People's voice., 1900-05-03

| greSSlonal district, III convention as
sembled, do hereby reafirm and endorse
in whole and in part and in letter and
spirit the platform adopted by the
-- national convention held in
-- in -.
We favor amendments to the federal
constitution specially authorizing an in
come tax and providing for the election
of United States senators by direct vote
Of the people.
We oppose government by injunction
and the blacklist, and favor arbitration
as means of settling disputes between
corporations and their employees.
We observe with approval and un-
qualifedly endorse the support given by
-- throughout the country to the
movement looking toward the municipal
ownership of municipal franchises.
We favor the principle of the initiative
and referendum whenever it can he
applied.
We are in favor of liberal pensions to
deserving soldiers and their dependents.
We believe that names upon the pension
rolls should not be arbitrarily dropped
and we believe as stated in the national
platform that the fact of enlistment and
service should be deemed conclusive
evidence against disease and disability
before enlistment.
We are in favor of the immediate
construction and fortifcation of the
Nicaraguan canal by the United Stats.
We condemn the Dingley tariff law
as trust breeding and extorting and
venal measure, skillfully devised for the
purpose of giving a few, favors which
they don't deserve, and placing upon
many burdens which they should not
bear.
We welcome the opportunity offered
this year to take the federal government
out of the hands of the Republican
party which has abandoned American
ideas and American ideals, and at the
command of corporate wealth has plot
ted against the financial independence
of the individual and now contemplates
the notification of the Declaration of
American Independence.
We pledge ourselves to wage all ur-
ceasing warfare against all the trusts, the
money trust, the industrial trust and the
international land grabbing trust.
Instead of system which would chain
our nation to the gold standard and COM
pei it to participate in all the disturb
ances which come to European nations,
we demand an American financial sys-
TEN, made by the American people for
themselves, to be secured by the INNER
diate and unlimited coinage of gold and
silver at the present legal ratio of six
teen to...,one without waiting for the aid
or consent of any other nation.
The Republican administration has
admitted the gold standard to be unsatis-
factory by appointing commission to
solicit foreign aid in restoring.the double
standard, and Republican congress i'll
making the gold standard permanent,
has confessed Judgment against the
standard by attempting to revive the
delusive hope of international bimet-
allism.
Instead Of the system favored by the
Republican party under which national
banks are permitted to issue and controI
the volume of paper money for their own
profit we reiterate our demands for that
financial system which recognizes the
governments sovereign right to issue all
money, whether coin or paper, and we
demand the retention of the greenbacks
that now exist and the retirement of
national bank notes as rapidly as greer
backs can be substituted for them.
We believe that private monopolies are
indefensible and intolerable and a men,
ace to our form of government, and we,
condemn the national administration for
its failure to enforce the present law
against trusts or to recommend a more
effective law.
We condemn the Porto Rican tariff
bill passed by Republican congress, as
a bold and open violation of the nations
organic law, and a fragrant breach of
good faith.
We assert that the constitution follows