Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-08-26

labor of employment, arrested all develop
ment, and until this agitation is ended the
present distressful condition will continue.
We are opposed to putting this country on
a silver basis. There is no country now in
the world on a silver basis which is as
prosperous as the United States in this
time of depression There is no such coun-
try in which the wages are SO high as
they are here, or In which the dollar re-
ceived as wages Will buy SO much. There
Is no silver basis country that has so
large commerce, such prosperous manu-.
factures. or such a well-to-do agricultural
class. II is fact that in every silver
hopeless poverty on the part Of the masses
is the rule.
For Greer Trade"
I'VE are not willing to surrender the fight
lor ireer trade, nor to admit that the Demo-
cratic doctrine upon the question OF tmPosts
upon imports was stated at Chicago. Upon
that plank. as there construed, every citi-
zen, of whatever views. may conscientious
we hod tbs faufe e ,ars i2 shoTd be eved
for revenue by the word only evinces
determination to surrender the long fight
legislation putting all taxation upon the
basis of revenue only. The Democratic
party has held, and we must, to preserve
its identity, continue to hold, that the only
justification fer taxation Is to raise reSe-
nue. for public purposes. And We do here
by reiterate our adherence 70 that pensI.
power to perpetuate the Democratic party
pledged to carry out that policy. Taxation
in every mode has no justification except
solely &c obtain necessary revenue.
Law and Order.
I'VE believe that the citizens of the
United States are entitled to the joint pro-
lection of the government of the United
States and of the state of which they are
citizens, and in which they reside: that it
is the duty of both governments to secure
the citizen the enjoyment of his life. his
liberty, the pursuit of happiness and his
daily business, and to protect him from vio-
lence; and that 1t is the special duty of the
United States TO secure the peaceful and
prompt transmission of the mail and the
uninterrupted transmission of all articles
Of interstate commerce; that the relation
of labor and capital. and all questions of
difficulty growing out of such relations can
only be settled by peaceful remedies
either through the courts of justice or by
declaration in the name of the Democratic
party-always the friend of labor and the
protection of property-that tends toward
the announcement Of violence or of bring
justifying the substitution Of force for
peaceful remedies.
I'm free country, the laborer, the hum
bic and the poor can preserve their free
dom and hope to secure more comforts and
larger means by the strictest adherence to
law and the constant preservation Of order.
1t has taught, with its illuStrious founder,
that through the power of public opinion
and by means of intelligent discussion, the
courts of justice, of legislature and the
ballot. all grievances could be righted and
all wrongs corrected. And we are not
willing to permit, without our protest, the
PRONUNCIATION Of a platform which, accord
ing to our construction, condemns the
action Of the executive and judicial de-
partments of the government in compelling
obdience to the law, in restoring public
order, in requiring redress through peace
full means. and encourages violence as in
any manner conducive to the solution of
difficult problems growing out Of the re-
lation of labor and capital.