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ton of public funds for private pur-
poses and wasteful, illogical and
useless attempt to overcome by sub
sidy the Instructions raised by Re-
publican legislation to the growth
and development of American COM
merce on the sea.
I'VE favor the upbuilding of
merchant marine without new or adj
ditional burdens upon the people
and without bounties from the pub
lie treasury.
CIVIL SERVICE
1.-THE Democratic party stands
committed to the principles of civil
service reform, and We demand their
honest, just and impartial enforce
ment.
I'VE denounce the Republican
party for it's continuous and sinister
entertainments upon the spirit and
operation of civil service rules,
whereby it has arbitrarily dispensed
with examinations for office in the
interests of favorites, and employed
all manner of devices to oVerreach
and set aside the principles upon
which the civil service was estab-
liShed.
CONDEMNATION OF PoLYGAMY
I'VE demand the determination of
polygamy within the jurisdiction of
the United States and the complete
separation of church and state in DO
Htical affairs.
RECLAMATION OF ARID LANDS
AND DOMESTIC DEVELOPMENT
We congratulate our Western cit
lzens upon the passage of the meas
ure known as the Newlands irriga-
ton act for the irrigation and re-
elamatIon of arid lands of the West
measure framed by Democrat,
passed in the senate by nonpartisan
vote, and passed in the house against
the opposition of almost all the Re-
publican leaders by a vote, the ma
Jority of which was Democratic. We
call attention to this great Demo-
cratic measure, broad and eompre-
hensive as it is, working auto
matically throughout all time with
out further action of congress. until
the reclamation of all the lands in
the arid West capable of reclamation
is accomplished, reserving the lands
reclaimed for homeSeekers in small
tracts, and rigidly guarding against
land monopoly, as an evidence of the
policy of domestic development con-
templated by the Democratic party,
should it be placed in power. :
IMPERIALISM
I'VE favor the preservation, in so
far as we can, of an open door for
the worlds commerce in the Orient
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trusts and combinations designed to
enable capital to secure more than
its just share of the 5oint product of
capital and labor. and which have
been fostered and promoted under
Republican rule, are menace to
beneficial competition and an OBJ
.staelese TO permanent business pros
perity.
I'VE demand the vigorous and inns
partial enforcement of the. laws al
ready made to prevent and control
such trusts and combinations. and
we favor such further legislation in
restraint thereof as experience shows
to be necessary. -
Corporations chartered. by author
lily. of the. people must forever re-.
main subject to regulation III the in
terest of the people. 49,; $500. .s :.
"A private MONOPOLY lis defensible
and intolerabie. We recognize the
right of capital, in all legitimate lines
of enterprise. to combine for the M -
crease of business, for enlarging
productive capacity and for decreasz
ipgafhe cost of production; butssWEen.
such combination nssits purpose, or
effect, creates ols tends toseFeate al
monopoly in its productions, to re-
strain trade, or to stife competition;
to. increase cost. to the consumer. or.
To- EOHt -1fiSS ItidEheCi 1t violates the,
spirit of our laws becomes tinindeals
to public welfare and peace, and
Should be se5feguaated, centreRed#ers
prohibited by law asesto amply pro
stect the public Interests g &
we demand that the: restraint of
such Illegal conbina tons he thrust
ed to the Democratic par (which
is not responsible for st heir existence,
r and which has ever protested against
their continuance 81
I'VE condemn the Republican sys-
tenn of legislation .undeE@Which trust
nonopolies are enabled to exact
higher prices for Their naanufa ctured
products from our own people than
they sell them for abroad.
1--WE demand an enlargement Of the
powers of the interstate commerce
commission, to the end that the trav-
cling public and shippers of this
country may. have proufH and ade-.
qiiate relief for the abuses they are
subjected to in the raatKsr of trans
;portation.
MONROE DOCTRINE
1--WE favor the maintenance of the
Monroe doctrine in its fun Integrity.
