The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-05-11
THE POPULIST PLATFORM.
Ra2HksAAg sEonsy rrus..-- Ilsspsaializsa
and Militarism.


Following is the platform adopted by
the convention:
Resolved, That we denounce the act
CT March tith, 300, as the elimination
of a long series of conspracies to deprive
the people of their constitutional rights
over the money OF the nation, and rele
gate to Il giant money trust the control
of the purse and hence of the people.
2
1--WE demand a graduated income and
inheritance tax.
We demand that postal savings banks
be established by the Government. =
'"The original homestead policy should
be enforced and future settlers upon the
public domain should be entitled to Il
free homestead, while all who have paid
an acreage price to the Government under
existing laws should have their homestead
rights.
Trusts the overshadowing evil of the
age are the result and elimination OF the
private ownership and control of the
three great instruments OF commerce
money transportation and the means of
transmission of information; which in
struments of commerce are public func-
in the Constitution should be controlled
by the people through their Congresses
for the public welfare. Our remedy for
trusts is that ownership and control be
assumed and exercised by the people
1--WE further demand that all tariffs on
gccds controlled by trusts shall be
abolished.
ITO cope with the trust evil the people
must act directly without Intervention of
representatives who may be controlled or
Influenced. We therefore demand direct
legislation, giving the people the law
making and veto power under the initia- =
tive and referendum.
"Applauding the valor Of cur army and
navy in the Spanish War we denounce
the conduct of the Administration in
changing a war for humanity into a war
of conquest We demand a stop
page Of this war of determination by the
assurance to the Philippines of independ
ence and protection under stable govern
ment CT their own creation
THE Declaration of independence, the
Constitution and the American flag are
one and inseparable. The island of Porto
Rico is part of the territory CT the
United States, and by levying special and
extraordinary customs duties on the COM
merce of that island the Administration
has violated the Constitution. abandoned
the fundamental principles of American
liberty, and has striven to give the lie to
the contention of our fore fathers that
there should be no taxation without rep
reSentation
I'VE denounce the administration for its
sinister efforts to substitute standing
army for the citizen soldiery, which is the
best safe guard of the republic
''We extend to the brave Beers Of South
Africa our sympathy and moral support in
their patriotic struggle for the right of
self government and we are unaltera
bly, opposed to any alliance, open or CO.
vert between the United States and any
ether naticn that will tend to the de-
struction of human liberty
The platform denounces the Federal
and Idaho State Governments for using
the military in the Occur d'Alene mining
districts fer enforcement Of IAN infamous
permit system among the laborers
struggling fer a greater measure of in
dustrial independence. 1t en-
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