The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-02

, The President is criticised for dilatory conduct and is accused of not wanting to l offend the trusts
 The platform asserts that the proposi- tion to amend the United States Consti- 1 tuition to enable the Federal government | to proceed against the trusts Is merely a subterfuge for delay; condemns the neg | lect of the national and State admins trations to enforce the sherman law and the Donnelly State law: favors trade ex- pansion but objects to this country "ap- ing England in trying to establish a CO., lonial government: condemns the action of the government in treatment of the Philippines; demands justice for Cuba in the matter of trade by reducing the tar if to strictly revenue basis: demands public ownership of anthracite coal mines by the right of eminent domain and the payment of full damages to owners. so as to insure peace in the mining regions and relieve the consumer; arraigns the State administration for extravaganza in the administration of State affairs; declares in favor of 1000 ton barge canal; de- nounces the present State excise law and demands the return of moneys received to the County where collected; sympa- thizes with the Jews in Roumania: favors the election of United States Senators by direct vote; condemns the national ad-
 
 tions for State aid.
 Ownership of Mines. The declaration regarding national ownership of anthracite mines is as fol- lows:
 We advocate the national ownership and operation of the anthracite coal mines by the exercise of the right of eminent domain with just compensation to owners. Ninety per cent of the an- thracite coal deposits of the world being in the State of Pennsylvania. national ownership can but be in the interest of | the whole people
 Fuel, like water. being a public neces- | sity we advocate national ownership and | operation of the mines as solution of the problem which will relieve the country | from the sufferings which follow diff | ferences between labor and capital in the anthracite mines.
 | This course will insure peace in the | mining regions and remove the cause for | differences leading not only to suffering. but oft times to bloodshed and insurrec- | ton. It will relieve the consumers of coal, not only in this State but | through bout the whole country; insure steady employment and ample compensa- ton to labor; transfer children from the mines to the schools; insure, strengthen and preserve the stability of the business interests and popular institution of our country. Whatever differences in opinion may exist over other propositions of public ownership the propriety of that policy as applied to anthracite coal mines must be apparent to every citizen.
 Other blanks devoted to national topics were in full, as follows:
 Tariff Revision Demanded.
 Commercial freedom and revision of the tariff: We believe with Jefferson in commercial freedom. Tariff taxation like all other taxation should be limited to the necessities of the government econo- mically administered It should be inn posed for public objects only and never for private purposes It is not the province of the government to abuse the rower of taxation by enriching the few at the expense of the many. Protection to the consumers from unjust tariff exac- tons is the protection" which the people demand; and the manufacturers Of the country require relief from imports upon their raw materials which by increasing the cost of their products thwart their efforts to enter foreign markets. When tariffs are not needed for revenue they should be eliminated and thereby extend and promote our market abroad. The policy of reciprocal trade is the tradi- tional Democratic policy and is in har- mony with the spirit of the times.
 The period of texclusiveness is past. The expansion of our trade and com merce is the pressing problem. The inn mediate revision of the tariff IS the supreme duty of the hour.
 No unnecessary withdrawals of circula- ting medium: We are opposed to any system of taxation that raises hundreds of millions of dollars more than is neces- he of ment and locks the same in the vaults of the treasury, thereby contracting the circulating medium of the country that is needed by the people In the transaction of their business creating a stringency in the financial center of our country and connelling merchants and manufaCtu Cturers to pay exorbitant rates of interests
 Trusts and Monopolies.
 Trust and monopolies: The Democratic narty Is opposed to the gigantic corporate combines commonly known as trusts which practically establish monopohes' destroy competition control the raw ma tariaI and increase the price of finished nreduct thus injuriously affecting both nroducers and consumers; they lessen the ernnloyment of labor arbitrarily nN the terms and conditions thereof and deprive individual energy and small capital or their opportunity for betterment' They effectually appropriate the fruits or lh- dustrv to the benefit of a few thousands at the expense of the many millions or the people, thus concentrating wealth in certain limited classes rather than m the masses of our citizenship We esnecialIy condemn the beef and coal trusts, which have unreasonably ralsed inc price of meat and coal to an extent which threatens the impoverishment and lives of the people. These trust evils are the legitimate product of the Re nub,ican policies; they are fostered by Renublican laws and excused, apologlzed for defended and protected by republ1- can administrations. in return for cam paign subscriptions and political sup port. .. .,..
 We promise the people relief from the exorbitant prices of the necessaries or lie and from the abnormal and illigiti- mate increase in the present cost of liv- ing and particularly occasioned by trust exoctments. Existing laws against trusts must be enforced more stringent ones must be enacted reasonable limitations and restrictions should he imposed upon the extent to which wealth shall be per rnitted to combine and virtually monOpo- lize any branch of industry or the pro- 1uction of any article of merchandise; and the whole constitutional power of congress over the subject of enacting in-
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