The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-07-10

oNo"Cu PoiiCy Va tiidt puity up
position to the spirit of the Monroe
doctrine to acquire and hold sover-
eighty over large areas of territory
and large numbers of people in the cas-
tern hemisphere. We insist on the
strict maintenance Of the Monroe doc
trine and In all its integrity, both in
letter and In spirit, as necessary to
prevent the extension Of European
authority on this continent, and as es-
sential to our supremacy in American
affairs. At the same time we declare
that no American people shall ever be
held by force in unwilling subsection to
European authority.
We oppose militarism. 1t means con-
quest abroad and intimidation and op-
preston at home. 1t means the strong
arm which has ever been fatal to free
institutions. 1t is what millions Of our
citizens have fled from in Europe. 1t
will impose upon our peace loving peo-
pie large standing army and unneces-
sary burden Of taxation and constant
menace to their liberties. A small
standing army and well disciplined
state militia are amply sufficient in
time ofpeace. This republic has no place
for a vast military service and con-
scription.
In danger the volunteer soldier Is his
country's best defender. The National
Guard of the United States should ever
be cherished In the patriotic hearts of
a free people. Such organizations are
ever an element of strength and safety.
For the first time in our history and
coeval with the Philippine conquest has
t,zI4 10 rt, frn,
our time honored and approved system
of volunteer organization. We denounce
1t as unamerican, un-democratic and
un-republican, and as a subversion of
the ancient and fixed principles Of
free people.
A STRONG ANTITRUST PLANK.
Private monopolies are indefensible
and intolerable. They destroy compe-
tition. control the price Of all material
and of the finished product, thus affect
ing both producer and consumer. They
lessen the employment Of labor and ar
bitrarily fix the terms and conditions
thereof and deprive individual energy
and small capital Of their opportunity
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 a few hands and
the republic destroyed.
The dishonest paltering with the trust
evil by the Republican party in state
and national platforms Isl conclusive
proof of the truth of the charge that
trusts are the legitimate product Of Re-
that fhnv a fnSfara6
by Republican laws, and that they are
protected by the Republican administra-
ton in return for campaign subscrip-
tions 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, provid-
ing for publicity as to the affails of
engaged in interstate COM
merce and requiring all corporations to
show, before doing business outside Of
the state of their origin, that they have
no water in their stock, and that they
have not attempted, and are not at
to monopolize any branch of
business or production Of any article of
and the whole constitu-
tional power of congress over interstate
the mails and all modes Of
communication shall be ex-
ercised by the enactment Of comprehen-
sive laws upon the subject of trusts.
Tariff laws should be amended by put
ting the products of trusts upon the
free list to prevent monopoly under the
plea Of protection.
The failure of the present Repub-
lican administration, with an absolute
control over all the branches Of the ma
tional government, to enact any legisla-
ton designed to prevent or even curtail
the absorbing power of trusts and IL
legal combinations, or to enforce the
antitrust laws already on the statute
books, prove the insincerity of the high
phrases of the Republican
TARIFF LAW BREEDS
TRUSTS.
Corporations should be protected in
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
control the sovereignty which creates
them, should be forbidden under such
penalties as will make such attempts
impossible.
We condemn the Dingley tariff law
as trust breeding measure. skillfully
devised to give the few favors which
ihCy w hol oCbiiS aho W pioSS opoh ShS
many burdens which they should not
bear.
We favor such enlargement Of the
scope of interstate commerce law as
will enable the commission to protect
individuals and communities from dis
ordinations and the public from unjust
and unfair transportation rates.
We reaffirm and indorse the principles
of the National Democratic platform
adopted at Chicago In 1896 and we reit-
crate the demand Of that platform for
an American financial system made by
the American people for themselves.
which shall restore and maintain BIZ
metallic price level. and as part of such
system the immediate restoration 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 con-
sent Of any other nation.
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 right
of the national government to issue all
money. whether coin or paper, and to
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