The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1902-05-28

den0unce 1T as an outrage upon the col
sciences of liberty loving Americans
Our free institutions cannot long SUI
vive the destruction of those prime
Piles upon which they rest, aud th
spectacle of subject peoples being hel
down by the bayonet and robbed b
the carpet baggers but foreshadow
the fate of our country, unless the peo
pie are aroused TO our danger. Th
unjust and cruel war of subiugatlol
now being carried on in the Philippine
should be ended at once, with definit,
and specific declarations to the native
as to the intentions of this country t.
aid them in the establishment of fre,
government of their own choice unde
a protectorate by the United States.
III. That we re-aflirm and endors
the correlated sections of the Kansa
City platform upon the subject of trust
and imperialism as follows:
Private monopolies are indefensiblt
and intolerable. They destroy com
petition, control the prices of materla
and of the finished products, thus rob
bing both producer and consumer
They lessen the employment of labor
and arbilitrarily fix the terms and con,
ditions thereof, and deprive individual
energy and small capital of their op-
portunity for betterment. They are
the most efficient means devised tol
appropriating the fruits Of industry for
the benefit of the few at the expense
of the many, and unless their insatiate
| greed is checked all wealth will be ag-
gregated In few hands and the Re-
public destroyed. The dishonest pal
terihg with the trust evil by the Re-
publican party in State and national
platforms is conclusive proof of the
truth of the charges that trusts are the
legitimate product of Republican poll
cies; that they are fostered by Repub-
lican laws, and that they are protected
by Republican administrations in re-
turn for campaign subscriptions and
political support.
"We pledge the Democratic party to
an unceasing warfare in nation, State
and city against private monopoly in
every form. Existing laws against
trusts must be enforced and more strin-
gent ones must be enacted, providing
for publicity as 10 affairs of corpora
tions engaged in Interstate commerce,
and requiring all corporations to show
before doing business outside of the
State of their origin that they have no
water in their stock, and that they
have not attempted and are not at
tempting to moDopollze any branch of
business or the production of any arti-
Gle of merchandise, and the whole con-
stitutlonal power of Congress over in
ter-state commerce, the mails and all
modes of Interstate commerce shall
be exercised by the enactment of COM
prehensive laws upon the subject of
trusts. Tariff laws should be amended
by putting the product of trusts upon
the free list to prevent monopoly un-
der the plea of protection"
III. We are opposed to private mo.
nopoly in every form, and view with
apprehension the increasing power and
disregard of the interest of the people
by the combination of corporations,
especially of those chartered by other
States. 1t is the duty of the General
Assembly of this State to pass more
stringent laws for the control of all
corporations, domestic and foreign,
and for the prevention of all trusts and
combinations between corporations
carrying ON competitive business. We
CLAIM the right on the part of the State
to control all corporations, whether
domestic or foreign, engaged in bust.
ness within her borders; we deny that
Congress has any legitimate power to
regulate corporations except as they
may be engaged in foreign or inter
state commerce; and demand that the
national government confinc itself in
bestowing corporate existence TO such
agencies as are required TO exercise
such functions as the constitution spe-
cifically confers upon the United States.
We are unalterably opposed to any
amendment of the Federal constitution
looking TO any enlargement of the
powers OF Congress in relation 10 the
regulation of contract by citizens of the
State or in relation to the corporations,
and we demand that laws be enacted
further restricting the power of Fed
eral courts TO interfere with the in
ternal affairs and administration of
justice in the State.
Nv. We condemn the Dlngley tariff
law as trust-breeding measure skill
fully devised to give the few favors
which they do not deserve, and to
place upon the many burdens which
they should not bear.
We re-afiirm our belief in q tariff for
revenue only, and that taxation should
be 80 regulated as to meet the needs
Of an honest and economical govern
ment. We condemn all class legisla-
ton such as the Ship Subsidy bill,
which we believe TO be rich man a
raid on the public Golfers, and we also
condemn all sectional legislation, such
as the Crumpacker bill, which we be-
lieve was intended to arouse sectional
anlmosities.
| We hold with the United States Su-
preme Court that the Declaration OF
Independence is the spirit of our gov.
ernment, of which the constitution is
the form and letter.
We declare again that all govern.
ment instituted among men derive
their tpowers from the consent OF
the governed; that any government
not based upon the consent of the gov
erned is a tyranny, and that to impose
upon any people the government o.
force is to substitute O. method of i'm
perialism for those of Republic.
We hold that the constitution fol
lows the flag, and denounce the doc
trine that an executive of Congress de
irving their existence and their power
from the constitution Can exercise law
full authority beyond it or i'm yiolatio,