Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1896-07-18

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that indomtable spirit and love of liberty
| which proclaimed our political indepead-
ence in 1776 and won it in the war of the
revolution.
eve demand the free and unlimit-
ed coinage of both gold and sill
yer at the present legal ratio of
10 to l, without waiting for the aid or
consent of any other nation We de-
mand that the standard silver dollar shall
be full legal tender, equally with go1,
for all debts, public or private and We
favor such legislation as will prevent
for the future the decentralization of any
Kind of legal tender money by private
contract.
I'VE are opposed to the policy and prac-
tice of surrendering to the holders Of
the obligations of the United States the
option reserved by law TO the gove,n-
ment of redeeming such obligations in
either silver coin or gold coin.
eve are opposed to the issuing Of inter
est-bearing bonds of the United States in
times Of peace, and condemn the traffic
with banking syndicates which, in ex
change for bonds at an enormous profit
to themselves, supply the federal treas
ury with gold to maintain the policy of
gold monometaIlism. Congress alone has
the power to coin and issue money, and
President jackson declared that this pow
er could not be delegated to corporations
or individuals. We therefore demand that
the power to issue notes to circulate as
money be taken from the national banks,
and that all paper money shall be issued
directly by the treasury department, be
redeemable in coin and receivable for all
debts, public and private
On the Tariff.
1--WE hold that the tariff duties should
be levied for the purpose or revenue, such
duties to be readjusted as to operate
equally throughout the country, and not
discriminate between class or section,
and that taxation should be limited by the
needs of the government honestly and
economically administered.
1--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 cleo
tons, and which, enacted under the false
plea Of protection to home industries,
proved a prolific breeder of trusts and
monopoles; enriched the few at the eX-
pense of the many; restricted trade. and
deprived the producers of the great Amer
lean staples Of access to their natural
markets.
Until the money question Is settled, we
are opposed to any agitation for further
changes in our tariff laws except such as
are necessary to make the deficit in reye-
nue. caused by the adverse decision of the
supreme court on the income tax. But
for this decision by the supreme court
there would be no deficit in the revenue
under the law passed by a democratic
congress, in strict pursuance of the uni
form decisions of that court for nearly
100 years, that court having under that
decision sustained constitutional obJec-
tons to it's enactment which had been
oVerrued by the ablest judges who have
ever sat on that bench.
&c al
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 taXations may be
equally and impartially be divided. to the
end that wealth may bear Its due proper
ton of the expenses of the government
eve 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 ana artisans Is
greatly reduced by a vicious monetary
Svstpm which depresseS the prices or their
products below the cost of production
and thus deprives them of the means or
purchasing the products of our nome
manufactures. The absorption of wealth.
NV the few the consolidation of our lead
ing railway systems and the formation OF
trusts and pools require a strlcteF con-
troll by the federal government OF thoSe
arteries of commerce.
1--WE demand the enlargement OF the
,ovyars of the interstate commerce COM
mission and such restrictions ana Sucn
guarantees from the railroads as Will
protect the people from robbery and OPP
preston. .. -
eve denounce the profigate waste Of
the money wrung from the people by op-
pressive taxation, and the laVlSh appro-
priations Of recent republican congresses
which have kept taxes high, while the
labor that pays them is unemployed and
the PRODUCTS of the people are depressed
in prices until they no longer repay the
cost of production.