The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-05-11

of bank paner money to- enrich the few
and impoverish the many.
We pledge anew the Peoples party
never to cease the agitation until this
eighth financial conspiracy is blotted
from the statute books, the Lincoln green
back restored. the bonds all paid and all
corporation money forever retired
1--WE reafffrm the demand for the We
opening of the mints of the United States
to the free and unlimited coinage of sill
yer and gold at the present legal ratio Of
10 to l, the immediate increase in the
volume of silver coins and certificates
thus created to. be substituted, dollar for
dollar, for the bank notes issued by pri-
Vate corporations under special privilege
granted by law Of March IA, 1900, and
prior national banking laws, the remain
ing portion of the bank notes TO be re-
placed with full legal tender government
paper money, and its volume so con-
trolled as to maintain at all times a
STABLE money market and a stable price
inheritance tax TO the end that aggre-
gated wealth shall bear its just proper
tiop of taxation.
We demand that postal savings banks
safe deposit of the savings of the peo-
pie and to facilitate exchange
With Thomas Jefferson, we declare the
land, including all natural sources of
wealth, the inalienable heritage of the
people. Governments should so act as to
secure homes for the people and prevent
Iand monopoly The original homestead
policy should be enforced, and future
settlers upon the public domain should
be entitled to a free homestead, while
all who have paid an acreage price to
the the government under existing laws
should have their homestead rights re-
stored.
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP.
Transportation being means of ex-
change and a public necessity. the gov
ernment should own and operate the rail-
roads in the interest of the people, and
on non-partisan basis, to the end that
all may be accorded the same treatment
IN transportation, and that the extor-
tlon, tyranny and political power now
exercised by the great railroad CORPORA
tons, which result in the impairment if
not the destruction of the peoples rights
and personal liberties of the citizen. NAV
be destroyed. Such ownership is to be
sound public policy.
Trusts, the overshadowing evil of the
age, are the result and elimination of
three great instruments of commerce
money, transportation and the means of
transmission of information; which in
strulnents or commerce are public func-
tlonS, and which our forefathers declared
In the constitution should be controlled
by the people, through their congress, for
the pubic welfare. The one remedy for
the trusts is that the ownership and
control be assumed and exercised by the
people.
I'VE further demand that all tariffs
on goods controlled by a trust shall he
abolished. To cope with the trust evil
the people must act directly, without the
intervention of representatives who NAV
pc controlled or Influenced. We there
fore demand direct legislation giving the
people the law-making and veto power,
under the initiative and referendum 4
majority of the people can never be cor
ruptly Influenced.
INSULAR QUESTIONS.
'Applauding the valor of our armv and
navy in the Spanish war, we denounoe
the conduct of the administrator in
changing a war for humanity into a
war OF conquest The action of the ad-
ministration in the Philippines is In con
fiict with all the precedents of orr ma
tional life; at war with the Declaration
of independence, the constitution and Tho
plain precepts of humanity Murder and
arson have been our response to the
appeals of the people who asked, only To
establlsh free government in their own
land We demand a stoppage of this
war of determination by the assurance
to the Philippines of Independence and
protection under a stable government ~
their own creation -
The Declaration of independence the
constitution and the American fiag are
one and inseparable. The island Of
Puerto Rico is a part of the territory of
the Onlted States, and by levyine speciaI
and extraordinarNseus duties on She
commerce of that Island the administra
ton has violated the constitution, aban-
ooned the fundamental principles OF
American liberty and has strived to give