The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-07-14


conquest has there been a Wholesale de-
parture from our time-honored and APP
| proved system of volunteer organization.
| We denounce II as un-American. un-demo-
cratic and un-repubican. and as SUD-
version of the ancient and fixed principles
of free people.
| War on Monopolies md Trusts.
Private monopolies are indefensible and
| intolerable. They destroy competition,
control the price of all material and OF the
finished product, thus robbing both pro-
Queer and consumer. They lessen the en-
ployment of labor, and arbitrarily fix the
| terms and conditions thereof, and deprive
Individual energy and small capital OF
| their opportunity for betterment They
| are the most efficient means yet devised
! for appropriating the fruits Of industry to
the benefit of the few at the expense OF
| the many, and unless their insatiate greed
Is checked all wealth will be aggregated In
few hands and the republic destroyed.
! The dishonest paltering with the trust evil
| by the republican party in state and ma
1 tional platforms Is conclusive proof of the
| truth of the charge that trusts are the le-
| climate product of republican policies,
that they are fostered by republican laws,
| and that they are protected by the repub-
| lican administration in return for cam
! paign subscriptions and political support.
We pledge the democratic party to an
unceasing warfare in nation, state and
city against private monopoly In every
FORM Existing laws against trusts must
he enforced and more stringent ones must
be enacted providing for publicity as to
the affairs of corporations engaged in
interstate commerce and requiring all cor
poratons to show, before doing business
outside of the state of their origin, that
they have no water in their stock ana
that they have not attempted. and are
not attempting, to monopolize any branch
of business or the production of any ar
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stitutional power of congress over inter-
state commerce, the mails and all modes
of interstate communication shall be ex-
ercised by the enactment of comprehen-
sve laws upon the subject of trusts
Tariff laws should be amended by put
ting the products of trusts upon the
free list to prevent monopoly under the
plea OF protection.
The failure of the present republican
administration, with an absolute control
over all the branches of the national gov
eminent, to enact any legislation de-
signed To prevent or even curtail the alb
sorbing power of trusts and illegal COM
binations or to enforce the antitrust
laws already on the statute books prove
the insincerity OF tae high-sounding
phrases of the republican platform. Cor
porations should be protected in all their
rights and their legitimate interests
should be respected, but any attempt by
corporations to Interfere with the pub
lie affairs of the people or to control the
sovereignty which creates them, should
be forbidden under such penalties as will
make such attempts impossible
Dingley TnriG Law Condemned.
We condemn the Dingley tariff law as
a trust-breeding measure, skillfully de-
vised to give the few favors which they
do not deserve and to place upon the many
| burdens which they should not bear.
Interstate Commerce..
! 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.
The Financial Plank.
We reaffirm and endorse the principles
of the national democratic platform
adopted at Chicago in 1896. and we re-
iterate the demand of that platform for
an American financial system made by
| the American people for themselves
which shall restore and maintain a b!me-
/ tallic price-level, and as part OF such
system the immediate restoration of the
| free and unlimited coinage of silver and
gold at the present legal ratio OF lG to-
l, without waiting for the aid or consent
of any other nation.
4 scheme to benefit Banks.
We denounce the currency bill enacted
at the last session of congress as a step
| forward in the republican policy which
aims to discredit the sovereign right OF
| the national government to issue 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 gov
eminent bonds, must have permanent
| debt to rest upon, and If the bank cur
iS n Increase with 4
| business, the debt must also increase
The republican currency scheme is there
fore n scheme for fastening upon the
| taxpayers a perpetual and growing debt
for the benefit of the banks. We are OPP
posed to this private corporation paper
circulated as money, but without legal
tender qualities, and demand the retire
ment of the national bank notes as fast
as government paper or silver certificates
can be substituted for them.
Favors Direct Legislation,
We favor an amendment to the federal
constitution providing for the election of
United States senator's by direct vote of
| the people, and we favor direct legislation
| wherever practicable.
! Opposes Government by Injunction
We are opposed to government by injunc-
| ton; we denounce the blacklist and favor
arbitration as a means of settling disputes
between corporations and their employees.
A Department of Labor.
In the interest of American labor and the
| uplifting of the workingman, as the corner
stone of the prosperity of our country, we
| recommend that congress create depart
ment of labor in charge of a secretary.
with a seat In the cabinet, believing that
the elevation of the American laborer will
bring with 1t increased production and
increased prosperity to our country at
home and to our commerce abroad.
| Liberal Pensions.
| We are proud of the courage and fidelity
| Of the American soldiers and sailors in ali
| our wars we favor liberal pensions TO
| them and their dependents, and we reit-
| crate the position taken in the Chicago
| platform of 1896 that the fact of enlistment
| and service shall be deemed conclusive
| evidence against disease and disability be-
| fore enlistment.
NicaraEuan 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 the face of the failure of the
republican majority to pass the bill pend
ing in congress.
Hay-Pauncefote Treaty.
We condemn the -Pauncefote treaty
as surrender of American rights and in