The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-06-14

to all and special privileges to none:
local self-government: the highest
degree of personal liberty consistent
with the public good, and strict con-
struction OF the federal constitution.
We condemn the use OF federal troops
in the state unless requested by state
authority. We favor income tax.
whereby the wealth of the country.
which now largely escapes taxation,
may be made TO bear its just proper
ton of the public burden. We declare
that the federal government has no
constitutional power TO impose and
collect tariff duties, except for the
purposes OF revenue, and We demand
that the imposition of such taxa ton
shall be greatly reduced and limited
to the necessities of the government
when honestly and economically adj
ministered, and in the case OF trust
manufactured goods, that they shall
be placed on the free list.
We reatfirm and indorse the demo
cratic national platform adopted at
Chicago, in 1896. and declare our
continued fealty to the utterances
therein enunciated upon the free and
equal coinage of silver and gold at
the established ratio of IL To l. and
we denounce as unwise and danger
Gus in the extreme the single stand
ard bank act of the present session
OF congress, which places the control
of paper circulating medium in the
hands of the national bank corpora
| tiOns.
We denOunce as one OF the most
trying evils of the day the present
tendency toward monopoly and the
destruction OF competition, particu-
larry the Industrial combination
| known as trusts. We arraign the re-
publican party as guilty of the gross
est hypocrisy in the treatment of this
| question, in that being in the ascend
ancy i'll congress it has steadfastlv
refused to pass any of the legisla ton
which has been proposed to curb the
power of trusts: has failed to with
draw tariff protection from trust
made goods; has constituted the
leaders of trusts as the leaders of it,
party in the nation, and accepted the
contributions of millions OF dollars
to its gigantic corruption fund. which
fact in itself is Il menace to the sta
bilitv of our free institutions We
declare that the existence of trusts il
opposed to the public welfare as re-
CARDS the employment of thousands
of persons who have been deprived OI
means of livelihood, and in their ex
actions from consumers. In addi
ton to which they are n threat
against liberty itself, in that they
undertake to control our elections
with money While we would pro
tect legitimate business corporations
in all their just rights, we hereby EN-
lphatically vote our opposition to th'
continuance of trust domination il
the business affairs and politics o
the nation. and We pledge ourselves
as we have given to the people tn
strongest possible legislation on thi
IS,1 Of. 70 n IN 4 a
it is enforced: and that it shall b
when in our power, enforced by TN
federal government; believing. as W
do, whenever the federal government
will cooperate in its sphere with tn
state government in this direction
that the people will have relief t
which they are entitled
NO DEPENDENT COLONIES.
We reiterate our adhesion to tn
Monroe doctrine and depreciate til
the departure from its principle
which have been made by the reput
;, lican administration in its war fo
conquest of antipodeal territory, an
we believe that the maintenance {
: the Monroe doctrine as interprete
from its foundation to be the begin
ming of the present republican admir-
istration, is necessary TO the safet
of American ascendancy in America
4. affairs, including the exclusion of an
newly acquired European authorit
from this continent.
We unqualifiediy believe in the g,
panslon of trade relations of tn
country with all the world, and
such expansion OF contiguous Amer
can territory as shall be cOnsister