People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1900-05-17

financial conspiracy is blotted from the
statute books, the Lincoln greenback
restored, the bonds all paid and all cor.
poratlon money forever retired.
We reafhrm the demand for the re.
opening of the minis of the United
States to the free coinage of silver and
gold at the present legal ratio of IS to I,
the immediate increase in the volume OF
silver coins and certificates thus created
to be substituted, dollar for dollar for
the bank notes issued by private cor
porations under special privilege granted
by law of March ii, 1900, and prior
national banking laws, the remaining
portion of the bank notes to be replaced
with full legal tender government paper
money and its volume so controlled as to
maintain at all times a stable money
market and a stable price level.
We demand graduated income and
inheritance tax to the end that wealth
shall bear its just proportion of taxation.
We demand that postal savings banks
be established by the government for the
safe degosit of the people and to facili-
tate exchange.
With Thomas Jefferson, 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
prevent land monopoly. The original
homestead policy should be enforced and
future settlers upon the public domain
should be entitled to free homestead
while all who have paid an acreage price
to the government nnder existing laws
should have their homestead rights
restored.
Transportation being a means of ex-
change and public necessity, the gov
eminent should own and operate the
railroads in the interest of the people
and on nonpartisan basis, to the end
that all may be accorded the same treat
ment in transportation and that the ex-
tortion, tyranny and political power now
exercised by the great railroad corpora
tons, which result in the impairment if
not the destruction of the political rights
aud personal liberties Of the person may
be destroyed. Such ownership is to be
accomplished in a manner consistent
with the sound public policy.
Trusts, the overshadowing evil of the
age, are the result and elimination of
the private ownership and control of the
three great instruments of commerce
money, transportation and the means of
transmission Of information, which in
struments Of commerce are public func-
tons and which our forefathers declared
IN the constitution should be controlled
by the people through their congress for
the public welfare. The one remedy for
the trusts is that the ownership and con-
troll be assumed and exercised by the
people
We fnrther demand that all tariffs on
goods controlled by trust should be
abolished.
To cope with the trust evil, the people
must act directly without the interven-
ton Of representatives who NAV 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. A ma.
jority of the people can never be cor,
ruptly influenced.
Applauding the valor of our army and
navy in the Spanish war, we denounce
the conduct Of the administration in
changing war for humanity into wal
of conquest. The action of the admin.
tration in the Philippines is in conflict
with all the precedents Of our national
life; at war with the declaration of in.
dependence and the plain precepts Of
humanity.
Murder and arson have been our re.
spouse to the appeals to the people who
asked only to establish a free govern
ment in their own land. We demand q