The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1904-07-13

can rule, are a menace to beneficial
competition and an obstacle to perma.
nent business prosperity.
We demand the vigorous and i'm
partial enforcement of the laws al
ready made to prevent and control
such trusts and combinations, and we
FAVOR such legislation in restraint
thereof as experience shows to be nee.
essary.
We demand that the restraint OF
such illegal combinations be entrusted
TO the democratic party, which is not
responsible for their existence and
which has ever protested against their
continuance.
We condemn the republican system
OF legislation under which trust mono.
poles are enabled to exact higher
prices for their manufactured prc.
ducts from our own people than they
sell them for abroad.
We demand an enlargement Of the
powers Of the Interstate commerce
commission to the end that the trav.
cling public and shippers of this conn.
Try may have prompt and adequate
relief from the abuses they are sub.
Jected to in the matter Of transporto.
ton.
we favor the maintenance Of the
Monroe doctrine in it's full integrity
we favor liberal trade treaty with
Canada
We favor the reduction of the army
and OF army expenditures to the point
historically demonstrated to he sofo
and sufficient
We favor the maintenance and lih.
eral annual increase of tho navy a..
our best defense in our isolated con.
tinental condition against a foreign
Zoe and source of no possible danger
10 our Liberties as a people.
we 1aVor the enactment and admin.
istration OF laws, giving labor and
capital impartally their Just rights
capital and labor ought not to be enc.
MES Each is necessary to the other
Each has its rights, but the rights of
labor are certainly no less vested &"
no 'eSs sacred" and no less "inaIien.
aDle than the rights of capital
We pledge ourselves to insist upon
me just and lawful protection of our
citizens at home and abroad.
The democracy would secure to the
surviving soldiers and sailors and
Their dependents, generous pensions
not by an arbitrary executive order
but by legislation which a grateful
people stand ready to enact.
We denounce the ship subsidy bill
recently passed by the United States
senate as an iniquitous appropriation
OF public funds for private purposes.
we favor the upbuilding of a mer
chant marine without new or addition.
al burdens upon the people and with.
ount bounties from the public treas.
ury.
we donouncc the republican party
for its continuous and sinister en-.
croachments upon the spirit and oper.
alton of civil service rules.
We demand the determination of
polygamy within the jurisdiction of
the United States and the complete
separation of church and state in no.
litical affairs.
Imperialism.
We favor the preservation insofar
as we can of an open door of the
worlds commerce in the Orient with.
out unnecessary cntanglemcnt in
Oriental and European affairs. and
without arbitrary. unlimited. irrcspon.
sible act Of government anywhere in
our jurisdiction.
We insist that we ought to do for
ne 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 Filipinos
themselves, and after amicablo ar.
with them concerning ma.
val stations, coaling stations and trade
relations, and upon suitable guaran.
tees of protection to all national and
interests, to set the Fill.
pino people upon their feet, free and
independent, to work out their own
destiny.
The ndeavor of the secretary of
war by pledging the governments in
lorsement for promoters" in the Phil.
ippine islands to make the United
States a partner in speculative ex-
ploitation Of the Archipelago, which
was only temporarily held up by the
opposition of democratic senator's in
the last session, will. if successful,
lead to a permanent ENHANCEMENT
from which it will be difficult to es.
cape.
We favor statehood for Oklahoma
and the Indian Territory, statehood for
Arizona, statehood for New Mexico
and a territorial government for Porto
Rico.