Connecticut western news., 1900-07-12

commit rle United 7stsres-ro -colonlsI Iollcy In consistent with republican institutions and con demned by the supreme court in numerous deci sions.
 We demand the prompt and honest fulfllment Of our pledges to the Cuban people and the world that the United States has no disposition nor in. tention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction or control the island of Cuba except for its pacifcation. The war ended nearly two years ago, profound peace regns over all the island and still the administration keeps the government of the island from its people, while Republican carpet bag officials plunder its revenues and exploit the colonial theory to the disgrace of the American people.
 icy of the present administration. It has involved the republic in unnecessary war sacrificed the lives of many of noblest sons and placed the United States, previously known and applauded Throughout the world as the champion of freedom, in the false and un-American position of crushing with military force the efforts of our former allies to achieve liberty and self government. The Fiji pinos cannot be citizens without endangerng om civilization; they cannot be subjects without i'm periling our form of government, and as we arr. not willing to surrender civilization or to con vert the republic into empire favor an i'm. mediate declaration of the nations purpose te give to the Filipinos, first a stable form of gov. ernment; second, independence, and third, protec tion from outside interference, such as has beeI given for nearly a century the republics of Cen tral and South America.
 The greedy commercalism which dictated tht Philippine policy of the Republican adninistra tion attempts to justify it with the plea that it will pay, but even this sordid and unworthy ples tails when brought to the test of facts. The wal of criminal aggression against the Filipinos. en tailing annual expense of many millions, hal already cost more than any possible profit that could accrue from the entire Philippine trade foi years to come. Furthermore. when trade is ex. tended at the expense of liberty the price is al ways too high.
 We are in favor of extending the republics in. fuence among the nations, but believe that infu. should be extended not by force and violence. but through the persuasive power of high and honorable example.
 The importance of other questions now pending before the American people is in nowise diminish. ed, and the Democratic party takes no backward step from its position them, but the burning issue of imperialism growing out of the Spanish war involves the very existence of the republic and the destruction of our free institutions We regard it as the paramount issue of the campaign
 Private monopolies indefensibe and intoler- able. They destroy competition, control the price of all material and of the finished product thu, robbing both producer and consumer They lessen the employment of labor and arbitrarily fix the terms and conditions thereof and deprive individ. ual energy and small capital of their opportunity for betterment.
 We pledge the Democratic party to an unceasing warfare in nation, state and city against private
 
 trusts must be enforced and more stringent ones must be enacted providing for publicity to the affairs of corporations engaged in interstate com merce and requiring all corporations to show be. fore doing business outside of the state of theii origin that they have water in their stock and that they have not attempted and are not at. tempting to monopoize any branch of business oI the production of any articles of merchandise and the whole constitutional power of congress over interstate commerce, the mails and all modes oi n1Rof1 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 protec tion.
 We condemn the Dingley tariff law as a trust breeding measure skillfully devised to give the few favors which they do not deserve and to place upon the many burdens which they should not bear.
 We reaffirm and indorse the principles of the Democratic national platform adopted at Chicago in 1S96 and we reiterate the demand of that plat form for American financial system made by the American people for themselves which shall restore and maintain bimetallic 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 l6 to I without waiting for the consent of any other nation. s.
 We denounce the currency bill enacted at the last session of congress a step forward in the Republican policy which aims to discredit the sovereign night Of the national government to ls- sue all money, whether coin or paper, and to be- stow upon national banks the power to issue and control the volume of paper money for their own benefit. permanent national bank currency se- cured by government bonds must have a perma- nent debt to rest upon. and if the bank currency Is to increase with population and business the debt must also increase. The Republican currency scheme is therefore a scheme for fastening upon the taxpayers a perpetual and growing debt
 We favor the continuance and strict enforce ment of the Chinese exclusion law and its sppli- cation to the same classes of all Asiatic races
 Jefferson said, Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none"
 We approve this wholesome doctrine and car nestly protest against the Republican departure which has involved in called policies, in- cuding the diplomacy of Europe and the intrigue and land grabbing of Asia, and especially con demn the i'll concealed Republican alliance with England which must mean discrimination against other friendly nations and which has already sti- fled the nations voice while liberty is being gled in Africa.
 Believing in the principles of self government and rejecting, did forefathers, the claim of monarchy, view with indignation the purpose of England to overwhelm with force the South A. rican republics. Speaking, as We do, for the en- tire American nation except its Republican office holders and for all free men everywhere, we e1- tend our sympathies to the heroic burghers in their unequal struggle to maintain their liberty and Independence.
 We denounce the lavish appropriations of recent Republican congresses which have kept taxes high and which threaten trade with perpetuaton of the oppressive war leyies. We oppose the accumula- tion of a surplus to be squandered in such bare faced frauds upon the taxpayers the shipping subsidy bill, which under the false pretense of prospering American shipbuilding would put un- earned millions into the pockets of fayorite con- tributors to the Republican campaign fund. We favor the reduction and speedy repeal of the taxes and a return to the time honored Democrat ic policy of strict economy of government expen- ditures.
 We favor the immediate construction. owner ship and control of the Nicaragua canal by the United States, and we denounce the insncerity of the plank in the Republican platform for isth- milan canal in the face of the failure of the Repub- Scan majority to pass the bill pending in yress.
 We condemn the y-Psuncefote treaty a ender of American rights and interests not to be