People's voice., 1900-07-12

believing that the elevation of the
American laborer will bring with it in
creased production and increased pros
perity to Cur 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
and their dependents, and We reiterate
the position taken in the Chicago plat
form in ISe6-that the fact Of enlist
ment and service shall be deemed con-
elusive evidence against disease aud dis
ability before enlistment.
NICARAGUA CANAL.
We favor the immediate construction,
ownership and control of the Nicaraguan
canal by the Uuited States and we de-
nonnce the insincerity Of the plank in
the Republican national platform for all
isthmian canlal in the face of the failure
of the Republican majority to pass the
bill pending in congress.
We condemn the Hay-Pauncefote
treaty as a surrender of the American
rights and interests, not to be tolerated
by the American people.
THE TERRITORIES.
We denounce the failure of the Re-
publican party to carry out it's pledges
to grant statehood to the territories of
Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma,
and we promise the people of those ter
ritories the statehood and home rule dur
ing their conditions as territories, and
we favor home rule and a territorial
form of government for Alaska and Por-
to Rico.
We favor an intelligent system of i'm
proving the arid lands of the West, stor-
ing the waters for purposes of irrigation
and tae holding of such lands for actual
settlers.
We favor the continuance and strict
enforcement of the Chinese exclusion
law and its application to the same
classes of all Asiatic races.
Jefferson said; "Peace, commerce and
honesty, friendship with all nations, en-
tangling alliances with none" We ap-
prove this wholesome doctrine and ear
nestly protest against the Republican de-
parture which has involved us in So
called world politics, including the di-
plomacy of Europe and the intrigue and
land-grabbing Of Asia, and we especially
condemn the ill-concealed Republican
alliance with England, which must mean
discrimination against other friendly
nations, and which has already stihed
the nations voice while liberty is being
stihed in Africa.
THE BoERS.
Believing in the principles of self
government and rejecting as did our
forefathers the claim of monarchy, we
view with indignation the purpose of
, England to overwhelm with force the
South African republic. Speaking, as
we believe, for the entire American ma
ton, except the Republican officeholders,
and for all free men everywhere, we ex-
tend our sympathies to the heroic burg
hers in their unequal struggle to main
tain their liberty and independence.
We denounce the lavish appropriations
of recent Republican congresses, which
have kept taxes high and which threat
en- the perpetuation Of the oppressive
war levies. We oppose the accumula-
ton of surplus to be squandered in
such barefaced frauds upon the tax
payers as the shipping subsidy bill,
which, under the false pretense of pros
pering American shipbuilding, would put
unearned millions into the pockets Of
favorite contributors to the Republican
campaign fund We favor the reduction
and speedy repeal of the war taxes and
a return to the time -honored Democratic
policy of strict economy in governmental
expenditures.
Believing that our most cherished in
stitutions are in great peril, and that the
very existence of our constitutional re-
public is at stake and that the decision
now to be rendered will determine
whether or not our children are to en-
JOY those blessed privileges Of free gov
ernment which have made the United
States great, prosperous and honored,
we earnestly ask for the foregoing