The age-herald., 1900-07-24
TAMMANY HALLS
 APPEAL TO VOTERS
Believes in Supremacy of the
 American Flag.
SHOULD BE LIBERTYS SIGN
The Time Has Come for the Nation tc Act, and Tammany Pledges It. self to Unceasing Battle
 for Democracy.

New York, July 23.-At a meeting tonight of the Tammany Hall general committee series of resolutions on motion of Richard Croker were adopted. They say: "Tammany Hall believes in the su- premacy of the American flag wherever it floats, but that 1t should float nowhere as the symbol of liberty and civil servitude, for that is combination which can work only dishonor to the flag and American in- stitutions.
 "It believes in that character of terri torial expansion which was favored by the fathers of Democracy; not expansion by the shedding of American blood on soil where the constitution can never follow the flag, but in that which has added to the glory and the prosperity of our union;
 not in that which is to the union source of disgrace and disaster.
 'The Republican party, while protesting a desire to carry freedom to distant strang- CTS of strange habits and of uncertain civil ization, is satisfied to leave American citi- zens on American soil in bondage to the trusts and monopolies begotten of Repub- lican Legislation for what is nothing less than condition of slavery which fetters individual industry.
 Tt is conceded that the nation has it's mission to carry; but its mission at home remains incomplete while 1t is possible un- der national exchange of per cent of the population to hold the other 9S per cent. of
 the people in absolute subjection through
 the operation of trusts and monopolies.
 Let Us Not Wait
 Let us not wait too long in the vain ex- pectation that this evil will cure itself. The time has come for the nation to act. Tammany Hall, repeating the promise con- tained in the national platform of it's par
 ty, pledges itself to an unceasing warfare in nation, state and city against private monopolies in every form.
 ''Tammany Hall condemns the waging of
 war for conquest as un-American in principle and false to the pledges of the
 nation as given by the President of the United States. It condemns the unconsti- tutional action of the President in carry ing on a war for conquest without the au- thorization of Congress.
 Inspired by it's forbidden alliance with the British Empire, the Republican admin istraton has reached out for colonial de-
  last step in the direction of imperialism | and military government by the United States government. That accomplished, there will be nothing but name and loca- tion to distinguish the American govern ment from the monarchies of Europe. The country of Washington, the republic of Jefferson, the union of Lincoln will have given way to the glory of American em- pire, and the standing army-the curse of EurODe3n H. ropean homes-will have come to blight the homes of America and to dominate her civilization.
 From every country in Europe, to es- cape tyranny of the standing army mil lions have sought citizenship and homes in America. American fathers and moth- CTS have a right to the companionship of their sons in the peacefulness of a home Their sons, though ready to yield up their lives if need be, for home, have a right to the pursuit of their own happiness unmo- tested by warfare which is neither for the honor of the flag or the security of home. Future of American Manhood But the future of American manhood is limited by the Republican principle to eth- CT military service on distant fields of doubtful glory or to a lifetime of useless struggle against the killing competition of trust and monopoly.
 ''The sincerity of the Republican declara- tlOnS, IdN OTl1lS the prOpdSanud ol lreeuoln and the uplifting of humanity in other lands is revealed by the contradictory at titude of the present administration toward the FilipinoS on the one hand and the Boers of South Africa on the other-a war of criminal aggression against the former in the name of freedom, silent and covering in the shadow of Englands throne while the freedom of sister republic ebbs away in it's own blood.
 ''The issues of the present campaign are beyond the consideration of dollars and cents. They go to the honor of the na- tion, its proud place in the estimation of the whole world, it's fidelity to that con- servatism of Americans which, rooted deep in the past, alone can guide the nations future.
 ''The Democracy of the nation stands for national honor, national conservatism, na- tional justice. Tammany Hall, faithful to
 the principles of Democracy and subordi-
 hating all things to Democratic success closses its ranks and calls for patriotic
 unity in the name of Democratic triumph"