Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-08-05
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market on competition with free la
bor manufactured goods. We de-
mand that conviets shall be employed
direct by the different States in the
manufacture of products for use in
State institutions and in making good
reads and in no case shall convict'
be hired out to contractors OF sub
contractors.
The independence party declares
that the right to issue money is IN
herent in the government and it ia.
yors the establishment Of central
governmental bank through which
the money so issued shall be put into
general circulation:
We demand the revision of the
taft not by the friends Of the tar
| iff but by the friends of the people,
and declare for a gradual reduction
of tariff duties with just considerar
tion for the rights Of the consuming
public and Of established industry.
There should be no protection for
oppressive trusts which sell cheaply
abroad and take advantage Of the tar
liff at home to crush competition, raise
prices, control production and limit
work and wages.
The railroads must be kept open to
all upon exactly equal terms. Every
| form Of rebate and discrimination
and railroad rates is crime against
business and must be stamped out
We demand, adequate railroad facili-
ties and advocate a bill empowering
shippers in time of need to compel
railroads to provide sufficient cars Tor
freight and passenger traffic and 9th;
er railroad facilities through sum-
mary appeal to the courts. The inter-
State commerce commission. should
proceed at once with physical val
nation Of railroads engaged in inter
State commerce.
We believe that legitimate organl-
cations in business designed to secure
an economy of operation and increas-
ed production are beneficial wherever
the public participates in the advan.
tages which result. We denounce al
combinations for restraint of trade
and for the establishment Of monop,
oily in all products of labor and de,
clare that such combinations are moi
combinations for production but fol
extortion and that activity in this
| direction is not industry, but rob-
berry.
In cases of infractions Of the anti
trust law or of the interstate com,
| merce act we believe -. the enforce
ment Of a prison penalty against the
guilty and responsible individuals
controlling the management OF the
offending corporations, rather than
fine imposed upon stockholders.
We advocate the extension OF tn
principle of public ownership of pub
lie utilities, including railroads, al
rapidly as municipal, State or ma
tional government shall demonstrate
ability to conduct public utilities fol
the public benefit. We favor specifi
cally government ownership of the
telegraph and demand as an imme
date measure that the government
shall purchase and operate the tele
graphs in connection with the posta
service. :,
| We advocate such legislation bott
/ State and national as will suppress
the bucket shop and prohibit thu
fictitious selling of farm products fol
4 future delivery.
We oppose Asiatic immigration
which does not amalgamate with oul
population, creates race issues ane
un-American conditions and which
reduces wages and tends to lower TIM
high standard Of living and the hisf
standard of morality which American
civilization has established.
| We demand the passage OF an ex
clusion act, which shall protec
American workingmen from compe
/ tition with Asiatic labor.
| We advocate the popular election
of United States Senators and o.
/ Judges, both States and Federal ant
favor a graduated income tax ant
any constitutional amendments nee
essary to these ends.
ARBITRATION is FAVORED.
The independence party declare
for peace and against aggression ant
will promote the movement for th'
settlement of international dispute
by arbitration.
We believe, however, that small
navy is poor economy anu that I
strong navy is the best protection il
time of war and the best pre-
ventive Of war. We therefore favo
the speedy building of navy suf
fciently strong to protect at tn,
same time both the Atlantic aot
Pacific coasts of the United States.
We rejoice in The adoption b!
both the Democratic and Republican
platforms of the demand of the Inde
pendence party for improved nation
al waterways and the Mississippi in
land deep water project. We favor
the extension fthis system to th'
tributaries Of the Mississippi Dy
means Of which 3 States shall b.
served and twenty thousand miles
added to the cost lines Of the United
States. The reclamation of arie
lands should be continued and the
irrigation programme now contem
plated by the government extended
and steps taken for the conservation
of the country's natural resources
which should be guarded not only
against devastation and waste, but
against falling into the control Of
the monopoly.
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