The Forrest City times., 1900-06-29
The Platform.

as adopted.
The democratic party of Arkansas
in convention assembled. renews its
allegiance to the time-honored prin-
ciples of the party and declares as
| follows:
We indorse the national platform
of the democratic party adopted at
| Chicago, in its national convention OF
1896 and reaffirm the principles there
in enumerated.
We recognize the Monroe doctrine
as cardinal tenet of the democratic
party and prior to the present repub-
lican administration was a part of
the public policy of the national gov
eminent. and we favor its strict OBJ
servance, and we are opposed to any
agreement, secret or otherwise, with
| any foreign power. by which the
| principle of this doctrine might be
surrendered or abridged.
We are in favor of the United
States government building and con-
structing the Nicaraguan canal, and
that il shall own, control and man.
| age the same.
Regarding with pride and satisfac-
ton the successful development of
| our public school system. we pledge
the democratic party to its perpet-
| ual support and maintenance. and we
recommend that the state continue
TO provide for the payment of the in
terest on the state bonds now belong
ing to the school fund
the public lands of the United States
or of the state of Arkansas to private
corporations.
We denounce the trusts and all lille
gal combinations in restraint of
| trade, or that have for their purpose
the control of the markets or prod
ucts of the country, and we indorse
the action of the last legislature in
| passing laws for the purpose
of restraining their oper s'ions
in this state, and pledge
the democratic party to
| the passage of such laws as will eff
fectually prohibit the operation of all
such combinations in the state of
Arkansas.
der our constitution have been as
sailed by the president of the United
States by his denial of self-govern-
| ment to the Filipinos and his refusal
| to treat with them
We maintain that governments de-
| rive their just powers from the con-
sent of the governed. We, therefore.
insist that the subiugatiSn of anv
| people is a crime and contemptuous
disloyalty to the distinctive princi-
| pies of our government.
Liberty is a common heritage to all
men in all lands and we therefore
| resolutely condemn the death-dealing
| policy of the republican administra-
ton in the Philippines.
We are opposed to the annexation
by the United States of any country
! by force, because we believe the right
of local elf-government to be the
basic principle of this republic.
We are opposed to wars of conquest.
and insist upon the pledges made
the people of Cuba by congress being
carried out at the earliest practical
moment, and we demand that the
same rights promised by congress to
the people of Cuba be accorded to the
people of the Philippine Islands.
| And with full appreciation of
what such things mean by our own
sad experience at the hands of the
republican party, we denounce the
carpetbag government foisted on the
people of Porto Rico and Cuba by
the present republican administra-
| ton.
We demand of the congress of the
| United States the passage of such
laws as will aid the various state
laws in an effectual destruction of all
| trusts throughout the United States.
| While we are in favor of the pass
age of such laws by congress as will
effectually destroy the trusts and
| place such restrictions around cor
| porations as may be necessary TO pro-
tect the public welfare yet we main
tain that corporations are creatures
of the law, and have no rights ex-
cept those rights granted by the peo-
| pie. We further maintain that a SOW
ereign state has the right and the
power TO exclude any foreign cor
poration from doing business in the
state. We demand the enactment OF
such laws by our legislature as sha
prohibit corporations which belong
to pools, trusts or combinations in
restraint of trade, no matter where
organized, from doing business in the
| state of Arkansas, and that it shall
exclude them from its borders.
| Recognizing labor as the founda-
ton of all true prosperity, we rec
ommend the passage of all such laws
as will protec the laborers of the
state to the fullest extent in the en-
joyment of all their rights