The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-07-12

NAAA AoAAA1S JCA1ClSoh III OslH
ADAMS that no government has a
right to make one set of laws for those
nfteen 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
situations whose emblem the flag Is:
II they are inherently unfit for those
institutions, then they are Inherently
INIT 10 be members Of the American
body polite Wherever there may
exist a people incapable Of being GOV
erned under American laws. In con
sonance with the American constitu-
ton, that people ought OF to be a
part OF the American domain.
We insist that We ought to do for
the Fflipinos what We have done al
ready for the Cubans, and IL IS our
duty TO MAKE that promise now. and
upon suitable guarantees Of protection
TO citizens OF our own and other coun-
tries resident there at the time of our
withdrawal, set the Filipino people
upon their feet, free and independent.
TO work u their own destiny.
The endeavor of the secretary Of
war, by pledging the governments in
dorSement for promoters in the
Philippine Islands TO max the United
states a partner in the speculative leg
~islation of the archipelago. which was
only temporarily held up by the op-
position Of the Democratic senator's,
in the last session, will. if successful.
lead to entanglements from which il
will be difficult to escape. The Demo-
cratic party has been and will con-
tinue to be the consistent
Of that class of tariff legislation by
which certain interests have been
permitted through Congressional IA
vor, to draw a heavy tribute from the
American people.
Monstrous perversion Of those equal
opportunities which our political insti-
tUtions were esta blished TO secure has
caused what may once have been in
FAINT industries to become the greatest
combination of capital that the world
mas ever known. These especial favor
ties of the government have, through
trust methods, been converted into
ronopolies, thus bringing 10 an end
domestic competition, which was the
only alleged check upon the extrava-
CANT profits made possible by the pro-
tective system. These industrial COM
binations, by the financial assistance
they can give now control the policy
OF the Republican party.
We ~denounce protection as a robbery
o. the many to enrich the few, and we
l. q ta-iI limited to the needs OF
IT, government economically admins
te.2C, n so levied as not to discrimi-
nate against any industry, class or sec
tion, to the end that the burdens of
taxation shall be distributed as equally
as possible.
We favor a revision and a gradual
reduction of the tariff by the friends
of the masses and for the
veal and not by the friends of its abus-
es, and extortions and its discrimina-
lions, keeping in view the ultimate
ends of equality of burdens and equal
ity of opportunities" and the consti-
tutional purpose of raising a revenue
by taxation, to wit, the support of the
Federal government in all it's integrity
and virility, but in simplicity.
Trusts and Unlawful Combinations.
We recognize 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 foster
ed and promoted under Republican
rule, are a menace to beneficial compe-
t1tlon and an obstacle to permanent
business prosperity. A private monop-
oily is indefensible and intolerable.
Individual equality of opportunity
and free competition are essential - a
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
especially denounce rebate and discrim-
ination by transportation companies as
the most potent agency in promoting
and strengthening these unlawful con-
spiracies against trade
We demand an enlargement Of the
powers of the interstate commerce COM
mission, to the end that the travelling
public and shippers of his country
may have prompt and adequate relief
from the abuses to which they are SUBJ
jected in the matter of transportation.
We demand a strict enforcement of the
existing civil and criminal statute
against all such trusts, combinations
and monoplies; and we demand the en-
actment Of such further legislation
as may be necessary to effectually sup
press them.
Any trust or unlawful combinatio-l
engaged in Interstate which
is monopolizing any branch of business
or production, should not be permitted
ito transact business outside of the
state OF its origin. Whenever it shall
be established in any court of compe-
tent jurisdiction that such monopoliza-
ton EXISTS, such prohibition should
be enforced through comprehensive
laws to be enacted on the subject.
We congratulate our western citizens
uPoA AK passing vi NAN 10" 90
the Newlands irrigation act for the
irrigation reclamation of the arid lands
Of the west; a measure framed by a
Democrat, passed in the n by a
comparison vote and passed in the
Hous:' against the opposition of aim )s-
all the Republican leaders by a vote
ne C.aJC-ity of which vas Democratic.
We call attention to this great Demo
cratic measure broad and comprehen-
sive as it is, working automatically
throughout all time without further ac-
ton of Congress, until the reclamation
is accomplished reserving the lands
reclaimed for home-Seekers in small
tracts and rigidly guarding against
and monopoly, as an evidence of the
policy of domestic development on
templated by the Democratic party,
should it be placed in power.
American Citizenship.
We pledge ourselves to insist upon
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