The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-07-21

house of representatives to permit
such investigation to be made, demon
strates that only by change in the
executive and in the legislative de-
partments can complete exposure. pun
ishment and correction be obtained.
Federal Government Contract With
| We condemn the action of the re-
publican party in congress in refusing
to prohibit an executive department
from entering into contracts with con-
victed trusts or unlawful combina-
lions In restraint Of Interstate trade.
We believe that one of the best meth
DDS of procuring honesty in the public
service is to have public officials from
the white house down to the lowest of
them returned as nearly as may be to
Jeffersonian simplicity of living.
| We favor the nomination and elec.
ton of a president imbued with the
principles of the constitution who will
set his face sternly against executive
usurpation if the usurpation be yelled
under the guise Of executive construc-
ton Of existing laws or whether 1t
take refuge In the tyrant's plea Of me-
cessity Of superior wisdom.
We favor the preservation in so far
as we can o. an open door Of the
worlds commerce in the Orient with
out unnecessary ENHANCEMENT in
Oriental and European affairs, and
without arbitrary, unlimited, irrespon.
sible government anywhere in our jul
risdiction. We oppose as fervently as
did George Washington himself in
definite, irresponsible, discretionary
and vague absolutism. and policy of
colonial exploitation, 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 another and a
different set of laws, absolute in their
character. for those Gin the colonies"
YAH men under the American flag are
entitled to the protection OF the insti-
tutions whose emblem the flag is; if
they are inherently UNFIT for those In
situations. then they are Inherently
unfit to be members of the American
body polite. Wherever there may ex-
, ist people incapable of being govern
ed under American laws in consonance
with the American constitution, the
territory Of that people ought not to
be a part Of the American domain.
We insist that we ought to do for
the Filipinos what we have done al
ready for the Cubans. And it is our
duty to make that promise now and
upon suitable guarantees of protection
to citizens Of our own and other coun.
tries resident there at the time of our
withdraw. set the Filipino people upon
their feet. free and independent to
I work out their own destiny.
The endeavor of the secretary of
war by pledging the governments in
dorsement for promoters" in the Phil
ippine islands to make the United
States partner in speculative exploit
ation Of the archipelago, which was
| only temporarily held up by the oppo-
sition Of democratic senators in the
last session, will, If successful, lead
to embarrassment from which it will
| be difficult to escape.
The democratic party has been and
will continue to be the consistent op-
ponent of that class of tariff legislation
by which certain interests have been
permitted through congressional favor
to draw heavy tribute from the
American people. This monstrous per-
version Of those equal opportunities
which our political institutions were
established to secure 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 monopo-
lies, thus bringing to an end domestic
competition which was the only al
legged check upon the extravagant sys-
tenn. These industrial combinations,
by the financial assistance they can
give, now control the policy of the re-
publican party.
We denocnce protection as rob-
berry Of the many and enrichment of
the few and we favor tariff limited
to the needs of the government eco
nomically administered and so levied
as not to discriminate against any in
dustry. class or section to the end that
the burdens Of taxation shall be dis
tributed as equally as possible.
We favor revision. and gradual re-
duction Of the tariff by the friends OF
the masses, and for the common veal
and not by the friends of it's abuses,
its extortio1s and it's determinations
keeping in view the ultimate ends of
equality of burdens and equality of
opportunities, and the constitutional
purpose of raising revenue by taxa
ton, to-wit: the support of the federal
government IN all its integrity and vi
rility: but in simplicity"
We recognize that the gigantic trusts