The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-07-06

party IN state ana national platforms ls
proof of the truth ol the charge
that trusts are the legitimate product OF
policies; that they are fos.
tered by Republican laws and that they are
protected by the Republican administra-
tion il return for campaign subscriptions
and political support.
We pledge the Democratic party to an
unceasing warfare in nation, state and
city against private monopoly in every
forr: Existing laws against trusts must
De e'ltnc.ed and more stringent ones
,lust be enacted providing for publicity
Us to the affairs of corporations engaged
in Interstate commerce and requiring all
corporations to show, before doing bust
ness outside of the state of their origin,
that they have no water i'll 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 constitu
tional power of congress over interstate
commerce, the mails and all modes of
interstate communica ton shall be eXer-
cised by the enactment of comprehensive
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 pro.
lection.
The failure of the present administra-
tion, 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 20
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statute books, prove the il.sincerity of the
high 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 SOW
ereignty which creates them, should be
forbidden under such penalties as will
make such attempts impossible,
We condemn the Dingley tariff law as
trust breeding measure, sSillfully de.
vised to give the few favors which they dc
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 discrim
nations and the public from unjust and
unfair transportation rates.
stands by Ratio.
We reatfirm and endorse the principles
of the national Democratic platform
adopted at Chicago i'll 1896, and we reiter
ate the demand of that platform for al
American financial system made by t.it
American people for themselves, which
shall restore and maintain a bimetallit
price level, and as part of such system the
immediate restoration of the free and un
limited coinage of silver and gold at tn,
present legal ratio of Ii to without wait
ing for the MD or consent of any othe
nation.
We denounce the currency bill enacted
at the last session of congress us u steI
forward in the Republican policy which
aims to discredit the sovereign right o
the national government to issue al
money, whether of coin or paper, and tt
bestow upon national banks the power tt
issue and control the volume of pape
money for their own benefit. Il perlna
nent national bank currency, secured b,
government bonds, must have a perma
nent debt to rest upon, and if the banl
currency is TO increase with population
and business, the debt must also increase
The Republican currency schemeis, there
fore Il scheme for fastening upon the tax
payers IL perpetual and growing debt fol
the benefit OF the banks. We are opposed
to this private corporation paper circu
lated us money, but without legal tende
qualities, and demand the retirement o
the national bank notes as fast as govern
ment paper or silver certificates can b
substituted for them
We favor an amendment to the fedora
constitution providing for the election o
| United States senators by direct vote o
the people, ana V. favor direct Legislation
| wherever practicable.
| We are opposed to government by in
/ junction; we denounce the blacklist an,
favor arbitration as II means of settlin.
| disputes between corporations and thei
| employees.
For "a Department of Labor.
In the interest of American labor an,
the upbuilding of the workingmun as th
corner stone of the prosperity of our coun
| try, we recommend that congress create
department of labor, III charge of II secre
tury, with Il seat in the cabinet, believin,
| that the elevation of the American lahore
will bring with it increased production
and increased prosperity to our country n
| home and to our commerce abroad.
We are proud of the courage and fidelit,
| of the American soldiers and sailors il
all our wars; we favor liberal pensions t,
them and their dependents, and we reit
crate the position taken i'll the Chicag
platform in 1896 that the fact of enlist
ment and service shall be deemed conclu
sive evidence against disease and disabil
ity before enlistment.
/ We favor the Immediate construction
ownership and control of the Nicaragual
canal by the United States and we de
nounce the insincerity of the plank in tn
Republican national platform for an 18th
miun canal in the face of the failure of th
Republican majority to pass the bill pend
ing in congress.
We condemn the Hay Pauncefote treat
as ii surrender of American rights and in
terests. not to be tolerated by the Ameri
can people.
We denounce the failure of the Repuh
lican party to carry ont its pledges t
grant statehood to the territories of Ari
IONA, New Mexico and Oklahoma, and w
promise the people of those territories in
mediate statehood and home rule durin!
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