The Springfield herald., 1904-07-15

We oppose the Republican policy OF
starving home development in order to
feed the freed of conquest and the ap-
petite for national prestige" and dis
play of strength.
Economy Of Administration.
First-Large reductions can easily be
made in the annual expenditures of the
government without impairing the eff
cheney of any branch of the public SER
vice, and we shall insist upon the
strictest economy and frugality COM
patible with vigorous and efficient civil,
military and naval administration as n
right of the people, too clear to be de-
MED or withheld.
Second-We favor honesty in the
public service. The enforcement of
honesty, in the public service, and TO
that end thorough Legislative investi-
CATION of those executive departments
of the government already known to
TEEN with corruption, as well as other
departments suspected of harboring
corruption, and punishment of ascer-
tanned corruptionists without fear or
favor or regard to persons. The per-
sistent and deliberate refusal of both
the Senate and House of Representa-
tives to permit such investigation to be
made demonstrates that only by a
change in the executive and in the leg
islative. departments can complete ex-
posure, punishment and conviction be
obtained.
Federal Government and Trusts.
We condemn the action of the Re-
publican party In Congress in refusing
to prohibit an executive department
from entering into contracts with con-
victed trusts or unlawful combinations
in restraint of interstate trade.
Executive Usurpation.
We favor the nomination and elec-
tion of a President imbued with the
principles of the constitution, who will
set his face sternly against executive
usurpation of legislative and judicial
functions, whether that usurpation be
veiled under the guise of executive
construction of existing laws or wheth-
er it takes refuge in the tyrant's plans
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
unnecessary entanglement in Oriental
and European affairs. and without ar
bitrary, unlimited irresponsible and
absolute government anywhere within
our jurisdiction. We oppose fervently
as did George Washington himself, an
indefinite. irresponsible, discretionary
and vague absolutism and a policy of
colonial exploitation, no matter where
or by whom exercised; we believe with
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams,
that no government has right to
make one set of laws for those "at
home" and another and a different set
of laws, absolute in their character for
those "in the colonies"
All men under the American flag
are entitled to the protection of the in
stitutions whose emblem the flag is:
or they are inherently unfit to be mem
bers of the American body polite.
Wherever there may exist people
incapable of being governed under
American laws, in connection with the
Am arican constitution, the territory of
that people ought not to be a part of
the American domain.
We insist that we ought to do for
the Filipinos what we have done al
ready for the Cubans. and it is our
duty to make that promise now.
Illegal Monopoly.
The Democratic party has been, and
viii continue to be, the consistent OPP
ponent of that class of tariff legisla-
tion by which certain interests have
been permitted, through congressional
favor. to draw heavy tribute from
the American people. These industrial
combinations, by the financial assist
ance they can give, now control the
policy of the Republican party.
The Tariff.
We denounce protection as a rob-