Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1902-05-28

esamplo anu an tnSp1ratt0n to tho mon
who are to assume from time TO time the
burdens and responsibilities of political
and professional life In this State"
These resolutions were presented by
Col. Talbert with appropriate remarks.
He spoke feelingly and effectively. They
were warmly seconded by several others
and adopted by q rising vote.
THE PLATFORM.
Col. James A. Hoyt then presented
The report of the committee on platform
and resolutions as follows:
Resolved, by the Democracy of South
Carolina in convention assembled:
1. That we reaffirm and endorse the
platform of principles enunciated by
the State Democratic convention of 1900,
with especial stress upon the following
sections:
THAT we view with alarm the power
which the trusts through the Republi-
can party are exercising over legislation
and national politics and their ability to
control the prices of the necessities of
life without regard to the law of supply
and demand. We condemn the hypo.
critical attitude of the Republican lead
ers who abuse trusts and combines, while
they use the money obtained from them
and extorted from tho people to debauch
the ignorant voters of the country.
THAT we denounce the imperialistic
policy of the Republican administration
as contrary to the letter and spirit of
the Declaration of Independence and
the Constitution of the United States,
and as dangerous to the liberty and free
dom, not. only of the people of the Span
country as WELL" The benevolent as
similation "of the Filipinos has proven
to be the benevolence of murder and the
assimilation of robbery. We denounce
it as an outrage upon the conscience of
liberty-loving Americans. Our FREQ in
stitutions cannot long survive the de-
struction of those principles Upon which
peoples being held down by the bayonet
and robbed by the carpetbaggers but
foreshadows the fate of our country un-
less the people are aroused to our dan
ger. The unjust and cruel war of subju-
CATION now being carried on in the Phil
ippines should be ended at once, with de-
finite and specific declarations to the ma
tives as to the intentions of this country
to aid them in the establishment of a
free government of their own choice
under a protectorate by the United
States.n
That we reaffirm and endorse the cor
related sections of the Kansas City plat.
form upon the subject of trusts and
imperialism as follows:
Private monopolies are indefen sible
and intolerable. They destroy competi-
ton, control the 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 conditions thereof, and
deprive individual energy and small
capital of their opportunity for better
ment. They are the most efficient means
devised for 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 aggregated in a few hands and
the Republic destroyed. The dishonest
paltering with the trusts evil by the Re-
publican party in State and national plat
forms is conclusive proof of the
truth of the charges that trusts are
the legitimate products of Republi-
can policies, that they are fostered
by Republican laws and that they are
protected by Republican administra-
tions and political support. We pledge
the Democratic party to an unceasing
warfare in nation, State and city against
private monopoly in every form. Exist
ing laws against trusts must be enforced
and more stringest ones must be enacted
providing for publicity as to affairs of
corporations 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 monopolize any branch of
business or the production of any article
of merchandise, and the whole constitu-
tional 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 laws
should be amended by putting the pro.
duct of trusts upon the free list to pre-
vent monopoly under the plea of pro-
lection.
We are opposed to private monopoly in
every form, and view with apprehension
the increasing power and disregard of
the interest Of the people by the combi-
nation 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 corpo-
ratiOns carrying on competitive business.
We claim the right on the part of the
State to control all corporations, whe-
ther domestic or foreign, engaged in
business within her borders. We deny
that Congress has any legitimate power
to regulate corporations except as they
may be engaged in foreign or Interstate
commerce.; and demand that the ma
tional government cOnfine itself in be-
slowing corporate existence to such
agencies as are required to exercise such
functions as the constitution specifically
confers upon the United States. We are
unalterably opposed to any amendment
of the Federal constitution looking to
any enlargement of the powers of Con-
gress in relation to the regulation of
contract by citizens of the State, or in
relation to the corporations, and we de-
mand that laws be enacted further re-
stricting the power of federal courts to
interfere with the internal affairs and
administration of justice in the State.
We condemn the Dingley tariff law as a
trust breeding measure skillfully de-
vised to give the few favors which they
do not deserve, and to place upon the
We reaffirm our belief in a tariff for
revenue only, and that taxation should
be so regulated as to meet the needs of
an honest and economical government.
We condemn all class legislation, such
as the ship subsidy bill, which we be-
lieve to be a rich mans raid Oil the pmb-
lie Golfer, and we also condemn all sec
ito nal legislation, such as the Crum-
packer bill, which we believe to be in
tended to arouse sectional animosities.
We hold with the United States SUI
preme Court that the declaration of in
is tho spirit of our govern
ment, of which the constitution is the
form and letter.
We declare again that all governments
instituted among men derive their just
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