The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-07-07

the immediate restoration of the free and
unlimited coinage of silver and gold at
the present legal ratio of 16 to 1, with
out Waiting for the aid or consent of any
other nation.
w edenounce the currency bill enacted
at the last session of congress as a step
forward in the republican policy which
aims to discredit the sovereign right of
the national government to issue all mon
ey, whether coin or paper, and to bestow
upon national banks the power to tissue
and control the volume of paper money
for their own benefit. A permanent ma
tional bank currency, secured by govern
ment bonds. must have permenent debt
to st upon, and if the bank currency it
to increase with population and business,
the debt must also increase. The republi-
can currency scheme is, therefore, a
scheme for fastening upon the taxpayers
a perpetual arp growing debt for the
benefit Of the banks
We are opposed to the private corpra-
ton paper circulating as money but with
out legal tender qualities, and demand the
retirement Of the national bank notes as
fast as government paper or silver certi.
We favor an amendment to the federal
constitution. We denounce the blacklist,
and favor arbitration as a means of set
Ting disputes between corporations and
their employees.
In the interest Of American labor and
the upbui,ding Of the working Van, "a
the corner stone of the prosperi,. of our
country, we recommend that congress
create a department of labor, in charge
of a secretary with a seat in the cabi-
net, believing that the elevation of the
American laborer will bring with 1t in
creased prosperity to our country at
home and to our commerce abroad.
We are proud Of the courage and fidel-
ity of the American soldiers and sailors
in all our wars we favor liberal pensions
to them and their dependents, and we re-
iterate the position taken in the Chicago
platform in 1896 that the fact Of enlistment
and service shall be deemed conclusive
evidence against disease and disability
before enlistment.
We favor the immediate construction.
ownership and control Of the Nicaraguan
canal by the United States, and we de-
nounce the insincerity Of the plank in the
republican national platform for an 18TH
mian canal in the face of the failure of
the republican majority 20 pass the bill
pending in congress.
We condemn the Hay -Pauncefote treaty
as a surrender Of American rights and in
forests, not TO be tolerated by the Ameri-
can people.
we denounce the failure of the republi-
can party to carry out its pledges, to
grant statehood TO the territories of Ari-
zona, New Mexico and Oklahoma, and we
promise the people of those territories
immediate statehood and home rule dur
ing their condition as territories, and we
favor home rule and a territorial form
of government for Alaska and Porto
Rico
We favor an intelligent system Of i'm
proving the arid lands Of the West stor-
ms the water for the purpose of irri-
cation and the holding Of such lands for
actual settlers.
We favor the continuance and strict
enforcement Of the Chinese exclusion law
and its application to the same classes
Of all Asiatic races
Jefferson said: Peace commerce and
honest friendship with all nations entan-
Cling alliances with none" We approve
this wholesale doctrine and earnestly p-o-
test against the republican departure
Which has involved Us in so-called world
lo'itics,, including the diplomacy Of FL
rope and the intrigue Of land grabbing -
Asia and we especially condemn tho r.
concealed republican alliance with Eng
land, which must mean discrimination
against other friendly nations and which