Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-07-13
EXTRACTS FROM THE PLATFORM.


Ire following from the Democratic
platform adopted at st. Louis last
week can not fail to arouse the admira.
ton OF every true American who loves
liberty and good government. The en-.
tire platform is faultless and we would
like to publish it in full if we had time.
The following clauses, however, appear
to us to be especially sound and vital.
We recognize that the gigantic trusts and
combinations designed to enable capital RI
secure more than its just share of the Joint
products of capital and labor and which have
been fostered and promoted under Republican
rule are menace to be beneficial competition
and an obstacle to permanent business pros
perty.
A private monopoly is indefensible and
lntoleraDie Individual equality of opportun-
ity and free competition are essential to q
healthy and permanent commercial prosperity
and any trust or monopoly tending to DESTROY
these by controlling production, restricting
competition or fixing prices should be prohibit
ed and punished by law We specially denounce
rebates and discrimination by transportation
companies. as the most potent agency in
promoting and Strengthening these unlawful
consplracies against tradeS
We demand an enlargement of the power of
the interstate commerce commission. to tho
end that the travelling public and shippers of
this country may have prompt and adeouate
relief for the abuses to which they are suh
Jected IN the matter of transportation We
demand strict enforcement of existing civil
anu criminal statutes against all such trusts
combinations and monopolies, and we de-
mand the enactment of such further leeisla
| ton as may be necessary to effectually SUD-
| press them.
ANY trust or unlawful combination engaged
ID interstate commerce whice is monopolizinp
any branch of business or production should
not be pc rmitted to transact business outside
ofthe state of its origin Whenever it shall he
established in any court of competent jurisdic
| ton that such monopolization exists. sncb
prohibition should be enforced through conn
prehensve laws to be enacted on the subject.
we favor enactment and administration or
laws. giving labor and capital impa rtially their
just rights. Capital and labor ought not to he
enemies. Each is necessary. to the other
! Each has its rights, but the rights of labor
| are no less vested no less sacred" and no
| less " unalienable" than the rights of capital.
constitutional guarantees are violated
| labor, acquire and enjoy property or reside
| Wnere interest or inclination may determine
| ANY denial thereof by individuals or organi-
| cations or government should be summarily
rebuked and punished
We deny the right of any executive to disre-
gard or suspend any constitutional privilege
| or limitation. Obedience to the laws and re.
spect for their requirements are allie the su-
l Dr6me n 0it fba
The military should be used only to support
and maintain the law. We unuualifedlv CON-
denim it's employment for the summary BAN
1Shment of citizens without trial or for the
| control of elections
We approve the measure which passed the
United States senate in 1896, but which a
republican congress has ever since refused
10 enact, relating to cOntempts in federal courts
and providing for trial by jury in cases of fp.
direct contempt.
We favor the election of United States
senators by the direct vote of the people,
We favor the admission Of the territories of
Oklahoma and the Indian Territory. We also
favor the immediate admission of Arizona and
New Mexico as separate states and a terri
tor1al government for Alaska aud Porto Rico
We hold with officials appointed to admins
ter the government of any territory, as we'll
az with the district of Alaska, should be bona
| f1de residents at the time of their appointment
of the territory or district in which their
duties are to be performed.
We insist that we ought TO do for the
Filipinos what we have already done for the
Cubans, and it is our duty to make that
promise now, and upon suitable guarantees of
protection to citizens of our own and other
countries resident there at the time of our
withdrawal, set the Filipino people upon their
feet, free and independent TO work out their
own destiny.