The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1896-07-16

OF notes lntenoeu TO circulate as money
by national banks as in derogation of
the constitution; and we demand that
all paper which is made legal tender
for public and private debts, or which
is receivable for dues to the United
States shall be issued by the govern.
ment of the United States and shall be
redeemable in coin.
A REVENUE TARIFF We hold
that tariff duties should be levied for
purposes of revenue, such duties to be so
ADJUSTED as to operate equally through
out the country and not discriminate be-
tween class or section, and that taxation
should be limited by the needs of the
government, honestly and economically
administered. We denounce as disturb
ing to business the Republican threat to
restore the Mckinley law, which has
twice been condemned by the people in
national elections, and which, enacted
under the false plea ofprotcction to home
industries. proved prolific breeder of
trusts and monopolies, enriched the few
at the expense of the many, restricted
trade and deprived the producers of the
great American staples of access to their
natural markets.
Until the money question is settled,
we are opposed to any agitation for fur
Their changes in our tariff laws, except
such as are necessary to meet the deficit
IN revenue caused by the adverse de-
oiaion of t::s sszcTe,na court on the in
come tax. But for this decision by tne
supreme court, there would be no deficit
IN the revenue under, the law passed by
Democratic congress in strict pursu-
ance OF uniform decisions of that court
for nearly 100 years, that court having
In that decision sustained constitutional
objections to its enactment which had
previously been overruled by the ablest
judges who have ever sat on that bench.
We declare that it is the duty of con-
gress to use all the constitutional power
which remains after that decision or
which may come from its reversal by
the court as it may hereafter be consti-
tuted, 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 gov
eminent.
KEEP OUT PAUPERS = We hold
that the most efficient way of pro-
tecting American labor is to prevent
the importation of foreign pauper Ia
Dor 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 vicious
monetary system which depresses the
prices of their products below the cost
of production and thus deprives them
of the means of purchasing the products
of our home manufactures, and as labor
creates the wealth of the country, VIC
demand the passage of such laws as
may be necessary to protect it in all its
rights.
We are in favor of arbitration of diff.
ferences between employers engaged in
interstate commerce and their employees
and recommend such legislation a9 is
necessary to carry out this principle.
The absorption of wealth by the few,
the consolidation of our leading railroad
systems and the formation of trusts and
pools require a stricter control by the
federal government of those arteries of
commerce. We demand the enlarge
ment of the powers of the interstate
commerce commission and such restric-
tions and guaraakees in the control of
railroads as will protect the people from
robbery and oppression.
REPUBLICAN WASTE - We de-
nounce the prohigate waste of money
wrung from the people by oppressive
taxation and the lavish appropriations
of recent Republican congresses, which
have kept taxes high, while the labor
that pays them is unemployed and the
products of the peoples toll are de-
pressed in price till they no longer repay
the cost of production
We demand return to that simplic-
ity and economy which BELTS 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
dcnounce arbitrary interference by fed
eral authorities in local affairs as vio-
lation of the constitution of the United
States and crime against free institu-
tons, and we especially object to gov
eminent by injunction as new and
highly dangerous form of oppression by
which federal judges, in contempt of
the laws of the states 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 of representatives. relative