Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-08-12

ble for their existence. ana which has
ever protested against their continuance.
We condemn the republican system OF
LEGISLATION under which trust mouupolics
are enabled to exact higher prices Tor
their manufactured products from our
own people than they sell them for
abroad
We demand an enlargement OF the
powers of the interstate commerce COM
mission. to the end that the travelling
public and shippers Of this country may
have prompt and adequate relief for tho
abuses they are now subjected to in the
matter of transportation,
Monroe Doctrine.
We favor the maintenance Of the Mon
roe doctrine in its full integrity.
We favor u liberal trade treaty with
Canada.
Army and Navy.
I'VE favor the reduction of the army
and of army expenditures to the point his
torically demonstrated to be safe and
sufficient. We favor the maintenance and
liberal annual increase of the navy as our
best defense i'll our isolated continental
condition against foreign foe, and
source of no possible danger to our liber-
ties as people,
Capital and Labor.
1--WE favor the enactment and admins.
tration of laws, giving labor and capital
impartially their just rights. Capital and
aoor ousht not b TO 6e enemies Eaeh Fac ,s
rights, but the rights of labor are Ger
tainly no less vested no less sacred
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
natiVe-horn or naturaized, 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 IT, under
existing treaties, the right OF travel and
sojourn Is denied to American citizens, or
recognition is withheld from American
passports by any countries on the ground
# race or creed we favor the beginning
Of nC@0tiationS With the governments Of
such countries TO secure, by new treaties,
the removal of these ungust discFimina-
tons.
PENSIONS.
"The democracy would secure to the
surviving soldiers and sailors ana their
dependents generous pensions, not by an
arbitrary executive order, hut lay legis-
latiqn which Z grateful people stand
"Ojlr soldiers and sailors who defend
with their lives the constitution and the
laws have a sacred interest in their just
administrations They must therefore
share with us the humiliation with which
We have witnessed the eXjtltation of court
favorites. without distinguished service,
over the Scared heroes 0T many bat 5i,s.
or aggrandized by executive appropra-
tions out of the treasures of a PROSTATE
gress 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 SEN
ate as an inquitous appropriation CT
public funds for private purposes and a
wastetul, illogical and useless attempt to
overcome by subsidy the distractions
raised by republican legislation to the
growth and development OF American
commerce on the sea.
I'VE favor the upbuilding of q mer-
chant marine without new or additional
burdens upon the people and without
bounties from the public treasury.
Civil Service.
'.The democratic party stands commit
ted to the principles OF civil service re-
form. and We demand their honest, just
and impartial enforcement.
I'VE denounce the republican party for
its continuous and sinister encroach-
ments upon the spirit and operation of
civil service rules, whereby it has arbi-
trarily dispensed with examinations for
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 established.
Condemnation of Polygamy.
1--WE demand the determination Of po-
ygamGy within ,dh the 5arisaeien Of the
tion of church and state in political af-
fairs.
We congratulate our western citizens
as the Newlands irrigation act for the
irrigation and reclamation Of the arid
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 major
ity of which was democratic. We call at
tentiOn to this great democratic measure,
broad and comprehensive as it Is, work.
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
lv guarding against land monopoly as an
evidence of the policy of domestic devel-
opment contemplated by the democratic
party should it be placed IN power.
imperialism.
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 g2v-
ton. We oppose. as fervently as did
George Washington himself, an indefinite,
absoiutism and policy Of colonial ex- X
ploitation, no matter where or by whom
invoked or exercised we believe, with
no government has right to make one
set of laws for those at home and an
other. and a different set of laws, abso-
flag are entitled to the protection of the
Institutions whose emblem the flag is: II
they are inherently unfit for those inst-
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
lean domain.
We insist that We ought to do for the
Filipinos what we have already done for
the Cubans. And 1t is our intent. as soon
as 1t can be done wisely and safely for
the Filipinos themselves. and after amica-
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.
'The endeavor Of tho secretary Of war,
by pledging the goyernment's indorse.
islands, to make the United States a part
ner in speculative exploitation Of the
archipelago. which was only temporarily
held up by the opposition Of democratic
senators in the last session, will. II sue
CeSSful, lead to permanent entangle.