The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-07-16
1--WE favor : liDsraI trade treaty WIN
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Array ana Navy.

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Array and Navy.
eve favor the reduction OF the army
md Of army expenditures to the point his
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, ana
source OF no possible danger to our hbers
ties as people.
Capital ana Labor.
1--WE favor the enactment and adminis-
tration of laws, giving labor and capital
impartially their just rights. Capital and
labor ought not to be enemies. Each -
necessary 70. the. other. Each has It's
tainly no less vested no less sacred
and no less 'inalienable' than the rights
Of capital.
American Citizenship.
I'VE pledge ourselves to insist upon the
at home and abroad, and to use all proper
measures to secure for them, whether
native-born or naturalfzed, and without
protection Of laws and the enjoyment OF
all rights and privileges open TO them
under the covenants of our treaties OF
existing treaties, the right OF travel and
soJourn Is denied to American citizens, or
recognition Is withheld from American
passports by any countries on the ground
OF negotiations with the governments OF
such countries to secure, by new treaties,
the removal of these unjust discriminG-
lions.
Pensions.
"The democracy would secure to the
surviving soldiers and sailors and their
dependents generous pensions, not by an
arbitrary executive order, but by legis-
lation which grateful people stand
"oi,r soldiers and sailors who defend
with their lives the constitution and the
laws have q sacred interest in their Just
share with us the humiliation with which
we have witnessed the exaltation of court
favorites, without distinguished service,
over the SCARED heroes of many battles;
tons 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.
eve denounee the ship subsidy bill re-
Gently passed by the United States sem
ate as an ubiquitous appropriation of
public funds for private purposes and q
overcome by subsidy the distractions
raised by republican legislation to the
growth and development of American
I'VE favor the upbuilding of mer-
chant marine without new or additional
burdens upon the people and without
bounties from the public treasury
Civil Service.
1.-THE democratic party stands commit
ted to the principles of civil service re-
form and we demand their honest, just
and impartial enforcement.
I'VE denounce the republican party for
its continuous and sinister encroachsS
civil service rules, whereby 1t has arbi-
trarily dispensed with examinations for
office in the interest of favorites and
reach and set aside the principles upon
which the civil service was established.
Condemnation of POIygamy.
I'VE demand the determination of DO.
lygamy within the jurisdiction of the
United States and the complete separa-
ton of church and state in political at
fairs.
we congratulate our western citizens
upon the passage of the measure known
as the Newlands irrigation act for the
irrigation and reclamation of the arid
lands of the West-a measure framed by
a democrat, passed in the senate by a
against the opposition of almost all the
republican leaders by vote the major
ityi of which was democratic We call at
tention to this great democratic measure,
broad and comprehensive as it is, work.
ing automatically throughout all time
without further action Of congress. until
the reclamation of all the lands in the
arid west capable of reclamation Is ac-
complished, reserving the lands reclaimed
for homeseekers in small tracts and rigid
Nv guarding against land monopoly, as an
evidence Of the policy of domestic deVel-
opment contemplated by the democratic
party should it be placed IN power.
imperialism.
eve favor the preservation, so far an
we can, of an open door for the worlds
commerce in the orient without unneces-
Sary ENHANCEMENT in the oriental and
European affairs and without arbitrary,
unlimited, irresponsible and absolute gov
within 1IlriS0ic-
tion. We oppose. as fervently as did
George Washington himself, an indefinite.
absolutism and a policy of colonial eX-
ploitation, no matter where or by whom
invoked or exercised: We believe, with
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, that
no government has a right to make one
set of laws for those at home and an
other and different set of laws, abso-
lutte in their character. for those in the
colonies All men under the American
flag are entitled to the protection of the
institutions whose emblem the flag is; IL
they are inherently unit for those insti-
tions then they are Inherently unfit to be
members of the American body polite.
Wherever there may exist a people in
capable Of being governed under Amer
lean laws, in coESonance 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 1t is our intent, as soon
as it can be done wisely and safely for
the Filipinos themselves. and after AMIGA
BILE arrangements with them concerning
naval stations, coallng stations and trade
relations, and upon suitable guarantees
of protection to all national and internal
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 part
ner in speculative exploitation of the
archipelago, which was only temporarily
held up by the opposition of democratic
senators in the last session, WILL If sue
cessful. lead to a permanent entangle-
.ment, from which it will be difficult 20
Statehood for Territories.
1--WE favor statehood for Oklahoma and
the Indian territory, statehood for Ari-
zona, statehood for New Mexico and 9
territorial government for Porto Rico,
Election of Senator'S by the People.
1--WE favor the election of United States
senators by direct vote of the people,"
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