the bal
lot engraft the foregoing principles
upon the administration of the govern
ment and accomplish the reforms
which we have hereinbefore de-
manded