Connecticut western news., 1896-07-09

but to demand a roll cAll which they dld. The call resulted so to IA for the motion.
 The Platform.
 The following is the platform as agreed to by the subcommittee. lt is believed that few if any changes will be made be- fore the resolutions are presented to the convention:
 We. the Democrats of tho United States, in national convention assembled, do reaffirm our ailegianc,to those great essential prin- ciples of justice and liberty upon which our institutions are founded and which the Demo cratic party has maintained from Jefferson'a time to our owpxfreedom of speech. freedom of the press, freedom of conscience, the pres- ervation of personal rights. the equality of all citizens before the law and the faithful observance of constitutional limitations.
 Recognizing that the money question is par amount to all others at this time. We invite attention to the fact that the federal constitu- ton names silver and gold together the money metals of the United States. and that the first coinage law passed by congress un. der the constitution made the silver dollar the unit of value and admitted gold to free coinage at ratio measured by the silver dol lar unit.
 We declare that the act of 1878 dem oneti.ing silver without the knowledge or approval of American people has resulted in the Apprecia ton of gold and corresponding fall in the prices of commodities produced by the people, heavy increase in the burden of taxation and of all debts public and private, the richment of the money lending class at home and abroad, paralysis of s1 instry and impov- erishment of the people.
 We are unalterably opposed to the single gold standard which has locked fast the pros perity of an industrious people in the paraiy- sis of hard Hmes- Gold monometallism is a British policy. founded upon British greed for gain and power, and its general adoption has brought other nations to financial servitude to London. It Is not only un-Americsn. but anti-American, and it can be fastened upon the United States only by the stifiing of that in- domatabls spirit and love of liberty which proclaimed our political independence In l17o and won it in the war of revolution.
 We demand the immediate restoration of the free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver at the present legal ratio of l6 to l, without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation. We demand that the standard silver dollar shall be full legal tender, equally with gold. for all debts, public and private. and VIC favor such legislation as will prevent the de- monetixation of any kind of legal tender mon. ey by private contract.
 We arc opposed to the policy and practice of murrepdering 10 the holders of the obligations sf the United States tho option reservcd by law to the government of redceming such ob- legations In either silver coin or gold coin.
 We are opposed to the issuing of interest bearing bonds of the United States in times of peace and condemn the trafficking with bank. ing syndicatss, which, in exchange for bonds and at an enoromus profit to themselves. sup. ply the federal treasury with gold to main tain the policy of gold monometallism.
 Congress alone has the power to coin and issue money, and President Jackson declared that this power could not be delegated to cor porations or indidividuals. We therefore dc mand that the power to issue notes be taken from the banks, and that all paper money shall be issued directly by the treasury depart ment.
 We hold that sarifr duties should be levied solely for purposes of revenue, and that taxa. ton should be limited by the needs of the government. honestly and economically ad- ministered. wo depounce as disturbing to business the Republican throat 10 restore the Mckinley law, which has been twice con demned by the people in national eleoa ons and which, enacted under the false plea of protection to home industry. 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 Amer ican staples of access to their natural markets. Until the money question Is settled we are opposed to any agitation for further changes in our tarin laws except such as arc necessary to make up the deficit In revenue caused by the adverse decision of the supreme court on the income tax.
 There would have been no deficit in federal revenue during the last two years but for the annulment by the supreme court of the in- come tax law placed upon the statute books hy Democratic congress- The obstruction to an income tax. which the supreme court discovered in the constitution after it had lain hidden for loo years, must be removed. to the end that accum ulated wealth may be made to bear its just share of the burdens of tho government We. therefore. favor an amend ment to the federal constitution that will per init the levy of income tsx.
 We hold that the most efficient way of pro tecting American labor Is to prevent the i'm. portation of foreign pauper labor Co compete with it in the home market, and that tho value Of the home market to our Amercan farmers and artisans is greatly reducede by a vicious monetary, system which depresses the prices of their products below the cost of produc- ton, and thus deprives them of the means of satisfying their needs
 We denounce the prohigate waste of the money wrung from the people by the opprces- i've 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 toil are depressed in price till they no longer repay the cost Of production. We demand . return to that simplicity and economy which best bofts a Democratic government and re- duc,ion in the number of useless offices the salaries of which drain the substance of the people.
 We denounoe arbitrary interference by fed ersl authorities in local affairs a violation of the constitution of the United States and a crime against free institu tions, and we cspe- cially object to government by injunction as s new and highly dangerous form of oppres. sion by which federal judges, in contempt of the laws of the states and the righta of cit.