Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1900-07-12

JAMESTOWN, NORTH
with the trust evil by the republican
party in state and national platforms
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 administration in return
for campaign subscriptions and politi-
cal support.
We pledge the democratic party to
an unceasing warfare in nation. state,
and city, against private monopoly in
trusts must be enforced and more
stringent ones must be enacted pro
viding for publicity as to the affairs
of corporations engaged in interstate
commerce and requiring all corpora
tiOns to show before doing business
outside the state of their origin, that
theyIhave no water in their stock, and
that they have not attempted, and
are not attempting to monopolize any
branch of business or the production
of any articles of merchandise, and
the whole constitutional power of con-
gress over interstate commerce, the
mails, and all modes of interstate
communication shall be exercised by
the enactment Of comprehensive laws
upon the subject of trusts. Tariff
laws should be amended by putting
products OF trusts upon the free list to
prevent monopoly under the plea of
protection.
Trusts and Dingley Tariff Condemned.
The failure Of the present republic
can administration, with an absolute
control over all the branches of the
national government, 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 insincerity
of the ligh sounding phrases of the
republican platform.
Corporations should be protected in
all their rights and their legitimate
interests should be respected, but any
attempt by corporations to interfere
with the public affairs OF the people
or to control the sovereignty which
creates them, should be forbidden I'M
der such penalties as will make such
attempts impossible.
We condemn thelDingley tariff law
as trust breeding measure, skillfully
devised 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 individuals and communities
from determinations and the public
from unjust and unfair transportation
rates.
We reatfirm and endorse the princi-
pies of the national democratic plat
form adopted at Chicago in 1886, and
we reiterate the demand OF that plat
form for an American financial Sys-
TEN, made by the American people Tor
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 16 to l, without
Waiting for the aid or consent OF any
other nation. -,
We denounce the currency bill en-
acted at the last session OF congress as
step forward in the republican
policy which aims to dlscredlt the
Sovereign right Of the national gov
ernment to issue all money, WheCher
coin or paper, and to bestoW upon
national banks the power to issue ana
control the volume of paper money for
their own benefit. A permanent
national bank currency, secured py
government bonds, must have a per-
manent debt to rest, upon, and II the
bank currency is to increase WIN pop
ulation and business, the debt must
also increase. The republican cur
rency scheme is, therefore, a scheme
for fastening upon the taxpayers a
perpetual and growing debt Tor the
benefit of the banks.
We are opposed to this private cor
poration paper circulating as money,
but without legal tender qualities,
and demand the retirement of the ma
tional bank notes as fast as govern
ment paper or silver certificates 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 legislation wherever practlc'
able.
Against Government by Injunction and
the Blacklist.
We are opposed to government by
Injunction. We denOunce the black
list, and favor arbitration as a means
of settling disputes between corpora
tions and their employees.
In the interest of American labor
and the upbuilding of the working
man, as the corner stone of the pros,
perity of our country, we recommend
that congress create a department OF
labor, in charge Of a secretary with a
seat in the cabinet, believing that the
elevation of the American laborer
will bring with it increased pro-
duction and increased prosperity to
our country at home, and to our com
merce abroad.
We are proud of the courage and
fidelity of the American soldiers ana
sailors in all our wars; we favor liber-
al pensions to them and their depend
ants, and we reiterate the position
taken in the Chicago platform in 1876
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