Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-08-08

CONTINUANCE.
We condemn the republican system OF
legislation under which trust monopolies
are enabled to exact higher prices for
their manufactured products from our
own people than they sell them for
abroad
powers of the interstate commerce COM
mission, to the end that-th travelling
public and shippers of this country may
have prompt and adequate relief for the
Monroe Doctrine.
I'VE favor the maintenance Of the Mon
roe doctrine in its full integrity.
I'VE favor a 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 navy as our
best defense in our isolated continental
condition against foreign foe. and
source of possible danger to our hber-
ties as people.
Capital and Labor
I'VE favor the enactment and admins.
tration of laws. giving labor and capital
impartially their just rights Capital and
necessary to the other. Each hats its
rights but the rights of labor are Ger
tainly no less vested, no less sacred
and no less 'inalienabe than the rights
of capital
American Citizenship.
I'VE pledge ourselves to insist upon the
just ana lawful protection of our citizens
at home and abroad, and to use all proper
measures to secure for them, whether
native-born or naturalzed, and without
distinction of race or creed the actual
protection Of laws and the enjoyment of
all rights and privileges open to them
under the covenants of Our treaties OF
friendship and commerce, aud if, under
existing treaties the right of travel and
a iIit
recognition IS withheld from American
passports by ANY countries ell The ground
9f race Nr creed. We fdV0r tho beginning
of negotiations with the governments OF
such countries To secure. by now treaties,
the removal of these unjust disctimilItl-
ti0llS.
Pensions.
"The democracy WoaId secure 10 the
surviving soldiers and sailors and their
dependents generous pensions, NOT by an
arbitrary executive order, but hy legis-
Iatiqn L},! %hi@h i'm, grateful people stand
"Oi1r soldiers and sailors Who defend
with their lives the constitution and tho
laws have a sacred interest in their Just
administration. They must therefore
share with us the humiliation with which
We have witnessed the eNdltation of court
favOritcA without distinguished service
over the Scared heroes OF many battles,
or aggrandZed by executive appropria-
ticns out of the treasures of a PROSTATE
people, in violation of the act of con-
gress which fixes the compensation and
allowances of the military officers.
Merchant Marine.
I'VE denounce the ship subsidy bill re-
Gently passed by the United States sem
public funds for private purposes and
wasteful illogical and useless attempt to
overcome by subsidy the Instructions
raised by republican legislation to the
growth and development of American
commerce on the sea.
I'VE favor the upbuilding of Il mer-
o1or1 hf, ,l,li
burdens upon the people and without
bounties from the public treasury.
Civil Service.
.The democratic party stands commit
ted to the principles OF civil service re-
form, and We demand their honest, just
I'VE denounce the republican party for
it's 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
reach and set aside the principles upon
which the civil service was established.
Condemnation of PoIysamy.
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
PASSED sda in as }sna5s s Sy
against the opposition Of almost all the
republican leaders by vote the major
ity Of which ny was dem9cratie. c we can at
broad and comprehensive as it is, work.
ing automatically throughout all time
the. reclamation of all the lands in the
arid west capable of reclamation is ac-
compltshed, .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 1t be placed IN power.
lmperlalism.
we can, of an open door for the worlds
commerce in the orient without unneces-
sary entanglement In the oriental and
European affairs and without arbitrary.
unlimited, irresponsible and absolute gov
ernment anywhere within our jurisdic,
fen We gnpess as s d
irresponsible. discretionary and vague
absolutism and policy of colonial eX-
invoked OF. exercised: we believe, with
Thomas jefferson and John Adams, that
no government has right to make one
other and a different set of laws, abso-
lutte in their character, for those in the
colonies All men under the American
institutions whose emblem the flag is: if
they are inherently unfit for those insti-
tions then they are inherently unfit TO be
members of the American body polite
Wherever there may exist people in
capable Of being governed under Amer
lean laws, in consonance with the Amer
lean constitution. the territory Of that
people ought not to be part of the Amer
lean domain.
I'VE insist that we ought to do for the
Filipinos what we have already done for
the Cubans And it is our intent, as soon
as it can be done wisely and safely for
the Filipnos themselves. and after amica-
BILE arrangements with them concerning
naval stations, coaling stations and trade
Of protection to all national and interna.
tional interests. to settle the people upon
their feet, free and independent. to work
out their own destiny.
1.-The endeavor Of the secretary Of war.
by pledging the governments indorse-
ment for promoters in the Philippine
islands. to make the United States a part
archipelago, which was only temporarily
held up by the opposition Of democratic
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