The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1900-07-19
In a Business Light.

The Boston Commercial Bulletne Is,
as its name indicates, business paper
and reviews the Kansas City platform
from business point of view, stating In
part:
There are a number of business prop
ositions that are Of a serious Importance,
the more so that Mr.. Bryan after his
vigorous upholding of the l6 to | free
silver plank may be counted upon to
carry out the platform.
Here are the points that affect every
business man in the country in his bust
ness:
Both parties are pledged to an 18TH
milan canal. Mr.. Bryan prefers the
Nicaragua route, and would have the
canal not merely controlled, but owned
and built by the United States. Other
wise he is opposed to the existing policy
of the country as follows:
Porto Rico is to be turned adrift or
made territory.
Cuba is to be abandoned at once.
The numerous mutually warning tribes
of Fillipinos must be given a stable
government without the use of force,
and the islands and the white population
left to the Fillipnos. we protecting the
Fillipinos from European interference.
Interference in China and transactions
in European diplomacy must cease, but
more radical action must be taken
than has already been taken to force
England to stop the war in South Africa.
An army of Co., 900 men is too large,
nor is there anything to be said in favor
of any navy. Any danger to the country
can be met by the militia. The time
honored and approved system which in
less than six states (and in those by
State, not by national law had in 1898
drilled and equipped regiment or two
even with obsolete arms for instant
service is good enough. The radical
reform of the existing militia law of 1892
as recommended by every President
from Washington down, including jeff
erson is "subversion of ancient and
fixed principles of free people,"
Somehow or other all trusts are to be
destroyed. Certainly worsted cloths,
cotton yarns, cotton cloths, leather,
whiskey, rubber goods, copper goods,
wire, electrical supplies, wall paper,
refined sugar, linen thread and all goods
made by combination or firms are to
go upon the free list.
The Oingley tariff is to be wiped out.
Free silver coinage at the ratio of lG
to / shall be established.
National banks shall be wiped out and
their notes replaced by silver certificates
and greenbacks.
No Injunction shall be issued and en-
forced against rioters destroying prop
erty not their own.
Cinnamon must not come into the
United States, but the products of the
yellow labor may be admitted under
tariff for revenue only.
The mails and commerce of the United
States are best carried by foreign ships.
We do not need ships, even when the
foreign vessels that usually carry our
freight are pressed for war service, and
should not encourage shipping by the
same means used by every other nation.
There are some other points, but these
are boiled down, the pledges directly
affecting the business men of the United
States in the extension of their trade, in
their protection from mobs at home and
murder abroad, in the stability of the
medium of exchange and credit and in
the protection of their manufactures
from foreign competition.
They seem to be worth stating with
out argument even in a business news
paper,