The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-02

of immediate and practically alleviation the present republican tarih laws should be amended by putting those products Of trusts which are essential to the hfe' comfort and necessities of the people upon the free list and thereby prevent the further continuance of monopoly un- der the plea Of protection.
 We reiterate that provision Of the na- tional democratic platform which de- elares that i've condemn the Dingley tariff law as a trust breeding measure, skillfully devised to give to the few fa- vors which they do not deserve and to place upon the many burdens which they should not bear"
 The Trust Question.
 The republican party confesses itself unwilling or incompetent to deal with this problem. Its national and state plat form contains cunningly devised phrases, which. however. scarcely conceal the in- sincerity of their pretensions and are only designed to still further deceive and mislead the people and postpone the re- lief which they demand. While the dif- fuse, evasive and contradictory partisan speeches of the President, in which ne critieises every simple and plain remedy proposed and hints at redress In the far distant future by means of an impracti- cable dangerous and doubtful scheme or constitutional amendment-only eS- hibits the grotesqueness of his attempt 10 ride two horses upon this subject Tn his endeavor to please the people and at the same time not offend the trusts.
 There Is no middle ground on this dues- ton; those who are not against the trusts are in favor of them.
 The suggestion of a constitutional amendment is not new. It was previously proposed in the republican house of rep resentatives just before the national elec- tion of 1900 and thereafter immediately dropped from consideration. 1t was not approved in the republican national plat form of that year, nor recommended in the messages of any republican President 1t has only been revived after the recent adjournment of congress when the op- portunity for It's passage had gone, and Is simply another "Ignis fatuus' proposi- ton of procrastination intended to pre- vent immediate remedial legislation
 The republican party canont escape re- sponsibflity for existing trust conditions. Tn full control of all branches or the national government, as well as of this state it's failure to enact adequate legls- lation or to successfully enforce exlstihs antitrust laws, attest either the insincer- ity of its professions or the lncompeteh- cy of it's administrations. We condemn 
 ministration to enforce the provisions of the statutes known as the sherman antitrust law. The Donnelly antitrust law and the conspiracy laws defining crimes against the trust combinations violating them
 No British Colonial System.
 We believe in territorial expansion-the expansion of Jefferson and of Poke-and in the honorable acquisition of desirable territory which can be erected Into states of the union and whose people are Wllilhs and fit, or capable of becoming nt TOT American citizenship. We favor traoe expansion by every peaceful ana lesiti- mate means, but we are unalteraply op- posed to the seizing or the purchasing Of distant lands to be held as colonies anal oRous to the British colonial system, 10 be governed outside of the constilutioh and whose people can never become cltl- zens.
 We condemn the Philippine policy or the present administration. The flllpinos cannot become citizens without endan- gering our civilization; they cannot De subjects without imperiling our form or government The national policy toward them should not remain uncertain ana vacillating, but the purpose or the nauoh as to the ultimate government or alspo- sition of those islands should be In mar with our LrdQil1O0S dllu SAPAaeANlS declared As the original friends ana ao- vocates of the cause of Cuban indepen- dence to the support of which republi- can administration only reluctantly yield ed. democrats demand justice for Cuba In the reduction of tariff upon her princi- pal products, not a mere paltry reductioh of 20 per cent of existing duties which republican President expresses Wiling ness to grant and to which even his own marty in congress does not assent but inc full measure of justice involved Tn the reduction of the tarin 10 strlctiy revenue basis. The refusal or the present republican congress, under the olctation of special selfish interests, to give Cuoas through proper tariff concessions, a living ehance of establishing a stable and ef- ficient government under her flag was shameful betrayal of national honor. we cau the attention of the people to the eouiyocal character of the republican platform In this state, which only iaVors that relief to Cuba proposed by the re- publicans in congress- while some or .he republicans in congress propose one tning and some another, and nothing whatever was accomplished.
 Adeouate justice to Cuba can only be obtained through the election or a. oemo- cratic congress.
 Interference With Judiciary. We arraign the administrations, both national and state, for their attempted ! interference with the independence Of the judiciary. The national administration has traded national and state judgeships for partisan advantages.
 The state administration has attempted to secure to itself the control of the designation of supreme court justices who are in districts other than their own. un- dertaking thereby to pervert a purely 1u- dicial function into a scheme for partisan and personal favoritism.
 TO ANNOUNCE COMMITTEE.