Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-07-14


open to question, removing that issue |
from the field of political contention.
Our party having long earnestly ad |
vocated the construction of inter- |
canal for the purpose of ma
tional defense and commerce between |
the states and with foreign nations, |
we favor the early completion of the |
isthmian canal
But while making this declaration |
and accepting the results as an &C.
complished and irreversible fact, we |
cannot too forcibly express our di-
of the methods by which, |
in disregard of the usages and obliga- |
tons Of international 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.
We recognize that the gigantic
trusts and combinations designed to
enable capital to secure more than its
just share of the joint product of cap
ital and labor, and which have been
fostered and promoted under repub-
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competition and an obstacle to per.
manent business prosperity.
We demand the vigorous and impair
tial enforcement of the laws already
made to prevent and control such
trusts and combinations, and we favor
such further legislation in restrain
thereof as experience shows to be
necessary.
Corporations chartered by author
ity of the people must remain SUBJ
ject to regulation in the interest of
the people.
A private monopoly is indefensible
and intolerable. We recognize the
right of capital in all legitimate lines
of enterprise to combine for the in
crease of business, for charging pro-
ductive capacity and for decreasing
the cost of production; but when
such combination in its purpose, or
effect, creates or tends to create a
monopoly in its production, to re-
strain trade, or to stif1e 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 trav-
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
and 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-
lions.
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
people stand ready to enact.
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 exaltation 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
pensation and allowances of the mil
itary officers.
We denounce the ship subsidy bill
recently passed by the United States
senate as an iniquitnus appropriation
of public funds for private purposes
and a wasteful, illogical and useless
attempt to overcome by subsidy the
distractions raised by Republican leg
islation to the growth and develop
ment of American commerce on the
sea.
We favor the upbuilding of q 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
ton 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