The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-07-09

people in fhe eastern hereizpaere. We
insist On the strict nnineeu1nce q tne
Monroe doekrinn and In g itH integrity
both In letfsF dnt in spir1s as Necessary
Is nreveut the extension Of 1Eor
authority On this continent and seI ~
t0 our supremacy in Americap ah&fS.
At the same time we do declart that 40
American people Shall ever be held nv
force in unwilling subsection TO Euro
pean authority.
We oppose mflitarism. Ii means c9n-
uuest abroad and intimidation and OPP
preston at home. It means the strong
army which has ever been fatal to free
institutions. It is what inillions OF our
citizens have fed from in Europe II
will impose upon our peace loving EsQpls
large standing army and unnecessary
burden of taxation and a constant me-.
mace to their liberties. A small standing
army and well disciplined state mill
tia are amply sufficient in time OF peace.
This republic has no place for vast
military service and CONSUMPTION. Whsn
the nation it i'm danger the volunteer SOL
der is his country's best defender. The
| national guard of the United States
should ever be cherished in the patriotic1
hearts of free people. Such organizasl
tions are ever an element of strength
and safety. For the first time in our
history and coevil with the Philippine
| conquest has there been a wholesale de-
| parture from our time-honored and ap-
proved system of volunteer organization
| We denounce it as unamerican, undem-
ocratic and unrepublican and as sub
version of ancient and fixed principles
of free people
Private monopolies are indefensible
and intolerable. They destroy competi-
ton, control the price of all material
and of the flushed product, thus rob-
bing both the producer and the consum-
er They lessen the employment of la
Dor, and arbitrarily fix the terms and
conditions thereof and deprive individ-
ual energy and small capital of their op-
portunity for betterment.
They are the most efficient means yet
devised for appropriating the fruits of
industry to the benefit of the few at the
expense of the many, and unless their
insatiate greed is checked all wealth
will be aggregated in few hands and
the republic destroyed.
The dishonest paltering with the trust
evil by the Republican party in state
and national platforms is conclusive
proof of the truth of the charge
that trusts are the legitimate product of
Republican policies, that they are fos-
tered by the Republican administration
in return for campaign subscriptions
and political support.
We pledge the Democratic party to an
unceasing warfare in nation, state and
city against private monopoly in every
form. Existing laws against trusts
must be enforced and more stringent
ones must be enacted, providing for pub
hcity as to the affairs of corporations
engaged in interstate commerce and re-
quiring all corporations to show before
doing business outside of the state in
their origin that they have no water in
their stock and that they have not at
tempted and are not attempting to
monopolize any branch of business or
the production Of any article of mer-
chandise and the whole power Of con-
gress over interstate commerce, the
mails and all modes of interstate COM
munication shall be exercised by the en-
actment of comprehensive laws upor
the subject of trusts. Tariff laws should
be amended by putting the product o
trusts upon the free list to prevent mo
nopoly under the plea of protection.
The failure of the present Republican
administration with an absolute oontro
| 81 oil hrx rlf fhn
ernment, to enact any legislation de
signed to prevent or even curtail the alb
sorbing powers of trusts and illegal com
binations or to enforce the antitrust law
already on the statute books, proves tn
insincerity of the high sounding phrases
of the Republican platform.
Corporations should be protected il
all their rights, and their legitimate in
terests should be respected. but any at
tempt by corporations to interfere with
the public affairs of the people or to con
troll the sovereignty which creates them
should be forbidden under such penal
ties as will make such attempt impossi
) BILE.
We condemn the Dingley tariff law a
a trust breeding measure, skillfully de
vised to give the few favors which the,
do not deserve, and to place upon tn
many, burdens which they should no
bear.
We favor such an enlargement of tn
scope of the interstate commerce law a
will enable the commission to protec
individuals and communities from dis
criminstions and the public from unjus
and unfair transports. s.tion rates.
.. We affirm and indorse the principle
of the national Democratic platform
adopted in 1896 in Chicago, and we re
,, iterate the demand of that platform 70
an American financial system, made b.
the American people for themselves
which shall restore and maintain bi
metallic price level, and as part O
. such system the immediate restoration
of the free and unlimited coinage of sill
yer at the present legal ratio of 10 to ]
without waiting for the aid or consen
of any other nation.
, We denounce the currency bill en-
, acted in the last session of congress as
step forward in the Republican policy
! which aims to discredit the sovereig
rights of the national government to is
sue all money. whether coin or paper