The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-23

limited coinage of silver at the ratio of
16 to 1 shall be an essential provision
Both denounce the currency bill of the
last congress as a part of the Republi-
can conspiracy to abandon the sovereign
right of the national government to is
sue all money-both coin and paper-and
to permanently confer upon a bank trust
absolute power over the volume of cur
rency, and to expand and contract the
same at pleasure Both condemn the re-
tirement of the Lincoln greenback, with
its full legal tender quality, and the sub
Stitut1On for 1T, at cost of more than
$50, 000, 900, of the national bank notes.
which are not legal tender in any sum
whatsoever. Both denounce the lately
enacted currency bill as a measure to
fasten permanent debt upon the coun-
try, and, whatever the surplus or how
ever generous the revenues, to support a
permanent bondholding class to whom
the government shall annually pay mil
lions as interest and upon whose wealth
of bonds no taxes for any purpose can
be levied. Both demand the repeal of
this currency law and the retirement of
the national bank notes. to be replaced
with government paper-the same as the
greenback-and silver certificates. Both
denounce private monopolies intoler-
able and as the overshadowing evil of
the age; they declare that they rob both
the producer and the consumer lessen
the employment of labor, confer power
to lower wages at will and deprive indi-
Vidual energy and small capital of their
unceasing warfare upon the trust and
insist that all tariffs on goods the pro-
ducts of trusts shall be abolished Both
favor the amendment of the federal con-
stitution SO as to provide for the cleo
ton of United States senators by the
people; and both declare for the initia-
tive and referendum-the very wording
of the Democratic platform favoring this
reform so vital to the pereptuity of free
government being. I'VE favor direct leg
islation wherever practicable" Both de-
nounce government by injunction, plac-
ing their ban upon the tyrranical system
now chiefly directed against employees
when out of harmony with their employ
ers, and under which, without indict-
ment, information or warrant, men are
arrested, tried, convicted and punished
by fine and Imprisonment, without right
of Judgment by a jury of their peers.
Both stand for the dignity of labor and
favor the continuance and strict enforce
ment of the Chinese exclusion law, and
its application to japanese who are inn
ported to serve monopolistic corporations
in notorious and fragrant violation of
patch that the country may know that
there was insurrectiOn against Spanish
eruelties in the Philippines as We'll as In
Cuba when war was declared and that
the struggling patriots of the Philippines
held the same moral claim upon the
United States as did the CubanS for as
sistance to independence.
s.Of all the Asiatic peoples the Fill
pinos alone had unquenchable aspira-
tions for liberty and independence, and
for 300 years they had waged wars, with
short intermissions, against Spain. to
achieve their liberty and independence.
when the United States made the
Filipinos its allies for war upon the
Spaniards, it proclaimed them q civil
lied people, with sufficient judgment,
self-contro1 and humanity to be en-
trusted with the graveSt and most deli
cate responsibilities connected with
modern warfare The United States