The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-09

AHnStlOHpt MiletnST LudI usuTpdliou Uc | yelled under the guise of executive | Iconstruction of existing laws, or wheth- | CT it take refuge in the tyrants' pleas of necessity or superior wisdom.
 Imperialism.
 We favor the preservation, so far as | we can, of an open door for the worlds | commerce in the Orient, without an un- necessary entanglement in Oriental and l European affairs, and without arbitra- ry, unlimited, irresponsible and abso- flute government anywhere within our jurisdiction. We oppose, as fervently as did George Washington himself, an indefinite, irresponsible, discretionary and vague absolutlsm and policy of colonial exploitation, no matter where Tor by whom invoked or exercised; we believe with Thomas Jefferson and John Adams that no government has a fright to make one set of laws for those ] at home" and another and different lset of laws, absolute in their character, for those fin the colonies.' All men under the American flag are entitled to # the protection of the institutions whose emblem the flag is; if they are inher- Eently unfit for those institutions, then they are inherently unfit to be members Iof the American body polite. Wher- lever there may exist a people incapable \ Iof being governed under American laws, in consonance with the American Iconstitution, that people ought not to Ebe part of the American domain.
 We insist that we ought to do for the EFflipinos what we have done already flor the Cubans, and 1t Is our duty to make that promise now, and, upon suit lable guarantees of protection to citi- Izenss of our own and other countries president there at the time of our with Ldrawal set the Filipino people upon Etheir feet, free and independent to work lout their own destiny.
 The endeavor of the secretary of war fby pledging the governments endorse lment for promoters" in the Philippine Islands, to make the United States a partner in speculative legislation of the archipelago which was only tempora- lrily held up by the opposition of the democratic senators in the last session, Twill, if successful, lead to entangle-
 ments from which it will be difficult to escape.
 t sTariff.
 The democratic party has been and
 will continue to be, the consistent op-
 ponent of that class of tariff legislation by which certain interests have been
 permitted, through congressional favor, to draw a heavy tribute from the
 American people. This lnonstrous per- version ot those equal opportunities
 which our political institutions were es-
 tablished to, secure, has caused what
 may once have been infant industries
 to become the greatest combinations of M capital that the world has ever known.
 These especial favorites of the govern
 ment have, through trust methods, been
 converted into monopolies, thus bring ing to an end domestic competition (which was the only alleged check upon
 the extravagant profits made possible Al by the protective system. These indus-
 trial combinations, by the financial as-
 sistance they can give now control the
 policy of the republican party.
 We pronounce protection as robbery
 of the many to enrich the few, and we
 favor a tariff limited to the needs of the
 government, economically administered,
 and so levied not to discriminate
 against any industry, class or section,
 to the end that the burdens of taxa
 ton shall be distributed as equlaly as
 possible.
 s We favor a revision and a gradual re-
 duction Of the tariff by the friends of
 the masses for the commonweal and not
 by the friends of it's abuses, it's extor-
 tions and its discriminations, keeping in view the ultimate ends of equality of
 burdens and equality of opportunities
 and the constitutional purpose of rais-
 ing a revenue by taxation, to wit, the ! support of the federal government in all it's integrity and virility, but in simplic-
 ity.
 Trusts and Unlawful Combinations. We recognize that the gigantic trusts : and complications designed to enable capital to- secure more than its just share O. the joint products of capital and labor, and which have been foster- ed and promoted under republican rule, are a menace to beneficial competition and an obstacle to permanent business prosperity. A private monopoly is ir- defensible and intolerable
 Individual equality of opportunity
 and free competition are essential to a h healthy and permanent commercial
 prosperity and any trust, combination
 or monopoly tending to destroy these by controlling production, restricting competition or fixing prices, should be prohibited and punished by law. We es- z pecially denounce rebates and discrim- nations by transportation companies. 2 As the most potent agency in pro- noting and strengthening these unIaw. ful consiracies against trade
 We demand an enlargement of the i. powers of the interstate commerce com. mission, to the end that the travelling
 public and shippers of this country may
 have prompt and adequate relief iron,
 the abuses to which they are subjected :, in the matter of transportation. We , demand strict enforcement of existing l civil and criminal statutes against al 3 such trusts; combinations and monopi. lies. and We demand the enactment ol