The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-06-22

pies of justice and liberty, upon which
our constitutional government is
founded, and which have been so ably
defended against both the open and
covert assaults of the Republican trust
advocates by the foremost statesman
and leader of the people, William Jen-
nings Bryan.
We declare the present to be a cru
clal time in our history, period in
which the destiny of the republic must
be decided. Government is a sacred
trust and the officers are the trustees
thereof both created for the benefit of
the people And we deprecate the fact
that this republican form of govern
ment has passed, through the Repub-
lican party, from the people to the
trusts and moneyed combinations.
We favor the government control
and regulation of transportation COM
panies and the equal taxation of all
property, and declare that the just
tariff should only give reasonable net
return on the actual value of the
property of said transportation compa-
established by Republican congress
in passing a so-called rate bill which
permits courts created by congress to
nullify laws enacted by that body and
we send hearty congratulations to the
Democrats of congress for their heroic
efforts to make an effective rate law.
We are in favor of public owner
hi of. e., fol
ephone and telegraph lines.
We favor an income and Inheritance
tax law, state and national.
We declare in favor of the immedi-
ate revision of the tariff, and the en-
tire removal of all tariffs on products
manufactured or controlled by mo-
nopoly.
We demand the election of United
States senators by direct vote of the
people.
Capital having organized into large
combines for its advantage we recog
nize the right of labor to likewise or
ganize for it's protection and advance
ment, and we recommend the enact
ment of reasonable arbitration laws
for the adjustment of differences aris-
ing between such capital and labor.
We denounce the men who took
trust funds of the widows and orphans
in the years 1896, 1900 and 1904, and
gave these funds to the national Re-
publican committee for the purpose of
corrupting the voters of the nation;
and we likewise denounce the men
who received said funds, holding that
both the men who gave and the men
who received are unworthy of Ameri-
can citizenship, and ask that campaign
appropriations by corporations be pro-
hibited by law
We are unalterably opposed to
ship subsidy law as unnecessary and
un-American, and tending only to en-
rich the multi-millionaire transporta-
ton trusts at the expense of the toll
ing masses.
We congratulate the people of South
Dakota upon the material prosperity
that has come to them, and we well
come the large influx of immigrants
from other states to the bountiful and
fertile plains of our great common
wealth.
We denounce the so-called honest
caucus law" enacted by the last legis-
lature as unjust and inadequate, and
we favor simple and inexpensive pri-
mary law and also personal registra-
ton law.
We denounce the unpatriotic action
of the capitol commission in their at
tempt to erect a capitol building of
inferior material from outside the
state, and we demand and insist that
the said commission created by the
legislature have such plans and speci-
use of South Dakota stone in the cree
ton of the state house because our
home product is superior to that con
templated by the present building
committee with the governor at it's
head, and because the use of home ma
terial will leave within the state a
large per cent of the money so ex-
pended.
| We denounce the law providing for
the election of county commissioners
by the vote of the entire county be-
cause it denies the right of district
representation and is as illogical and
unjust as it would be to elect the en-
tire legislative ticket by the state at
| large instead of by districts.
We denounce the Republican party
of this state for using the state edu-
cational institutions for political pur-
poses to provide places for politicians
instead Of educators. to the detriment
and decentralization of the schools
We demand that a law be enacted
that shall, under severe penalty, re-
quire of every candidate. either ma
tional or state office, to file with the
attorney general of the state within
thirty days from the day on which
such election is held an itemized
statement under oath of all money or
The town of Highmore, Hyde coun
ty, is congratulating itself on the fact
| that it can show more nominees for
state offices this year than can any