Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

contemplates the notification OF the
Declaration of American Independence.
We pledge ourselves to wage an UNI
ceasing warfare against all the trusts
the money TRUST, the industrial trust
and the international land-grabbing
trust.
Instead of system which would
chain our nation to the gold standard
and compel it to participate in all the
disturbances which come to European
nations. we demand an American fin
nancial system, made by the American
people for themselves, to be secured by
the immediate restoration of the free
and unlimited coinage of gold and sill
Yer at the present legal ratio of siN-
teen to one without waiting for the aid
or consent of any other nation.
The Republican administration has
admitted the gold standard to be I'M
satisfactory by appointing n commits
sion to solicit foreign Aid in restoring
the double standard, and Republican
Congress-. even while trying to make
the gold standard permanent, has con-
fessed Judgment against that standard
by attempting to revive the delusive
hope of international bimetallism.
Instead of the system favored by the
Republican party, under which nation
al banks are to be permitted to issue
and control the volume OF paper money
for their own profit, we rcitcratc our
demand for that financial system
which recognizes the government s
sovereign right to issue all money.
whether coin or paper, and we demand
the retention OF the greenbacks as they
now exist and the retirement of ma
tional bank notes as rapidly as green
backs can be substituted for them.
We believe that private monopolics
arc indefensiblc and intolcrable. and
we condemn the national administra-
1 tn Iaar
ent law against the trusts or to recon-
mend more effective law.
We favor State legislation which will
prohibit the organization OF n monopo-
~ within the State. and also prevent a
monopoly organized elsewhere from
doing business within the State: but
we further believe that Congress
should supplement- the efforts of the
State by legislation which will re-
qure every corporation before engaE-
ing In interstate commerce, to show
that it has no water in it's stock and
that II mas neither ATTEMPTED in the
past. nor is attempting, to monopo,izc
any branch of business or the produc-
ton OF any article OF merchandise.
In It's platform of 1860 the Republic
can party declared that the nainte-
nance OF the principles promulgated in
the Declaration of Independence and
embodied in the Federal Constitution
mat they are endowed with inalienablc
rights; that governments are institu
ted to secure these rights: and thot
governments derive their lust powers
from the consent of the governeN is
essential to the preservation of our rr-
publican institutions; but the Republi-
can party. unuer it's present leadership
is endangering the preservation of re-
puDiican institutions by placing the
uollar above the man in the construc.
ton of government and violating the
principles that II once declared TO Ii,
essential. ~
we condemn the Porto Rico tariff hi,
recently passed by n Republican House
OIL representatives. as Il bold and omen
violation of the nations organic law.
ana Migrant breach of good faith
we assert that the constitution fol-
lows the flag and denounce the doc
trine that an executive or Il congress-
created and limited by the constitution
can exercise lawful authority beyond
that constitution or in violation OF il.
renewing that nation cannot long
endure half republic and half empire
we oppose wars OF conquest and colo,
NAL possessions
The Filipino cannot be citizens with
out endanEcrlng our civilization: thew
cannot be subjects without endangerinc
our FORM OF government, ana as we are
~ "i''ht' " ouIIcHucr our ciViliza ton
or convert republic into an Umpire, we
favor an immediate declaration of the
nations purpose to give to the FIlipinos
hrst, a stable form Of government:
second Independence, and third, pro
lection from outside Interference. as II
has for nearly a century given protec
lion to the republics of Central and
South American.
we favor the expansion OF trade by
every legitimate and peaceful means.
put we are opposed to purchasing trade
at the cannon's mouth with human
blood. neither do we believe that trade
secured and held by force is worth III,