Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-07-16

crease OF business, Tor charging pro-
ductive capacity and for decreasing
the cost of production: but when
such combination in it's purpose, or
effect, creates or tends to create a
monopoly in its production, to re-
strain trade. or to stifle competition;
to increase cost to the consumer, or
to control the market it violates the
spirit of our laws, becomes inimical
to public welfare and peace and
should be SO regulated, controlled or
prohibited by law as to amply pro-
tect the public interests.
We demand that the restraint of
such illegal combinations be intrust-
ed to the Democratic party, which is
not responsible for their existence.
and which has ever protested against
their continuance.
We condemn the republican sys-
tenn of legislation under which trust
mOnOpolies are enabled to exact high
er prices for their manufactured pro-
ducts from our own people than they
sell them for abroad.
We demand an enlargement of the
| powers of the interstate commerce
commission, to the end that the tray
cling public and shippers of this coun-
try may have prompt and adequate
relief for the abuses they are subject
ed to in the matter of transportation
We favor the enactment and adj
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 'inalienable" than the rights of
capital.
We pledge ourselves to insist upon
| the just and lawful protection of our
citizens at home and abroad, and to
use all proper measures to secure for
them, whether native-born Or natural
lied, and without distinction of race
or creed, the actual protection of law
aid the enjoyment of all rights and
! privileges open to them under the
! covenants of our treaties of friend
! ship and commerce, and if under ex-
listing treaties the right of travel and
sOjOurn is denied to American citi.
zens, or recognition is withheld from
American passports, by any countries
on the ground of race or creed, we
favor the beginning of negotiations
with the governments of such coun-
tries to secure by new treaties the
removal of these unjust discrimina-
tiOns.
The democracy would secure to
the surviving soldiers and sailors and
their dependents generous pensions,
not by an arbitrary executive order
but by legislation which a grateful
! DPOn1P stand rGo6u 10
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
humiliation with which we have wit
messed the exeltation Of court favor
ties, without distinguished service,
over the SCARED heroes of many bat
ties; or aggrandized by executive ap-
preparations out of the treasures of
a PROSTATE people, in violation of the
act of congress which fixes the COM
/ pcnsatiOn and allowances of the mil
itary officers.
We denounce the ship subsidy bill
! recently passed by the United States
senate as an Ubiquitous appropriation
Of public funds for private purposes
and a wasteful, illogical and useless
attempt to overcome by subsidy the
obstructions raised by Republican leg
islation to the growth and develop
ment of American commerce on the
sea.
We favor the upbuilding of a mer-
chant marine without new or addi-
tional burdens upon the people and
without bounties from the public
treasury.
The Democratic party stands com
mitted to the principles of civil SER
vice reform, and we demand the hon
est just and impartial enforcement.
We denOunce the Republican party
for it's continuous and sinister en-
crOachment upon the spirit and opera
tiCn OF civil service rules, whereby it
has arbitrarily dispensed with exam
| nations for Office in the interest of
favorites, and employed all manner
of devices to overreach and set aside
the principles upon which the civil
service was established.
We demand the determination of
polygamy within the jurisdiction of
the United States and the complete
separation of church and state in
political affairs.
We congratulate our western citi-
zens upon the passage of the meas
ure known as the Newlands irriga-
ton act for the irrigation and reclaim
alton of the arid lands of the west
a measure framed by a Democrat,
passed in the senate by a non-partisan
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 Democrat
ic measure, broad and comprehensive
as ii is, working automatically
throughout ell time without further
| action of congress, until the reciama-
ton of all the lands in the arid west
capable Of reclamation is accom-
plished, reserving the lands reclaimed
for homeseelIers in small tracts, and
rigidIy guarding against land monop-
oily, as an evidence OF the policy of
| domestic development contemplated
| by the democratic party, should it
be placed in power.
TIE Harp Of Tara.
The real harp that once through
-ara's hall the soul of music shed" is
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