The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-05-11
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by the law of March II, 1900, and prior
national banking laws, the remaining por-
ton of the bank notes 10 be replaced with
fun legal tender government paper money
and its volume SO controlled as 10 main
tain ar all times stable money market
and stable price level
we demand a graduated income and
inheritance tax, to the end that aggregat-
ed wealth shall bear its just proportion
of taxation,
''W edemaHd that postal saving banks
be established by the government for the
safe deposit of the savings Of the people
and to facilitate exchange
With Thomas LETTERS IN, we declare the
land, including all natural sources of
wealth, the inalienable heritage of the
people. The government should so act as
to secure homes for the people and pre-
vent land monopoly. The original home
steaw policy should be enforced and fur
Their settlers on the public domain should
be entitled TO a free homestead while all
who have paid an acreage price to the
government under existing laws would
have their homestead rights restored.
Transportation being a means of ex-
change and a public necessity, the gov
eminent should own and operate the rail-
roads il the interests of the people and
on a non-partisan basis, 10 the end that
all may be accorded the same treatment
in transportation and that the extortion,
tyranny and political power now exer
cised by the great railroad corpora tons,
which result in the impairment, if not the
destruction of the political rights and per-
sonal liberties of the citizen. may be de-
stroyed. Such ownership is to be accom-
plished in manner consistent with sound
public policy.
Trusts, the overshadoWing evil of the
age, are the result and culmina ton of the
private ownership and control Of the three
great instruments of ,commerce-morey
transportation and the means Of trans
mission Of information; which instruments
of commerce are public functions and
which our forefathers declared in the con-
stitution should be controlled by the peo-
pie through their congress, for the public
welfare. The one remedy for the trusts
is that the ownership and control be as
sumed and exercised by the people. We
further demand that all tariffs on goods
controlled by trust should be abolished.
ITO cope with the trust evil, the people
must act directly. without the in,erven-
ton of representatives who may be con-
trolled or Influenced We, therefore. de-
mand direct legislation, giving the people
the law-making and veto power under the
initiative and referendum. 4 majority of
the people can never be corruptly inf1u-
enced.
"Applauding the valor of our army and
navy in the Spanish war, we denounce
the conduct of the administration in
changing a war for humanity into war
for conquest. The action Of the admins
tration in the Philippines is in conflict
with all the presidents Of cur nat:o-al
life, at war with the declarat ton of indie
pendence, the constitution and the plain
precepts of humanity. Murder and arson
have been our response 70 the appeals o.
the people, who asked only to establish
a free government nj their own land. We
demand stoppage of this war Of exter-
mination, by the assurance TO the Phil
ippines of independence and protection
under stable government of their own
creation.
llteDenQenCe,
constitution and the American flag are
one and inseparable. The Island of Porto
Rico is part of the territory of the
United States and by levying special and
extraordinary customs dues on the COM
merce Of that island, the administration
has violated the constitution, abandoned
the fundamental principles of American
liberty and has striven to give the lie to
the contention Of our forefathers that
there should be no taxation without rep
resentation.
'Out of the imperialism which would
force an undesirable domination on the
people of the Philippines, springs the I'M
American Dry for a large standing f.my.
Nothing in the character or purposes of
our people justif1es US in ignoring the
plain lesson of history and putting our
liberties in jeopardy by assuming the
burden of militarism, which is crushing
the people of the old world We de-
nounce the administration for its sinister
efforts to substitute standing army for
the citizen soldiery which is the best
safeguard of the republic.
I'VE extend TO the brave Beers Of South
Africa our sympathy and moral support
in their patriotic struggle for the right
OF self-government. We are unalterably
opposed 10 alliances. open or covert, be-
tween the United States and any other
nation. that tend to the destruction OF
human liberty
And a further manifestation Of irnper-
ialism is to be found in the mining dis
tricts Of Idaho. In the Occur d'AIene dis
trict soldiers have been used to overawe
miners striving for a measure of indus
trial independence and we denounce the
state government OF Idaho and tn federal
government to abridge the civil rights OF
the people and to enforce an Infamous
permit system which denies to laborers
their Inherent liberty and compels them
TO forswear their manhood and their
right before being permitted to seek en-
ployment
The Importation Of japanese and other
laborers under contract to serve mono
pOlstc corporations is a notorious and
fragrant violation OF the immigration
laws. We demand that the federal gov
eminent shall take coenizance OF this
nenacing evil and repress it under exist
ing laws. We further pledge ourselves to
strive for the enactment OF more string
ent laws for the exclusion Of Monaghan
and Malayan immigration.
We endors municipal ownership OF
public utilities and declare that the ad-
vantages which have accrued 70 the pub
lie under that system would Be multiplied
en- hundred fold BY its extension TO
natural Interstate mo1opolies.
we denounce the practice Of Issuing
injunc;ions in the cases % dispute be
tween annlavers ani artnlcrss rnal-Lrr