Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-03-06

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hibiting the pass and rebate, and in
sist upon further legislation, state
and national, making it unlawful for
any corporation to contribute to cam
paign funds, and providing for pub
LEGATION, before election, of all in
dividual contributions above a reas-
enable minimum.
Believing with Jefferson, in sup
port of state governments in all their
rights, as most competant admins
trations for our domestic concerns
and the surest bulwark against anti
republican tendencies and in the
preservation of the general govern
ment in its whole constitutional Wig
or, as sheet anchor of our peace
at home and safety abroad, we
are opposed to the Capitalization i'm
piled in suggestions, now frequently
made. that the powers Of the general
government should be extended by
judicial construction. While we fav-
or the exercise by the general mo-
nopoly and for the regulation of in
terstate commerce, we insist that fed
eral remedies shall be added to, and
not substituted for state remidies.
1--WE insist upon the recognition of
distinction between the natural man
and artificial person, called a cor
poration, and we favor the eraet.,ae..at
of such law as may be necessary to
compel foreign corporations to sub
NIT their legal disputes to the courts
of the states in which they do bust
ness, and thus place themselves up
on the same footing as domestic cor
porations.
eve favor the election of United
States enatorss by direct vote of
the people, and regard this reform as
the gateway to all other national re-
forms.
eve favor the vigorous enforce
ment of criminal law against trusts
and trust magnates, and demand the
enactment of such additional legis
lation as may be necessary to make
it impossible for private monopoly
to exist in the United States. Among
additional remedies, we specify
three:
were chosen and bound by the unit
rule to vote for Bryan.
First, a law preventing the dupli.
cation of directors among competing
corporations;
Second. a license system which
will, without abridging the right OF
each state to create corporations, OF
its right to regulate as it will foreign
corporations doing business within its
limits, make it necessary for manu-
featuring or trading corporations en-
gagged in interstate commerce to take
out federal license before it shall
be permitted to control as much as
25 percent of the product in which
it deals; license to protect the pub
lie from watered stock and prohibits
| control by such corporation of more
than fifty percent of the total amount
of any product consumed in the Unit
ed States, and;
Third, a law compelling such Ii
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chasers in all parts of the country
on the same terms, after making due
allowance for the cost of Transports
ton.
'We favor the immediate revision
of the tariff by the reduction of i'm
port duties. Articles entering into
competition with articles controlled by
trusts should be placed upon the free
list; material reductions should be
made in the tariff upon the neces.
saries of life, and reductions should
be made in such other schedules as
may be necessary to restore the tar
| if to a revenue basis.
1--WE favor an income tax as part OF
our revenue system and we urge the
submission of constitutional amend
ment specifically authorizing congress
to levy and collect tax upon in
| dividual and corporate incomes. We
favor national inheritance tax.
We sympathize with the efforts
for reclamation of the arid lands Of
the west and urge the largest possible
of the country. We also favor the
use of irrigation in the development
reclamation of swamp lands.
1--WE favor the preservation of the
forests still remaining, and replant
| ing of the denuded districts in al
our mountain ranges. as well as fores
tation of the western plains.
I'VE favor also completion of the
Panama canal.
1--WE urge liberal appropriations fol
the Improvement and development Of
| interior waterways.
| We favor the immediate declara
ton of the nations purpose to rec
| ognize the independence of the Phil