Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-07-13

an unceasing warfare in nation, state
and city against private monopoly in
every form Existing laws against
trusts must be enforced and more strin
gent ones must be enacted providing
publicity of affairs of corporations en-
gagged in interstate commerce and re-
curing all corporations to show before
doing Business outside of the State of
their origin, that they have no water ia
their stock, and that they have not at
tempted and are not ATTEMPTING to
monopolize any branches Ct business,
or the production of any articles of
merchandise, and the whole constitution
al power of Congress over interstate
commerce, the mails and all modes of
interstate communication shall be ex-
ercised by the enactment of compre-
hensive laws upon the subject of trusts.
Tariff laws should be amended by
putting the products of truss upon the
free list to prevent monopoly under the
plea Of protection. The failure of the
present Republican administra ton with
an absolute control over the branches
OF the national government to enact any
legislation designed 10 prevent or
curtail the absorbing power Of trusts
and illegal combinations, or to enforce
the antistrusG laws already on the
statute books, prove the insincerity of
the high sounding phrases. Corpora
tions should be protected in all their
rights and their Legitimate interests
should be respected, but any attempt
by corporations to interfere such
penalties as will make such attempt i'm
possible.
DINGHY TARIFF CONDEMNED.
We condemn tie Dingley tariff as a
trust breeding measure, skillfully de-
vised to give few favors which they do
not deserve, and to place upon the
many burdens which they should mot
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.
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We reaffirm and endorse the principles
OF the national Democratic platform
adopted at Chicago in 1895, and we
reiterate the demand OF that platform
for an American financial system made
by the American people for themselves
which shall restore and maintain a BIZ
metallic price level and as part of such
system the immediate restoration of the
free and unlimited coinage of silver and
gold at the present ratio of Is to / with
out waiting for the aid or consent of
any other nation. We denounce the
currency bill enacted at the last session
OF Congress as step forward in the
Republican policy which aims to dis
credit the sovereign right of the national
government to issue all money, whether
coin or paper, and bestow upon national
banks the power to issue and control
the volume of paper money for their
own benefit. a permanent national
bank currency, secured by government
bonds, must have q permanent debt to
rest upon, and the bank currency il TO
Increase with population and business
the debt must also increase. The Re-
publican currency scheme is therefore
scheme for fastening upon the taxpayer
a perpetual and growing debt for the
benefit of the bankers. We are opnosed
to this private corporation paper circu
lated as money. but without legal tender
qualities, and demand the retirement ,f
the national bank notes as fast as this
governments paper or sill, er certificates
can be substituted for them.
SENATORS BY DIRECT VOTE RTC.
We favor an amendment to the Fed
eral constitution providing for the
election OF United States Senators nv
a direct vote of the people and direct
legislation wherever practicable.
We are opposed to government nv
Injunction; we denounce the blacklist
and favor arbitration as q means of set>
Ting disputes between corporation.
and their employees. In the interest NJ
American labor and the uplifting of
the workingmen, as the conversions NJ
the prosperity of our country wa
recommend that Congress create a
Department of Labor in charge of a
Secretary, with seat in the cabinet.
believing that the elevation of the
American laborer will bring increased
prosperity to our country at home and