White Oaks eagle. (White Oaks, N.M.) 189?-190?, 1900-07-12
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(: DECLARATION OF ENDEPF NDt NCE NUMBER TWO: /:
THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM OF 1900.

constant menace to their liberties.
A small standing army ard wen
disciplined state militia is amply
sufficient in time of peace This
republic has no place for vast
military service and conscription.
When the nation is in danger the
volunteer soldier is his country's
best defender. The national
guard of the United States should
ever be cherished in patriotic
hearts of free people. Such or
ganizations are ever the element
of strength and safety. For the
first time in history and cocval
with the Philippine contest has
there been wholesale departure
from our time-honOved and ap-
proved system of volunteer organ
ization. We dcrounce it, una
inerican, undemocratic, unrepub-
lican and as a subversion of an
cicnt and fixed principles of free
people.
Private 1nonopolies are indie
fensible and intolerable. They
destroy competition, control the
price of raw material and finished
products, thus r@hbing both the
producer and consumer. These
lessen the employment of labor
and arbitrarily fix the terms ana
conditions thereof, and deprive
individual energy and small capi-
tai of their opportunity of better
ment. They are the most efficient
means yet devised fer ,appropriat-
ing the fruits of industry to bene-
tit the few Tt the expense of the
many, and unless their insatiate
greed is checked, all wealth will
be aggregated in a few hands and
the republic destroyed Dishon-
est faltering with the trust evil
by the Republican party state ana
national platforms is conclusive
proof of the truth ef the charge
that trusts are the legitimate pro-
duct of Republican policies, that
they are fostered by Republican
laws and protected by the Repub-
lican administration in return for
compaign subscriptions and poll
tiral support.
We pledge the Democratic par
ty to unceaSing warfare in the ma
ton, state and city against pri-
vate monopoly of every form. The
existing law against trusts must
be enforced and more stringent
ones must be enacted providing
for publicity as to affairs of cor
porations engaged in interstate
commerce and requiring all cor
poratiOnS to show before doing
business outside of the state of
their origin that they have no
wa1er in their stock and have not
attempted and are not attempting
to monopolize any business or
production of any articles of mer-
chandise, and the whole conStitu-
tional power of congress over
interstate commerce and mails
and all modes of interstate COM
nunication shall be exercised by
the enactment of comprehensive
laws upon the subject of trusts.
The tariff laws should be amenC-
ed by lu.ting the products or
trust upon the free list to prevent
monopoly under the plea of pro-
lection.
The failure of the present Re-
publican administration, with
absolute control over all branches
of the national government, to en-
act any Legislation designed to
prevent or even curtail the absorb
ing power of the trusts and illegal
, combinations, or enforce the anti
trust laws already on the statute
, bool, prove the insiucerity Of the
high sounding phrases of the Re-
publican platform.
, Corporations should be protect
: ed in all their rights, and legiti-
/, mate interests should be respect