RECIPRoGIE
"We favor a liberal IHade treaty
with Canada: sss.i@-zess7s,.ea,
ARMY AND My
I'VE favor the reduction of the
army and of army expenditure to
the point historically demonstrated
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president. change appears to have
come DER the spirit of their dream, if
Hon. Francis B. LOOMS, assistant secre
tary of state, can be believed That IL
lustrious public functionary recently
swung around the circle in New York
and elsewhere to Survey the situation"
Upon his return to Washington he deliv-
cred himself of an interview, in which
inter ala he says:
while in New York 1 spent two days
on Wall street, chatting with many rep
resentatives of the financial interests, and
l find that there is no longer any DISPOSE
ton to make a fight. and in accepting the
situation the feeling toward Mr.. Roose-
welt seems to have undergone a change.
and l heard many friendly comments.
confess was surprised at the extent of
Yes, indeed, "the feeling toward Mr.
Roosevelt seems to have undergone a
change'-among the Wall street trust
magnates, and Brother LoomiS ''heard
many friendly commercially the afore-
said trust magnates.
Mr. Loomis does not vouchsafe to an
eager and inquisitive world the reasons
why Wall street feeling has undergone
such a change as to cause Wall street
magnates who were erstwhle abusing the
president as a menace to the republic to
make many friendly comments upon him
now.
Has the president changed his views or
have the trust magnates changed theirs?
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ultimate end of equality of burdens
and equality of opportunities and the
constitutional purpose of raising a rev.
enue by taxation, to-wit:
the support of the federal govern
ment in all its integrity and virility,
but in simplicity; and keeping also in
existing conditions however wrongfully
mistakenly or unjustly brought about,
and the danger to the cause of tariff re-
form itself of abrupt and revolution
airy reversal of policy.
We should bear in mind. in short:
these two things: First, the general
principle that the sole derivation of
the power of taxation is the. support
of the federal government. eeonomi-
caliy. effectively and constitutionaily
administered. and. second, the equal
truth that. in the assertion of any
general principle and in reaching any
ultimate end, however sacred and
logically unavoidable, due regard must
and should be paid to actually exist
ing conditions.
5. We favor the reduction of tariff
taxation upon trust-produced articles
to the point where foreign conpeti-.
ton may enter the American market
whenever trusts and combines. seek
ing monopoly. raise their price to the
American consumer above a reason
able and, Just profit; by.ssuch reduc-
ton oeprlylng trusts ana monopolies-
OF the power to, extert from the
American people. under the Shelter Of
American law, prices higher than those
charged foreigners for identical articles
THE MONEY QUESTION :
THE discoveries of gold within the
past few years and the great in
reasesin@the production thereof, add
ing two thousand million dollars to
the worlds supply. of which seven
hundred million falls to the share of
the United States, has. contributed to
the maintenance of a money stand
ard of value. no longer open to- ques-
uon, removing that issue from the
field of political contention . -
THE ISTHMIAN CANAL
Our party having long earnestly adj
Focated the construction of an inter-
oceanic canal for the purposes of ma
lonal defense and commerce between
the states and with foreign nations,
we favor the early completion of the
lSthmian canal. But while making
this declaration and accepting the
results as an accomplished and ir-
reversible fact, we cannot too forci-
bly, express our .disapproval of the
methods by which, in Disregard of
the usages and obligations of inter
national law and treaty obligations,
the canal route has been acquired,
or too solemnly record our hope that
this precedent of defiant diplomacy
may never be used against us to our
humiliation and injury.
TRUSTS AND UNLAWFUL COM
BINATIONS
I'VE recognize that the gigantic
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to be safe and sufficient.
I'VE favor the maintenance and lib
eral annual increase of the navy as
our best defense in our isolated con-
tlnental condition against a foreign
: foe, and a source of no possible dan
ger to our liberties as a people.
