Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-07-14
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prohibit an executive department from
/ entering into contracts with convicted
/ trusts or unlawful combinations in re-
straint Of interstate trade. We believe
/ that one of the best methods of procur-
ing economy and honesty in the public
4 service is to have public officials, from
one occupant of the White House down
Y to The lowest of them, returned as nearly
as may be to Jeffersonian simplicity OF
living.
give favor the nominations and elec-
ton of a president imbued with the prin-
ciples of the constitution who will set his
! face stefnly against executive usurpation
of legislative and judicial functions,
! whether that usurpation be yelled under
/ the guise of executive construction of ex-
4 listing laws. or whether it take refuge in
/ the tyrants' pleas of necessity or supe-
rior wisdom.
We favor the preservation, so far as
we can, of an open-door for the worlds
! commerce in the Orient without any I'M
necessary ENHANCEMENT in Oriental and
European affairs, and without arbitrary,
unlimited, irresponsible and absolute gov
eminent anywhere within our jurisdic-
ton We oppose as fervently as did
George washington himself an indefinite.
Irresponsible, discretionary and vague alb
soiutism and a policy of colonial exploit
alton. no matter where or By whom in
voked or exercised; we believe with
I no government has a right to mako one
set of laws for those ''at home and an
other and a 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;
if they are inherently unfit for those in
stitutions. then they are inherently
unit to be members of the Ameri-
can body polite. Wherever there may
exist people incapable of being
governed under American laws ineonso-
nance with the American constitution of
that people ought not to be part of the
American domain.
We insist that we ought to dc for the
Philippines what we have done already
for the Cubans and it is our duty to
make that promise now, and upoa suit
able guarantees of protection to citizens
of our own and other countries resident
there at the time of our withdrawal, set
the Filipino people upon their feet, free
and independent to work out their own
destiny.
The endeavor of the secretary of war,
by pledging the governments endorse
ment for promoters in the Philippine
Islands to make the United States part
ner in speculative legislation of the
Archipelago, which was only Temporal
rily held up by the opposition of the
will il successful lead to entanglements
from which it will be difficult to escape.
4-The Democratic party has been, and
viii continue to be, TIE consistent oppo-
nent of that class of tariff legislation by
which certain interests have been per-
mitted, through confessional favor, to
draw heavy tribute from the American
people This monstrous perversion of
those equal opportunities which our po-
litical institutions were established to Sc
cure has caused what may once have
been infant industries to become the
greatest combinations of capital that the
world has ever known These especial
favorites of the government have.
through trust methods been converted
into monopolies. thus bringing to an end
domestic competition, which was the only
alleged check upon the extravagant prof
its made possible by the protective sys-
tenn. These industrial combinations, by
the financial assistance they can give.
now control the policy of the Republican
party.
We denounce protection as a robbery of
the many to enrich the few, and we fa-
vor tariff limited to the needs of the
government, economically administered,
and so levied as not to discriminate
against any industry, class or section, to
the end that the burdens OF taxation
shall be distributed as equally as posi-
BILE.
We favor a revision and a gradual re-
duction of the tariff by the friends of
the masses and for the common veal
and not by the friends of its abuses, its
exortations and its determinations, keep
ing in view the ultimate ends of equal
ity of burdens and equality of opportuni-
ties" and the constitutional purpose of
raising a revenue by taxation, to wit,
the support of the federal government in
all its integrity and virility, but in SIM
plicity.
We recognize that the gigantic trusts
and combinations designed to enable cap
ital to secure more than it's just share
of the joint products of capital and la
Dor, and which have been fostered and
promoted under Republican rule, are a
menace to beneficial competition and an
obstacle to permanent business prosper
lty. A private monopoly is indefensible
and intolerabe
Individual equality of opportunity and
free competition are essential to a
healthy and permanent commercial pros
perity. and any trust, combination or mo-
nopoly tending to destroy these by con-
trolling production, restricting eompeti-
ton or fixing prices. should be prohibited
and punished by law. We especially de-
nounce rebates ana discrimination by
transportation companies as the most po-
tent agency in promoting and strength
ening these unlawful conspiracies against
trade
We demand an enlargement of the
powers of the int rstate commerce com
mission to the end that the travelling
public and shippe of this country may
have prompt and adequate relief from the
abuses to which they are subjected in
the matter of transportation. We de-
mand a strict enforcement Of existing
civil and criminal statutes against all
such trusts combinations and monopo-
lies, and we demand the enactment of
such further legislation as may be neces-
sary to effectually suppress them
Any trust or unlawful combination en-
gagged in interstate commerce which is
monopolizing any branch of business or
production should not be permitted to
transact business outside of the state OF
its origin. Whenever it shall be estab-
lished in any court or competent jllrfs-
diction that such monopolization exists,
such prohibition should be enforced
through comprehensive laws to be en-
acted on the subject.
We congratulate our western citizens