The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-07-11

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CONGRESSMAN J. D. RICHARDSON.
nv the avowed policy of that party in
opposition to the spirit of the Monroe
doctrine to acquire and hold sovereignty
over large areas Of territory and large
numbers of people in the eastern hem
isphere. We insist on the strict main
tenance of the Monroe doctrine and in
all its integrity, both in letter and in
spirit, as necessary to prevent the exten-
sion of European authority on this con-
tinent and essential to our supremacy in
American affairs. At the same time we
declare that no American principle shall
ever be held by force in unwilling sub
lection to European authority.
Opposed to ,lilitarism.
"We oppose militarism. 1t means
CONQUEST abroad and intimidation and
oppression at home. It means the
strong army, which has ever been fatal
to free institutions. It is what millions
of our citizens have fed from in Europe.
It will impose upon our loving
people large standing army, an tn
necessary burden of taxation and con,
stant menace to their liberties. A small
standing army and well disciplined
state militia are amply sufficient in time
of peace. This republic has no place for
a vast military service and consumption.
When the nation is in danger the volun-
teer soldier is his country's best defender.
The National guard of the United States
should ever be cherished in the patriotic
hearts of free people. Such organlza-
tions are ever an element Of strength
and safety. For the first time ID our
history and co-evil with the Philippines
conquest, has there been wholesale de-
parture from our time-honored and ap-
proved system of volunteer organlza-
ton. We denounce it as un-Amerlcan,
un.Dernocratic and unrepublican and as
q subyertion of the ancient and fixed
principles of free people.
Dingley Tariff Law Condemned.
Private monopolies are indefensible
and intolerable. They destroy competl-
ton, control the price Of all materials
and of the finished product, thus robbing
both producer and consumer. They les
sen the employment Of labor and arbl-
trarily fix the terms and conditions
thereof and deprive individual energy
and small capital Of their opportunity
for bettermert.
s'They are the most efficient means
vet 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 eVl!
by the Republican party IN state ano
national platforms is conclusive PROOF OF
the truth of the charge that trusts are
the legitimate product OF Repuohean
policies; that they are fostered oy he
publican laws and that they are pro-
tected by the Republican administration
in return for campaign subscriptions ana
political support.
awe pledge the Democratic party to
AN unceasing warfare, in nation, state
and city, against private monopohes IN
any form. Existing laws against trusts
must be enacted providing for publicity
as to the affairs of corporations engaged
in interstate commerce and requiring al
corporations to show. before doing bust
ness outside of the state Of their origin,
that they have no water n their stocS
and that they have not attempted ana
are not attempting to monoponZe any
branch of business or the productlon OF
anv articles of merchandise, and the
whole constitutional power OF congress
over the mails and all modes OF inter
state commerce shall be exercised 6y the
enactment of comprehensive laws upon
the snbiect of trusts. Tariff laws should
be amended By putting the products OF
trnsts mon the free list to prevent mo-
nopoly under the plea of protection.
1.-THE failure of the present Repubh-
can administration, with an absolute
control of all the branches OF the ma
tionaI government, to enact any leg1SIa-
ton designed to prevent or even curtau
the absorbing power Of trusts and lie
gal combines, or to enforce tne anGl-
trust laws already on the statute oooHs
proye the insincerity Of the hlghsound'
inc phrases of the Republican platform:
CORPORATIONS should be protected IN all
their rights and their legitimate inter
ests should be respected, but any at
tempt by corporations to Interfere VIII
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. 49,
1--WE condemn the Dingley tariff law
as trust-breeding measure sklllfully
devised to give the few favors which
they do not desire and place upon the
many burdens which they should not
bear.
Interstate Commerce Law.
1--WE favor such an enlargement OF
the scope of the interstate commerce Ia"