The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-07-05

| indescribable Importance to our people
native born, and those who have for pa
| triotic reasons cast their fortunes with
| us, namely, that of the republic against
the empire. On this part alone of the
sixteen, if thee were no other we conf
IDENTIFY expect to win a sweeping victory
I in November. The Republican party
| stands for the republic, for the declara-
tion of independence, and the constitution
of our country.
THE NURSE OF TRUSTS.
Second-The paternal and fostering care
given by those with whom we contend, to
the combinations of corporations and
companies into powerful organizations
Familiarity known as trusts. Under three
years of Republican rule while they con-
/ trolled the Presidency, the Senate and the
House of Representatives, that is of the
| law making power of the Government,
| trusts have been propagated and fostered
| by legislation until they not only domi-
| nate all markets, both the buying and
selling, but defy the very power of the
government itself.
| The farcical efforts put forth by the
F., Republican party in an alleged attempt
! to restrain them in the dying hours OF
] the late session of Congress only excited
ridicule and contempt, and served to en-
phasize their inability and Discrimination
| to grapple the monsters and regulate
! their conduct and actions. No matter
+, what their excuse may be, the fact is their
policies have created them, and, though
! clothed with all power, they refuse to
enact legislation to control them.
| Third-Called to power March 4, 1897,
under a pledge to reform the currency,
they seized the first opportunity to fasten
! upon the land the highest protective
tariff law ever put upon the statute books
of any country.
This law was enacted not to raise reve-
nue., but to give protection to favored
manufacturers. 1t failed to raise suffi-
cent revenue for the government, but an
, swered the purpose of enriching the ia
vored few while it robbed the many, and
at the same time, brought forth trusts
to plague us as numerous as the lice and
locusts of Egypt. Their high protective
| tariff is the mother of trusts.
REPUBLICAN PLEDGES BROKEN.
Fourth-This administration came into
| power with solemn declaration in ia
yor of bi-metallism and a pledge to pro-
| mote it, 1t has failed to keep that
| pledge 1t has erected in it's stead the
single standard of gold, and has endeav-
, ored to destroy all hope of -metaliism.
! In doing this, it has built up powerful
national bank trust, and has given us a
currency based upon the debts and la
| bilities of the government
We stand for b-me tallism and not for
a mono metallic standard of either one
or the other metal.
Fifth-The dominant party has recently
made the fraudulent declaration that it
favored the Monroe Doctrine; and yet
their President and Secretary of State
have done all in their power to nullify
and abrogate that famous and much
revered Democratic doctrine.
| In the name of it's Democratic author,
| James Monroe, l delounce their Wanted
advocacy of this truly American doctrine
| as false and hypocritical We stand for
| this doctrine in its essence and form, and
| demand it's rigid enforcement.
/ Sixth--In order to obtain place and
power they pledged themselves, in the in
terest of an expanding commerce, to
| construct a waterway to connect the two
great oceans. They have repudiated this
promise. They have negotiated the Hay
| Pauncefote treaty which, while it virtual
| ly abrogates the Monroe Doctrine, renders
! it impossible to build an American canal.
Under the terms and provisions of this
| treaty, which is English and not Ameri-
| can, the canal can never be constructed.
| We stand for an American canal, owned,
| constructed, operated and fortified by
| America.
| Seventh-They declared in their plat
| form that the party was responsible for
the merit system, that it was their crca-
| ture and and that the civil service should
| be protected and it's operation extended.
| Their protection of this law has been
| such as the wolf gives the boy. They
! did not dare openly repeal the law or to
modify it by an act of Congress, but they
have insidiously by an order from the
| President extorted from him to aid them
to obtain and hold political power, greatly
impaired the efficiency of the law BY
the Presidents order many thousand lu-
crative offices regularly covered by the
civil service law were taken from under
| the protection, and these places turned
over to his partisan followers in vain
effort to satisfy their political greed.
THE PORTO RICAN INFAMY.
Eighth-They declared in their plat
| form in favor of the admission OF the
territories of Arizona, New Mexico and
Oklahoma as States of the Union, yet,
/ after nearly four years of full power, they
| are still territories Under the wicked
! rule of law as now applied by the Repub-
/ lcan party to some of our territories they
may at an early date find erected between
| themselves and the balance of the Union
| tariff wall which will serve to pauper-
| ize them while it enriches others.
| Ninth-When Congress last assembled
| the President in his first utterance adj
| dressed to the representatives fresh from
| the people, solemnly urged upon them
/ that it was their PLAIN DUTY to give
| free trade to Porto Rico His party lead
| ers, quick to obey his injunction made
ready to comply with his recommends
( tions. But in a night, almost in the
| twinkling of an eye the mighty magnates
| of the trusts swept down upon Washing
| ton and interposed their strong arm, and
PLAIN DUTY vanished like mist before
! the rising sun.
| The President wheeled into line the
Republican party reversed it's policy, and
i set up tariff wall between the Island OF
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