The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-24
DECLARED BY DENIS
State Leaders Of the Party Issue a
Pronunciamento Against the
Trusts and Tariff. -s.
All Candidates Subscribe to the Dec
laration Which Will Supplement
the State Platform.

81.
In the name Of the democratic party Of
Minnesota vigorous antitrust and tariff
revision resolution, was adopted yester
day evening. This resolution will be sup
Elemental to the. state platform, and will
be the particular issue on which the demo-
cratic candidates for Congress will wage
their campaigns. 1t purports to be in re-
ply to the recent speeches of President
Roosevelt and Secretary Shaw. 81.
The document was drawn UP at a gath
ering attended by l.. A. Rosing, J. NJ.
Bowler and George p: Jones, candidates
on the state ticket, Chairman Buck of the
state committee. T. D. O'Brien of the
national committee, and the following
candidates for congress; P. McGovern,
first district; c.. N. Andrews, second dis
trict; c.. C. Kolars. third district; John L..
Gieske. fourth district; Julian A. Dubois
Of the sixth district, and Marcus L. Foy
Of the eighth district. John Lind, the cam
didate in the fifth, and Alex McKinnon,
the ninth district nominee, were not pres
ent, but understood In a general way the
tenor of the resolution and will subscribe
to it. -, ...s.'I -
'-r The Declaration.
The resolution-in full reads as follows
'"Against the doctrine enunciated by the
managers and standard bearers of the re-
publican, organization, as expressed in
LHelT speeches OIL the past 1e" OdyS, " IIle
effect that the tariff shall not be revised
even to the extent Of the removal of tariff
protection from the trusts, the democracy
Of Minnesota, as Of the nation at large,
takes direct and positive issue.
I'VE stand upon the democratic doc
trine. that the tariff laws of this country
should not be a source Of protection and
subsidy to the trusts that are depressing
the people, both workingmen and consum-
ers alike.
1.-THE application of the plain and sim
pie fundamental priciple of Equal rights
to all and special privileges to none can
not do injury to any legitimate American
interest; and it is the violation of that
law, on the other hand, that to-day makes
the American people, and most Of all the
American workingmen, the political and
Industrial subjects Of corporate control
Gloomy View Ahead.
-"When the so-called infant industries
have become million dollar and billion
dollar trusts; when they have risen to the
stature and power, that they not only
overcome foreign competition abroad, but
defy the American people at home; when.
the tariff laws enacted for their protec
ton, they make use of to tax the Ameri-
can people rs per cent to 100 per cent
| higher prices than they levy upon the con
sumers abroad; when, protected by these
tariff laws, they Cypress labor and even
| deny it the common right Of organization
when the taxes levied by them upon the
necessaries of life far exceed in volume
| and hardship all the direct taxes levied
| for the support of the government.
| when, in order to maintain this unjust
| tax power, they exercise all the power
| which capital and business influence car
command to dominate congress and the
| national administration, and now, after
| off 1oo hi act Il mo
| lection ever known to the history of ma:
lions they announce through the leaders
| and managers Of the party in power thai
the tariff cannot and shall not even be
| revised
I'VE submit, in the name of democracy
and in the name of the people regardless:
of party Or class, that it is time that the
government ceased to be their shelter ant
instrument of extortion,> and that thu
trust, like the common citizen, submit tt
the universal principle Of Equal rights t.
all and special privileges to none.'"