The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-07-10

people; heavy increase in the burden
Of taxation and of all debts, public and
private; the enrichment of the money
lending class at home and abroad: par
alyeis of industry and impoverishment
of the people.
I'VE are unalterahly opposed to the
single gold standard. which has locked
fast the prosperity of an industrious
people in the paralysis of hard times.
Gofd monometallism is a British policy
founded upon British greed for gain
and power, and its general adoption has
brought other nations into financial SER
vitude to London. 1t is not only I'M
| American but anti-American and it can
be fastened upon the United States only
by the Sitting of the monometallic
spirit and that love of liberty which pro-
claimed our political independence in
HIS and won it in the war of the Revo-
luton. We demand the immediate res.
| toration of the free and unlimited COIN
age of gold and silver at the present le-
gal ratio of 16 to 1, without waiting for
the action and consent of any nation
We demand that the standard legal dol
| lar shall be full legal tender, equally
with gold for all debts. public and pri-
vate, and we favor such legislation as
will prevent the characterization of any
kind of lega1 tender money by private
| contract.
I'VE are opposed to the policy and
practices of surrendering to the hold
ers of the obligations of the United
States the option reserved by law to the
| government of redeemings such obliga-
tons in either silver coin or gold coin.
I'VE are opposed to issuing interest
bearing bonds of the United States in
times of peace. and condemn the traf-
ticking with banking syndicates which,
in exchange for bonds at an enormous
profit to themselves, supply the federal
| treasury with gold to maintain the
policy of gold monometallism.
Congress alone has the power to coin
and issue money, and President Jack
con declared that this power could not
be delegated to corporations or indivtd-
uals. We, therefore, demand that che
power to issue notes be taken from the
banks and that all paper money shall
be issued directly by the treasury de-
Dartment.
I'VE hold that tariff duties should be
levied solely for the peurpose of reve-
nue. and that AVIATION should be limited
ny the needs of the government, honest
~ and economically administered. We
denounce as disturbing to business the
republican threat to restore the McKin-
ley law. which has been twice condemn
ed by the people in national elections.
and which, enacted under the false plea
of protection to home industry, provd a
prolific breeder Of trusts and monopo-
lies, enriched the few at the expense of
the many, restricted trade and de-
privd tn producers of the great Ameri-
can staples of access to their natural
markets, Until the money question is
settled we are opposed to any agita ton
Tor further changes in the tariff laws ex-
cept such as are necessary to make up
the deficit in revenue caused by the ad-
verse decision of the supreme court on
the income tax law.
There would have been no deficit in
federal revenue during the last two
years but for the annulment by the su-
preme court of the income tax law
placed upon the statute books by q
Democratic congress. Theo obstruction
to an income tax which the supreme
court discovered in the constitution,
that had been hidden for a hundred
years must be removed to the end that
accumulat ted wealth may be made to
bear its just share of the burdens of the
government. We therefore favor an
Amendment to the 1e0eral constitution
that Will PRINT the levy OF an incom tax
I'VE hold that the 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 Wei
Gus 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
We denounce the profligate waste of
the money wrung from the people by
oppressive taxation, and the lavish ap-
propriations of recent Republican con-
sresses, which have kept taxes high
while the laborer that pays them is I'M
employed and the products of the peo-
ole are depressed in price till they no
longer repay the cost of production.
We demand return to that SIMPLE
tty 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 people.
Confiding in the justice of our cause
and the necessity of it's success at the
polls. we submit the foregoing decla-
cation of principles and purposes to
the considerable judgment of the Ameri-
can people. We invite the support of
all citizens who approve them. and
who desire to have them. made effect
i've through legislation, for the relief of
| the people and the restoration of the
| country's prosperity.
| AT 2:15 o'clock the subcommittee fin
| ished it's labors and the anti-silver men
WENT to Senator Hills room to pre-
| pare minority report, which is, briefly,
| as follows: The financial planks leads
| the platform and demands that the pow
| er to issue notes be taken away from ma
| tional banks; declares for a tariff for
| revenue only and that the re-enactment
| of the Mckinley bill would me men,
| ace to the prosperity of the country;
| asks for a constitutional amendment
| permitting the enactment of an income
! tax; expresses sympathy for Cuba de
mands that pauper emigrants be kept
out of the country; favors liberal pen
| sion legislation; expresses approval of
! Senator Hills bill for regulating cases
! OF contempt Of court in United States
courts, and denounces the Republican
! house for not passing that bill: de-
! nounces the Pacific railway funding
bill now pending in congress; opposes
| third terms for presidents as a cardinal
! principle of Democracy and denounces
the extravaganza Of the last Republican
congress.
I Another expedition has been landed
on Cuban soil win 400, 900 rounds Of am
I rifion