The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-29

publican Congress has been able to
redeem party pledges by repeating war
revenue aggregating $110,000O00 annu-
ally, thus reducing taxation to peace
basis. while the army is still on war
footing.
Democratic success would threaten
the destruction of the protective sys-
tenn under which our splendid pros
perity has come; and the mere shadow
of impending free trade would destroy
confidence, unsettle business, alarm
industrial interests and Immediately
check the demand for labor"
The trust and labor planks follow:
1--WE recognize the necessity of CO.
operation in order to meet new condi-
tons in the industrial world and to
compete successfully for the worlds
markets; but all combinations that
stifie competition, control prices, limit
production, or unduly increase profits
or values, and especially when they
raise the prices of the necessities of
life, are opposed to public policy and
should be repressed with a strong
hand.
The Party's Record on Trusts.
1.-THE Republican party is the only
one that has dealt codrageously and
honestly with the tru3t question. 1t
enacted as early as 1890 a law framed
by a distinguished statesman, John
Sherman, to prohibit and punish com
binations in restraint 5of trade the
control of wages, or the advancement
of prices. This act, framed by a Re-
publican statesman, passed by a Re-
publican Congress and signed by
| Republican President, has proved help
! full in preventing abuses by such COM
binations where such abuses were
| found to exist, and is now being Wig
orously applied by a Republican ad
ministration in the prosecution of I'M
| lawful combinations. Subsequent to
| the enactment of this law the Dem
| ocratic party obtained control of both
branches of Congress and the Presi-
dency. 1t constantly asserted hostility
to trusts, but failed to place upon the
statute books a single line of legisla-
ton which would aid in their control.
Its Friendship for Labor.
ITO secure for labor the considera-
ton it deserves; to uphold the dignity
of toll; to create a healthy public
opinion on the subject of labor and the
! justice of its receiving a full share of
the values it creates; to bring labor
and capital together on common
ground in the adjustment of such
questions as may concern these two
great factors in production, it is nee
essary that labor should be intelligent
1y organized. We believe in few hours
! and larger rewards for labor, and ia
vor such laws as will harmonic the
interests of labor and capital and tend
to tighten the buroNn of TOLL
! On Cuba reciprocity the platform
says:
I'VE believe it is due Ealike to Cuba
| and to ourselves that hn accordance
with the Republican principle of re-
ciprocity, proper and Reasonable trade
concessions shall be made by our gov
eminent to Cuba, in retu In for her con-
cessions upon American products. so
as to benefit the trade of both coun-
tries, and to fully and generously car
ry out every obligation of our national
| honor. whether expressed or implied.
Other planks are:
Additions to our territory since 1897
have been fully justified both by i'm
proved conditions in the islands them
selves and the improved commercial
relations between them and the United
States. These islands will not be ex-
plotted for the gain of Adventures, but
will be developed for the mutual ben
| eft of their own people and honest
| investors, and will, in time, make the
United States a complete commercial
entity, capable of producing within
it's own area practically all the arti-
cles required for the daily life and
| comfort of man.
| Philippine Policy Endorsed.
1--WE congratulate the President and
| the army on the satisfactory progress
made in the Philippines in suppress
| ing insurrection and establishing order
and we unqualifiedly indorse the policy
of our government in those islands.
THE war with Spain was forced on
us against our will, and the Philip
| pines came to US as one of the results
of that conflict. We are responsible for
peace and order in the islands and our
| sovereignty must be as absolute as our
responsibility. We will give their peo-
pie better government, better schools,
more civil and political rights, and a
higher civilization and broader free
| dom than is possible for them in any
other way. Our flag is in the Philip
pines and there it will remain.
The American army has taken up a
work of establishing order and main
| tanning authority in the distant Phil
ippines, and. while we deplore and Sc
verely condemn any instances of criel-
! ty which may have occurred, we re-
member that our soldiers are fighting
a barbarous and treacherous foe, who
have often inflicted most inhuman and
revolving cruelties upon their prisoners.
We resent with Indignation recent
Democratic efforts to drag it's honor
in the dust, and to cast reproach on
its fair name"
The platform declares against anar-
chy, denounces lynching and all forms
of mob violence, commends the re-en-
acted Chinese exclusion law, recon-
mends a substantial and uninterrupt-
ed increase in the strength of the navy,
and urges legislation that will expedite
the construction of the Isthmian canal.