CAPITAL AND LABOR
IS We favor the enactment and ad-
ministration 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 it's rights, but the
rights of labor are certainly no less
vested, . no less sacred and no less
]. sssinalienable" than the rights Of capt.
tai. -
AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP
1--WE pladge ourselves to insist upon
the just and lawful protection of our
/ cftfzens at home and abroad. and to
usesaH proper measures to secure for
them, whether native-born or natu-
= Isaiizedss and without distinction of
race or creed, the equal 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 if I'M
. der. existing treaties the right of
travel and sojourn is denied to
american citizens, or recognition is
:Swfthhelde from American passports
by any countries on the ground of
race or creed, we favor the begin
ming of negotiations with the gov
ernmepts of such countries to secure
by new treaties the removal of these
unjust DETERMINATIONS.
PENSIONS
THE Democracy would secure to
the. surviving soldiers and sailors
and their dependents generous pen
sions, not by an arbitrary executive
order, but by legislation which a
grateful people stand ready to en-
act.
Our soldiers and sailors who de-
fend with their lives the constitution
and the laws have "a sacred interest
in their just: administration. They
must therefore share with us the hu-
initiation with which we have wit
messed the exaltation of court ia
Gyofites;5 without distinguished sery-
ice, over the SCARED heroes of many
battles. or aggrandized by executive
appropriation out of the treasures
of PROSTATE people, in violation Of
the act of congress which fixes the
compensation and allowances of the
military officers.
ss 1s4sssss. MERCHANT MARINE
we denounce the ship subsidy bill
recently passed by the United States
senate as an iniquitous appropria-
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without unnecessary ENHANCEMENT
In Oriental and European affairs, and
without arbitrary, unlimited, ire
sponsible and absolute government
anywhere within our Jurisdiction. We
oppose, as fervently as did George
Washington himself, an indefinite ir-
responsible, discretionary and vague
abSolutlsm and policy of colonial ex-
plo1tation, no matter where or by
whom invoked or exercised; we be-
Heve 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
dlHerent set of laws, absolute in their
character, for those in the colonies
ALI men under the American flag are
entitled to the protection of the in
situations whose emblem is the flag:
If they are inherently unfit for those
institutions, then they are inherently
unfit to be members of the American
body polite. Wherever there may
exist a people incapable of being
governed under American laws in
consonance with the American con-
stitution, the territory of that people,
ought not to be part of the American
domain.
I'VE insist that We ought to do
for the Fflipinos what We have al
ready done for the CubanS And
it is our intent, as soon as it can be
done wisely and safely for the Fill
plnes themselves and after amicable
arrangements with them concern
ing naval stations, coaling stations
and trade relations, and upon suit
able guarantees of protection to all
national and International interests,
to set the Filipino people upon their
feet free and independent, to work
out their own destiny.
THE endeavor of the secretary
of war by pledging the governments
Endorsement for promoters in the
Philippine islands to make the
United States a partner in specu-
lative exploitation of the archipel-
ago which was only temporarily held
up by the opposition of Democratic
senators in the last session. will, if
successful, lead to a permaent en-
tanglement from which it will be
difficult to escape.
STATEHOOD FOR TERRITORIES
I'VE favor statehood for Oklahoma
and the Indian territory, statehood
for Arizona, statehood for New Mex
leo and a territorial government for
Porto Rico.
ELECTION OF SENATORS BY
THE PEOPLE
I'VE favor the election of United
States senators by direct vote of the
people"
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NIT Mr.. Knox to be senator-for Gov.
Pennypacker, who nominally made the ap-
pointment does not appear to have been
considered at all in the premises.
knox's Trust Friends
The amazement of the people will grow
like Jonah's gourd-vine when they learn
that Mr.. Frick is the heaviest stockholder
in the steel trust; that Mr.. Cassatt is
president of the Pennsylvania railroad
company, which is one of the defendants
in the coal trust suit now pending, and that
Mr.. Cameron represented the Standard
Oil trust and Wall street interests in
.persuading Boss Penrose to let Mr.. Knox
go to the senate.
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The, Democratic position on the
tariff is this: Recognizing the fact
that a large portion of our revenue
has always been raised from GUS
toms duties, or taxes, Democrats
divide, all imports into three class
es-necessaries, comforts and lux
uries-and contend that the tariff
taxes should be higher on iuxuries,
lower on comforts and lowest or
pone4at all on the necessaries. They :
furthermore say that taxes should
be Uniform on all articles. belong
ing to one class.
