The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-07

whose people can never become citi-
zens."
In other words Democracy prefers
the business methods of the merchant
rather than those of the brigand; it
relies upon American intelligence. in
genuity and industry to capture and
control the markets of the world; it
has learned from experience that the
best customers are not those who are
driven up to the bargain counter at
the point of the bayonet.
Trusts are recognized as an actual
rather than an imaginary evil in the
Democratic platform. Those good
trusts" for whose maintenance admin
istration organs plead viii find no con-
ISOLATION in the Democratic party which
holds that all private monopolies are
indefensible and intolerable."
What is the purpose and effect Of
any monopoly in private hands? To
destroy competition, control the price
OF all material and finished product.
thus robbing both producer and con-
sumner. To lessen. the employment OF
labor and arbitrarily fix the terms and
! conditions thereof and deprive indi-
viduaI energy and small capital Of their
1 opportunity for betterment They are
/ the most efficient means yet devised
/ for apprOpriating the fruits of indus
| try to the benefit of the few at the ex-
pense Of the many and unless their in
/ satiate greed is checked all wealth will
/ be aggregated in a few hands and the
rc9ublic destroyed.
Attention is called to the dishonest
! paltering with the trust evil in con-
! gress and Reoublical. convention as
conclusive proof Of the ruth of the
charge that trusts are the legitimate
! product of Republican policies. that
they are fostered by Republican laws,
/ and that they are protected by the Be
publican administration in return for
| campaign subscriptions and political
I support.
Remedies are proposed and the Dem
ocratic party is pledged to do every
thing within its power to curb or de-
stroy the evil and to search out and
remove the cause. Existing laws
/ against trusts must be enforced; more
/ stringent laws must be enacted Us fast
/ as loopholes in former legislation are
| discovered; publicity must shine upon
the books, certificates, transactions and
/ earnings of such combinations; tariff
! schedules must be revised TO prevent
, the granting of special favors to trusts;
the scope of the powers Of the inter-
state commerce commission is to be en-
larged to protect individuals and COM
munities from discrimination and the
public from unjust and unfair trans
portation rates-a proposition which
viii meet with energsic opposition
from the Standard or combine.
The declaration for sill 'er is emphatic
and specific enough to suit any advO-
cate Of bimetallism in the country. 1t
reads IS follows:
We reaffirm and endorse the PRINCIPLES
! of the National Democratic platform
| adopted at Chicago in 1896, and We re-
( iterate the demand of that platform for
| al American financial platform, adopted
! by the American people for themselves
| which shall restore and maintain bl-
| system the immediate restoration OF tbs
free and unlimited coinage of silver anC
gold at the present legal ratio of Is to l,
without waiting for the aid or consent OF
any other nation.
The bill creating a money trust which
passed congress last winter is de-
nounced and it's iniquity exposed.
Senatorial elections by the people are
favored.
The establishment of a department Of
labor in the cabinet is advocated; lib
eral pensions are promised; statehood
for the territories is a right recognized;
irrigation is encouraged; exclusion OF
Asiatic races from competition with
American labor is TO be strictly en-
forced; war taxes are criticised; shiI
subsidies are opposed; foreign alliances
are deIIored; strong sympathy for the
South African republics is expressed
and an especial appeal is made &c
Americans everywhere, regardless OF
party affiliations, to stand by the con-
stitution. that citizenship may be left
to posterity unhampered by foreign al
liances and free from the curse of mill
tary despotism.
1t is. the strongest platform ever
adopted at a party convention in this
| country.