Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-09-28
this demand in harmony with the

riyht reserved to the state Of Ne
braska by the court to apply for a
reopening of the maximum freight
rate case whenever business con-
ditions might warrant.
I'VE demand that every execu-
tive and judicial officer, and every
member of the legislature, i'm
mediately surrender whatever cor
poration favors he may have &C
cepted, and adhere, in the future,
to his sworn obligation.
Corporation Favors.
THE people cannot expect just
laws for the regulation of corpora
tons at the hands of a legislature
whose members accept favors from
corporations. They cannot expect
equitable taxation of corporations
from board whose members are
under obligations to the powers
seeking to avoid taxation. The
rule-now thoroughly established
in our courts-that a man is dis
qualified from serving as juror
if he has accepted a pass from a
corporation that is party to the
case, should be as strictly applied
to the bench as it is to the jury
box. We denounce the acceptance
of these corporation favors by the
judiciary as particularly offensive;
and we pledge to the people of
Nebraska that the nominee of this
convention will not accept favors
in the form of free transporta-
ton or otherwise-from any cor
poration.
''We demand the strict and
prompt enforcement of the law
passed by the Nebraska legislature
in 1897 providing fine of 81, 900
for any corporation which, in the
language If the law contributes
money, property, transportation,
help or assistance in any manner
or form to any political party, or
| to any candidate for any civil Of
flee, or to any political organiza-
ton, or committee, or to any in
dividual to be used or expended
for political purposes.
I'VE condemn the republican
party of Nebraska for its general
continued subserviency to great
corporations and for the hypocrisy
of its present day attitude. For
more than five years that party
has been in control of the execu-
tive and Legislature power; yet it
has failed to provide the people
with relief from corporate impo-
sition. 1t has had it within it's
power to protect the people, but it
has piled higher and higher the
burdens upon them and has per-
mitted the representatives of spec
ial interests to wage unrestrained
war upon the public welfare. 1t
has permitted the corporations to
name it's United States senator's;
to frame the laws enacted by it's
legislatures; and to make non
effective the petitions of the peo-
pie. When republican extrava-
gance in the administration of
state affairs has made it necessary
to increase taxation, republican
officials have seen to it that the in
creased burden rested heaviest up
on the people and lightest upon the
corporations. Now that the popu-
lar protest against this reign of
corporation power through the
medium of the republican party,
has Became so strong that atten-
ton must be given that protest,
the republican party asks for a
vote of confidence and expects the
people to be satisfied with a re-
publican conventions recon-
mendation" that a law to be en-
acted by some future legislature
to prohibit free railroad transport
tation.
Elevator Trust Plank.
I'VE denounce the republican
legi for it's subserviency to