Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-08-29

as TO amply protect the pubic interests
We demand that the rstyaint of such
Illegal combinations be iHtrUStcd TO the
democratic party. which is not response
bic for their existence, and which has
ever protested against their continuance.
We condemn the republican system OF
legislation under which trust muuoUnlies
are enabled to exact higher prices for
their manufactured products from cur
own people than they sell them fer
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powers OF the Interstate commerce COM
mission, TO the end that the travelling
public and shippers OF this country may
have prompt and adeouate reitrf fer the
abuses they are now subjected 10 in tho
matter Of transportation.
Monroe Doctrine.
We favor the maintenance Of the Mon
roe doctrine IN its full integrity.
we favor liberal trade treaty with
Army and Navy.
I'VE favor the reduction Of the army
and OF army expenditures TO the point his
torically demonstrated to be safe aud
sufficient We favor the maintenance ard
liberal annual increase OF the navy as our
best defense in our isolated continental
condition against a foreign foe, and q
source Of no possible danger to our liber-
ties as a people.
Capital and labor.
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 'saC.ei
ard no less sinalienable' than tie nights
Of capital.
American Citizenship.
I'VE pledge ourselves to Insist upon tie
Just and lawful protection of our citizens
at home and abroad, and TO Use all proper
measures to secure for tttem, whether
native born CT naturanZed, and Without
distinct ion of race or creed, the actu54
protection of la~s and the ENJOYMENT Of
all rights and privileges opcn to the,n
under the covenants OF aur treaties OF
Friendship and commerce, and If under
existing treaties, the right nf trlF"l and
soJourn IS denied to American ell1ons. or
recognition IS Withheld from American
passports by any countries on thv IroUHd
# race or creed. we favor the nralHulbg
of negotiations with the gaVe41tu, uts af
such countries to secure. hS tcw Treaties
the removal OF these unjust discontinued
tons.
Pensions.
THE democracy would secure 10 the
surviving soldiers and sailors and Their
dependents generous pensions, not bv an
arbitrary executive order. but by egis-
lation which grateful people stand
ready to enact.
with their lives the constitution and the
laws have sacred interest III their just
administration. They must therefore
share With us the humiliation with which
we have witnessed the exaltation 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-
allowances OF the military officers.
Merchant Marine.
I'VE denounce the ship subsidy bill r4-
Gently passed by the United States SEN
ate as an iniquitous appropriation O:
public funds for private purposes aud q
overcome by subsidy the distractions
raised by republican legislation to tho
growth and development of American
commerce on the sea.
I'VE favor the upbuiding of a mer-
chant marine without new or additional
burdens upon the people and without
oounties 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.
It's the ths repmeean party for
ments upon the spirit and opera ton OF
civil service rules, whereby 1t has arbi
office in the interest of favorites and
employed all manner OF devices 10 over
reach and set aside the principles upon
which the civil service was established.
Condemnation of rOiyEamy.
I'VE demand the extermnation Of DO.
lygamy within the jurisdiction of the
United States and the complete separa-
ton Of church and state i'll political af-
fairs.
We congratulate our western citizens
upon the passage Of the measure known
as the NewIands irrigation act for the
irrigation and reclamation OF the arid
lands OF the westa measure framed by
a democrat, passed in the senate by .
non-partizan vote and passed in the house
O q n CT "a nCif ~ ~.fy
republican leaders by vote the major.
ity Of which was democratic. We call at
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
complished, reserving the lands reclaimed
for homeseekers in small tracts and rigid
evidence of the policy of domestic devel-
opment contemplated by the democratic
party should it be placed power.
imperialism.
I'VE favor the preservation, so far as
we can, Of an open door for the worlds
commerce III the orient without unncces-
sary ENHANCEMENT In the oriental and
European affairs and without arbitrary,
ernment anywhere within jurlsdic-
tion. We oppose. as fervently as did
George Washington himself, an Indefinite
irresponsible, discretionary and vague
Absolutism and a policy of colonial ex-
ploitation, no matter where or by whom
invoked or exercised: we believe with
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, that
no government has a right TO make 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 Anerican
flag are entitled to the protection of the
institutions whose emblem the flag is: II
they are inherently unfit for those instt-
tions, then they are inherently unfit to be
members of the American body polite
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
team domain.
We insist that We ought to do for the
FillpNoS what we have already done for
the Cubans. And it is our intent, as soon
as 1t can be done wisely and safely for
the Filipinos themselves. and after amica-
ble 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.