The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-20
FOB POSTAL CURRENCY.
National League Of Republican Clubs
Goes on Record.

Philadelphia. June zo.-Reafirming
allegiance to the principle of the Re
publican party and condemning com
binations in restraint of trade. the Ma
tional League of Republican Clubs end
ed its convention.
The resolutions adopted by the con-
vention are in part as follows
We pay tribute to our great leaders,
from our first standardbearer, Jonn y
Fremont, and Abraham Lincoln the
first Republican president, to Theodore
Roosevelt our present leader, the
worlds first citizen. who, through his
rugged honesty, his persistent deterrni-
nation, his unf1agging courage, and MS
demand for square deal for every per
son and every interest has gained not
only the respect and love of his fellow
countrymen. but the esteem and ad-
nairation of all mankind
I'VE indorse the sentiment Of William
Mckinley, that the principle of pro-
tective tariff is sacred, but that sched-
ules should be changed when conditions
of Industry, commerce and finance de-
mand ana not till then.
'sWe emphasize the results of the op-
Grafton of the Dingley tariff, which is
giving up a surplus of revenue, unparal-
leled activity in our factories, forests
and mines: profitable prices for the
products of our farms; greater bank
clearings and relatively less failures
than ever Lefore; a continually larger
volume of employment at higher wages;
resulting in unprecedented consumption
of not only the necessaries, but com
forts, cOnveniences and luxuries of life,
augmented with larger savings and in
vestments than have previously been
recorded in our history.
We approve of the action Of the
present congress in carrying out the
recommendation of President Roosevelt
y 81 q q fo<
been given us in single session since
the days of the civil war.
we have a just pride in our party's
record in its settlement of the currency
question through the adoption Of the
gold standard; in the establishment and
development of the rural free delivery
system now extended TO more than 30.
000 routes and 600 homes; in the
progress made in opening our arid lands
to cultivation through irrigation; in the
well begun Werk of connecting ocean
and ocean with an isthmfan canal; in
the many laws looking to the welfare
of labor and in the completed or pend
ing legislation providing for equitable
railroad regulation in interstate com
merce; for better inspection of all food
products; for free alcohol; for a new
state; for an American merchant
marine and the many other important
measures which have been or are to be
considered.
we are opposed to an illegal com
bination in restraint of trade, whereby
the interests of either producers or con-
sumers are injured or whereby through
monopoly. rates and prices of products
are controlled at the expense Of the
masses. We wage no war on capital or
corporations as such, but we do ask for
equity and justice to all by all and for
all.
we are opposed to inequality which
permits one-twelfth of the voters of the
country to WELD one-quarter of the ma
tional legislative power. The suppress
sion and denial of suffrage demands the
reduction OF power so asserted and the
denial Of suffrage should never be re-
warded with political premiums. The
Democracy of at least eleven states
should be deprived of its unfair prepon-
derance of power, and the full measure
of political rights secured to every
qualified citizen. white or black, who is
capable and willing to assert his po-
litical manhood. The political party
that profits by the suppression of the
ballot is not to be trusted with the
ma king or administering of the nations
laws. We reiterate the demand of our
last national platform that our Re
publican majority in congress should
courageously carry out the principles
and pledges of the party and enact such
| legislation as win make all the consti-
tutionaf amendments absolutely and
finally elective.
I'VE ask for immediate legislation
looking to the establishment of a par
GELS post and postal currency or notes
to facilitate trade through orders By
mail"
The following officers were elected:
President-General E. A. McAIpin
New York
vice president-H H Myers. Little
Rock Ark.
secretary-Chauncey Dewey. Hamf-
| ton. o.
Treasurer-w. G. Porter, South Da-
kota-
The selection of the next place Of
meeting was left to the executive com
mittee.