The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-04-05
NEBRASKA PLATFORM
FoRERUNNER OF THE KANSAS
CITY ONE.
It Will Bring a Glorious. Victory to the
Democratic Party in November
Money, Trusts and Other Issues-The
Planks Adopted.

The Democrats of Nebraska covered
themselves with glory when they
adopted platform from which we
copy the following planks:
We pledge ourselves to wage an un-
ceasing warfare against all trusts-the
money trust, the industrial trust and
the international land-grabbing trust.
Instead of system which would
chain our nation to the gold standard
and compel it to participate in all the
disturbances which come to European
nations we demand an American finan-
cial system. made by the American
people for themselves, to be secured by
the immediate restoration of the free
and unlimited coinage Of gold and sill
yer at the present legal ratio of 16 to
! without without waiting for the aid
OR consent of any other nation.
The republican administration has
admitted the gold standard to be I'M
satisfactory by appointing commits
sion to solicit foreign aid In restoring
the double standard and a republican
congress, even while trying to make
the gold standard permanent, has con-
fessed judgment against the standard
by attempting to revive the delusive
hope Of international bimetallism.
Instead of the system favored by the
Republican party, under which nation
al banks are to be permitted to issue
and control the volume of paper money
hot To
demand for that financial system
which recognizes the governments
sovereign right to issue all money
whether coin or paper, and we demand
the restoration of the greenbacks as
they now exist and the retirement of
national bank notes as rapidly as
greenbacks can be substituted for
them.
We believe that private monopolies
are indefensible and intolerable and
We condemn the national administra-
ton for its failure to enforce the pres
ent law against the trusts or to recon-
mend more effective law.
We favor a state constitution which
will prohibit the organization of a
monopoly within the state and also
prevent monopoly organized else
where from doing business within the
state; but we further believe that con
gress should supplement the efforts OF
the state by legislation which will re.
quire every corporation, before engag-
ing in interstate commerce, to shcN
that 1t has no water in Its stock ant
that it has neither attempted in the
past nor is attempting to monopolize
any branch of business or the produc-
ton Of any article of merchandise.
We believe, with Jefferson, in peace
commerce and honest friendship with
all nations and entangling alliance;
with none, and we regard with appre
hension the doctrine advocated in some
quarters that this nation should in it:
dealings or diplomacy show partially
toward any of the European nations.
Not because of hostility to England
but because we believ-.iin Il e--ip51r ii
ciples of republic, and reject, as di,
our forefathers, the theory of mon
archy; we sympathize with the Boer.
In their heroic efforts to preserve theil
national integrity. The failure of Re
publican leaders, who four years age
expressed sympathy for the Cuban pa
triots. to feel an interest in the strug
gle of the Dutch in South Africa show!
the paralyzing influence of the i'm
perial policy to which the administra
ton is now endeavoring to commit thi
country.