The Forrest City times., 1900-07-13
National Control.

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 must be enacted providing for publicity to the affairs of corporations engaged in in- terstate commerce, and requiring all cor porations to show. before doing business outside of the state of their origin. that they have no water in their stock anG that they have not attempted and are not attempting to monopolize any branch or business or the production of any arti- cles or merchandise; and the whole con- stitutional power of congress over inter- state commerce, the mails and all modes or interstate communication shall be ex- ercised by the enactment of comprehen- slve laws upon the subjects of trust I ar in laws should be amended by putting the products or trusts upor the free list to prevent monopoly under the plea of pro- lection.
 The failure of the present adminis- traton, with an absolute control over all the branches of the national C1v. ernment. to enact any legislation de- signed to prevent or even curtail the ab- sorolng power of trusts and illegal com blnatlons. or to enforce the antitrust laws already on the statute books, proves the insineerity of the high-sounding phi ases of the republican platform.
 Corporations should be protected in all their rights and their legitimate intelc csts should be respected but any attemp. by corporations to interfere with the public affairs of the people or to control the sov-
 
 forbidden under such penalties as will make such attempts impossible.
 We condemn the Dingley tariff law as a trust-breeding measure skilfully de- vised to give the few favors which they do not deserve and to place upon the many burdens which they should not of the scope of the interstate commerce law as will enable the commission to protect individuals and communities to discrimination and the public from un- just and unfair transportation rates.
 The Financial Plank.
 We reatfirm and indorse the principles of the national democratic platform adop- ed at Chicago in 1896, ard we reiterate the financial system, made by the American people for themselves, which shall re- store and maintain bimetallic price level, and as part of such system the res- toration of the free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the present legal ra- tio of l6 10 l, without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation.
 National Bank Currency.
 We denounce the currency bill enacted at the last session of congress as a step forward in the republican policy which aims to diseredit the sovereign right of the national government to issue all money, whatever, 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 A permanent national bank currency secured by gov ernment bonds must have a permanent debt to rest upon. and if the bank curren- cy IS 10 increase with population and pusi ness. the debt must also increase.
 The republican currency scheme ia therefore a scheme for fastening upon tn taNpayers a perpetual and growing debt for the benefit of the banks We are oD- posed to this private corporation paper circulated as money, but without legal tender qualities and demand the retire. ment or the national bank notes as fast as government paper or silver certificates can be substituted for them.
 We favor an amendment to the federal constitution providing for the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people, and we favor direct legislatlo wherever practicable.
 In Behalf of Labor.
 We are opposed to government hy in- Junction; We denounce the black lis, md favor arbitration a means of setting disputes between corporations and their employees.
 In the interest of American labor and the upbuilding of the workngman as a cornerstone of the prosperity of our coun- try, we recommend that congress create a department of labor in charge of a secretary with a seat in the cbainet, be- lieving that the elevation of the American laborer will bring with it increased pro- duction and increased prosperity to our country at home and to our commerce. abroad.
 We are proud of the fidelity of the American soldiers and sailors in all our wars; we favor liberal pensions to them ana their dependents, and we reiterate the position taken in the Chicago plat form in 1Ss6-that the fact of enlistment and service shall be deemed conclusive evidence against disease and disability be- fore enlistement.
 The Nicaragua Canal.
 We favor the immediate construction. ownership and control of the Nicaraguan canal by the United States and we de- noUnce the insincerity of the plank in the republican national platform for an lsthmlan canal in the face of the failure of the republican majority to pass the bill pending in congress.
 We condemn the ay-Pauncefote treaty as a surrender of American rights and interests, not to be tolerated by the American people.
 Territories nnG Statehood We denounce the failure of the repub- lican party to carry out it's pledges to grant statehood to the territories of Ari- zona. New Mexico and Oklahoma, ana we promise the people of those territories he statehood and home rule during their con- dltons as territories, and we afvor home rule and a territorial form of government for Alaska and Porto Rico.
 We favor an intelligent system of im- proving the arid lands of the west stor- ing the waters for purposes of irrigation and the holding of such lands for actual settlers.
 We favor the continuance and strict en- forcement of the Chinese exclusion law and its application to the same classes of all Asiatic races.
 Jefferson said Peace, commerce and honest, Friendship with all nations; en- tangling alliances with none"
 We approve this wholesome doctrine and earnestly protest against the repub- lican departure, which has involved us in so-called world politics, including the diplomacy of Europe and the intrigue and land-gra bbing of Asia and we espe- clally condemn the ill-conccaled republic an alliance with England, which must mean discrimination against other friend- ly nations, and which has already stifie, the nation voice, while liberty is being stihed in Africa
 TEe Boer Republics.
 Believing in the principles of seIf-goy- ernment and rejecting, as did our forefa- thers the claim of monarchy, we view with indignation the purpose of England to oVerwhelm with force the South Afri- can republicans. Speaking, as we believe for the entire American nation except the republican oficeholders, and for ali free men everywhere, we extend our sympa- thies to the heroic burghers in their un- equal struggle to maintain their liberty and indeL Lendence.
 Lavish Appropriations.
 We denounce the lavish appropriations of recent republican congresses which have kept taxes high and which threaten