Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-07-06

| National platforms is conclusive proof
| of the truth OF the charge that trusts
| are legitimate product of Republican
| politics that they are fostered by Re-
| publican laws, and that they are pro-
tccted by the Republican administra-
| ton In return Cor campaign Subscrip-
| ti)ns and political support.
We pledge the Democratic party to
an unceasng warfare in nation, State
and city against private monopoly in
every form.
ENFORCE ANTITRUST LAWS.
| Existing laws against trusts must be
enforced and more stringent ones must
be enacted providing for publicity as to
the affairs of corporations engaged in
Interstate commerce and requiring all
corporations to show, before doing bust
| ness outside of the State OF their orr
! gin that they have no water in their
| stock, and that they have not attempt
| ed and are not attempting to monoDo-
| ize any branch of business or the PRO
| duction of any article of merchandise
and the whole constitutional power of
| Congress over Interstate commerce,
| the mails and all modes of Interstate
! communication shall be exercised by
the enactment of comprehensive laws
! upon the subject of trusts Tariff laws
| should he amended by putting the pro-
ducts OF trusts upo% the free list to
| prevent monopoly under the plea of
protection.
| NIL - i'ibAC<NsN u.
The failure of the present RepubII-
| can administration with an absolute
! control over the branches of the ma
| tional government to enact any legis-
lation designed to prevent or even cur
tail the absorbing power of trusts and
! illegal combinations. or to enforce the
antitrust laws already on the statute
books. prove the insincerity of the high
sounding phrases of the Republican
| platform.
Corporations should be protected I'm
| 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 10
| control the society which creates them
| should be forbidden under such penal
lies as VIII make such attempts i'm
| possible.
DINGLEY TARIFF CONDEMNED.
We condemn the Dingley tariff as a
| rust-brecding measure, skllfully de-
| vised to give the few favors which
! they do not deserve and to place upon
! the many burdens which they should
/ not bear. We favor such an enlarge
ment of the scope OF the Inter Com
| merce law as will enable the commits
sion to protect individuals and com
munities from determinations. and the
public from unjust and unfair discrim-
| ination rates.
CHICAGO PLATFORM REAF-
FIRMED.
We reaffirm and indorse the princi-
pies OF the National Democratic plat
| form adopted at Chicago in 1896, and
we reiterate the demand OF that plat
| form for an American financial system
| made by the American people for them
! selves which shall restore and main
: tain a bimetallic price level as part
/ OF such system, the Immediate rcstora-
| ton of the free and unlimited coinage
/ OF silver and gold at the present legal
ratio of 16 to 1 without waiting for the
aid or consent OF any other nation.
CURRENCY BILL DENOUNCED.
We denounce the Currency bill en-
| acted at the last session OF Congress
as step forward in the Republican
policy which aims to discredit the SOW
ereign right of the national govern
| ment to issue all money without coin
or paper and to bestow upon national
banks the power to issue and control
the volume OF paper money for their
own benefit. a permanent national
bank currency, secured by Govern
ment bonds must have n permanent
debt to rest upon. and if the bank cur
rency is to increase with population
and business. the debt must also in
| crease.
The Republican currency scheme is
! therefore, a scheme for fastening upor
| the taxpayers Il perpetual and grow.
| ing debt for the benefit of the banks
| We are opposed to this private corpor-
alton paper circulated as money but
without legal tender qualities, and the
| retirement of the national bank notes
as fast as this Government paper OF
| silver certificates can be substituted
for them.
DIRECT VOTE FOR SENATORS.
We favor an amendment to the Fed.
eral Constitution providing for the
election of United States Senators by a
! direct vote of the people. and direct
legislation wherever practicable.
GOVERNMENT BY INJUNCTION.
We are opposed to government by
| Injunction; we denounce the Black
list and favor arbitration as a means
of settling disputes between corpora
tons and their employees.
In the interest of American labor and
the uplifting of the working man, as
the cornerstone OF the prosperity OF
our country. we recommend that Con
gress create Department OF Labor
in charge of a secretary, with a sea,
in the Cabinet, believing that the ele.
walton of the American lahorer will
| bring increased prosperity to our coun-
try at home and our commerce abroad
We are proud of the courage and
| fidelity of the American soldiers and
sailors In all our wars; we favor lib
eral pensions to them and their de.
pencents. and we reiterate the position
taken in the Chicago platform in 1896
| that the fact of enlistment and ser.
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