Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-07-13


commerce law as will enable the COM
mission to protect individuals and
communities from discrimination and
the public from unjust and unfair
transportation rates.
We reaflirm and endorse the prin-
ciples of the national democratic plat
form adopted at Chicago in 1896, and
we reitcrate the demand of that plat
form for financial system made by
the American people for themselves
which shall restore and maintain IL
bimetallic price level, and as part of
such system the immediate restora-
tion of the free and unlimited coinage
of silver and gold at the present legal
ratio of 16 to 1, without waiting for
the aid or consent Of any other ma
ton.
We denounce the currency bill en-
acted at the last session of congress
as step forward in the republican
policy which aims to discredit the SOW
| ereign right of the national govern
| ment to issue all money, whether
| coin or paper, and to bestow upon ma
tional banks the power to issue and
| control the volume of paper money
for their own benefit. A permanent
| national bank currency, secured by
government bonds, must have per-
manent debt to rest upon, and if the
| bank currency is to increase with
| population and business, the debt
must also increase. The republican
currency scheme is therefore scheme
for fastening upon the taxpayers n
perpetual and growing debt for the
benefit of the banks. We are opposed
to this private corporation paper cir
culated as money, but without legal
tender qualities, and demand the re-
tirement of the national bank notes
as fast as this government paper or
| silver certificates can be substituted
for them.
| We favor an amendment to the con-
stitution providing for the election of
senators by direct vote of the people
and we favor direct legislation wher-
ever practicable. We are opposed to
government by injunction; we de-
nounce the black list and favor arbi-
tration as a means of settling dis
jputes between corporations and their
employees. In the interest of Ameri-
can labor and the uplifting of the
worlSingman as the cornerstone of
the prosperity of our country, we rec
ommend that congress create a de-
partment of labor, in charge of a Sec
retary with a seat in the cabinet, be-
lieving that the elevation of Ameri-
can laborers will bring with it in
creased production and increased
prosperity to our country at home
and to commerce abroad.
We are proud of the courage and
| &c LA
sailors in all our wars; we favor lib
eral pensions to them and their de-
pendents and we reiterate the posi-
tion taken in the Chicago platform OF
1896 that the fact of enlistment and
service shall be deemed conclusive evi.
dence against disease and disability
before enlistment.
We favor the immediate construc-
tion, ownership and control of the
Nicaragua canal by the United States
and we denounoe the insincerity of
the plank in the republican platform
for an isthmian canal in face of the
failure of the republican majority to
pass the bill pending in congress. We
condemn the Hay-Pauncefote treaty
as a surrender of American rights
and interests not to be tolerated by
the American people.
We denounce the failure of the re,
publican party to carry out its
pledges to grant statehood to tho
territories of Arizona, New Mexico
and Oklahoma, and we promise the
people of those territories immediate
statehood, and home rule during theil
condition as territories, and we favor
home rule and territorial form o.
government for Alaska and Porte
Rico.
We favor an intelligent system O.
improving the arid lands of the west
storing the waters for purposes O.
irrigation and the holding of sucf
lands for settlers.
We favor the continuance and
strict enforcement of the Chinese ex
clusion law and it's application to th'
same classes of all Asiatic races.
jefferson said: peace, commerc,
and honest friendship with all ma
tions; entangling alliances will
none." We approve this wholesom,
doctrine and earnestly protes
against the republican departur,
which has involved us in so-callec
world politics, including the diplo
|, macy Ol EuTOpc dliN bile lnIrlSu ;bIlt
land grabbing of Asia, and we espe
cially condemn the ill-concealed re
publican alliance with England whicl
, must mean discrimina tion agains
other friendly nations and which ha
already stifed the nations, while lib
erty is being strangled in Africa.
Believing in the principles of self
government and rejecting, as did ou
forefathers, the claim of monarchy
we view with indignation the purpos
of England to overwhelm with fore
the South African republics. Speal,
, ing as we do for the entire America
nation except its republican Office
holders, and for all free men every
, where, we extend our sympathies t
: the heroic burghers in their unequa
, struggle to maintain their liberty an
independence.
I We denounce the lavish appropria
: tions of recent republican congresse
: which have kept taxes high an