Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-08-04

ever protested against their continuance
1egislat ton under which trust monopolies
are enabled to exact higher prices for
their manufactured products from our
abroad
We demand an enlargement Of tho
powers Of the interstate commerce COM
mission to the end that the travelling
public and shippers of this country may
nave prompt and adequate relief for The
abuses they are now subjected to In the
matter OF transportation.
Monroe Doctrine.
I'VE favor the maintenance Of the Mon.
roe doctrine in it's full integrity
We 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
torlcally 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 a foreign toe. and a
source of no possible danger to our liber-
ties as a people.
Capital and Labor.
Eve favor the enactment and admins.
tration of laws. giving labor and capital
impartially their just rights. Capital and
labor ought not to be enemies Each is
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 inalienable' than the rights
OF capital.
American Citizenship.
I'VE pledge ourselves to insist upon the
Just and lawful protection of our citizens
at home and abroad and to use all proper
measures to secure for them. whether
natlve-born or naturalized, 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, and if, under
ha jph ,f fyay "a
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 negotiations with the governments OF
such countries to secure, by new treaties
the removal of these unjust discrimina-
tions.
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
Our soldiers and sailors who defend
with their lives the constitution and the
laws have sacred interest in their just
share with us the humiliation with which
We have witnessed the exaltation of court
favoriteA without distinguished service
over the SCARED heroes of many battles:
or aggrandized by executive appropria-
tions out of the treasures Of PROSTATE
gress which fixes the compensation and
allowances of the military officers.
Merchant Marine.
1--WE deuounce the ship subsidy bill re-
Gently passed by the United States sem
ate as. an iniquitous appropriation cs
wasteful. illogical and useless attempt to
overcome by subsidy the distractions
raised raised by republilean legislation to tho
commerce on the sea-
I'VE favor the upbuilding Of a mer-
chant marine without new or additionaa
burdens upon the people and without
bounties from the public treasury
Civil Service.
Tho democratic party stands commit
ted to the principles of civil service re-
form, and we demand their honest, just
and impartial enforcement:
its continuous and sinister encroach.
ments upon the spirit and operation OF
civil service rules. whereby It has arbi-
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 eSta abliSh0d.
Condemnation of POiyEamy.
lygamy within the jurisdiction of the
United States and the complete separa-
ton of church and state in political af-
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
non-partizan vote and passed in the house
against the opposition of almost all the
republican leaders by vote the ma jor-
ity of which was democratic. We call at
tentioa to this great democratic measure,
broad and comprehensive aS it is, work.
ing automatically throughout all tina
without further action of congress, until
the reclamation of all the lands in the
arid west capable of reclamation il, ac-
complished, reserVing the lands reclaimed
for homeseekers in small tracts and rigid
Nv guarding against land monopoly, as an
opment contemplated by the democratic
party should it be placed IN power.
Imperlalism.
1--WE favor the preservation, SO far as
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
tion. We oppose. as fervently az did
George Washington himself an indefinite.
irresponsible, discretionary and vague
ploita tion, 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
set of laws for those at home and an
other and a different set of laws, abso-
lute IN tnelr character, Tor 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 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.
1--WE 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 FOX
the Filipinos themselves and after AMIGA
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 upon
their feet, free and independent. to work
out their own destiny.
1.-The endeavor of the secretary of war,
by pledging the government's indorse-
ment for promoters in the Philippine
islands, to make the United States part
ner in speculative exploitation Of the