Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-07-03

lie utilities shall be excluded from the
limitations of said section, thus permit
ing municipal corporations to acquire
public utilities and TO restrict the con-
stitutional limitations of Indebtedness
TO debts incurred for reproductive
property.
We favor the passage of q law by the
next legislature, comforting upon and
delegating to municipalities the power
to fix the price at which public service
corporations within the municipalities
shall furnish their service and COM
modities to users and consumers.
Owe are in favor of a maximum rate
of charge by all railroads doing bust
ness in the state of Wisconsin of cents
per mile for passenger traffic within
this state.
We favor the enactment of laws pro-
viding full protection for policyholders
in all life insurance companies tran
sacting business in this state.
We favor the enactment and enfol &C.
ment of laws giving labor and capital
impartially their just rights. Capital
and labor ought not to be enemies.
Each is necessary to the other Each
has its rights-but the rights of labor
are certainly not less vested nor less
sacred and no less inalienable than the
rights of capital.
We favor the enactment of law es-
tablishing the doctrine of comparative
negligence in all personal injury cases.
Equality of contribution to the pub
| lie burden is essential to equality of
social and political rights. The recent
| decision of our supreme court in the
| railway cases has opened the way for
| a more equitable distribution Of the tax
| hnTdQn md GnnQdU n
| stitutional rule of uniformity. We now
insist that all laws imposing license
| fee on earnings in lieu of taxes, except
as to foreign corporations, be repealed
and that all property within the juris-
| diction of this commonwealth be as
sessed and taxed on an ad valorem
| basis until superseded by more scien-
| tific method. We incline to the opin-
ion that graduated income tax as the
| groundwork of all taxation will prove
| to be more scientific and equitable
method than the antiquated system
now in use. We therefore favor the
| adoption of the constitutional amend
ment permissiye of graduated income
tax.
We are in favor of the highest eff
cheney of the public schools and all in
situations of learning, including man
ual training and agricultural schools.
And we demand that party considera-
tons be wholly eliminated from the
management OF these institutions.
The construction of good highways is
entitled to the highest consideration of
| the state.
We demand that the present state
debt of 81, 251 900 borrowed from the
| trust funds of the state for war pur-
poses and bearing interest at the rate
| of seven per cent. per annum, for
| which an annual tax levy of 1857, $40 is
made, shall be paid in accordance with
the mandates of the constitution and
we condemn the action of the Republi-
can administrations for divel.ting the
sum of 81 ,l84 ,6597S received during
the years 1903 and 1905, from the United
States government in repayment of the
war claims of the state, from the trust
funds, from which this fund was orig
inally taken, to the general fund.- and
its use in the payment of the general
| state expenses.
We favor primary elections as being
Democratic in principle, but recognize
some defects in the present law and
favor such changes and amendments
in it as time and experience may
| demonstrate to be necessary after a
| fair trial.
We regard with just pride and adj
miration the typical American who has
been journeying in foreign lands the
past year, and, although only private
citizen with none of the allurements of
place or power about him, has been ac-
corded distinguished consideration and
attention wherever he has gone solely
because his course in public and private
| life alike has shown him to be patriot
ic citizen, a wise and far-seeing states
man, and a thoroughly honest and up
| right man, in whom the people can
| safely repose their utmost confidence.
We therefore declare that we are hearth
ly in favor of that typical American,
William Jennings Bryan, as the Demo
cratic candidate for president in 1908,
and we pledge our united efforts to Sc
| cure his nomination.