The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-07-11

/ Sghi can be erected into states In the
\ Uni and whose people are willing and
i Mt become American citizens.
w favor trade expansion by every peace
sfui nd legitimate, means. But we are UNI
Latte bly, opposed to selzIng or purchasing
j OIL ands to be governed outside the con-
| htitt ION, ana whose people can never be-
Il CON eltlkens
81 are In favor of extending the repub-
4 Plies irnuence among the nations D1t DO pc
/ .by Sfcs or Violence but through the pur-
/ snas M power of a high and honest exam
The Burning Issue.
NJ Importance of other questions now
Il PEN ~ before the American people Is In
i nov a diminished, and the Democratic
/ part takes no backward step from its
1 posi 5fi on them. but the burning Issue of
/ impe hnlism, growing out OF the spanish
war Involves the very existence OF the re-
/ publ esand the destruction of our free IN
/ Btlfi iOns we regard 1t as the paramount
lltssu ot3 the campaign.
4 ~ Sdeclnratlon In the Republican plat
i fdfn adopted at the Philadelphia conyen-
litton held In June 10. 1900, that tho Re
i pub sam. party steadily adheres to the pol
lsIcX nnounced in the Monroe doctrine. Is
mon silly insincere and deceptive. rms
lsnfot ION is contradicted by the ayowed
4 noiil of that party in opposition to the
OF the Monroe doctrine TO acquire
IL ~ h6tJi crolSuty oyer large areas OF
1 the Eastern Hemisphere.
| we insist on the strict maintenance of
1 the Monroe .0octflnet ana IN All nb HlhleB-
| rity, both In letter and III spirit, as neces-
| sary to prevent the extension of European
authority on this continent as essential to
our supremacy in American anairs AT the
1 same time we declare that no American
| people shall ever be held by force in un-
| willing subJugnton to European authority
Opposed to Militarism.
we oppose mllItarism. 1t means conquest
| abroad and intimidation and oppression at
! home. 1t means the strong arm which has
| ever been fatal to free Institutions. 1t is
| what millions of our citizens have fed
| from In Europe. 1t will Impose upon our
| peace.lovlng people large standing army
| and unnecessary burden of taxation and
| constant monaco to their liberties. small
| standing army and well disciplined mill
| ltla are amply sufficient In time of peace.
| This republic has no place for vast mill
| itary service and conserlptlon.
/ When the nation Is in danger the Yolun-
| teer soldier is his oountry's best defender
| The national guard of the United states
| should ever be cherished in the patriotic
| hearts of FREQ people. Such organizations
are ever an element of strength and safety
| For the first time In our history, and co
evil with the Philippine conquest, has there
| been wholesale departure from our time
| honored and approved system of volunteer
| organization. We denounce 1t as nn-Amer-
| lean, un.democratic and un.republIcan, and
| as n subVerslon of the ancient and fixed
| principles of free people.
| PrIvnte monopolies are indefensible and
lntolerable. They destroy competition con
| troll the price of all material, and of the
| finished product, thus robbing both pro-
| ducer md consumer. They lessen the EN-
| ployment of labor and arbitrarily hX the
| terms and conditions thereof, and deprive
| individual energy and small capital of their
| opportunity for betterment. They are the
prlating the fYuits of Industry to the ben
| eft of the few at the expense of the many
ana unless their insatinte greed is checked
| all wealth will be aggregated In Few
| hands and the republic destroyed.
| The dishonest palterlng with the trust
evil by the Republican party In state and
/ NaNN To- NNNClaN aNNrA nR
| the truth OF the charge that trusts are the
| legitimate product of the Republican poll
| oies, that they are fostercd by Republican
laws, and that they are protected by the
| Republican administration In return for
campaign subscriptions and political sup
| port.
War on Trusts.
| We pledge the Democratic party to nm
| unceaSing warfare In nation, state and city
| against private monopoly in every form.
| Existing laws against trusts must be en-
/ forced and more stringent ones must be
enacted providing for publicity ms to the
affairs of tile corporations engaged In inter-
state commerce, aud requiring all corpora
| tIons to show. before doing business out
| side of the state of their origin. that they
have no water in their stock ana chat they
| have not attempted and are not attempting
| to monopolize any branch of business or
| the production of any articles of merchRn-
disc, and the whole constitutional power of
i congress over Interstate commerce, the
malls and all modes OF Interstate communi-
cation shall 10 exercised by the enactment
of comprehensive 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 pro-
| lection.
| Tho failure Of tho present Republican
| administration, with absolute control
| over all the branches of the national gov
/ crnment, to enact any legislation designed
| to prevent or even curtaIl the absorbing
| power of trusts and Illegal combinations,
or to enforce the antitrust laws already
| ON the statute books, prove the lnslhcerlty
| of the high sounding phrases of the Repub-
| llcan platform.
| Corporations should be protected In all
| their rights and their Legitimate interests
| should be respected, but any attempt by
| corporations to lnterefere with the public
| affairs of the people or to control the SOW
/ LreIgnty which creates them, should be for
| bidden under such penaltlos as VIII make
| such attempts impossible.
we condemn the Dlnglcy tariff law as
a trust-breeding measure, skillfully de
| yised to give the few favors which they
| do not deserve, and to place upon the many
burdens which they should not bear.
we favor such an enlargement OF the
| scope of the Interstate commerce law as
| Will enable the commission to protect indl
| VIduals and communities from discrimina
| tIons and the public from unjust and un
| falr transportation rates.
| we reafirm and endorse the principles
| of tho national Democratic PLATFORM adopt
/ ed Mt Chicago In 1896, and we relterate the
demand of that platform for an American
| financial systom made by the American
| people for themselves, which shall restore
| and maintain binletallic price as part or
| such system, the immediate restoration of
| the free and unlimited coinage of silver
| and gold at the present legal ratio of 16
| to 1, without waiting for the AID or con-
/ sent of any other nation.
| we denounce the currency bill enacted
| at the last session of congress as a step
| forward in the Republican policy, which
| aims to dIscredIt the sovereign right of the
| national government to issue all money,
whether coin or paper. and to bestow upon
i J. and mt NFFI
| the volume of paper money for their own
| benefit.
/ A permanent national bank currency, Sc
| cured by government bonds, must be a per
| manent debt to rest upon, and II the bank
| currency Is to Increase with population aud
| business, the debt must also increase under
| the Republican currency scheme, and 1t Is
| therefore scheme for fastening upon the
! taxpayer a perpetual and growing debt for
the benefit of the banks.