Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-08-03

ciples along these lines. which are now
leavening all parties. and point with graf.
ification to the erection of a plant for the
manufacture of binding Irvine by the
state. which has checked the extortions
of one monopoly by compelling 1t to re-
thousands of dollars to the farmers OF
Kansas. We also call attention to the sue
cessful operation of the state law reduc-
ing the price of school boks, and the re-
suitant saving of hundreds of thousands
OF dollars to the people.
We believe that the people can with adj
vantage take further steps in the same di-
| rection, and that our state constitution
ought to be amended so as to permit the
| establishment of state stock yards and
markets. to provide for state insurance
carry on any business or industry by
| which they can promote their own well
] fare. We should especially favor the de-
velopment of eur oil resources by the
eXactions of the Standard Oil monopoly,
| by the erection of state refinery to re-
fine the products of the oil fields of our
state and supply oil TO the people for
| their own use at the cost of production.
without paying tribute to that overgrown
monopoly.
| We direct attention to the stock yards
act, the insurance and banking laws the
| corporation law, the laws regulating the
| salaries of county officers and the COM
| penSatiOn OF the state printer, the script
and screen laws and other acts passed by
|
| great benefit to the people of our state;
| and we pledge ourselves to enact such
| further legislation along these lines
| may be demanded by the interests of our
| citizens.
We call the attention of the farmers of
| Kansas to the combination of grain buy
erS extending from Chicago throughout
| the west. which, by means of pools, secret
| freight rates and other trust methods, APP
propriate to its members the profits of the
| great wheat crop which has blessed our
1tNiv ton lob, he
| cal millers and grain dealers are certain
| to fall victims, exists in violation of the
antitrust law in our statutes; and we
pledge the nominees of this convention If
| elected, to do all in their power to sup
press it.
| The state authorizes banking corpora
| public function by the receipt of the
| money of the citizen for safe keeping,
and at the same time permits such cor
| pOrations and individuals to loan all but
| q small percentage of these for their own
profit; the national banking law protects
the bank note holders from possible loss
in case the bank issuing the note becomes
| insolvent-a security which has been.
| however, diminished by the old standard
| law enacted by the last congress. To sup
| plement this protection and insure the
| funds of the deposftor whose money is in
! the bank, as well as the note holder,
| which is in most cases another bank,
we demand amendment to our state
| banking law which will provide for tax
| ing the banks to create a fund, to be
| under the control of the state bank COM
| missioner, and to be used to reimburse
| depositors in banks which become insolv-
ent.
| The scandalous conduct of Gov. STAN
| ley in Illegally expelling regents of the
state agricultural college, and the fire.
! quent unsavory condition of our state in
stftution under all parties, condemn the
| practice of beStOwing positions in these
| institutions for party service. We, there
| fore, favor a civil service that will put
hos fYCf f11fin fNrrci hos iC
| alike, free from the spokesman and from
| the danger that employees become care
less and Indifferent or untitled for other
| vocat1ons in life and permanent charges
| upon the state.
The fragrant violation by wealthy cor
porationS of our present tax law impelS
us to demand that its provision be more
| rigidly enforced. To accomplish this we
| urge that additional penalties be enacted
| for it's violation.
We favor the graduated taxation of
property, incomes and fnheritanceS.
| During the last decade the power of
| federal judges has grown to an alarming
| extent. and that power has been used es-
pecially to destroy liberty of speech and
| to destroy or render ineffective the organ
| izationS of labor By the use of the writ
of injunction workingmen have been de-
prived of their liberties and sentenced to
| terms of Imprisonment by the arbitrary
| action of federal judges, although guilty
| of no crime whatsoever but simply doing
| what they had under the constitution a
perfect right 70 no. therefore,, we COIL
| denim the arbitrary exercise of power and
the abuse of writ of injunction by federal
| judges. universally practiced in the in
.terest of the capitalistic class against la
| Dor. We favor such laws state and ma
| tiona1 as will prevent this abuse for all
| time to come and demand that the right
| of trial by jury remain inviolate, and its
safeguards be preserved to every citizen
so that matter with what offenSe or
| misdemeanor a man may be charged, he
| will at all times be assured a fair and
impartial trial.
| Not partisans. but citizens and
| lovers of justice emphatically con-
denim the outrageous and disgraceful state
| of affairs existing in Doniphan county,
| where the tribunals of justice and the
forms of law have been prostituted and
used as instruments for he suppression of
| a free press and of free speech; and by
| which innocent persons have been fined
and imprisoned for months for exercising
the rights of American citizenship.