The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1900-07-10

and intolerable They destroy competi-
llon' control the price of all material
ana OF the finished product, thus robbing
potn producer and consumer, they lessen
/ the employment of labor and arbitrarily
Tx the terms and conditions thereof and
uePrlFe individual energy and small cap
lIal OF their opportunity for betterment
they are the most efficient means yet
devised for appropriating the fruits of in
dustry to the benefit of the few at the
expense of me many, and unless their
insatiate greed is checked, all wealth will
De aggregated IN few hands and the
republic destroyed.
The dishonest paltering with the trust
| eVlI oy the republican party in state and
! OF the truth of the chargo that trusts
are the legitimate product of republican
poncies, that they are fostered by repub-
mean laws and that they are protected
ny the republican administration in re-
Suin Tor campaign subscriptions and po-
lltlcal support.
an unceasing warfare in nation, state
ana city against private monopoly ia
every form. Existing laws against trusts
must De enforced and more stringent
ones must be enacted providing for pub
lclty as to the affairs of corporations
engaged in interstate commerce and re-
curing all corporate officers to show be-
tore doing business outside of the state
OF their origin that they have no water
IN their stock and that they have not
attempted and are not attempting to mo-
nopolize any branch of business or the
PRODUCTION OF any articles of merchan-
disc, and the whole constitutional power
of congress over interstate commerce, the
mails and all modes of interstate COM
munlcation shall be exercised by the en-
actment of comprehensive laws upon the
subject of trusts
The tariff laws should be amended
by putting the products of trusts upon
the Tree list to prevent monopoly under
the plea of protection.
The failure of the present republican
administration, with an absolute control
over all branches Of fbP national
erEment, to enact any legislation to pre-
vent or even curtail the absorbing power
or trusts and illegal combinations or to
enforce the antitrust laws already on
| thu statute books proves the insincerity
OF the high-sounding phrases of the re-
Corporations should be protected in
all their rights and their legitimate in
terests should be respected, but any at
the public affairs of the people or to
control the sovereignty which creates
them should be forbidden under such
penalties as will make such attempts i'm
possible. We condemn the Dingley tariff
law as trust-breeding measure, skill
fully devised to give the few favors which
| they do not desire, anu 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 discrim-
| nations and the public from unjust and
unfair transportation rates.
Famous Free Silver Plank.
Eve reaffirm and indorse the principles
| of the national democratic platform
| adopted at Chicago in 1896, and we reit-
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 free and unlimited coinage of silver
and gold at the present legal ratio of is
I In % oil
sent of any other nation.
I'VE denOunce the currency law en-
acted 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 is
sue all money, whether coin or paper
and to bestoW upon national 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
a permanent debt to rest upon. and if the
bank currency is to increase with popu-
lation and business the debt must also
increase. The republican currency
scheme is therefore a scheme for fast
entng on the taxpayers a perpetual and
growing debt for the benefit of the
banks.
I'VE are opposed to the private corpo-
ration paper circulated as money, but
without legal tender qualities and de-
mand the retirement OF national bank
notes as fast as paper or silver certif-
Gates can be substituted for them.
Election of Senator'S and Other PIanks.
1--WE favor an amendment to the fed
eral constitution providing for the cleo
ton of United States senators by direct
vote of the people.
I'VE are opposed to government by in
junction; we denounce the blacklist, and
favor arbitration as a means of settling
disputes between corporations and their
employees.
''ln the interest of American labor and
the upbuilding of the WOTkingman as
the cornerstone of tie prosperity of our
% ,f~rr A~N
create department of labor in charge
OF secretary, with seat in the cabi-
net believing that the eleVation of the
American laborer will bring with it in
creased production and increased pros
perity to our country at home and to
our commerce abroad.
I'VE are proud of the courage and fl
deity of the American soldiers and sail
OrS in all or our wars; we favor liberal
pensions to them and their dependents,
and we reiterate the position taken in the
Chicago platform in 1896 that the fact of
enlistment and service shall be deemed
conclusive evidence against disease and
disability before enlistment.
I'VE favor the immediate construction,
ownership and control o. 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 majority to pass the bill pend
ing in congress.
eve condemn the Hay-Pauncefote
treaty as a surrender of American rights
anu INTERESTS, not 10 De Tolerated by the
American people.
I'VE denounce the failure of the republi-
can party to carry out it's pledges to grant
statehood to the territories of Arizona,
New Mexico and Oklahoma, and we
promise the people of those territories
immediate statehood and home rule dur
ing their condition as territories, and we
favor home rule and a territorial form
of government for Alaska and Porto Rico
I'VE favor an intelligent system of i'm
proving the arid lanus of the west, stor-
ing the waters for the purpose of irri-
cation and the holding of such lands for
actual settlers.
I'VE favor the continuance and strict
enforcement of the Chinese exclusion law
and its application to the same classes of
Asaitic races.
Jefferson said: Peace, commerce and
honest friendship with all nations. en-
tangling alliance with none.
I'VE approve this wholesome doctrine
and earnestly protest against the repub-
lican departure, which has involved US
in so-called world politics, including the
diplomacy of Europe and the intrigue
anu land grabbing of Asia, and we es-
pecially condemn the ill-concealed repub-
lican alliance with England. which must
mean discrimination against other
friendly nations, and which has already
Stlhed the nations voice, while liberty is
being strangled in Africa
believing in the r1TinpiD1as of