Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-08-01
Peoples Party Platform.
ADOPTED At SCOTT JULY 25 1900

advantage, take further steps i'm the
same direction, and that our state
| constitution ought to be amended 50
as to permit the establishment of
| state stock yards and markets, to pro-
vide for state insurance and to permit
/ the people as n whole to carry on any
business or industry by which they
can promote their own welfare. We
| should especially favor the develop
ment of our oil resources by the state,
and the relief of our people from the
eXactions of the Standard Oil monop-
! )iy. by the erection of a state refinery
| to refine the products of the oil fields
| of our Safe and supply oil TO our peo-
| pie for their own use at the cost of
| production, without paying tribute to
that overgrown monopoly.
We direct attention ITO the stock
yards act. the insurance and banking
| laws, the corporation law, the laws
regulating the salaries of county Off
GERS and the compensation of the
state printer, the scrip and screen
laws and other acts passed by the
| Peoples party which have proved of
| great benefit to the people of our
! state; AID we pledge ourselves TO en-
act such further legislation along
these lines as MAY be demanded by
| the interests of our citizens
We call the attention of the farmers
on Kansas 10 the combination of grain
| buyers extending from Chicago
throughout the West, which, by means
OF pools. secret freight rates and other
trust methods, appropriates to its
members the profits of the great
wheat crop which has blessed our
and. This combination, to which he
local millers and grain dealers are
certain to fall victims, exists in viola
| ton Of the antitrust law in our stat
utes; and we pledge the nopinees of
this convention. if elected. to do all in
their power to suppress 1t.
The state authorizes banking cor
| porations and individual bankers to
| perform public function by the re-
ceipt of the money of the citizen for
safe keeping, and AT the same time
| permits such corporations and individ-
uals to loan all but small percentage
of these funds for their own profit;
the national banking law protects the
bank note holder from possible loss.
III ease the bank issuing the note be-
comes insolvent-a security which has
been, however, diminished by the gold
standard law enacted by the last con-
gress. To supplement- this protection
| and insure the funds of the deposftor
whose money is i'm the bank, as we'll as
the note holder, which is in most
cases another bank, we demand an
| amendment to our state banking law
which Will provide for taxing the
banks to create fund, to be under the
control of the state bank commission
er. and to be used to reimburse de-
poaitors IN banks which become insolv-
ent.
The scandalouS conduct of Governor
Stanley in illegally expelling regents
of the State Agricultural College
and the frequent unsavory condition
of our state institutions under all par
ties, condemn the practice of beStow-
| ing positions i'm these institutions for
party service. We therefor favor a
civil service that will put these insti-
buttons upOn a business basis. alike
free from the spokesman and from the
danger that employees may become
careless and indifferent or untitled
for other vocatioms i'm life and per-
manent charges upon the state.
The fragrant violation by wealthy
corporations of our present tax law
impelS us to demand that its proyis-
ion be more rigidly enforced. To ac-
complish this we urge that additional
penalties be enacted for its viola ton.
We favor the graduated taxation of
property, incomes and inheritances.
During the last decade the power of
federal judges has grown to an alarm
ing extent, and that power has been
used especially to destroy liberty OF
speech and to destroy or render inef-
fective the organization of labor. By
the use of the writ of injunction
workingmen have been deprived OF
their liberty and sentenced to terms
of Imprisonment by the arbitrary ac-
ton of federal judges, although guilty
OF no crime whatsoever but simply do
ing what they had under the ccnst;.
tuition a perfect right to do. There
fore, we condemn the arbitrary exer
| SiSC VI pONcI d1iSt Tie dDuSe III UOt
wr'ft-of injunction by federal judges
so universally practiced in the inter
est of the caPttalistfc class agCiint
labor. We favor such laws state an6
} national as will prevent this abuse OF
} power for AL time to come and de-
mand that the right of trial by iur,
remain inviolate, and its safeguard.
: be preserved to every citizen 50 that
no matter with what ofrense or mis-
: demeanor n man may lie charged. hi
Will at all times be assured a far emo
/ impartial trial.
Nut as partisans, but as citizens and
lovers of Justice we emphaticalIy con.
denim the outrages and disgracefu
state of affairs existing in Doniphar
county. where the tribunals of Justice
and the forms of law have been pros
tituted and used as Instruments for
: the suppression of free press arr
5 free speech: and by which innocent
persons have been fined and imprison
ed for months for exercising the
rights of American citizenship
honorable simplicity and frugality.
/ Labor. then. to the last moment OF
) your existence
2 The waste of the world would erase