Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1896-09-21


tion, and that taxation should be
limited by the needs of the govern
ment honestly and economically ad-
ministrated.
We denounce as disturbing to busi-
ness the Republican threat to restore
the Mckinley law, which has twice
been condemned by the people in ma
tional elections, and which, enacted
under the false plea of protection to
home industry, proved a prolific
breeder of trusts and monopolies, en-
riched the few by the expense of the
many, restricted trade, and deprived
the producers of the great American
staples OF access to their natural mar
ketS. -
INCOME TAX.
Until the money question Is settled
we are opposed to any agitation for
further changes in our tariff laws, ex-
cept such as are necessary TO meet the
deficit IN revenue caused by the ad-
verse 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 Democratic congress In
strict pursuance of the uniform deci-
sions of that court for 100 years, that
court having in that decision sus-
tained constitutional objections to its
enactment which had previously been
overruled by the ablest Judges who
have ever sat on the bench. We de-
clare that it is the duty Of congress to
use all the constitutional power which
remains after that decision, or which
may come from its reversal by the
court as IL may hereafter be consti-
tuted, so that the burdens of taxation
may be equally and impartially laid,
to the end that wealth may bear its
due proportion Of the expense Of the
government.
LABOR.
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 products
below the cost of production, and thus
deprives them of the means of pur-
chasing the products of our home
manufactures, and, as labor creates
the wealth of the country, we demand
the passage of such laws as may be
necessary to protect 1t in all its rights.
We are in favor of the arbitration
of differences between employers en-
gagged in interstare commerce and
their employees, and recommend such
legislation as is necessary to carry out
this principle.
The absorption of wealth by the
few, the consolidation of our leading
railroad systems, and the formation
of trust and pools require a sticter
control by the federal government of
those arteries of commerce. We de-
mand the enlargement Of the powers
of the interstate commerce commiss-
ion and such and such restrictions and
and guarantees in in the control OF
railroads as will protect the people
from robbery aud oppression,
TAXATION.
We denounce the profligate 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 cost of
production.
We demand a return to that sim
plicity and economy which benefits a
Democratic government and reduc-
tion in the number of useless offices,
the salaries of which drain the sub
stance of the people.
FEDERAL INTERFERENCE.
Wedenounce arbitrary interferences
by federal authorities in local affairs
as violation of the constitution of
the United States and crime against
free institutions, and we especially
object to government 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 citizens, become at once
legislators, judges, and executioners,
and we approve the bill passed at the
last session of the United States sem
ate, and now pending in the house of
representatives, relative to contempts
in federal courts and providing for
trials by jury In certain cases OF con-
tempt.
ANTI-FUNDING.
No discrimination should be in
dulged by the government OF the Uni