The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-07-14


merce IN the orient, without an nnneces-
sary ENHANCEMENT in oriental and Euro
pean affairs. and without arbitrary. un-
limited, irresponsible and absolute gov
eminent anywhere within our jurisdic-
tion. We oppose. al ferevently as did
George Washington himself an Indefinite
irresponsible, discretionary and vague alb
solutism and a policy of colonial exploita-
ton, no matter where or by whom invoked
or exercised; we believe with Thomas JEFF
ferson and John Adams. that no govern
ment has a right to make one set of laws
for those Eat home" and another and a
different set Of laws, absolute in charac-
ter, for those Sin the colonies" All men
under the American flag are entitled to the
protection of the institutions whose en-
blem the flag Is; If they are inherently un-
fit for those institutions. then they are
inherently unfit to be members Of the
American body polite. Wherever there
may exist people incapable of being gov
erned under American laws, In consonance
with the American constitution of that
people ought not to be part of the Ameri-
can domain.
we insist that we ought to do for the
Filipinos what we have done already for
the Cubans, and 1t 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 Filipino people
upon their feet, free and independent to
work out their own destiny.
The endeayor of the secretary of war, by
pledging the governments Endorsement for
promoters" in the Philippine islands to
make the United States partner in specu-
latve legislation of the archipelago, which
was only temporarily held up by the oppo-
sition of the democratic senators, in the
9 YAnI tNn
tanglements from which 1T will be difficult
to escape.
The Tariff.
The democratic party has been, and
will continue to be. the consistent oppo-
nent of that class Of tariff Legislation by
which certain interests have been per-
mitted, through congressional favor, to
draw heavy tribute from the American
people This monstrous perversion of
those equal opportunities, which our POI
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 mo-
nopolies, thus bringing to an end domes-
tic competition, which was the only al
legged 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 ia
vor tariff limited to the needs of the
government, economically administered
against any industry. class or section, to
the end that the burdens of taxation
snail be distributed as equally as posi-
BILE.
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 ex-
tortions and its Determinations, keep
ing in view the ultimate ends of equal
ity of burdens and equality of opportu-
mites" 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.
...... Trusts.
We recognize that the gigantic trusts
and combinations, designed to enable
capital to secure more than its Just share
of the joint products, of capital and labor,
and which have been fostered and pro-
NOTED under republican rule are a mem
ace to beneficial competition and an OBJ
stacie to permanent business, PROSPERITY
A private monopoly is iRdefensible and
lntolerable. Individual equality of omar
tunity and free competition are essential
to a healthy and permanent commercial
prosperity, and any trust, combination or
monopoly tending to destroy these by
controlling production, restricting COM
petition or fixing prices, should be pro-
hlblted and punished by law. We espec-
laIly denounce rebates and discrimina-
ton by transportation companies, as the
a IN
strengthening these unlawful conspira-
cies against trade.
We demand an enlargement of the pow-
ers of the interstate commerce COMMITS
sion, TO the end that the travelling public
and shippers OF this country NAV have
prompt and adequa,e relief for the abuses
10 which they are subjected in the mat
ter OF transportation. We demand
strict enforcement of existing civil and
criminal statutes against all such trusts
combination and monopolies; and we
demand the enactment of such further
legislation as may be necessary to effect
ually suppress them.
ANY trust or unlawful combination en-
gagged il interstate commerce which e
iGonopolizing any branch of business mr.
should not be permitted RI
transact business outside of the stare ~
Its origin. Whenever l. shall be estah-
nshed in any court of competent iurie-
dlctlon mat such monopoliza ton exists
such prohibition should be enforced
through comprehensive laws to be enact
ed on the subject.
Reclamation of Arid Lands.
We congratulate our western citizens nm
on the passing of the law known as the
NeWlands irrigation act for the Irrigation
ana reclamation of the arid lands of the
west, measure framed by a democrat,
passed In the sene re by nonpartisan vote
and passed in the house against the oppo-
sltion Of almost all the republican leaders
by vote, the majority of which was aemo-
cratic. - N'1N
We call attention to this great democratic
measure, broad and comprehensive as II
Is, working automatically throughout ali
TINE without further action of congress
until the reclamation of all the lands IN
the arid west capable of reclamation is ac-
complished, IeseEving the lands reclaimed
for homeseekers in small tracts, and rigid
~ guarding against land monopoly, as an
evidence of the pCNcy of domestic develop
ment contemplated by the democratic
party, should II be placed in power.
Isthmian Canal.
The democracy when intrusted with pow
er will construct the Panama canal speed
lily, honestly and economically, thereby
giving to our people what democrats have
always contended fora great inter ocean