Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-07-12

(Re-elected Chairman of National Committed
institutions: It is what millions of our
citizens have fed from in Europe. 1t
will impose upon our peace-loving peo-
pie a large standing army and unneces-
menace to their liberties. A small stand
ing army and a we'll disciplined state
peace. This republic has no place for
vast military service and CONSUMPTION.
ne fh9 nation his is IN b 5he Vol
fender. The national guard of the United
patriotic hearts of free people. Such
organizations are ever an element of
in our history and coeval with the Phil
1pp1ne conquest has there been a whole
sn6 a39E9Td IRON our o @
zation. We denOunce it as un-American,
undemTocratlc and unrepublican and as
principles of a free people.
Wrong of Private MOnOpOIies.
Priyate mp9nIopo lie are indefensible
ton, control the price of ali material,
and of the finished product, thus robbing
en- the employment of labor and arbi-
| trarily fix the. terms and conditions there
of and deprive individual energy and
small capital of their opportunity for bet
terment.
They are the most efficient means yet
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
tering with the trust evil by the republi-
can party in state and national platforms
is conclusive proof of the truth of the
charge that trusts are the legitimate
product of republican laws and that they
are protected pro! by the republican admin
lions and political support.
Pledged t" Fight Trusts.
We pledge the democratic party to an
unceasing warfare in nation, state and
city against private monopoly in every
form. Existing laws against trusts must
be enforced and more stringent ones be
enacted providing for publicity as to the
affairs of corporations engaged in inter
state commerce, and requiring all corpo-
rations 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 attempted and are
not attempting, to mOnopoliZe any branch
of business or the production of any ar
ticles of merchandise, and the whole con-
state commerce, the mails and all modes
of interstate communication shall be eX
erciSed by the enactment of cOmprehen-
SIVe 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
projection.
The failure of the present republican
administration, with an absolute control
over all branches of the national gov
eminent, to enact any legislation designed
to prevent or even curtai1 the absorbing
power of trusts and illegal combinations,
or to enforce the antitrust laws already
on the statute books prove the insin-
cerity 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 penalties will
make such attempts impossible.
"a Tru<t-Breedin= Mea~ura.''
We condemn the Dingley tariff law as
a trust breeding measure, skilIfully de-
yised to give the few faYors which they
n no he
many burdens which they should not
bear. We favor such an enlargement of
the scope of the interstate commerce law
as will enable the communities to protect
individ4a! and communities from unjust
and unfair transportation rates.
The 6 t" 1 Coinage Plank.
We reaffirm and indorse the principles
of the national democratic platform
American financial system made by the
American people for themselves, which
shall restore and maintain a bimetallic
principle, and as part of such system
the immediate restoration of the free and
the present legal ratio of 16 to 1 without
waiting for the aid or consent of any
We oenounce the currency bill enacted
at the last session of congress as a step
aims to discredit the sovereign right of
the national government to issue all
bestow upon national banks the power
to misuse and control the volume of pa
per money for their own benefit.
A permanent national bank currency,
secured by government bonds, must have
a permanent debt to rest upon, and if the
bank currency is to increase with popu-
lation and business the debt must also
scheme is, therefore, a scheme for fas-
tening upon the taxpayer a perpetual
and growing debt for the benefit of the
banks.
We are opposed to this private corpo-
ration paper circulated money, but
without legal tender qualities and de-
mand the retirement of the national bank
notes as fast as government paper or
silver certificates can be substituted for
them.
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