Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1900-07-11


the paramount Issue OF the campaign.
.Ihe declaration IN the repu olicsn
platform adopted At the Phlladelphls
Convention, held In June, 1900, that
the republican party "stesdfsstly sd =
heres 20 the policy announced In the
Monroe Doctrine" Is manifestly ln-
sincere and deceptive. This profes-
sion Is contracted by the sYowed pol
ICY or that party, In opposition To
the spirit of the Monroe Doctrine, TO
acquire and hold sovereignty over
large areas OF territory and lsrg num-
beers OF people IN the Eastern Hemls-
Phere. We insist on the strlct main
tenance of the Monroe Doctrine, aud
In all Its integrity, both In letter and
In spirit, rs necessary 20 prevent the
extension or European authority on
TINS continent, and as essential to
to our supremacy IN American affairs.
AT the same time, We declare that no
American people shall ever be held
10y force In unwilling subsection TO
European authority.
conquest abroad and intimidation
and oppression at home. 1t means
the strong arm which has ever been
fatal 70 free institutions Ii Is what
millions Of our citizens have fled from
In Europe. 1t will impose upon our
pesce-loving people large standing
army and unnecessary burden of tax
alton and constant menace TO their
liberties. A small standing army
and we'll disciplined state militia are
amply sufficient in time of peace.
This republic has no place for vast
military service and CONSUMPTION.
When the nation IL IN danger the
volunteer soldier is his country's best
defender. The National Guard of
the United States should ever be
cherished IN the patriotic hearts of 9
free people.
"Such organizations are ever an ele-
ment Of strength and safety. For
the first time In our history and coe-
val with the Philippine conquest mas
there been wholesale departure
from our time-honOred aud approved
system of volunteer organization. We
denounce 1t as unAmeican, undemo-
cratic and unrepublican, aud as "A
subversion OF the ancient and fixed
principles of free people.
"Private mOnOpolies are indefen-
slble and intolersble. They destroy
competition, control the price of all
material, and of the finished product,
thus robbing both consumer aud
producer. They lessen the employ
ment of labor and arbitrarily fix the
terms and conditions thereof and de-
prive individual energy and small
capital of their opportunity for bet
terment.
They are the most efficient means
yet devised for appropiating the
fruits of industry to the benefit of
the few at the expense of the many,
and unless their lnsatiate greed is
checked all wealth is will be agpre-
gated in few hands and the repub-
lie destroyed.
"The dishonest psltering with the
trust evil BY the republican party In
state and national platforms in con-
elusive proof of the truth of the
charge that trusts are the legitimate
product of repu blican policies; that
they are fostered by republican laws
and that they are protected by re-
publican administration in return
for campaign subscriptions and po-
litical support.
eve 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 pro-
viding for publicity as to the affairs
of corporations engaged in interstate
commerce, and requireing all corpor-
atoms to show, before doing business
outside the state of their origin, that
they have no water in their stock.
and that they have not attempted,
and are not attempting, to monopo-
lie any branch of BUSINESS or the
production of any articles of mer-
chandise, and the whole constitution
al power of Congress over insterstate
commerce, the mails and all modes
of Interstate communication shall be
exercised by the enactment of com.
prehensive laws upon the subject of
trusts.
Tariff laws should be amended by
putting the products of trusts upon
the free list to prevent monopoly un-
der the plea of protection.
"The failure of the present repub
lican administration, with an abso-
lutte control over all the branches of
the national government, to enact
auy legislation designed to prevent
or even curtail the absorbing power
of trusts and illegal combinations,
or to enforce the antitrust laws al
ready on the statue books, prove the
insincerity of the high sounding
phrases of the republican platform. |
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