The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-07-13
EXECUTIVE UsURPATION.

= principles Of the constitution who will
set his face sternly against executive
usurpation Of legislative and judicial
functions, whether that usurpation
be yelled under the guiSe Of executive
construction of existing laws, or
whether it take refuge in the tryant'S
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
absolutism and policy of colonial eX-
ploitation, no matter where and 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
sat home" and another and a different
set of laws, absolute in their char
acter for those Sin the colonies" All
men under the American flag are en-
titled to the protection of the institu-
tions 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 ex-
ist a people incapable Of being govern
ed under American laws, in conso-
nance with the American constitution
of that people ought not to be part
of the American domain.
! We insist thatWe ought to do for the
Filipinos what we have done already
for the Cubans, and it is our duty to
make that promise now, and upon suit
abe guarantees Of protection to cit
iZens of our own and other countries
resident there at the time of our with
drawal, 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 endorse
ment for promoters in the Philip
pine Islands to make the United States
a partner in the speculative legislation
of the archipelago, which was only
mporarily held up by the opposition
Of the Democratic senators, in the last
session, will, if successful, lead to en-
tanglements from which it will be diff
fcult to escape.
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. This monstrouS
perversion of those equal opportunities
which our political institutions were
established to secure, has caused what
once may 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 meth
DDS, been converted into monopolieS,
thus bringing to an end domestic COM
petition, which was the only alleged
check upon the eXtravagant profits
made possible by the protective system.
These industrial com mbinations, by the
financial assistance they can give, now
control the policy of the Republican
party.
We denounce protection as a 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 not to
discriminate against any industry,
class or section, and to the end that
the burdens of taxation shall be dis
tributed as equally as possible.
We favor revision and a gradual
reduction Of the tariff by the friends
of it's abuses, it's extortions and its
determinations, keeping in view the
ultimate ends of equality Of burdens
and equality Of opportunities and the
contitutional purpose OF raising a
revenue by taxation, to wit: the sup
port OF the federal government in all
its integrity and virility, but in SIM
plicity.
TRUSTS AND UNLAWFUL CoMBINA-
TIoNs.
We recognize that the gigantic
trusts and combinations designed to
enable capital to secure more than its
just share in the joint pr. ducts OF
capital and labor, and which have
been fostered and promoted under Re
publican rule, are a menace to benet-
cial competition and an obstacle to per-
manent business prosperity. q private
monopoly is indefensibIe and intoler-
able.
Individual equality Of opportunity
and free competition are essential to a
healthy and commercial prosperity and
any trust, combination or monopoly in
tending to destroy these by controlling
production, restricting competition or
fixing prices, should be prohibited and
punished by law. We especially de-
nounce rebates and discrimination by
transportation companies as the most
potent agency in promoting and
STRENGTHENING these unlawful con-
spiracies against trade.
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 prompt and ad-
euuate relief from the abuses to which
they are subjected in the matter Of
transportation. We demand strict
enforcement Of existing civil and
criminal statutes against all such
trusts, binations and monopolies;
and we demand the enactment OF such
further legislation as may be necessary
to eTectually suppress them.
Any trust or unlawful combination
engaged in interstate commerce which
is monopolizing any branch of busi-
ness or production, should not be per.
mitted to transact business outside of
the State of its origin. Whenever it
shall be established in any court Of
competent jurisdiction that such
monopolization exists, such prohibi-
tion should be enforced through COM
prehensiye laws to be enacted on the
subject.
RECLAMATION OF ARID LANDS.
We congratulate our western citi-
zens upon the passing Of the law
known as the NeWlands irrigation act
for the irrigation and reclamation Of
the arid lands Of the west; a measure
framed by a Democrat, passed in the
senate by a nOn-OartiSan vote and