New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-07-13

S1St upon the just and lawful protection
of our citizens abroad; favors generous
pension policy, not by an arbitrary execu-
tive order, but by legislation which a
grateful people stand ready to enact; de-
nounces the ship subsidy bill passed by the
senate, and favors the upbuilding of mer-
chant marine without new or additional
burdens upon the people, and without
bounties from the public treasury; de-
mands honest, just and imp artial enforce
ment Of the principles of civil service re-
form; demands determination Of polygamy
within the jurisdiction of the United States,
and complete separation of church and
state in political affairs; for liberal appro-
priations for the care and Improvement of
waterways
Imperialism.
The resolutions favor the preservation Of
the open door for the worlds commerce.
without unnecessary ENHANCEMENT in ORR
entail and European affairs; denounces an
indefinite, irresponsible discretionary and
vague absolutism and a policy of colonial
exploitation; insists that we ought to do
for the Filipinos what we have done for the
CubanS, and announces the intention Of
the party, as soon as it can be done wisely
and safely for the Filipinos themselves, to
set the Filipino people upon their feet, free
and independent, to work out their own
destiny.
The Tariff.
On the tariff question, the resolutions
favor revision and gradual reduction of
the tariff by the friends of the masses, and
for the common veal, and not by the friends
Of it's abuses, it's eXtortions and it's dis
elimination, keeping in view the ultimate
end of equality Of burdens and equality
of opportunities and the constitutional
purpose Of raising revenue by taxation
to support the federal government in all it's
ofnc o,1 yi,,;I; -,
They favor a tariff limited to the needs of
the government, economically administered
against any industry, class or section, to
the end that the burdens of taxation
shall be distributed as equally as posi-
BILE.
The Trust.
The platform recognizes that the gigantic
trusts and combinations, designed to enable
capital to secure more than its just share
of the joint products Of capital and labor,
and which have been fostered and pro-
NOTED under republican rule, are a men
ace to beneficial competition and an OBJ
stacle to permanent business prosp Gritty.
A private monopoly is indefensible and
intolerable. Individual equality of oppor-
tunlty and free competition are essential
to a healthy and permanent commercial
prosperity, and any trust, combination or
monopoly tending to destroy these by
petition or fixing prices, should be pro-
hibited and punished by law 1t especially
Genounces rebates and discrimination
by transportation companies, as the most
potent agency in promo citing and strength
ening these unlawful conSpiracies against
trade. It demands strict enforcement of
existing civil and criminal statutes against
all such trusts mbinations and monopo-
lies; and We demand the enactment of such
further legislation as may be necessary to
effectually suppress them.
On the race question the platform de-
clares that to revive the dead and hateful
race and sectional animosities in any part
of our common country means confusion,
distraction of business and the reoponing
of wounds now happily healed 1t depre-
Gates and condemns the Bourbon-like sell
fish and narrow spirit Of the recent repub-
lican convention at Chicago, which sought
to kindle anew the embers Of racial and sec
tional strife and we appeal from it to the
sober common sense and patriotic spirit of
the American people.
Appeal to the Country.
The existing republican administration
is strongly denounced for it's policies. In
conclusion the platform says: Conduct
ing the campaign upon this declaration of
our principles and purposes, we invoke for
our candidates the support, not only Of our
great and time-honored organization but
also the active assistance of all our fellow
citizens who, disregrading past differences
upon questions no longer in issue, desire
the perpetuation of our constitutional gov
eminent as framed and established by the
fathers of the republic"