The copper era., 1900-08-30
Democratic Platform

nalI repuDlC ana ndl1 ana We WdIu people that imperialism abroad will lead | quickly to despotism at home. Believing in | these fundamental principles denounce the Porto Rican Law enacted by republi- can congress against the protest and opposi- | ton of the democratic minority q bold and l open violation of the nations organic law 1 and d fragrant breach of the national good l faith.
 We demand the prompt and honest fulfill | ment of every pledge to the Cuban people and | the world, that the United States has no | disposition intention to exercise sovereign | ty jurisdiction or control over Cuba, except | for it's pacihcation-
 We condemn and denounce the Philippine policy of the present administration.
 We favor an immediate declaration of the nations purpose to give the Filipinos. first, q | state government; second, independence: and third protection from outside interference. |
 We are not opposed to territorial expansion | when it takes desirable territory, which can | be erected into states in the union and whose | people willing and tit to become Ameri- | can citizens. We favor trade expansion by | every peaceful and legitimate means But | we are unalterdbly opposed to the seizing or | purchasing of distant islands to be governed outside the constitution and whose people | cannot become citizens.
 
 Monroe doctrine
 We oppose miltarism. It means conquest abroad and intimidation and oppression at home.
 We pledge the democratic party to un- l ceasing warfare in the nation, state and city | against private monopoly in every form The existing laws against trusts must be en- forced and more stringent ones enacted
 The tariff laws should be amended by put tba of free to prevent monopoly under the plea of pro lection. We condemn the Dingley tariff law . as a trust-breeding measure, skillfully de vised to give them d few favorS which they do not deserve and to place upon many the burdens which they should not bear.
 We reafirm and endorse the principles of the national democratic platform adopted at Chicago in 1896, and We reiterate the demand of that platform for American financial system made by the American people for themselves which shall restore and maintain d b-metaIlic price level and as d part of such system. the immediate restoration of free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the present legal ratio of l6 to 1, without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation. We denounce the currency bill enacted at the last session of congress.
 We favor an amendment to the federal constitution providing for the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people We opposed to government by injunction we denounce blacklists and favor arbitration as a means of settling disputes between corporations and their employees In the interest of American labor and the upbuilding of the working men. corner stone of the prosperity of our country, we recommend that congress establish depart ment of labor, in charge of a secretary, with seat in the cabinet
 We favor the immediate construction, own erShip and control of the NiCaraguan canal by the United States. We denounce the fail of the republican party to carry out its pledges, to grant statehood to the territories of Arizona New Mexico and Oklahoma. We favor an intelligent system of improving the { arid lands of the west, storing the waters for the purpose of irrigation. Believing in the principles of self.government and rejecting as did our fOrefathers, the claim of the t monarchy we view with indignation the pur- l pose of England to overwhelm with force the 7 South African republics.
 We denounce the lavish appropriations of the recent republican congress which have