The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1904-07-16

be, to Jeffersopian simplicity of living.
We favor the nomination and cleo
ton of a president imbued with the prin-
ciples of the constitution who will set
his face sternly against executive usurp-
alton of legislative and judicial func-
under the guise of executive construc-
ton of existing laws or whether 1t takes
refuge in the tyrants plans of neces-
sity or superior wisdom.
Imperialism.
We favor the preservation so far as
we can of an open door for the worlds
commerce in the Orient without an un-
necessary ENHANCEMENT in Oriental and
European affairs and without arbitrary,
unlimited, irresponsible and absolute
diction We oppose. fervently, as did
George Washington himself, an indefi-
mite, irresponsible, discretionary and
vague absolutism and a policy of colo
NAL exploitation, no matter where or
by whom exercised; we believe with
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, that
set of laws for those at home and an
other and a different set of laws, abso-
lutte in their character, for those lin
the colonies"
All men under the American flag are
entitled to the protection of the insti-
tutions whose emblem the flag is; If they
a she body poc eers @
there may exist people incapable of
being governed upon American laws UNI
der the American a constitution ~ the terri re
the American domain We insist that
we ought to do for the Filipinos
what we have done already for the Gu.
bans, and it is our duty to make that
promise now, and. upon suitable guar
antees of protection to citizens of our
own and other countries resident there
ha tir,,o of ntIr Wit T1 yya
Filipino people upon their feet, free and
independent to work out their own des-
tiny.
The endeavor of the secretary of war.
by pledging the governments indorSe
ment for promoters in the Philippine
islands, to make the United States part
ner in speculative legislation for the ar
chipelago, which was only temporarily
held up by the opposition of the Demo-
cratic senator's in the last session, VIII,
from which it will be difficult to escape.
The Tariff.
The Democratic party has been, and
will continue to be, the consistent OPP
ponent of that class of tariff Legislation
by which certain interests have been
permitted, through congressional favor,
to draw heavy tribute from the Amer
lean people. This monStrOuS perverStOn
of those equal opportunities which our
institutions were established to secure
has caused what may once have been
has ever known These special favor
ties of the government have through
trust methods been converted into mon
opolies. thus bringing to an end domes
tic competition, which was the only al
legged check upon the extravagant profits
Thus, 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
favor a tariff limited to the necessities
of the government economically admin
istered and so levied as not to discrimi-
nate against any industry, class or sec
ton, to the end that the burdens of tax
alton shall be distributed as equally as
possible.
We favor a revision and a gradual re-
duction of the tariff by the friends of
the masses and for the commOnweal and
not by the friends of it's abuses, it's
extortons and its determinations. keep
ing in view the ultimate ends of equal
ity of burdens and equality of oppor-
tunites," and the constitutional purpose
of raising a revenue by taxation. to-
wit. for the support of the federal gov
eminent in all it's integrity and virility,
but in simplicity.
Trusts and Unlawful Combinations.
We RECOGNIZE that the gigantic trusts
and combinations designed to enable
capital to secure more than it's just
share of the joint products of capital
and labor, and which have been fostered
and promoted under Republican rule,
are a menace to beneficial competition
and an obstacle to permanent business
prosperity.
A private monopoly is indefensible and
intoerable.
Individual equality of opportunity and
free competition are essential to a
healthy and permanent commercial pros
perity; and any trust. combination or
monopoly tending to destroy these by
controlling production, restricting com
petition or fixing prices. should be pro-
hibited and punished by law.
We especially denounce rebates and
companies, as the most potent agency
in promoting and strengthening these
unlawful conspiracies against trade. We
demand an enlargement of the powers
of the interstate commerce commission,
to the end that the travelling public and
shippers of this country may have
prompt and adequate relief for the
abuses to which they are subjected in
the matter of transportation. We de-
mand a strict enforcement of existing
civil and criminal statutes against all
such trusts, combinations and monopo-
lies and we demand as may be neceS-
sary to effectually suppress them.
Any trust or unlawful combination en-
gagged in interstate commerce which is
monopolizing any branch of businesses or
production should not be permitted to
transact business outside of the state of
it's origin. Whenever il shall be estab-
lished in any court of competent juris-
diction that such monopoliZation exists.
such prohibition should be enforced
through comprehensive laws to be enact
ed on this subject.
Reclamation of Arid Lands.
We congratulate our western citizens
upon the passage of the law known as
the Newlands irrigation act for the irri-
CATION and reclamation of the arid lands
or the WeSt-a measure framed by a