Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-07-10

| Ing section 3 of article II of the const,tu-
ton of our State 50 that Indebtedness in
CURED in acquiring such public utilities
shall be excluded from the limitations OF
sad section, thus permitting municipal
| corporations to acquire public utilities
ard to restrict the constitutional limita-
tions of Indebtedness to debts incurred
| for non-productive properly.
| We favor the passage of law by the
next Legislature comforting upon and dele
eating to municipalities the power to fix
! the price at which public service corpora
tions within the municipalities shall fur
nish their service and commodities TO
users and consumers.
| We are in favor of a maximum rate of
charge by all railroads doing business in
| the State of Wisconsin of > cents per mile
for passenger traffic within this State.
To Protect Policy Holders.
| We favor the enactment of laws pro-
viding full protection for policy holders
| in all life insurance companies transact
/ ing business in this State.
We favor the enactment and enforce
ment of laws giving labor and capital i'm
partially 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 GER
tainly not less vested nor less sacred and
no less inalienable than the rights of cap
| ital
We favor the enactment of a law es-
! tablishing the doctrine of comparative
negligence in all personal injury cases.
| Equality of contribution TO the public
| 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 more equitable
/ distribution of the tax burden and
! speedy return to the constitutional 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be repealed and that all property within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 jurisdiction of this commonwealth be
| assessed and taxed on an ad valorem basis
until superseded by a more scientific meth
cd. We incline to the opinion that a
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 there
fore favor the adoption of the constitu-
tional amendment permissive of gradu
ated income tax.
We are in favor of the highest eff
cheney of the public schools and all in
| stitutions of learning, including manual
| training and agricultural schools. And
we demand that party considerations be
wholly eliminated from the management
| of these institutions.
| The construction of good highways is
entitled to the highest consideration of the
| State
Claims Diversion of Funds.
We demand that the present State debt
of $2,2J1 900 borrowed from the trust
funds of the State for war purposes and
bearing interest at the rate of Z per cent
per annum. for which an annual tax levy
of S151 80 is made shall be jaid in ac
cordance with the mandates of the consti-
tuition and we condemn the action of the
Republican administrations for diverting
the sum of S1.1S4.659.7S, received during
the years 1908 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 original
| ly taken. to the general fund, and its use
in the payment of 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 fair trial
Tribute to Bryan.
| We regard with just pride and admira-
ton the typical American who has been
| journeying in foreign lands the last year,
and, although only a private citizen with
none of the allurements of place or power
about him. has been accorded distinguish
ed consideration and attention wherever
| he has gone, solely because his course in
public and private life alike has shown
| him to be a patriotic citizen, wise and
/, far-seeing statesman, and a thoroughly
honest and upright man. in whom the
people can safely repose their utmost con-
fidence. We therefore declare that we are
heartily in favor of that typical Ameri-
can, William Jennings Bryan, as the
Democratic candidate for President in
| l9OS, and we pledge our united efforts
= to secure his nomination