The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-07-12

from entering into contracts with
convicted trusts on unlawful combi-
nations in restraint of interstate trade.
We believe that one Of the best
methods of procuring economy and
honesty in the public service is to
have public officials. from the occu-
pant of the White House down to the
lowest of them. returned as nearly as
may be to Jefersonian simplicity OF
living.
Executive Usurpation.
We favor the nomination and cleo
ton of a president imbued with the
principles of the constitution who will
set his face sternly against executive
usurpation of legislative and judi
cial functions. whether that ursurpa-
ton be veiled under the guise OF exc
cutivc construction of existing laws,
or whether it take refuge in the ty-
rants pleas of necessity or superior
| wisdom.
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
without arbitrary. unlimited. irrespon-
sible and absolute government any,
where within our Jurisdiction. We
oppose. as fervently as did George
Washington himself. an indefinite, ir-
responsible. discretionary and vague
absolutisn and a policy Of colonial eS-
pIoitation. no matter where and by
whom invoked OF exercised: we be-
lieve with Thomas Jefferson and John
Adams. that no government has
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 ''in the colonies"
All men under the American flag are
entitled to the protection OF the instl-
tutions whose emblem. the flag is: if
they are inherently unfit for those in
stitutions. then they are inherently
unfit to be members of the American
body polite. Wherever there may
exict people incapable of being gov
erned under American laws. in conso-
nance with the American constitution
OF that pepole ought not to be part
Of the .Ameican domain. ..
We insist that we ought to do for
the Filipinos what we have done al
rady for the Cubans. and it is our
duty, to make that promise now, and
upon suitable guarantees OF protec-
ton to citizens of our own and other
countries residents there at the time
of our withdrawal. set the Filipino
people upon their feet, free and inde-
pendent to work out their own desti-
| ny.
The endeavor of the secretary Of
war BY pledging tine governments en-
dorsement for promoters" in the
Philippine Islands to make the United
States partner in the speculative leg
islation of the archipelago, which was
only temporarily held up by the oppo-
sition of the Democratic senator's. in
| the last session. will. il successful,
lead to entaglements 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 legisla-
ton by which certain interests have
been permitted. through congressional
favor. to draw heavy tribute from
the American people. This monstrous
perversion of those equal opportuni-
ties which our political institutions
were established to secure, has caused
what once may have been infant in
dustries to become the greatest COM
binations OF capital that the world has
ever known. These especial favorites
of the government have. through
trust methods, been converted into
monopolieS. thus bringing to an end
domestic competition which was the
only alleged check upon the extragant