Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-09-14


own own people than they sell them for
powers OF the Interstate commerce COM
public and shippers OF this country may
have prompt and adequate relief for the
abuses they are now subjected to III the
matter Of transportation.
Monroe Doctrine.
1--WE favor the maintenance OF the Mon
roe doctrine in its full integrity.
I'VE favor a liberal trade treaty with
Canada.
Army and Navy.
I'VE favor the reduction OF the army
and Of army expenditures to the point his
torically. demonstrated to be safe and
liberal annual increase OF the navy as our
best defense In our Isolated continental
condition against foreign foe, and q
source of no possible danger to our iber-
ties as people.
Capital and Labor.
1--WE favor the enactment and admins.
tration of laws. giving labor and capital
impartially their just rights. Capital and
necessary to the other. Each has its
rights, but. the rights of labor are Ger
tainly no less vested, no less sacred
and no less 'tnalenable' than the rights
OF capital.
American Citixcnship.
I'VE pledge ourselves to insist upon the
Just and lawful protection of our citizens
at home and abroad, aud to use all proper
measures to secure for them, whether
native-born or naturalizcd. and without
distinction of race or creed, the actual
protection of laws and the enjoyment of
oil rights and privileges open 10 them
under the covenants of our treaties OF
friendship and commerce, and If, under
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 race or creed, we favor the beginning
of q q
such countries to secure, by new treaties,
the removal Of these unjust diserimina-
tons.
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 a grateful people stand
"Our soldiers and sailors who defend
with their lives the constitution and the
laws have sacred interest in their just
administrations. They must therefore
share with lis the humiliation with which
we have witnessed the eXaltaton Of court
favorites, without distinguished service,
over the SCARED heroes of many battles;
or aggrandized by executive appropria-
tions out Of the treasures of prostrate
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 subsi1 bill "a
Gently passed by the United States SEN
ate as an iniquitous appropriation OF
Wasteful illogical and useless attempt to
overcome by subsidy the obstructions on
growth and development of American
commerce on the sea.
I'VE favor the upbuiding of mer-
chant marine without new additional
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
and impartial enforcement
I'VE denounce the republican party for
its continuous and sinister encroaoh.
ments upon the spirit and operation OF
trarily dispensed with examinations for
office in the interest of favorites and
employed all manner of devices to over
reach and set side the principles upon
which the civil service was established.
Condemnation of PoIygamy.
1--WE demand the extermination Of po-
lygamy within the jurisdiction of the
ton of church and state i'll political at
We congratulate our western citizens
upon the passage of the measure known
as the NeWands 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
non-partizan vote and passed in the house
against the opposition of almost all the
republican leaders by vote the major
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 honeseekcrs in small tracts and rigid
lv guarding against land monopoly. as an
evidence of the policy of domestic devei-
opment contemplated by the democratic
party should it be placed IN power.
imperialism.
I'VE favor the preservation, so far as
we can. of an open door for the world j
commerce in the orient without unneces--
sary ENHANCEMENT in the oriental and
European affairs and without arbitrary
unlimited irresponsible and absolute gov
ernment anywhere within our jurlsdic,,
George Washington himself, an indefinite,
irresponsible, discretionary and vague
absolutism and policy OF colonial ex-
ploitaton, no matter where or by whom
invoked or 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. AZ men under the Americaa
institutions whose emblem the f1aG is: II
they are inherently unfit fol, those instt-
tions, then they are inherently unfit to be
Wherever there may exist a 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.
eve insist that we ought to do for the
Fiipinos what we have already done for
the Cubans. And it is our intent. as soon
It can be done wisely ana and safely TO.
BILE arrangements with them concerning
naval stations, cOaling stations and trade
relations. and upon suitable guarantees
Of protection to all national and interna.
tional interests to settle the people upor
their feet, free and independent. to work
out their own destiny.
''The endeavor Of the secretary of war
by pledging the goyernment's .S pI,i indorse.
islands, to make the United States part.
ner in speculative exploitation of thu
archipelago, which was only temporarily
held up by the opposition Of democratic
senators in the last session, will, II sue
cessful. lead to a permanent .entangle
ment, from which 1t will be difficult &c
escape.
Statehood for Territories.
I'VE favor statehood for Oklahoma ant