Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-08-05
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permanent business prosperity.
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n private monopoly is in4etcHs bir and
intolcrahlc- We recognize tn rtsat "f
caDital iu AL legitimate lines If tI!tCr-
prise to combine Tor the increase of huSi-
ness, fer enlarging productive capacity,
and fer decreas ing the cost of production.
but when such combination IN its pur-
pose or effect. creates, or tends to Gre
ATE a monopoly in its productions. to re-
strain trade. or to stitle competition; TO
increase cost to the consumer or to CON
troi the market it violates the snrit Of
our laws. becomes inimcai to public well
lated. controlled or prohibited by law
as to amply protect the public interests
I'VE demand that the rstraint of such
Illegal combinations be intrusted to the
democratic party. which is net RESPONSE
BILE for their existence. and which has
ever protested against their continuance.
I'VE condemn the republican system of
legislation under which trust monopolies
are enabled to exact higher prices for
their manufactured products from eur
I'VE demand an enlargement of the
powers of the interstate commerce com
public and shippers of this country may
have prompt and adeqnate relief for the the
matter of transportation.
Monroe Doctrine
we favor the maintenance OF the Mon-
roe doctrine in It's full integrity.
We favor liberal trade treaty with
Canada.
Army and Navy.
We favor the reduction of the army
and of army expenditures to the point his
torically demonstrated to be safe and
sufficient. We favor the maintenance and
liberal annual increase of the ndVN as our
best defense in our isolated continental
condition against Il foreign zoe. and Il
source of no possible danger to our iiber-
ties as Il people.
Capital aud labor.
"We favor the enactment and admnis-
tration of laws, giving labor and capital
impattially their Just rights. Capital and
labor ought not to be enemies Each is
necessary to the other, Each has It's
rights, but the rights of labor ar" Ger
tainy no less vested 30 less 'saere,l'
ana no less 'inalienable' than the rights
CT capital.
American Citizenship.
I'VE pledge ourselves to insist upon the
Just and lawful protection Of our citizens
at home and abroad, and To use all proper
measures to secure for them. whether
natiVe-bnru or naturalizcd. and without
distinction of race or creed, the actual
protection of laws and the enjoyment of
all flSBllS ana privileges open 10 them
under the covenants of our treaties OF
friendship and colnmerce, and if, under
existing treaties. the right of travel and
sojourn is denied to American citizens, or
recognition is withheld from American
passports by any countries on the ground
If race or creed. we favor the beginning
of negotiations with the governments of
such countries to secure, by new treaties.
the removal of these unjust discrimina-
tons.
Pensions.
The democracy would secure to the
surviving soldiers and sailors and their
dependents generous pensions, not by an
arbitrary executive order. but by legis-
lation which grateful people stand
ready tie enact.
.'Our soldiers and sailors who defend
with their lives the constitution and the
laws have a sacred interest in their just
share l, With as the humiliation with which
we have witnessed the exaltation of court
favoriteA without distinguished service
or aggrandized by executive appropria-
items out of the treasures Of a PROSTATE
people, in violation Of the act of con-
gress which fixes the compensate ton and
allowances of the military officers.
Merchant Marine.
I'VE denounce the ship subsidy bill re-
Gently passed by the United States SEN
ate as. an iniquitous appropriation cf
wasteful. illogical and useless attempt to
overcome by subsidy the obstructions
raised by republican legislation to the
commerce on the sea:
I'VE favor the upbuilding of mer-
chant marine without new or additional
bounties from the public treasury.
Civil Service.
1.-THE democratic party stands commit
ted to the principles of civil service re-
form, and we demand their honest, just
and impartial enforcement:
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its continuous and sinister encroach-
ments upon the spirit and operation OF
civil. service rules, whereby it has arbi-
trarily dispensed with examinations for
Office in the interest of favorites and
employed all manner of devices to over
bc fh. fst the
Conde NINA ton Of POlygamy.
1--WE demand the determination OF po.
lygamy within the jurisdiction of the
United States and the complete separa-
tion Of church and state in political af-
fairs.
We congratulate our western citizens
upon the passage OF the measure known
Irrigation and reclamation of the arid
lands Of the west-a measure framed by
democrat. passed in the senate by a
against the, opposition OF almost all the
republican leaders by vote the major
ity of which was democratic. We call at
tention to this great democratic measure.
broad and comprehensive as il is, work.
ing automatically throughout all time
without further action of congress, until
the reclamation of all the lands in the
arid west capable of reclamation is ac
complished, reserVing the lands reclaimed
for homeseekers in small tracts and rigid
lv guarding against land monopoly, as an
evidence of the policy of domestic devel-
opment, contemplated by the democratic
party should it be placed In power.
Imperialism.
eve favor the preservation, so far as
We can. of an open door for the worlds
commerce in the orient without unneces-
sary ENHANCEMENT in the oriental and
EuropeaE affairs and without arbitrary,
unlimited, irresponsible and absolute gov.
ernment anywhere within our jurisdic-
ton. We oppose. as feryently. as did
George Washington himself, an indefinite.
irresponsible, discretionary and vague
pioitation, no matter where or by whom
invoked Or exercised; we believe, with
no government has right to- make one
set Of laws for. those at home and an
other and a different set of laws. abso-
lutte in their character. for those in the
colonies All men under the American
FAC entitled To the HrOt ectiOn nj ftfh