The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-07-11

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IN placing the conduct OF municipaI AT.
Ialrs upon business basis, that they
may be administered by the people in
the interest of all the people on the
principle Of home rule No franchise.
4 extension or renewal thereof ever to be
granted by any city or village with
! out first submitting the same to vote
Of the people.
The acceptance of free passes or
other faVOrs from railroads by publf..
officers or employees shall be made adj
equate ground for vaCating the offices
held by them
steam and electric railways and 9th
er corporations possessing public fran
( chlses shall be assessed IN the same
proportion to their saIeable value as are
farms and city real estate.
The proceedings of the Republican
majority Of the state board OF equaIiZa-
ton are scandal Property values in
stead Of being eQualized were increased
/ or diminished at the dictation of poIiti-
cal bosses pursuant TO corrupt COM
binationS and conspiracies
Republican Administration Costly.
THE present Republican administra-
ton IN the conduct of public affairs and
I IN the management Of public institu-
tons has been the most costly in the
history Of the state.
Benevolent and penal institutions
should be conducted upon a non-parti-
san and business basis
The reserved rights of the state anI
people to be upheld. Capitalization,
which would destroy them. to be con-
demned. A strict construction of the
constitution. The greatest individual
/ liberty consistent with public order ami
welfare.
Tariff reform. never more urgently
demanded than now when the prOduc-
| ton Of the country so far exceeds its
power Of consumption that our mar
kets are prime condition Of its con-
tInued prosperity, and when the exist
ence and abuses Of trusts have been
brought about by the policy of protec~
ton Of favored industries. The abO-
lition Of the SO-Called protective sys-
tenn and the substitution in its place
of the traditional Democratic policy Of
a tariff for revenue so levied as not to
burden one industry for the benefit OF
another.
''The enactment and the vigorous en-.
/ forcement of measures which shall
prevent all monOpOlies and combina-
tons in restraint Of trade and COM
[ merce-the matter OF first importance
I being to prevent the use OF the govern
ment as an instrumentality for the ere
/ alton and increase of the wealth of the
I few, while preserving intact the right
/ Of private property and the fullest
measure OF individual liberty Of con-
tract and assuring te every man the
[ just reward of superior industry and
| skill. We demand the suppression Of
all trusts and a return 10 industrial
| freedom. AS a means to that end all
trust products should be placed on the
free list and the government should
exercise q more rigid supervision of
transportation lines and abolish, in
fact all unjust discrimination in rates.
Restore Merchant Marine.
"Our merchant marine to be restored
to its former greatness and made the
ally Of the people against monopoly By
! the repeal of antiquated and restricted
navigation laws. No subsidies for ia
vOred ship owners.
The powers granted the federal gov
eminent were not meant to be used to
conquer or hold in subsection the peO-
pie OF other countries. The Democratic
party has never favored, and now OPP
poses any extension of the national
boundaries not meant TO carry speedily
{ to all inha bitants full equal rights with
( ourselves. If these are untitled by To-
/ cation, race or character, TO be formed
into self-gOverning territory and then
! Incorporated into the Union of states
I IN accordance with the historic policy
of the republic, they should be per
mitted to work out their own destiny.
] only territorial expansion demanded
| by the national welfare and the ma
/ tiOnal safety to be al any time favored
/ the objection which should have pre-
vented certain OF our recent Occupa-
/ tiOns be that they imperil the national
[
/ tional welfare; that they devolve upon
/ US enormous responsibilities we have
! no call to assume; that they are GER
tain TO be an unremunerative drain
/ upon our resources; that they tend to
embrOH Us with European powers, that
! they weaken our claim to supremacy
( on the American continent; at the
/ same time that they lessen our ability
/ TO make the claim good, and that they
l furnish dangerous opportunity and
+ar,
| self-evident truth of universal applica-
/ tiOn that governments derive their just
powers from the consent Of the gov
/ erned.'
Destroy Boer Republic.
The obvious sympathy of the ma
/ tiOnal administration with the British
/ government in its efforts to destroy the
/ South African republics. and the policy
1 which has made the ports Of the United
| States a basis of supply for the Brit
/ ish army, without which the war could
/ not be successfully carried on, are con-
4 demned BY the Democracy of ONO.
1 THE maintenance of the Monroe doc
/ trine as heretofore interpreted and as
/ serted by the national government
a navy commensurate with the in
/ ternauOnal importance of the United
/ States and its pTimacy in the western
! hemisphere. and adequate 10 the pro-
/ lection Of the lives and property or
! American citizens the world over.
The faithful observance and wider
/ application Of civil service principles
/ especially as regards our diplomatic
! ard consular representa- lives.
! "A constitutional amendment re-
/ Quiring the election of United States
! senat tors by the direct vote of the peO-
/ pie. Hereafter. until this is passed.
/ whenever a senator is to be elected, it
shall be the duty of the state commit
/ tee to give notice in its cali that the
/ nomination of a senator viii be made
at the state convention
No question for right of labor to
/ combine for the assertion of its rights,
and for the protection. of interests. The
burdens Of the unjust and discriminat-
I ing laws for which the Republican
party is responsible fall chiefly on
/ those who till the soil, or labor al other
I forms of production. The Democratic
/ party pledges its efforts to relieve them
/ Of the burdens which class legislation
/ has laid on them
"That the Republicans party mas al
ways upheld class interests, and IS
Justly cnargeable with hostility IN Dotn
1 belief and practice 10 the above prin-
ciples. is common knowledge It ean~