Show democratic PLATFORM the democratic platform in briet demands the free and unlimited coinage of both silver and gold at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1 without wailing for the aid or consent of any other nation also that the the united states must not surrender to the hold era of its obligations he option reserved to the government of redeeming them in either silver or gold coin it condemns the issuing of interest bearing bonds in time of peace and the trafficking of the government with money syndicates for gold in exchange for bonds it declares that congress alone has the power to coin and issue money whether gold silver or paper and opposes the issuance of notes to circulate as money by the national banks as in derogation of the constitution it favors a new income tax law it opposes the importation of foreign pauper labor it favors on to secure compulsory arbitration leareen le treen employer and employed emp loye where it may be done under the constitution also a more strict government control of railroads for the benefit of the people it denounces arbitrary interference by the federal authorities in local affairs it declares government by injunction to be a new and highly dangerous form of oppression by federal judge and favors a law which will secure trial by jury for con tempts in the federal courts it denounces the pacific funding railroad bill and also a third term for the same person in the office of president |