The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1902-09-12

behests of the great monied interests
which now dominate its policy.
THE TARIFF.
We regard the enormous growth of the
trusts under the operation of the Dingley
tariff as an evil of the first magnitude
Recent disclosures prove beyond all ques-
ton that large quantities of American
manufactures are exported and sold to
foreigners at Prices from Is to 40 per cent
below the prices charged in the home
market. We submit that a system which
compels the consumers of this country
to pay vastly more for an article than the
price charged by the American manufac
turer in other countries is not protection
at all, but oppression and robbery, which
cannot be defended by any person having
just appreciation of the difference be-
tween right and wrong. Therefore we
demand that all protective duties be re-
moved from articles the production of
which is controlled by trusts, and from
such articles as are sold more cheaply
abroad than to the American consumer.
In all cases where the duties on imports
serve as means of oppression and of ex-
tortion from the American customer, the
duty should be reduced to a fair revenue
| basis.
We also demand such further legisla-
ton as may be necessary to curb the
growth and check the exactions of these
giant monopolies For this legislation
we look to the Democratic party and its
independent allies, we'll knowing that
the Republican party cannot reform these
abuses if it would, and would not If it
could.
IMPERIALISM.
| We deplore the radical departure from
our traditional policy of encouraging
freedom and self-government whenever
people aspire to those great blessings and
natural rights. The course pursued in
the Philippines by two successive Repub-
lican Administrations is direct repudia-
| ton of our own Declaration of Indepepd-
ence, and an assertion of the imperialistic
principle that might makes right 1t has
cost us hundreds of millions in treasure
thousands of precious lives, and made it
impossible for us consistently to speak a
word of sympathy for any people strug
Cling to be free. By just and conciia-
tory course we could have secured every
desirable trade advantage in those islands
without the firing of hostile shot, with
out the destruction of cherished Amer
lean ideal, and with the hearty good will,
instead of the bitter enmity of the Fill
pinos.
ABUSE OF THE ARMY.
| We denounce as false and malicious
Islander the charge that the Democratic
party of the Nation has attacked the fair
fame of the American army. We have
deplored and condemned the acts of GER
tain individuals in violation of the rules
of civilized warfare, acts which should
bring the blush of shame to the cheek of
every true American; but forthe army as
whole, we have no feeling but one of
love and admiration. In this connection
it should be noted that the Republican
! leaders, almost to man, either denied or
defended the acts of Waller and Smith
and the infliction of the water cure tor
ture, until such denials or defense be-
came no longer possible, and the course
of the Democrats in Congress in denounc-
ing those atrocities was fully justified by
the official records.
| CONSTITUTIONAL EXPANSION.
We believe that wherever the Ameri-
| can flag flies in sovereignty, the Constitu
ton should be in full force, and that the
American Republic should never out
grow the American Constitution. We
point with pride to the vast continental
expansion which took place under Dem
ocratic administrations, and invite the
closest comparison between it and the
system of colonialism that has been es-
tablished by the Republican party in the
Philippines.
THE SHIPPING SUBSIDY.
We are opposed to the Shipping Sub
sidy bill which has passed the Senate, and
which has for its object the further en-
richment in the sum of untold millions
of dollars, of the great shipping combine
now being formed for the purpose of con
trolling the carrying trade of the ocean,
as completely as the trusts aim to con-
troll the production on land. We rejoice
in the fact that no Democratic Senator re-
corded his vote in favor of that measure.
STATEHOOD FOR TERRITORIES.
We are in favor of the immediate adj
mission of Arizona, New Mexico and
Oklahoma into the Union as States, and
condemn the action of the Republican
majority of the Senate in preventing con-
sideration of the Statehood bill, meas
IRE which has been endorsed by the Ma
tional platforms of both parties. We
wish also to remind the voters of Nevada
that in the House the leading champions
of this bill were Democrats, while most
of the Republican leaders were against
it, as they are against nearly all Western
measures.
IRRIGATION.
We rejoice in the important step that
has been taken by the National Govern
ment looking to the reclamation of the
lands of the arid and semi-arid region.
We heartily eonpratulate orr Renresen-