The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-07-09

changes in our tariff laws, except such as
are necessary to meet the deficit in revenue
caused by the adverse decision of the Su-
preme 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 uniform decisions of that
court for nearly 100 years, that court having
under that decision, sustained the constitu-
tional objections to it's enactment which have
been overruled by the ablest judges who have
ever sat on that bench.
EQUAL TAXATION.
We declare that it is the duty Of congress
to use all the constitutional power which
remains after that decision, or which may
come from the reversal by the court, as it
may hereafter be constituted so that the
burdens of taxation may be equally and i'm
partially laid, to the end that wealth may bear
its due proportional expenses Of the govern
ment.
PROTECTION FOR LABOR.
We hold that the most efficient way of
protecting American labor is to prevent the
importation Of foreign pauper labor to COM
pete with it in the home market, and that
the value Of the home market to American
farmers and artisans is greatly reduced by
a vicious monetary system which depresses
the prices of their products below the cost
of production and thus deprive them of the
means of purchasing the products from home
manufacturers.
INTERSTATE COMMERCE..
The absorption of wealth by the few, the
consolidation of our leading railroad sys-
TENS and the formation of trusts and pools,
require a stricter control by the federal gov
eminent of the arteries of commerce. We
demand the enlargement of the powers Of
the Interstate Commerce commission and such
restrictions and guarantees in the control Of
railroads will protect the people from
robbery and oppression.
NO EXTRAvAGANCE.
We denounce from profigate waste of the
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 depressed in price till they
no longer repay the price of production.
We demand return to that simplicity and
ment and reduction in the number Of
Offices the salaries Of which drain the sub
stance of the people.
FEDERAL POWERS.
We denounce arbitrary interference by fed
eral authorities in local affairs, a viola
ton of the constitution of the United States
and a crime against free institutions, and
we especially object to- government by in
junction, as new and highly dangerous
form of oppression, by which federal judges,
in contempt of the laws Of the states and
rights of citizens, 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 relative to contempts in federal courts,
and providing for trials by jury in certain
cases of contempt.
PACIFIC ROADS DEBT.
No discrimination should be INDUCED in
by the government of the United States in
favor of any of it's debtors. We approve of
the refusal of the Fifty-third congress to
pass the Pacific Railroad funding bill, and
denounce the effort Of the present Repub-
lican congress to enact a similar measure.
PENSIONS.
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union soldiers we heartily endorse the rule
Of Commissioner Murphy that no names shall
be arbitrarily dropped from the pension roll,
and the fact of enlistment and service should
be deemed conclusive evidence against dis
ease and disability before enlistment
TERRITORIES.
We favor the admission of the territories of
New Mexico and Arizona into the union as
states, and we favor the early admission of
all the territories having the necessary popula-
ton and resources, to entitle them to state
hood. and while they remain territories, we
hold that the officials appointed to admins
ter the government Of any territory, together
with the District OF Columbia and Alaska,
should be bona fde residents of the territory
or the district in which their duties are to be
performed.
and that all public lands Of the United States
should be appropriated to the establishment
of free homes for American citizens. We
recommend that the territory Of Alaska be
granted delegate in congress and that the
general land and timber laws Of the United
States be extended to such territory.
CUBAN SYMPATHY.
We extend our sympathy to the people of
Cuba in their heroic struggle for liberty and
independence.
We are opposed to life tenure In the pub
lie service. We favor appointments based
upon merit, fixed terms of Office and such an
administration of the civil service laws as will
afford equal opportunity to all citizens of as
certained fitness.
We declare it to be the unwritten law of