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Choose We between us in November Not
quite all Republican statesmen believe it
right. Once in a while ray of light
breaks in upon the benighted intellects Of
a Republican.
Quotes Rabcock's Example
For example, a year or two ago Hon.
J. w. Babcock of Wisconsin. chairman of
the Republican congressional committee,
had a lucid interval and advocated in sew
eral Interviews the cutting down of tariff
rates when they are so high as to encourage
the formation of trusts and when they en-
abled the manufacturer to sell his wares
cheaper abroad than at home. He went
farther and introduced bills to that eff
of Babcock and by coaXing, bullying or
other means checked his ardor as a tariff
reformer, since when he has been as dumb
as an oyster.
| am citing Babcocks performance in
his moment of lucidity to show that to
advocate the cutting down of outrageous
tariff as in the foregoing case, does not
prove that man is thee enemy of his
country as the standpatters would have
you believe.
The stand pat organs and speakers
claim that only antiquated sorts of our
manufactured articles are 9;Sold abroad
cheaper than TO Americans at home. That
theory is very ingenious, but unfortunate
~ it is not true, for steel lfails are sold
abroad at So per ton less than they are
sold at home. and the fashions in steel
rails remain the same, or substantially so.
Will he or some other Standpatter
explain why Americans should be made
to pay one-third more for American steel
rails than the citizens of other nations
pay for them?
He may answer as did Representative
Olmstead of Pennsylvania; that the rail-
road companies pay for the steel rails. and
that it is the business of melody else how
much they pay for them BUT Olmstead
had more courage. than information for
everybody with two ideas above Hotten-
tot knows that everybody sha travels on
a rai,2oad. everybody that ships anything
on one. everybody that uses anything SO
shipped. helps ray for the steel rails. The
railroad companies foot the bills in the
first instance and then make their Gus
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toners repay them with interest-at the
highest rate the traffic will bear.
Not Hostile to Industries
Of a piece with the foregoing false pre-
lenses is that other one that Democrats
would destroy American industries. There
is not a syllable of truth in it, Why
should they desire to destroy industries?
They are vitality interested in maintain
ing them and they wish to see them all
have an equal chance and not by fostering
some at the expense of others.
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The trust magnates who secured the
senatorial toga for Mr. Knox, since they
that famous trust buster ought to compel
the young ruffianly scions of great trust
houses who sometime ago insulted and
to go down on their knees and make to
him the amende honorable. Then all will
be loyely-away the trust and the trust
buster
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Folks who still dare to thinl& will be
forced to one of two conclusions: First.
either that Mr.. Knox is the only lawyer
in America capable. of conducting a suit
against truSt-which is absolutely pre-
posterous for there are hundreds of law
yers as able as he-and that the trusts
were anxious to get him out of the at
torney generals Office because they fear
him more than they dorany other human
being; or, secondly, that the Knox anti
crusade has been bunco game from the
beginning and that MessrS. Prick, Cas-
Satt and Cameron. together with those
whom they represent. procured for him
the senatorship as reward for favors al
ready rendered the trusts secretly while in
the cabinet and to be hereafter rendered
in the senate.
According to the. press reports. Presi-
dent Roosevelt stood by conSenting to the
transfer of Knox from the cabinet to the
senate just as Paul stood by CONSUMING
to the stonfng of Stephen.
One paper says: "The president is
greatly pleased that Mr.. Knox will accept
the position which looks as though he
is glad to be rid of him.
Wall Street Sentiment Changes
Here is another straw: 1t has been told
in Gath and proclaimed on the streets of
Askalon by the Roosevelt .Shouters for
these many months that the trust mag
nates-especially those whose habitat lair
is Wall street-are bitterly opposed to the
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would be nominated on the first ballot. In
deed, the impression is general that in.
spite of Senator Hills desire to allow the
first ballot TO pass it willsdevelop enough
votes to nominate.
