Bisbee daily review., 1904-06-12
SUBSTANTIAL
 DEMOCRATIC DOCTRINE.

DEMOCRATIC DOCTRINE.
 Laying aside personal qualifications and taking up the fundamental doc trines of Democracy. there can be nt questioning the soundness of the sub stantial Democratic doctrine, embodied in the fact that it is immaterial wheth CT a combination in restraint of trade is reasonable or unreasonable The common law and public policy do not rely on the capacity of persons ol combinations for self-restraint. The existence of power to oppress Is un' lawful.
 The power to tax should only be ex- ercised for strictly business purposes. One mans business should not be tax ed in order that another mans busi- ness may flourish. The Republican party has converted the tariff on i'm ports-the main source of the national governments support-into an instru- ~nSHS Aoi pOielSal idfS'iNASm IL is notorious that some of the heavily protected industries have outgrown protection. American made mer- chandise is sold more cheaply in dis tant countries than in the places where it is manufactured. Such a policy is unjust and unreasonable.
 The standard of value for our money is no more a political question than the standard of weight and measure ment The existing standard of the great commercial nation. is and must be OUT standard.
 The President should no; only en- force the Constitution and laws, but should obey them himself. The usur. patton of legislative powers by the ex- ecutive is a serious menace to our in stitutions. When the President at tempts to exercise the powers of con gress, and a cowardly congress con sents to the invasion of its rights and duties, it is time to call halt, elect new officials. and return to the safe and weil-tried plan of the Constitution Our peculiar system of government de- bends upon the separation and inde- pendence of the legislative, executive and judicial departments. If the pres ent constitution of the United States is insufficient. it should be amended not by the President, not by the Su preme Court or lower courts, not even by congress-but by the people.
 It is intolerable to contemplate the permanent government of subject peo pies by the United States. We should make it plain to the inhabitants of the Philippines that it is our intention 10 grant them independence Yet it is most important that in withdrawing from the Philippines We should take care to safeguard our own interests in the Far East.
 The liberty of capital and the liber- ty of labor. should be equally protect ed. The government should not in terfere with either save 70 preserve order.
 The President of the United States should have a mind that is judicial, and one that would not be drawn from a patient search for the evidence that would show in which direction truth and justice lay, by the clamor of those who insistently demanded that the President should always lead instead of working their will.
 This the Review believes to be sub s;antial, sound and solid Democratic doctrine, such as may be subscribed to by any and all Democrats, and it is safe to predict that al St. Louis next month there win be adopted conserv- ative platform, upon which all loyal Democrats can stand, and that there viii be no radical blanks even in the structure which at that time will be constructed. The Middle West and East is where they make Presidents. and there they will continue to make them. as has been demonstrated in all the past, until the great West evinces to the vast people of the country that they are not a radical people. one in deed. following personalities and not principles.