Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-08

obligations, the canal route has been ac-
quired. or too solemBJy record our hope
that this precedent OF defiant diplomacy
may never be used against US to our hu-
mutation and injury. b,s-
Trusts and Unlawful Combinations.
1--WE recognize that the gigantic trusts
and combinations designed to enable capt.
tai to secure more than its Just share of the
joint product of capital and labor and
which have been fostered and promoted
under republican rule, are a menace to
beneficial competition and an obstacle to
permaherf business prosperity.
we de. nd the vigorous and impartial
en1orcement OF the laws already made to
prevent and control such trusts and combi-
nat and we favor such further legisla-
To restraint thereof as experience
shows to be necessary.
Corporations chartered by authority of
the people must forever remain subject to
regulation in the interest Of the people.
"A private monopoly is indefensible and
intolerable. We recognize the right of capt.
tai in all legitimate lines of enterprise to
combine for the Increase of business, for
charging productive capacity and for de-
creasing the cost Of production; but when
such combination in it's purpose or effect,
creates or tends to create a monopoly in
Its productions, to restrain trade to
stifle competitions; to Increase cost to the
consumer, or to control the market, 1t vio-
lates the spirit of our laws, becomes mimi
cal to public welfare and peace, and should
be so regulated, controlled or prohibited
by law as to amply protect the public inter-
eStS.
I'VE 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.
I'VE condemn the republican system Of
legislation under which trust monopolies
are enabled to exact higher prices for their
manufactured products from our own peo-
nile than thew sell them for abroad
I'VE demand an enlargement of the pow
ers of the interstate commerce commission.
to the end that the travelling public and
shippers Of this country may have prompt
and adequate relief for the abuses they
are subjected to in the matter of transport
tation.
Monroe Doctrine.
eve favor the maintenance of the Mon
roe doctrine in it's full integrity.
Reciprocity.
1--WE favor liberal trade treaty with
Canada.
Army and Navy.
eve favor the reduction of the army and
of army expenditure to the point histori-
cally demonstrated to be safe and sufti-
cient
1--WE favor the maintenance and liberal
annual increase of the navy as our best de-
Tense in our isolated continental conditions
against d foreign lOe anu ii SoulCC VI ~
possible danger to our liberties as people
1--WE favor the enactment and admins
tration of laws giving labor and capital I'M
partially their just rights. Capital and Ia
Dor ought not to be enemies. Each is
necessary to the other. Each has its rights,
but the rights of labor are certainly no less
vested, no less sacred and no less In
alenable' than the rights of capital
American Citizenship.
1--WE 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 nat
i've born naturalized, and without dis
tinction of race or creed, the equal pro-
lection 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 existing trea-
ties the right of travel and sojourn is de-
MED 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 Sc
cure by new treaties the removal of these
unjust Determinations.
Pensions.
THE democracy would secure to the sur |
viving soldiers and sailors and their de- |
pendents generous pensions, not by an arb |
ftrary executive ORDER but by legislation !
which a grateful people stand ready to
enact. t'' |
Our soldiers and sailors, who defend |
with their lives the Constitution and the |
laws. have a sacred interest in their Just |
administration. They must therefore, share |
with US the humiliation with which we |
have witnessed the exaltation of court IA |
vOrites, without distinguished service over |
the SCARED heroes of many battles; or ag- |
grandized by executive appropriations out |
of the treasures of a PROSTATE peopIe in |
violation of the act of Congress, which |
fixes the compensation and allowances of |
the military officers.
Merchant Marine
I'VE denounce the ship subsidy bill re-
Gently passed by the United States Senate |
as an ubiquitous appropriation of public |
funds for private purposes and a wasteful, |
Illogical and useless attempt to overcome |
by subsidy the Instructions raised by re- |
publican legislation to the growth and de- |
velopment of American commerce on the |
sea.
I'VE favor the upbuilding of a merchant |
marine without additional burdens |
upon the people and without bounties from |
the public treasury. |
Civil Service.
THE democratic party stands committed |
to the principles of civil service reform, and |
We demand their honest, just and Impair |
tial enforcement.
I'VE denounce the republican party for |
Its continuous and sinister encroachments |
upon the spirit and operation of civil serv-
ice rules, whereby 1t has arbitrarily dis |
pensed with examinations for Office in the |
interests of favorites and employed all |
manner of devices to overreach and set |
aside the principles upon which the civil |
service was established
Condemnation of Polygamy.
1--WE demand the determination of polyg- |
amy within the Jurisdiction of the United |
States and the complete separation of |
church and state in political affairs.
Arid Land Reclamation.
I'VE congratulate our western citizens
upon the passage of the measure known as
the Newlands irrigation act for the irrtga- |
ton and reclamation of the arid lands of |
the west-a measure framed by democrat, |
passed in the Senate by a non partisan vote1l
and passed in the House against the oppo- |
stion of almost all the republican leaders |
by a vote, the majority of which was dem
ocratic. We call attention to this great |