Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-08-14

We condemn the republican system Of
legislation under which trust monopoics
are enabled to exact higher prices for
their manufactured products from our
own people than they sel them for
I'VE demand an enlargement OF tho
powers. OF the interstate commerce COM
mission, to the end that the travelling
public and shippers of this country may
have prompt and adequate relief for the
abuses they are now subjected to in the
matter OF ,,ansnortantion, a,,.! nn,.,
I'VE favor the maintenance of the Mon
roe doctrine in its full integrity
I'VE favor liberal trade treaty with
Canada.
Army md Navy.
I'VE favor the reduction of the army
and of army expenditures to the point his
torically demonstrated to be safe and
sufficient We favor the maintenance and
liberal annual increase OF the navy as our
best defense in our isolated Isolated sontneatai
source of no possible danger to our liber-
ties as people.
Capital and Labor.
1--WE favor the enactment and admins.
tration 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 its
rights, but the rights of labor are GER
tanly no less vested no less sacred
and no less 'inalienable' than the rights
of capital.
American CttlZenshtH.
I'VE 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 naturaiized, and without
distinction of race or creed, the actual
protection of laws and the enjoyment of
all rights and privileges open to them
under the covenants of our treaties Of
friendship and commerce, and if, under
existing treaties, the right of travel and
sojourn is denied to American citizens, 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 countries TO secure, by new treaties.
the removal OF these unjust disCrilnna-
tionS.
Pensions.
'The democracy would secure to the
surviving soldiers and sailors and their
dependents generous pensions. not by an
arbitrary executive order. but by legis-
lation which Il grateful people stand
ready to enact
sOur soldiers and sailors who defend
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 witnessed the exaltation of court
favorites. without distinguished service.
over the Scared heroes of many battiesi
or aggrandized by executive appropria-
tions out of the treasures of a PROSTATE
people, in violation of the act of con-
gress which fixes the compensation and
Merchant Marine.
eve denounce the ship subsidy bill re-
Gently passed by the United States SEN
ate as iniquitous appropriation ot
/ public. funds fer private purposes and a
overcome by subsidy the distractions
raised by republican legislation to the
growth and development of American
1--WE favor the upbuilding of a mer-
E, chant marine without new or additional
] burdens upon the people and without
! bounties from the public treasury
Civil Service.
THE democratic party stands commit
! ted to the principles Of civil service re-
| form, and We demand their honest. just
! and impartial enforcement:
I I'VE denounce the republican party for
it's continuous and sinister encroach-
ments upon the spirit and operation of
! civil service rules, whereby 1t has arbi-
! trarily dispensed with examinations for
office in the interest of favorites and
! employed all manner of devices to over
i reach and set aside the principles upon
| which the civil service was established.
| COnLe of POlySamy.
Eve demand the determination OF po.
| United States and the complete separa-
| tion of church and state in political af-
fairs.
| We congratulate our western citizens
| upon the passage of the measure known
as the Newlands irrigation act for the
lands OF the west-a measure framed by
democrat, passed in the senate by a
against the opposition Of almost all the
republican leaders by vote the major
| ity of which was democratic We call at
! tention to this great democratic measure,
broad and comprehensive as it Is, work.
ing automatically throughout all time
! without further action Of congress-: until
arid west capable of reclamation is ac-
complished, reserving the lands reclaimed
for homeseekers in small tracts and rigid
lv guarding against land monopoly. as an
evidence Of the policy of domestic devel-
opment contemplated by the democratic
party should 1t be placed IN power.
imperialism.
1--WE favor the preservation, so far as
we can. of an open door for the world s
commerce. in the orient without unneces-
sary ENHANCEMENT In the oriental and
unlimited, irresponsible and absolute gov
ernment anywhere within our jurisdic.
ton. We oppose. as ferVently as did
irresponsible, discretionary. and vague
absolutism and a policy of colonial eX-
ploitation, no matter where & or by whom
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, that
no government has right to make one
other and a different set Of laws, abso-
lutte in their character, for those in the
colonies All men under the .America1
flag are entitled to the rotection of tbs
Institutions whose emblem the flag Is: II
they are inherently unfit for those insti.
tions. then they are inherently unfit to be
members Of the American body polite
Wherever there may exist people In
capable of being governed under Amer
lean laws, in consonancs with the Amer.
lean constitution, the territory Of that
people ought not to be part OF the Amer.
lean domain.
eve insist that We ought to do for the
Filipinos what we have already done fol
the Cubans. And it Is our intent as sooI
as 1t can be done wisely and safely fol
the F'ilipinos themselves. and after amica.
BILE arrangements with them concerning
, naval stations. coaling stations t and trad.
Of protection to al matte national and interna
,, their feet. free and Independent. to worl
out their own destiny.
, 1.-THE endeavor Of the secretary Of war
by pIedglng tho government's indorse
,, ment fof promoters, IN tse Philippine
.. ner. in speculative exploitation Of tn,
archipelago. which was only temporaril,
! held up BY the opposition Of democratic
senators IN the last session. will; II sue
fror vuhjrh yRpi11 diffrn1t n