Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1906 — BRYAN’S VIEWS ON PARTY ISSUES. [ARTICLE]

BRYAN’S VIEWS ON PARTY ISSUES.

COLONIAL POLICY—“A tour through the Philippine Islands has deepened Hie ponvirtion that we should lose no time in announcing our purpose to deal with the Filipinos as we deaft with the Cubans.” ’ CONGRESS —“A constitutional amendment convening the first session of Congresa within a few months after election and compelling the second session to adjourn several days "before the following election should be adopted.” “In the T'nited States this trend toward democracy has taken the form es a growing demand for the election of I'nited States Senators by -a direct vote of the people.” INCOME TAX —“I am so convinced of the justice of tlie Tncome tax "that I feel gura. that the nebnlri will sooner or later demand an amendment to the Const itutwn'*\HiTcfi i\dlt~specid?irfty~Tnrtiitjrßi!fr-sfrT : tntxmie-tax.-^ CAPITAL AND LABOR —“In advocating arbitration of differences between large "• corporate ewTplm-prg and tlmir employes I believe we are defending the highest interests of the three parties to these disputes, viz.: the employer, the employe and the public. The employe cannot be' turned over to the employer.to be dealt with as the employer may please.” —*— - ~ C—l EIGHT HOl'lt DAY—“The struggle for.:u, eight-hour day is ■an international struggle and it is sure to be settled in favor of the wd'rkingman’a eontention.” MONEY QUESTION —“Unexpected conditions ..have removed the cause of pur differences. The unlooked-for and unprecedented increase in the production of' gold has brought a victory to both the advocate of gold and the aJvocate ,of • *’ bimetallism.” CORPORATIONS AND CAMPAIGN.CONTRIBUTIONS—"I hope that the Jlemocratie party will not only challenge the Republican party to bring forward effective, legislation on this subject, but •will set an example by refusing to receive .Campaign contributions from corporations and by opening the books so Hurt -every -eowtribufor of any eon dd&Fable sum may bo known to the public before the election.” . ... . . . y, TRUSTS “i tui HO2J be : ‘A private monopoly is indefensible and intatetHS~ We,' and our plan of attack must contemplate the total and complete overthrow of tic l monopoly principle in industry.” CORPORATIONS "If the Corporations were required to take out a federal 1 i cense • -———tlie fialerul which would protect the public.” - TAKIIT "Th.’ prim-ipi" “m'.-Cl.d in tin- iaoie.qiv,. tariff has been the. fruitful, source «iT a great ileal of polnicil cwruption, as welT as the support of many of our most iniquitous trusts.” “The high “Tariff U, - long i>• • ! i a burden to the consumers in the United States, and if I< growing more and more a menace to our .foreign commerce because it nron-ses resent mean - and provokes ret ilia lions. v - - - —— -•GOVERNMENT -OWNERSHIP —‘‘U ha -e already reached the--conclusion thatrailroad* partake so much of the mt ure of a monopoly that they must ulti- . ma:e!y become public properly and lie managed hv public officials in the interest iff the-whole community) in aceordan -e with-tlie weH-defined theory that public ownership is necessary where competition is impossible.” “Believing, however, that the operation of railroads by the federal government would result in a centralization which would all but obliterate State lines, I prefer to sea only the trunklines operated by the federal government and the local lines by-State governments.”