Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1900-10-20

lsned products, thus robbing both pro-
Queer and consumer They lessen the
employment of labor and arb. .rarily fix
the terms and conditions thereof, and de-
prive 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 insatlate
greed is checked all wealth will be ag
gregated in few hands anu the repub-
lie Will be destroyed. The dishonest pal
tering with the trust evil by the Republi-
can party in State and national plat
forms is conclusive proof of the truth of
the charge that trusts are the legitimate
product of Republican policies, that they
are fostered by Republican laws, and that
they are protected by the Republican Adj
ministration in return for campaign sub
scriptions and political support.
War Declared on Private MonopaIies
We pledge the Democratic party to an
unceasing warefare in nation, State and
city against private monopoly in every
form. Existing laws against trusts must
be enforced and more stringent ones must
be enacted providing for publicity as to
aHairs OF corporations engaged in inter-
state commerce and requiring all corpor-
ations to show before doing business out
side of the State of their origin that they
have no water in thetf stock and that
they have not attempted, and are not at
tempting to monopJIiZe any branch of
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of merchandise, and the whole constitu-
tional power OF Congress over interstate
commerce. tho malls and all modes of
interstate communication shall be ex-
ercised by the enactment of comprehen-
sive laws upon the subject OF trusts
Tariff laws should be amended by putting
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 national govern
ment, to enact any legislation designed
TO prevent or even curtail the absorbing
power Of trusts and illegal combinations,
or to enforce the antitrust laws already
on the statute books, prove the insincer-
ity of the high-sounding phrases of the
Republican platform. Corporations
should be protected in all their rights.
and legitimate interests shold be respect
ed, but any attempt by corporations to
interfere with the public affairs of the
people or to control the sovereignty which
created them should be forbidden under
such penalties as will make such at
tempts impossible.
We condemn the Dingley tariff law as
trust-breeding measure, skAlfully de-
vised to give the few favorS which they
do not deserve and 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 dis
elimination and the public from unjust
and unfair transportation rates.
Free Coinage and Paper Money.
We reaffirm and indorse the principles
Of the national Democratic platform
adopted at Chicago in 1896 and we reit-
crate the demand of that platform for an
American financial system made by the
American people for themselves. which
shall restore and maintain a bimetallic
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 l6 to l, with
out waiting for the aid or consent of any
other nation.
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 be-
stow upon national banks the power to
issue and control the volume of paper
money for their own benefit. A perma-
nent national bank currency, secured by
Government bonds. must have a perma-
nent debt to rest upon, and If the bank
currency is to increase with population
and business. the debt must also increase.
The Republican currency scheme is,
therefore, scheme for fastening upon
the taxpayers a perpetual and growing
debt for the benefit of the banks, We
are opposed to this private corporation
paper circulated as money, but without
retirement of national bank notes fast
as Government paper or silver certi-
ticates can be substituted for them.
We favor an amendment to the federal
Constitution providing for the election
of United States Senators by direct vote
Of the people and we favor direct legis-
lation wherever practicable.
Opposition to Government by Injunction.
We 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.
In the interest of American labor and
the upbuilding of the workingman, as the
cornerstone of the prosperity of our coun-
try. we recommend that Congress estab-
fish a Department OF Labor In charge of
a Secretary. with seat in the Cabinet,
believing that the elevation of the Amer
lean labOrer will bring with 1t increased
production and increased prosperity to
our country at home and to our COM
merce abroad.
We are proud of the courage and fidel-
lty of the American soldiers and sailors
in all our wars; we favor liberal pensions
to them and their dependents, and we re-
iterate the position taken in the Chicago
platform of 1896, that the fact of enlist
ment and service shall be deemed conclu-
sive evidence against disease and disa-
bility before enlistment
In Favor OF Nicaragua 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 adopt
ed in the Republican national convention
for an isthmian canal In the face of the
failure of the Republican majority to pass
the bill pending in Congress. We condemn
the Hay-Pauncefote treaty as a surren-
der of American rights and interests, not
to be tolerated by the American people,
We denounce the failure of the Repub-
lican party to carry out Its pledges to
grant Statehood to the territories of Ar
iona, 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