Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-09

stiOnS prevailing under democratic rule.
1t forgets other things also. Even
partisan platform might with propriety
express regret for the assassination OF
president and adherence at the
crime. The democracy condemns plu-
tocracy, but is silent as to anarchy. The
democrats had great pity for the down
trodden Filipinos, but had nothing to
say about the disfranchlsed negroes In
the south. These are only few Of the
things they forgot to mention.
The democratic platform is like its
predecessors. in that 1t is a platform of
pessimism. The platform Of the repub-
licans retains it's usual optimism. Con-
trasted excerpts from the two platforms
form an interesting study:
Democratic.
We find much in the domestic affairs
Of the nation that ought to be changed.
The tariff policy originally adopted for
the avowed purpose of raising revenue
to meet the enormous burdens Of the
civil war, has been turned to the use
of individual and class interests until it
has become the creator of countless
unearned fortunes and the shelter OF
huge combinations OF capital organized
in the form of trusts, which are
strangling competitions in many of our
industries, destroying individual effort.
crushing individual effort largely in ev-
cry line of industry and already ac-
quiring power which enables them to
dictate in their own interests the prices
OF labor and raw material and the cost
of transportation of finished products.
That the republican party as now or
ganized is powerless to revise the tariff
downward or curb the monstrouS trusts
it shelters, is as we believe, clearly and
shown by the present at
titude of It's national leaders.
We affirm the power and declare it
to be the duty OF the government to
grapple with all monopoies of this
character, and by laws which can
neither be evaded nor detied. drive
them from every inch of American soil.
We assert that an immediate reduc
ton of our tariff system to a revenue
basis is one absolutely essential remedy
for these overshadowing evils, with
come.
We charge that discrimination in
freights by common carriers is the
handmade of an eXhorbitant protective
tariff; in fostering the gigantic trusts
that have become a menace to the well
fare of the masses, and we demand
such changes in our interstate COM
merce act as may be necessary to Sc
cure the speedy punishment by inn
prisonment of any officer or agent of a |
engaged in interstate COM
merce, who is guilty of such discrimi-
nation. and the enactmene Of further
provision that shall make such discrim-
ination a ground for prohibiting the
corporation from transacting
the business of interstate commerce.
We assert that the commencement
Of the Philippine war was the flagrant
abuse of the most noble sentiment of
the American people that led them to
assume the onerous bur-
lens OF a foreign war in aid OF
race for freedom.
We insist that our steadfast aim
should be to prepare the Philippine
people for self government in the
broadcast sense that term implies, with
. pledge of the honor of the nation
hat they shall not be permanently
held in subsection by military force
md that within a reasonable time they
shall be permitted to determine for
themselves whether they will remain
IN integral part of the American re-
public, or become separate and In
dependent nation by themselves u