Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-05-16
CONGRESSIONAL PLATFORM.

and space to the resolutions ado pied at
Great Bend April II. until this week,
but we take pleasure in doing so now.
This platform has the right ring to it
and we have DO hesitancy in saying that
the sentiments therein expressed are the
sentiments OF a majority of the people
of the district:
Resolved, That this convention here.
by reaffirms the platform Of the Poo
pies Party adopted at its national con-
vention in st. Louis and in futherance
or the adoption Of said principles we
hereby urge the nomination Of William
j. Bryan as our standard bearer in the
coming campaign.
We believe that no person within the
Jurisdiction of the United States or
within the territory oyer which the
United States exercises jurisdiction
can be part citizen and part alien.
Either they owe allegiance to the Unit
ed States or they do not. If they do,
they are entitled to all the rights and
privileges of citizenship, and we de-
nounce as unconstitutional the levying
cfimport aud export duties On merchan-
disc imported into the United States
from Porto Rico or exported from the
United States into that territory.
Resolved, That we are earnestly in
favor of arresting the criminal aggres-
sion Of the trusts and combines upon
the rights of the people; and to the end
that they may be not only controlled
but eliminated, we urge that the pres
ent patent system which makes the
government the father of monopoly
and the mainstay of almost all the dan
gerous combines and trusts now throt.
thing competition be- abolished, and in
lieu thereof the value of the use of
each patented article be appraised by q
competent committee, and that the
manufacture of such patented article
shall be open to all persons under a IL
cense system similar to that under
which articles are permitted to be
manufactured and sold under the inter
nal revenue laws.
The Peoples Party in common with
the great mass of the Democrat party,
the silver Republicans, and a great
many of the rank and file of the Repub
lican party contend that a sufficiency
Of money is as necessary to prosperity
as is a sufficiency Of blood to the
health Of the human body. AS
in the past, the Peoples Party contends
that The auantitive theory of money and
not the material from which it is made
is the gist OF the controversy; THAT Meth
or gold nor silver is of itself sacred
and a sufficient amount of government
paper money, legal tender in the pay
ment of all debts will bring Legitimate
prosperity to this country.
Believing that representatives frs
duty Is to truly represent his constitu
ents and to look after their INTEREST,"
and welfare, we note with much regre
that Chester 1. Long, elected to repre-
sent the great Seventh congressiona
district, has given little or no thought Il
these duties, has ever been found linet
up for the interests of trusts and cor
poratlons and Numerically opposed t,
the interests Of his constituency, an
we pledge our efforts to again elect ;
man who will represent the people o
the Seventh district.
Resolved, That we express our dee
and heartfelt sympathy for the patriot
OF the South African republics in thei
heroic fight for their homes and libert
and our admiration of their indom
table courage and unexampled patriot
ism in their wonderful struggle agalns
their British enemies of Republican
government, and we further denounc
the present British government and II
secret allies IN this country as who'll
unworthy of the respect of any tru
American citizen and lover of libert,
Resolved, That as American citizen
standing squarely and firmly npon tn
eternal principles of right and justic,
we emphaticallay condemn the polio
OF the commissioner of pensions, M
only for denying to the soldiers of I'll
war of the rebellion that which the la
declares they shall receive, but for b
wicked and indefensible attempt I
poison the mind of A greatful republ
and thereby, by his detestable cry
pension frauds, bring reproach upo
every old soldier.
Resolved, That we condemn any a
tempt by either soldier or attorney
obtain pension by fraud or any III
lawful means, and We do not belieV
that the great hue and cry of fra,
sent broadcast over this countl
through the instruments of IL. Ola
Evans is justified by facts, and we +
gard it as cruel and vindictive, worth
only of our bitterest contempt.
Resolved, That we believe that it
the duty of the president of the Unite
States TO remove the present commi
sioner OF pensions and place In b
stead a man who will faithfully ex
cute the laws, which are as we belize
adequate to do justice to every ex-st
der.
THERE are few socialists in q
country. Leastwise the circulation
the Appeal to Reason, published
Girard, Kansas. has reached 81 ,O87, /,