Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-05-28
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STATE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
Paper That Was Adopted by the
Convention Last Thursday.

Paper That Was Adopted by the
Convention Last Thursday.
The State Democratic platform, as
submitted by the committee last We'd
nesday night, and adopted without dis
cussion, was as follows:
That we reaffirm and endorse the
platform of principles enumerated by
the State Democratic Convention of
1900, with special stress upon the fol-
lowing sections: THAT we view with
alarm the power which the trusts
through the Republican party are ex-
ercising over legislation and national
politics, and their ability to control the
prices of the necessities of life without
regard to the laws Of supply and de-
mand. We condemn the hypocritical
attitude Of Republican leaders who
abuse trusts and combines while they
use the money obtained from them
and extorted from the people to de-
bauch the ignorant voters Of the coun-
try. That we denounce the imperial
listration as contrary to the letter and
spirit of the Declaration Of Independ-
ence and the constitution Of the United
States and as dangerous to the liber-
ty and freedom, not only Of the people
of the Spanish islands; but of the citi-
zens of this country as WE'LL" The "be
nevolent assimilation" Of the Filipinos
has proven to be the benevolence Of
murder and the assimilation of rob-
berry. We denounce 1t an outrage up
on the conscience of liberty-loving
Americans. Our free institutions can
not long survive the destruction Of
those principles upon which they rest,
and the spectacle Of subject peoples
being held down by the bayonet and
robbed by carpet baggers, but fore
shadows the fate Of our country, un-
less the people are aroused to our dan
ger. The unjust and cruel war of sub
! jugation now being carried on In the
Philippines should be ended at once,
with definite and specific declarations
to the natives as to the intentions of
this country to aid them in the estab-
l.shment of a free government Of their
own choice under a protectorate by the
United States. That we reaffirm and
endorse the correlated section Of the
Kansas City platform upon the subject
of trusts and imperialism, as follows:
Private monopolies are indefensible
and intolerable. They destroy compe-
tition, control prices Of material and
of the finished products, thus robbing
both producer and consumer. They
lessen the employment of labor and
arbitrarily fix the terms and condi-
tions thereof, and deprive individual
energy and small capital Of their op-
portunity for betterment. They are
the most efficient means for appro-
priating 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 aggre-
gated in a few hands and the Republic
DESTROYED. The dishonest paltering with
the trust evil by the Republican party
in state and national platforms Is con-
elusive proof Of the truth Of the
charges that trusts are the legitimate
products of Republican policies, that
they are fosted by Republican laws
and that they are protected by the Re-
publican administration in return 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
stringent ones must be enacted, pro-
viding for publicity as to affairs Of
corporations engaged in Interstate
commerce and requiring all corpora
tions 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 attempt
ed and are not attempting to monopo-
lize any branch of business or the pro-
duction Of any article or merchandise.
and the whole constitutional power Of
congress over interstate commerce,
the mails and all modes of interstate
commerce, shall be exercised by the
enactment of comprehensive laws upon
the subject of trusts. Tariff should
be amended by putting the products
of trusts upon the free list to prevent
monopoly under the plea of protection.
We are opposed to private monopoly
in every form and view with appre-
hension the increasing power and dis
regard of the interest of 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, do
mestic and foreign, and for the preven-
ton of all trusts and combinations be-
tween corporations carrying on COM
petitive business. We claim the right
on the part of the state to control all
corporations, whether domestic or for
eign, engaged in business within her
borders. We deny that congress has
any legitimate power to regulate cor
porations except as they may be en-
gagged in foreign or interstate COM
merce, and demand that the National
government confine itself in bestowing
corporate existence to such agencies
as are required to exercise such func-
tions as the constitution specifically
confers upon the United States.
We are unalterably opposed to any
amendment of the Federal constitution
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