The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-07-12
al impartially their just rights.

to maintain -he law. We condemn it's
employment for the summary Danish
ment of citizens without trial, or for
the control of elections
We approve the senate measure of
1896 providing for trial by jury in
cases of indirect contempt of federal
court.
eve favor liberal appropriations for
the care ard improvement of the wa
terways of the country.
We oppose the Republican policy
Of starving home development in order
to feed the greed for conquest and the
appetite for national prestige and dis
play of strength.
Large reductions can easily be
made in the annual expenditures Of
the government without impairing the
efficiency of any branch of the public
service and we shall insist upon the
Etrictest economy and frugality com
patihle with vigorous and efficient
civil. military and naval administra-
tiOn as a right of the people too clear
to be denied or withheld.
eve favor the enforcement of hon
esty in the public service and to that
end thorough legislative investiga-
tion of those executive departments Of
the government already known to
TEEN with corruption, as well as other
departments suspected of harboring
corruption, and the punishment of as
certained corruptionists without fear
or favor or regard to persons.
eve condemn the action Of the Re-
publican party in congress in refusing
to prohibit an executive department
from entering into contracts with con-
vA,ted trusts or unlawful combina-
tions in restraint of interstate trade
'sWe favor the nomination and cleo
tion of president imbued with the
principles Of the Constitution, who
will set his face sternly against execu-
tive lsurpation of legislative and judi
cial functions.
"We favor the preservation, so far
as we can, of an open door for the
worlds commerce in the Orient, with
out an unnecessary ENHANCEMENT in
Oriental and European affairs, and
sponsible and absolute government
oppose a policy of colonial exploita-
ton, no matter where or by whom in
voked or exercised. We insist that
have done already 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 countries resident there at the
time OF our Withdrawal, Set the Fiji
pino people upon their feet, free and
independent to work out their own
destiny.
'The Democratic party has been and
will continue to be the consistent op-
ponent of that class of tariff legisla-
tion by which certain interests have
been permitted through congressional
favor, to draw heavy tribute from the
American people. The special favor
ties OF the government by it's meth
DDS have been converted into mo-
nopolies, bringing to an end domestic
competition. These industrial COM
binations, by the financial assistance
they can give, now control the policy
of the Republican party.
We denOunce protection as rob-
berry of the many to enrich the few
and we favor a tariff limited to the
needs of the government, economically
administered and so levied as to not
discriminate against any industry.
class or section, to the end that the
burdens of taxation shall be distribut-
ed as equitably as possible We favor
a revision and a gradual reduction of
the tariff by the friends of the masses
and for the common veal, and not by
the friends of it's abuses, to support
the federal government in all it's pow
er and authority, but in simplicity.
We recognize that the gigantic
trusts and combinations designed to
enable capital to secure more than it's
just share of the joint products of
capital and labor and which have been
fostered and promoted under Republi-
can rule are "a menace to beneficial
competition and an obstacle to perma-
nent business prosperity. Monopolies
that destroy competition should be
prohibited. We especially denounce
rebates and discrimination by trans
portation 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 interstate commerce
commission, to the end that the travel
ing public and shippers of this coun-
try may have prompt and adequate re
lief for abuses. We demand a strict
enforcement of existing civil and
criminal statutes against all such
trusts, combinations and monopolies;
and we demand the enactment of such
further legislation as may be neces-
sary to effectually suppress them.
We congratulate our Western citi-
zens upon the passing of the law
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WOULD CONSTRUCT CANAL
QUICKLY AND ECONOMICALLY.
.'The Democracy when entrusted with
power will construct the Panama canal
speedily, honestly and economically.
thereby giving to our people wha'
Democrats have always contended for
"a great inter-oceanic canal.
1--WE pledge ourselves to insist up
on the just and lawful protection of
our citizens at home and abroad.
"We favor the election Of United
the people. q
We favor the admission of the ter
ritories OF Oklahoma and the Indian
Territory. We also favor the imme-
diate admission of Arizona and New
Mexico as separate states and a ter
ritorial government for Alaska and
Porto Rico.
We demand the determination of
polygamy within the jurisdiction of
the United States and the complete
separation of church and state in po-
itical affairs
We denounce the ship subsidy bill
recently passed by the United States
senate as an incautious appropri iation
Of the public funds for private mr.