Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1900-07-13
on the statu 8 books, prove the insincefity
Of the high sounding phrases Of the Re-

Oh Gne nlgn SOuuulQ8 phrases Oh Tue Isf5-ss5
publican platfo m.
Corporations should be protected in all {
their rights and their legitimate interests
should be respected, but any attempt by
corporations to interfere with the public
affairs of the people or to control the SOW
ereignty which creates them should be
forbidden under such penalties as will
make such attempts impossible. =
We condemn the Dingley tariff law as
trust breeding measure, skillfully devised /
to give the few fayors which they do not
deserve to place upon the people burdens
which they should no. 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 discrim- |
nations AMI the public from unjust and !
unfair tran portation rates.
Free Coinage Reahirmed.
We rcaffirm and end orse the principles
of the national Democratic platform
adopted at Chicago in 1896, and we re-
lterate the demanl Of that platform for
an American financial system made by
the American people for themselves,
which shall restore and maintain a BIZ
metallic price level, and as part of such
system the Immediate restoration of the
free and unlimited coinage of gold aid
silver at the present legal ratio OF 10 to l
without waiting for the aid or consent of
any other nation
we uenounce the currency. bill enacted
at the last session Of congress as d step
forward in the Republican policy which
aims todiscredit the sovereign right of the
national government to issue all money,
y7Yho
upon national banks the power to issue
and control the volume Of paper money
for their own benefit. A permanent NJ
tlonal bank currency, secured by govern
ment bonds, must have IL permanent debt
to rest upon and if the bank currency is
to increase with population and business
the debt must also increase. The Repub-
lican currency scheme is therefore Il plan
to tasten upon the taxpayers Il perpetual
and growing debt for the benefit of the
banks. We are opposed to this private
corporation paper circulated as money,
but without legal tender qualities, and
demand the retirement Of the national
bank notes as fast as government paper
or silver certificates eau be substituted for
them.
Election of Senators by the People.
Constitution providing for the election of
United States senators by direct vote of
the people, and We favor direct legislation
wherever practicable.
We are opposed t. government by in
junction; we denounce the blacklist and
favor arbitration as a means of settling
disputes between corporations and their
employees.
In the interest of American labor and
the uplifting of the workingman as the
cornerstone of the prosperity of our coun-
try, we recommend that congress create
labor department., in charge of a secretary
with a seat in the cabinet, believing that
the elevation of the American laborer
will bring with it increased production
and increased prosperity to our country at
home and to our commerce abroad
We are proud of the courage and
fidelity of the American soldiers and sail
ors in all our wars; we favor liberal pen
sions to them and their dependents, and we
reterate the position taken in the Chicago
platform in 1896 that the fact of en-
listlnent and service shall be deemed con-
elusive evidence against disease and dis
ability before enlistment.
The Nicaraguan Canal.
We favor the immediate construction,
ownership and control of the Nicaraguan
canal by the United States, and we de-
nounce the insincerity of the plank in the
national Republican platform for an 18TH
milan canal in face of the failure of the
Republican ma ority to pass the bill pend
ing in congress-
We condemn the HayPauncefOtet treaty
as a surrender of American rights and in
terests, not to be tolerated by the Amer
lean people.
We denounce the failure of the Repub-
ican party to carry out it's pledges to
grant statehood to the territories of Ari-
IONA, New Me:Si,:o and Oklahoma, and we
promise the people OF those territories i'm
mediate statehood and home rule during
their condition as territories, and to
favor home rule and a territorial form of
government for Alaska and Porto Rico
We favor an intelligent system of i'm
proving the arid lands of the West, stor-
ing the waters for purposes of irrig;.-
ton and the holding of such lands for
actual settlers.
English Alliance Denounced.
We favor the continuance and strict en-
actment of the Chinese exclusion law, and
it's application to the same classes OF the
Asiatic races jefferson said: Peace.
commerce and honest friendship with all
nations; entangling alliances with none"
We approve this wholesome doctrine and
earnestly protest against tn, Republican
departure which has involved us in So
called politics, including the diplomacy
of Europe and the intrigue and land-
grabbing of Asia, and we especially con-
denim the ill-concealed Republican al
lance with England, which must mean
discrimination against other friendly ma
tons, and which has already stifed the
nations voice, while liberty is being
strangled in Africa.
Believing in the principles of self-gov-
eminent and rejecting, as did our lore
fathers, the claim of monarchy, we view
with Indignation the purpose of Englandl
to overwhelm with force the South AL
rican republics. Speaking as we do for
all free men everywhere, we extend our
sympathy to the heroic burghers in their
unequal struggle to maintain their liberty;
and independence.
Favor Repeal Of War Taxes.
We denounce the lavish appropriations
of recent Republican congresses, which
have kept taxes high and which threaten