The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1900-07-14

as a trust breeding measure, skillful.
ly devised to give the few favors which
they do not deserve. and to place
upon the many burdens which they
should not bear.
We favor such enlargement of the
scope of interstate commerce law as
will enable the commission to pro-
tect individuals and communities
from determinations and the public
from unjust and unfair transporta-
ton rates.
FINANCIAL Policy.
We affirm and endorse the princi-
piles of the national Democratic plat
form adopted in 1896 in Chicago,
and we reiterate the demand of that
platform for an American financial
system made by the American peo-
pie for themselves, which shall re.
store and MAINTAIN a bimetallic price
level and as part of such system the
immediate restoration of the free
and unlimited coinage of silver and
gold at the present legal ratio OF 16
to |, without waiting for the aid or
consent of any other nation.
We denounee the currency bill en-
acted in the last session OF congress
as a step forward in the Republican
policy which aims to discredit the
sovereign right of the national gov
eminent to issue all money, whether
coin or paper, and to bestow upon
national banks the power to issue
and control the volumn of paper
money for their own benefit. A per
manent national bank currency Sc
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and if the bank currency is to in
crease with population and business
the debt must also increase. The Re-
publican currency scheme is the re-
form scheme for fastening upon the
taxpayers perpetual and growing
debt for the benefit OF banks. We
are opposed to this private corpora
ton paper circulated as money but
without legal-tender qualities, and
demand the retirement of the nation
al bank notes as fast as government
paper or silver certificates can be
substituted for them.
We favor an amendment to the
federal constitution providing for
the election of United States senators
by direct vote Of the people, and we
favor direct legislation wherever
practicable.
DEPARTMENT or LABOR.
We are opposed 70 oyernnent by
Injunction. We denounole The black
list and favor arbitration as a neeag'
of settling disputes between corpors
ations and their EMPLOYEES.
In the interest Of American labor
and the uplifting of the workingman
as the cornerstone of the prosperity
of our country, we recommend that
congress create a department OF
labor in charge of a secretary with a
seat in the cabinet, believing that
the elevation of American labor will
bring with it increased production
and increased prosperity to oui
country at home and to our com
merce abroad.
We are proud Of the courage ant
fidelity of the American soldiers anC
sailors in all our wars; we favor lib
eral pensions to them and their de
pendents and we reiterate the posi-
ton taken in the Chicago platform
in 1896 that the fact OF enlistmen
and service shall be deemed conclu
sive evidence against disease AM
disability before enlistment.
NICARAGUA CANAL.
We favor the immediate constru'
ton, ownership and control of III
Nicaraguan Canal by the Unite
States. and we denounce the insince
ity Of the plank in the national R
publican platform for an Isthmia
canal in the face Of the failure oftl
majority to pass the bill Republica
pending in Congress.
y. We condemn the Iay-Pauhcefo