Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1900-10-17

queer and consumer. They lessen Ptba
employment of labor and arb ,rarilv fiS
III eet t nis ana conditions thereof and de.
prlVe individual energy and small ranitel
OF their opportunity for beftermant r'bat
are the most efficient means vet devised
LOT approprlating the fruits of Industry
70 the benefit of the few at the expense
o LII, ne many, and unless their insauiate
SIeeu Is checked all wealth will be ag-
gregated in few hands an. the renub
Tic Will be destroyed. The dishonest nal
terlng with the trust evil by the Republi.
can party in State and national plat
t 1plIhS is conclusive proof of the truth of
the charge that trusts are the Legitimate
product of Republican policies, that they
are 1oStered by Republican laws and that
they are protected by the Republican Ad-
mlnlstrat1on in return for campaign sub.
scrlpuons and political support.
War Declared on Private MOnopolies.
We pledge the Democratic party to an
unceasing warfare 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
nave no water in their stock and that
they have not attempted, and are not at
tempting to monopoliZe any branch of
business or the production of any articles
of merchandise, and the whole constitu-
uonal power of Congress over interstate
commerce, the mails and all modes of
interstate communication shall be ex-
ercised by the enactment of comprehen-
sive 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
on the statute books, prove the insincer-
ity of the hgh-soundng 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
temptS impossible.
We condemn the Dingley tariff law as
a trust-breeding measure, sklllfully de-
do not deserve and to place upon the
many burdens which they should 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 indorse 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 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 ID to l, with
out waiting for the aid or consent OF any
other nation.
We denounee 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 or paper and 10 be-
stow upon national banks the power to
issue and control the volume of paper
money for their own beneht. A perma-
nent national bank currency, secured py
Government bonds, must have perma-
nent debt to rest upon, and II the Dank
currency is to increase with population
and business, the debt must also increase.
The Republican currency Scneme Is,
therefore, scheme for fastening upon
debt for the benefit of the banks. we
are opposed to this private corporation
paper circulated as money, but Wlthou'
legal tender qualities, an demand the
retirement of national bank notes as fas'
as Government paper or silver certi'
ficates 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 lesis-
lation wherever practlcaple.
Opposition to Government by Injunction.
We are opposed to government by IN
junction; we denounce the blackllst anu
favor arbitration as means OF settiine
disputes between corporations anu 'heii
employees. 49,, v,d
In the interest of American labor ano
the upbuilding of the workingman, as the
cornerstone of the prosperity Oh cur cou,l'
try. we recommend that Congress eslap
lish a Department of Labor In charge OF
a Sacretarv with seat in the Cabinet
believing that the elevation OF the Ailel
lean laborer will bring with IL lncieaseo
production and increased prosperity lo
our country at home and to our coiii-
merce abroad. - ,,,a saa,-
itv of the American soldiers ana sailors
in all our wars; we favor nperal PelIsio ~
to them and their dependents, ana We re- r.,
iterate the position taken III .lie liz,
ment and service shall be deemed conclu-
sive evidence against disease ana oisa-
bility before enlistment.
In Favor Of Nicaragua Canal
We favor the immediate construction,
,,,narshin and control of the Nicuraguan
o oSnsl by the f' United states and we de-
nounce theinsincerity of the PLANK anp tlon
ed in the Republican national conV er ION
for an isthmian canal In inc ,nee 70 "a mass ass
failure of the Republican majority 70 pa 's',
The bill pending in Congress. We condemn
the Hay -Pauneefote treaty as a,s surr ent
der of American rights and interests, not
to be tolerated by the american M p9 Ranub-
licnn nartv TO carry out It's pledges TO
grant Statehood to the territories OF a Ari
izona, New Mexico and Oklahoma, o aha
we promise the people Of those hose rIe dur
IT,. n,ni coalition as territories. ana we
fa S ,''I home rule as a territorial form OIL