The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-07-07
1, GA, TURDAY, JULY z, 1900.

tional government with their polluting in
tiuence and control the action of their
employees and dependents in private life
until their influence actually imperils so
ciety and the liberty of the citizen. We
declare against them. We demand the
most stringent laws for their destruction
and the most severe punishment of their
promoters and maintainers and energetic
enforcement of such laws by the courts.
The Monroe Doctrine.
We believe che Monroe doctrine to be
sound in principle and wise national pol
icy, and we demand a firm adherence
thereto. We condemn acts inconsistent
with it, and that tend to make us parties
to the interests and 90 involve us in the
controversies of European nations. We
condemn recognition by pending treaty
of the right of England 20 be considered
in the construction of an inter-oceanic
canal. We declare that such canal,
when constructed, ought to be controlled.
by the United States in the interest or
American nations.
We observe with anxiety and regard
with disapproval the increas sing owner
ship of land by aliens and their growing
control over our international transpor
tation, national resources and public util-
tiles. We demand legislation to protect
our public domain, our na<ural resources,
merce and keep them free and maintain
them Independent of all foreign monopo-
lies, institutions and influences, and we
declare our opposition to the leasing of
the public lands of che United States,
whereby corporations and syndicates will
be able to secure control thereof and
thus monopolizje the public domain, the
heritage of the people.
We are in favor Of the principle OF d rect
legislation. In view of the great sacrifice
made and patriotic services rendered We
are in favor of liberal pensions to deserv-
ing soldiers, their widows, orphans and
other dependents. We believe that enlist
ment and service should be accepted as
conclusive procf that the soldier was free
from disease and disability az the tins
of his enlistment. We condemn the pres
ent administration of the pension laws.
sympathy for Beers.
We tender to the patriotic people cf the
South African republics our sympathy and
express our admiration for them in their
heroic attempts 10 preserve their political
fir edom and maintain their national inde-
pendence. We declare that the destruc-
tion of their republics and the subJusa-
tion of their peoples to be a crime against
civilization. We believe this sympathy
should have heen voiced by The Ameri-
can Congress as was done in the case
of the French, the Greeks, the Hunga-
rians the Polanders, the Armenians and
the Cubans, and as the traditions OF thls
country would have dictated We declare
the Porto Rican tariff law to be not only
a serious, but dangerous, departure from
the principles of our form of government.
We believe in a Republican form of gov
ernme mt and are opposed to monarchy and
to the whole theory of imperialistic con-
troll. We believe in self-government, gov
ernment by consent of the governed, and
are unalterably opposed to a government
based upon force. 1t is clear
and certain that the inhabitants of the
Philippine archipelago cannot be made
citizens of the United States without en-
dangering cur civilization. We are, there
fore, in favor of applying to the Philip
pine archipelago the principle we are SOL
EMMY and have publicly pledged to OBJ
serve in the case of Cuba.
There being no longer any necessity for
collecting war taxes, we demand the re-
peal of the war taxes levied to carry on
The war with Spain.
We favor the immediate admission into
the union of states the territories of Ari-
zona, New Mexico and Oklahoma.
We demand that our nations promises
TO Cuba shall be fulfilled in every partlc-
ular.
We believe the national government
should lend every aid, announcement aud
assistance toward the reclamation of the
arid lands of the United States, and to that
end we are in favor of a comprehensive
survey thereof, and an immediate ascer-
tanment of the water supply available
for such reclamation, and we believe 1t
90 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 utilized to the greatest possible extent
in the interests of the people while pre-
serving all rights of the state.
transportation.
Transportation is a public necessity, and
the means and methods of II are matters
of public concern. Railway companies
exercise a power over industries, business
and commerce, which they ought not to
do, and should be made to serve the in
terests without making unreasonable
charges or unjust Determinations. We
observe with satisfaction the growing
sentiment among the people i'm favor of
the public ownership and operation of
public utilities.
Peace is the virtue of civilization and
war is its crime. War is only justified
when the oppressors of humanity will
heed no other appeal. and when the enc
mics of liberty will respond to no other
argument, However high and pure may
be the purposes of an appeal to arms in
the beginning, war becomes immoral when
continued for the purpose of subjugation
or for national aggrandizement. We are
in favor of expanding our commerce in the
interests of American labor and for the
benefits of all our people by every honest
and peaceful means, but when war is
waged to extend trade. force commerce or
TO acquire wealth, it is national piracy
Our creed and our history justify the ma
tions of the earth in expecting that wher-
ever the American flag is unfurled in au-
thority, human liberty and political free
dom will be found. We protest against
the adoption Of any policy that will
change, in the thought of the world the
meaning of our flag. We insist that II
shall never float over any vessel or wave
at the head Of any column directed against
the political independence of any people
or of any race, or in any cline.
We are opposed TO the importation OF
Asiatic laborers in competition with Amer
ican labor and demand a more rigid en-
forcement of the laws relating thereto.
The Silver Republican party of the
United States, in the foregoing principles,
seeks to perpetuate the spirit and to ad-
here 10 the teaching of Abraham Lincoln
TILLoTsoN THE CHAIRMAN.
VIII Preside over silver RepubIi-
cans National Committee.
Kansas CITY JuIv G-Tha National Corn-