The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1900-10-19

ished products, thus robbing both pro- |
Queer and consumer. They lessen the
employment of labor and arb. srarily fix
the terms and conditions thereof. and de-
of their opportunity for betterment They
are the most efncient means yet devised
FOR appropriating the fruits of Industry
TO the benefit of the few at the expense
OF the many. and unless their insatiate
greed Is checked all wealth will be ag-
gregated In a few hands AM. the repub-
lie will be destroyed. The dishonest pal
tering with the trust evil by the Republi-
can party In State and national plat
forms Is conclusive proof of the truth of
the charge that trusts are the legitimate
product of Republican policies, that they
are fostered by Republican laws and that
they are protected by the Republican Ad-
ministration In return for campaign sub
scriptions and political support.
War Declared on Private MonopoIies.
We pledge the Democratic party to an
unceasing warefare in nation State and
city against private monopoly in every
FORM Existing laws against trusts must
be enforced and more stringent ones must
be enacted providing for publicity as to
affairs of corporations engaged In inter-
state commerce and requiring all corpor-
atoms to show before doing business out
| side of the State of their origin that they
have no water In their stock and that
they have not attempted, and are not at
tempting to monopolize any branch of
of merchandise, and the whole constitu-
tional power of Congress over interstate
commerce, the mails and all modes of
| Interstate communication shall be ex-
ercised by the enactment of comprehen-
| siye laws upon the subject OF trusts.
| Tariff laws should be amended by putting
the products of trusts upon the free list
to prevent monopoly under the plea OF
protection.
The failure of the present Republican
Administration, with an absolute control
over all the branches of national govern
ment, to enact any legislation designed
to prevent or even curtail the absorbing
power of trusts and illegal combinations,
or to enforce the antitrust laws already
ity of the high-sounding phrases of the
Republican platform. Corporations
should be protected in all their rights,
and legitimate interests shold be respect
ed, but any attempt by corporations to
interfere with the public affairs of the
people or to control the sovereignty which
created them should be forbidden under
such penalties as will make such at
We condemn the Dingley tariff law as
a trust-breeding measure, skiilfully de-
vised to give the few favors which they
do not deserve and to place upon the
many burdens which they snouid not
bear.
We favor such an enlargement of the
scope of the interstate commerce law as
will enable the commission to protect IN
dividuals and communities from dis
elimination and the public from unjust
and unfair transportation rates.
Free Coinage and Paper Money.
We reaffirm and lndorse the principles
of the national Democratic platform
adopted at Chicago in 1896, and we reit-
crate the demand of that platform for an
American financial system made by the
American people for themselves, which
shall restore and maintain bimetallic
price level, and as part of such system
the immediate restoration or the Tree
and unlimited coinage of silver and gold
at the present legal ratio OF l6 to !, with
out waiting for the aid or consent OF any
other nation.
We denounce the currency bill enacted
at the last session of Congress as step
forward in the Republican policy which
aims To discredit the sovereign right OF
the national Government to issue all
money, whether coin OF paper and TO be-
stow upon national banks the power to
issue and control the volume OF paper
money for their own benefit. perma-
nent national bank currency, secured by
Government bonds, must have perma-
nent debt 10 rest upon, and II the bank
currency Is 10 increase with population
and business, the debt must also increase
The Republican currency scheme Is,
therefore, a scheme for fastening upon
the taxpayers a perpetual and growing
debt for the benefit sof the banks We
are opposed to this private corporation
paper circulated as money out without
/ legal tender qualities, an demand the
] retirement of national bank notes as fast
as Government paper or silver ceru-
| lcates can be substituted for them.
1 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 legis-
lation wherever practicable
Opposition 10 Goverameal by lnluA- ION.
We are opposed to government by in
junction; we denounce the blacklist ana
favor arbitration as means OF settllng
| disputes between corporations and their
| employees.
In the interest Of American labor and
the upbuilding of the nottingham, as the
cornerstone OF the prosperity OF our coun-
try we recommend that Congress estab-
fish a Department of Labor in charge OF
A Secretary, with a seat In the Cabinet,
believing that the elevation OF the Amer,
| lean laborer will bring with 1t increased
production and increased prosperity TO
our country at home and TO our COM
merce abroad. -,
We are proud of the courage and fidel-
lty of the American soldiers and sailors
I'M all our wars; we favor liberal pensions
| to them and their dependents, and we re-
iterate the position taken In the chicago
platform of 1896, that the fact. or enilst-
ment and service shall be deemed concur
sive evidence against disease and disa-
biity before enlistment.
In Favor OF Nicaragua Canal.
We favor the Immediate construction,
ownership and control of the Nicaraguan
canal by the United states ana We de-
nounce the insincerity OF the plank aaop.
ed in the Republican national convention
for an isthmian canal In the face or the
failure of the Republican majority TO pass
the bill pending In Congress. we condemn
The Hay-Pauneefote treaty as a surren-
der of American rights and interests, not
TO be tolerated by the American people;
We denounce the failure or the Repup-
lican narty to carry out its pledges TO
grant Statehood to the territories OF Ar,
izona New Mexico and Oklahoma, ana
we promise the people of those territories
/ Immediate Statehood and home rule dur
ING their condition as territories, and we
| favor nome rule as a territorial form OF
government for Alaska and Porto Rico.
Improvement Of Arid Lands.