The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1896-07-15

the Federal treasury with gold to main
tain the policy Of gold monometallism.
Congress alone has the power to coln
aud issue money and President Jackson
declared that this power eouid not be
delegated to corporations or individ uals-
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 by the
treasury department., and beredeemable
in coin and receivable for all debts, pub
lie and private.
We hold that tariff duties should be
levied for purposes Of revenue. such
duties to be SO adjusted as to operate
equally throughout the country and not
discriminate between class or section
and that .axation should be limited by
the needs of the GO ernmeDt. honestly
and economically administered. We
denouuce as disturbing to business the
Republican threat to restore the Mckln-
ey law which has twice been con-
demned by the people in national elec-
tioos, aud which, enacted under the
false plea Of protection to home indus.
tries. proved prolific breeder of trusts
aud monopolies. enriched the few at
the expense of the many, restricted
trade aud deprived the producers Of the
gseat American staples of access to
their natural markets. UntiI the
money question is settled we are opposed
to any agitation for further changes in
our tariff laws except such as are ne
cessary 80 meet the deficit in revenue
caused By the adverse decision of the
supreme court on the Income tax. But
for :his decision by the supreme court,
there would be 20 deficit iu the revenue
under the law passed by Democratic
congress in strict pursuance of the uui-
form decisions OF that court for nearly
one hundred years; that court having
in that decision sustained constitutional
objections to It's enactment which had
previously been overruled by the ablett
judges who have ever sat on that bench.
We declare that it is the duty Of con
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 con
stituted, so that the burdens of taxa
tion may be equally aud impartially
laid to the end that wealth may bear its
due proportion of the expenses of
the government.
We hold that the most efficient way
of protecting American labor is to pre-
veos the importatic Of foreign pauper
labor to complete with it in the home
market, and that the value Of the home
market to our American farmers sud
artisans is greatly reduced by vicious
monetary system shich depresses the
price Of their products below the cost
Of production, and thus deprives them
Of the means Of purchasing the products
Of our home manufacturers.
The absorption of wealth by tie few,
the consolidation of our leading rail-
road systems aod the formation OF trusts
ard pools require stricter control by
the Federal government of these arteries
of commerce. We demand the enlarge
ment Of the powers Of the interstate
comm cree commission and such restrict.
ions and guarantees in the control of
railroads as will proiec< the people from
robbery and oppression.
We denounce the prodigate waste
of the money wrung from the people by
oppressive taxation and the lavish ap-
preparation of recent Republican con-
crosses, which have kept taxes high
while the labor that pays them is
unemployed and the products CT the
people s toll are depressed 10 price till
they no longer repay the cost of produc-
ton
We demand return to that simple
ity and economy which be6ss Demo
cratic government and reduction in
the number of useless Offices, the sal
aries of Of which drain the substance of
the reople.
We denounce arbitrary interferen ce
by Federaliauthorties in local affairs as a
violation of the Constitution of the Uni
ted States and crime against free insti-
atu:ions and we especially object to gov.
ernmeus by injunction as new aed
highyl dangerous form Of oppression by
which Federal jud dges,in contempt of the
laws of the States and rights Of citizens,
become at once Legislators, judges aud
executioners, and We approve the bill
pending in the house of representatives
relative to contempts in Federal courts
and providing trials by jury in certain
cases of contempt.
No discrimination should be i0dulg ged
10 by the government of the Initiated
States iD favor Of any ofits debtors. We
approve of the refusal of the ffty-third