The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1900-07-11

protected by the Republican administration in
return for campaign subscriptions and politi.
cal support
We pledge the Democratic party TO an un-
ceasing warfare in nation, state and city
against private monopoly in every form. Ex-
listing laws ngaint trusts must be enforced and
more stringent ones must be enacted prov-
ding for publicity as to the affairs of corpora
tions engaged in interstate commerce and re
curing 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 NJ tempted and are not attempt
ing to monopolize any branch of business or
the production of any articles of merchandise,
and the whole constitutional power of con
gress 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 be amended by putting the products OF
trusts upon the free list to prevent monopoly
under the plea of protection,
The failure Of the present Republican ad-
ministration with an absolute control over all
the branches OF the national government. to
enact any legislation designed to prevent or
even curtail the absorbing power of trusts and
Illegal combinations, or to enforce the anti
trust laws already on the statute books prove
the insincerity Of the high sounding phrases of
the Republican platform.
Corporations should be protected in all their
rights and their legitimate interests should be
respected, but any attempt by corporations to
interfere with the public affairs Of the people
or to control the sovereignty which creates
them, should be forbidden under such penal
ties as will make such attempts impossible,
We condemn the Dingley tariff law rs
trust-breedng measure, slSilfully devised TO
give the few favors which they desire and to
place upon the many burdens which they
should not bear
We favor such an enlargement of the scope
Of the interstate commerce law as will enable
the commission to protect individuals and
communities from determinations and the
public from unjust and unfair transportation
rates.
We re; iirm and endorse the principles Of the
national Democratic platform, adopted at Chi
cago in 1896, and we reiterate the demand Of
that platform for an American financial sys-
tenn, made by the American people for them
selves, which shall restore and maintain BIZ
metallic price level, and as part Of such system
the immediate restoration of the free and un-
limited coinage of silver and gold at the pres
ent legal ratio Of 10 to without waiting for the
aid or consent of any other nation.
We denounco the cSrrency bill, enacted at
the last session of congress, as a step forward
In the Republican policy which aims TO dis
credit the sovereign right of the national gov
ernment TO issue all money, whether coin or
paper, and TO bestow upon Aational ba AXIS the
power to issue and control the volume Of paper
money for their own benefit. IA permanent ma
sional bank currency, secured by government
bonds, must have u permanent debt to rest
upon, and IL the bank currency is to increase
with population and business the debt must
also increase. The Republican currency
scheme is therefore scheme for fostering
upon the taxpayers perpetual and growing
debt for the benefit of the banks. We are OPP
posed to this private corporation paper circu-
lated as money but without legal tender quail
ties, and demand the retirement Of the ma
tional bank notes as fast as this governments
paper or silver certificates can be substituted
for them
We favor an amendment to the Federal con-
stitution providing for the election Of United
States senators by direct vote Of the people,
and we favor direct legislation wherever prac.
ticable.
We are opposed to government by injunc-
ton We denounce the black list and favor
arbitration IA "A means Of settling disputes be-
tween corporations and their employees.
In the interest Of American labor and the
uplifting of the worlSingman, as the corner
stone of the prosperity Of our country, we rec
ommend that congress create a department Of
labor in charge of a secretary with a scat in
the cabinet, believing that the elevation Of the
American laDOref Will Dflng Wltn IL lucTeiSeu
production and increased prosperity 70 our
country at home and TO our commerce abroad.
We are proud of the courage and fidelity Of
the American soldiers and sailors in all our
wars. We favor liberal pensions TO them and
their dependents, and we rciterate the posi-
tion taken in the Chicago platform Of 1896,
that the fact Of enlistment and service shall
be conclusive evidence against disease and dis
ability before enlistment.
We favor the immediate construction, owner
ship and control Of the Nicaragua canal by
the United States, and we denounce the insin-
cerity Of the plank I'm the Republican platform
for an Isthmian canal in face Of the failure Of
the Republican majority 70 pass the bill pend
ing in congress.
We condemn the Hay PauncefOte treaty a. a
surrender Of American rights and interests,
not TO be tolerated by the American people.
We denouncc the failure of the Repub-
lican party 10 carry out its pledges to
grant statehood to the territories Of Ari-
zona, New Mexico and Oklahoma, and
we promise the people Of those territories
immediate statehood and home rule dur
ing their condition as territories, and We