The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-06-25

I changed. The tariff policy, originally
adopted for the avowed purpose of
raising revenue to meet the enormous
burdens of the Civil war, has been
turned to the use of individual and
class interests until it has become the
creator of countless unearned fortunes
and the shelter of huge combinations
of capital, organized in the form of
trusts, which are strangling COMPETE
ton in many of our industries, de-
stroying individual effort, crushing
ambition largely in every line of i'm
dustry, and already acquiring power
which enables them to dictate in their
own interest the price of labor and
raw material and the cost of transpor-
tation of finished products"
The platform, as it relates to state
afa1rS, calls for economical govern
ment, equitable taxation of corporate
and private property, the purchase Of
supplies from the lowest bidder, the
substitution of a local option for the
present mulct law, and state aid in
the building of permanent buildings.
The Louisiana Purchase exposition is
Endorsed. Government by injunction
is denounced, and the election of Unit
ed States senators by direct vote Of
the people is demanded
Further the platform reads: f-
I'VE are untalterably opposed to the
politics of Imperialism by this govern
ment, instituted, fOStered and main
tanned by the Republican party And
we demand that our government shall
declare it to be it's purpose and with
out delay adopt such measures as shall
give to the people of the Philippine
islands and Porto Rico their inalien-
able right to self government.
Protest Against AIdrich Bill.
I'VE condemn the Republican party
for it's financial policies. which would
folst upon the country an unstable
currency, based upon uncertain private
securities. We protest against the
plan presented in the Aldrich bill, re-
Gently before the United States SEN
ate, by which the money of the ma
t1on snail be loaned to capitalists Ipon
the bonds and securities of private
corporations, as an effort to give value
and stability to watered bonds and
secufltles OF corporations and trusts,
OF which many are maintaining monoT-
ones IN defiance of law and public
sentiment.
We insist that the integrity of the
money of the nation be guarded with
jealous care and demand that it shall
De sufficient in volume to meet the
needs or the business interests of the
country, and that it shall be safe
guarded by careful legislation SO as
10 prevent the~gamblers Of Wall street
from corner1ng the money market, thus
lnf1lct1ng untold injury upon the small
er business men, the farmers and the
laborers of the land.
;, 1--WE deplore the corrupt condition of
the government service in the most
office department and demand a thor
ough investigation of that and other
departments by a congressional com
Hlttee, publicity as to such conditions
and punishment of all wrong-doers.
Trusts and Tariff
AS the most alarming features Of
our present conditions are the evils
Wn1ch come from trusts, and as these
evils are made possible by legislation
faVor1ng one class and against anoth-
err. by transportation privileges and nv
monopoly or original sources of SUNNY
OF natural products, therefore, to the
end that the evils connected with the
growth of trusts may be eliminated
we call for the removal of the tariff
from all trust made goods and demand
that all tariff schedules be adjusted
with view to tariff for revenue only.
we ask for such changes in orr
law, statutory or constitutional as will
limit the charges by railroads to such
an amount as will yield only reason
aple return on the capital actually in
vested, and will render it imnossihIa
for transportation favors to be granted
70 anyone, and such as will make GER
tain that all railway companies would
De treated alike. such statutes to pro-
VIDE penalties that will be effectual to
secure compliance with them.
When the sources of supply of anv
product are in the ownership of those
VINO combine to eXtort from the peopIe
an unreasonable amount for such
products, then we believe it is the duty
OF the government to take such stems
as may De necessary to secure an
equitable distribution thereof. with
FAIR compensation to the others of the
same so that the design of nature in,
making provisions for the wants az
man may not be perverted into means
for his oppression"