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Plain people cannot be blamed
for being bewiidered by all this
Kaleidoscope performance. They
cannot be censured because by an
old process they figure 1t out that
two and two make four and that
the transfer of Mr.. Knox from
cabinet to senate at the behest of
Messrs. Frick, Cassatt and Came
ron, taken in connection with the
change of feeling in Wall street in
favor of the president. has sinis-
ter meaning.
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Let Republican speiipinaers and
editors explain why An ssAmerican
farmer should pay from 4 third to
one-haIf more for an. American
pow than his competitor in farm
ina pays for it In Australia or
South America or at the ends of the
EARTH Democrats say it is wrong
and they stand by the American
farmer. Republicans say lit is
right and they stand by the Aus
traIian and South American farm
erS - So
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Why have things come to this
shameful, this pitifui complexion
in country that has the NEST
material for ships and sailors in
the world? Because our exorbitant
tariff system made it impossible
for an American to build ship In
competition with the British ship
builders on the river Clyde.
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T 20 THE CONVENTION

Continued From Sixth Page
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Choose We between us in November Not
quite all Republican statesmen believe it
right. Once in a while a ray of light
breaks in upon the benighted intellects Of
a Republican.
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Here we have the strange spec
tacle-the mystifying anomaiy-of
three of the chief trust magma
in the land securing the appoint
ment to the senate of Attorney
General p. C. Knox, who has been
exploited far and wide as the great
est trust buster on terra firna.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-03-16
FRENCHMAN'S WAR SCHEME.
Would Capture Japanese Fleet by
Huge Submarine Magnets.

Paris. March 1-,.-E.very time war
hrraES ont hctWCrn two atoms their rep
rc%ontatiVCS arc flooded with offers from
inventors Of the most remarkable de
vices.
During the war Of 1870 it was suggested
that MI ,h" lions and tigers of the Iartiin
dos llant"$ be turned lu,Sc oJtSid" the
gates of Paris among the i'rIISSian troops.
An English Inventor has now tried to
sell to tn" .!apan'sr ambassador at Lon
don y small Iill tn" size Of pea. guar
nnt""'i {" contain enough nouriSh,1"nt
for Il soldier for three days, while Il
French inventor is begging the Russian
ambassador here Ia max" his government
adopt new submarine boat which he
has invented.
This Submarine boat. he says. possesses
an enormous magnetic power. enabling
it to attract the largest h1ttleShip at'oat
ana fore" it to follow il into any desired
harhor.
The inventor s%yS that using this it
would he possible 10 draw the Who'll" Jap
ancs" navy into tn" harhor of Port Ar
thur, whcr" il might i" transferred t. the
Gar and under changed colorS be used
to attack the shores Of japan.
The only drawback is that the japanese
guns might cause some damage in thu
harbor of Pert Arthur. ana this is PROB
ably the reason why Russia has declined
to make use Of the Inventors kind Offer
Evidently the Cars representative
thinks that an invention which would
keep the japanese iioEclads away from
Port Arthur would lie of more practical
value
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-03-16
ACCEPT SCALE OFFERED.
Opinion Of Majority of Coal Mine
Operatives.

indianapolis, Ind. March 15.-One
hundred and ninety thousand coal min :
crs OF Indiana. Illinois. Ohio. western
and central Pennsylvania, Michigan.
Iowa. eastern Kentucky. West Virginia
ana Maryland, dropped their picks, to-
day, to cast their ballots on the propo-
sit!on to accept or refuse the offer Of
the mine workers for a two-years scale
at a reduction of 81 Per cent. from the
present scale of wages.
The ballots will be forwarded to the
national headquarters here, and will
be counted, Thursday.
Reports have been received here
from about so points. In practically
al of them. including towns in Indiana,
Ohio, West Virginia, western Pennsyl-
vania and Illinois, the sentiment as
voted is heavily is favor of accepting
the scale as offered. President Mitchell
and Secretary Wilson remained mt the
national headquarters of the United
Mine Workers of America tonight.
Both were confident that the miners
had voted in favor of the scale.