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

their growing control over our interna-
tlonai transportation, natural re-
sources, our franchises and our inter-
national commerce. and to keep them
free and maintain their INDEPENDENCE
of all foreign mOnOpolies, institutions
and influences, and we declare our op-
position 10 the leasing of the public
lands of the United States. whereby
corporations and syndicates win be able
TO secure control thereof and thus mo-
noDolize the public domain, the hertz
age of the people
We are in favor of the principles of
direct legislation.
In view of the sreat sacrifices made
and patriotic services rendered. We are
in favor Of liberal pensions to deServ-
ing soldiers, their widows. orphans and
other dependents We believe the en-
listment and service should be ac
cepted as conclusive proof that the sol
der was free from disease and dis
ability at the time of his enlistment.
We condemn the present administra-
ton of the pension laws.
SYMPATHY FOR BOERS.
We tender to the patriotic people of
the South African republics our SYM
patty and express our admiration for
them in their heroic attempts to pre-
serve their political freedom and MAIN
tain their national independence We
declare the destruction Of these
republics and the subiugation of their
people to be crime against civiliza-
ton. We believe this sympathy should
have been voiced by the American con-
gress. as was done in the case of the
French. the Greeks. the Hungarians.
the POianders, the Armenians and the
Cubans-and as the traditions of this
country would have dictated.
We declare the Porto Rican tariff
law TO be not only a serious. but a
dangerous departure from the princi-
pies of our form OF government.
AGAINST IMPERIALISM.
We believe in a republican form of
government and are opposed to mon
archy and to the whole theory of i'm
perialistic control We believe in self
gov ernment-a government by consent
of the governed. and are Unalterabiy
opposed to a government based on
force. 1t is clear a~d certain that the
inhabitants of the Philippine archipel-
ago cannot be made citizens of the
United States without endangering our
civilization. We are therefore in favor
of applying to the Philippine archi-
pelago the principle we are solemnly
case of Cuba.
There being no longer any necessity
for collecting war taxes. we demand
the repeal of the war taxes levied to
carry on the war with Spain.
We favor the immediate admission
into the Union as states the territories
of Arizona, New Mexico and Okla
homa.
We demand that our nations prom
ises to Cuba shall be filed in every
particular.
ARID LANDS.
We believe the national government
should lend every aid. announcement
and assistance toward the reclamation
of arid lands of the United States. and
to that end we are in favor of a COM
prehensive survey thereof and an i'm
mediate ascertainment of the water
supply available for such reclamation.
and we believe il to be the duty of the
general government to provide for the
construction of storage reservoirs and
irrigation works, so that the water
supply OF the arid region may be Util-
lied TO the greatest possible extent in
the interests Of the people, while pre-
serving all rights of the state.
Transportation is a public necessity
and the means and methods Of it are
matters of public concern. Railway
companies exercise a power over in
dustries. business and commerce, which
they ought not to do, and should be
made TO serve the public interests with
out asking unreasonable charges or
unjust discrimination. We observe
with satisfaction the growing senti-
ment among the people in favor of the
public ownership and operation Of pub
lie utilities.
IMPERIALISM OPPOSED.
We are in favor or expanding our
commerce in the interests of American
labor and for the benefit of all our
people by every honest and peaceful
means. Our creed and our history
justifies the nations Of the earth eX-
pecting that wherever the American
flag is unfurled human liberty and po-
litical liberty will be found. We pro-
test against the adoption Of any policy
that viii change, in the thought Of
the world, the meaning Of our flag.
We are opposed 10 the Importation
of Asiatic laborerS in competition with
American labor and favor a more rigid
enforcement Of the laws relating there
to.
The silver Republican party of the
United States, in the foregoing Drin-
ciples, seeks to perpetuate the spirit
and to adhere 10 the teachings Of
Abraham Lincoln
HANNA ON THE PLATFORM.