Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1896-07-16

and issue money, ana IreslueIll oaShSOH
declared that this power could not be deie-
gated to interpretations or individuals. we
therefore demand that the power 10 issue
notes to circulate as money be taken from
the national banks. and that all paper
money shall be issued directly by the treas
ury department be redeemable IN coin,
and receivable for all debts, public and
private.
We hold that the tariff duties should be
levied for the purpose of revenue such
duties to be so readiusted as to operate
equally throughout the country, and not
discriminate between class or section, and
that taxation should be limited by the
needs of government honestly and eco
nomically administered.
We denounce as disturbing to business
the republican threat to restore the Nc
Kinley law. which has been twice con-
demned by the people in national elections,
and which, enacted under the false plea OF
protection 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 OPP
posed to any agitation for further changes
in our tariff laws. except such as are nee
essary to make uD the deficit in revenues
caused by the adverse decision of the su-
preme court on the income tax. But for
this decision of the supreme court there
would be no deficit in the revenue under
the law passed by the democratic congress,
in strict pursuanc of the uniform decisions
of that court for nearly 100 years, that
court having under that decision sus-
tanned constitutional objections to It's
enactment which had 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 constituted, so that
the burdens of taxation may be equally
| and lmpartially divided, to the end that
| we may all bear the due proportion Of the
expenses Of government.
We hold that the most efficient way OF
| protecting American labor is to prevent
| 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 vicious monetary system,
| which depresses the prices of their prod
| ucts below the cost of production, and thus
deprives them of the means of purchas-
ing the products of our home manufac-
tories. The absorption of wealth by the
| few, the consolidation of our leading rail-
way systems and the formation of trusts
and pools require a strlcter control by
the federal government of those arteries Of
commerce.
We demand the enlargement of the pow
ers of the interstate commerce commits
| sion, and such restrictions and guarantees
in the control of the railroads as will pro-
tect the people from robbery and oppres-
sion.
We denounce the profligate waste Of
money wrnng from the people by oppres-
sve taxation. and the lavish appropria-
tions of recent republican congresses,
which have kept the taxes high while the
labor that pays them is unemployed and
the products of the peoples toll are de-
| pressed in price until they no longer repay
the cost of production. We demand a re-
turn to that simplicity and economy which
befit a democratic government, and re-
duction in the number of useless offices,
the salaries of which drain the substance
of the people.
We denounce arbitrary interference by
federal authorities in local affairs as a
violation Of the constitution of the United
States and crime against free institu-
tions, and we especially object to govern
ment interference by injunction, as a new
and highly dangerous form of oppression
by which federal Judges in contempt OF
the laws of the states and rights of ctl.
zens, become at once legislators, judges
and executors. and we approve the bill
passed at the last session of the United
states senate. and now pending in the
house of representatives, relative to con.
tempts in federal courts, and providing fol
trials by jury in certain cases of con.
tempt.
No discrimination should be INDUCED ir
by the government of the United States ir
favor of any of its debtors.
We approve of the refusal OF the $50
congress to pass the Pacific railroad fund
ing bill. and denounce the effort of tn,
present congress to enact a similar meas
ure.
Recognizing the Just claim of deseryinl
: Union soldiers, we heartily indorse the rul,
of Commissioner Murphy that no name
7 shall be arbitrarily dropped from the pen
sion rolls, and that fact of enlistment ant
service should be deemed conclusive evi
dence against disease and disability befor,
, enlistment
We favor the admission of the terrtorie
of New Mexico and Arizona into the Unio,
as states. and we favor the earl,
= admission Of all the territories having tn
necessary population and resources to en-
ute them to statehood, and while they re
main territories we hold that the Off cial
, appointed to administer the government o
any territory, together with the District o
columbia and Alaska, should be bona fid
1 residents of the territory or district I,
which their duties are to be performed
= The democratic party believes in hom
rule, and that all public lands of tn
= United States should he appropriated t
the establishment Of free homes for Amer
: lean citizens.
2 We recommend that the territory o
Alaska be granted delegate in congress
e and that the general land and timber law
OF the United States be extended to sal
territory
We extend our sympathy TO the peop,e n
= ( cuba in their heroic struggle for lIhert
T. and independence.
e The federal government should care N
= ana improve the Mississippi river an
n other great waterways Of the republic :
! as TO secure for the interior states eas
. and cheap transportation to tidewatel