The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-07-15
american UIuxenship.

1--WE pledge ourselves TO insist uaon ,bs
just and lawful protection of our citizens
| at home and abroad and TO use ali pfUper
measures to secure for them, whether
native-born or naturalized, and withOut
distinction of race or creed, the actusi
/ protection of laws and the enjoyment N
all rights and privileges open 10 them
under the covenants of our treaties Of
| friendship and commerce. and it, under
existing treaties, the right of travel and
I sojourn is denied to American citizens or
| recognition is withheld from American
| passports by any countries on the ground
| If race or creed. we favor the beginnins
I. of negotiations with the governments oi
such countries TO secure, by new treaties
the removal of these unjust discrimina,
! lions.
Pensions.
1.-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 grateful people stand
/ ready to enact.
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
| fayorites, without distinguished service
| over the SCARED heroes of many battles;
! or aggrandized by executive appropra.
| tions out OF the treasures of a PROSTATE
people, in violation of the act of con.
gress which fixes the compensation and
allowances of the military officers
Merchant Marine.
1--WE denounce the ship subsidy bill re-
Gently passed by the United States sem
ate as an Ubiquitous appropriation Of
public funds for private purposes and
wasteful. illogical and useless attempt to
overcome by subsidy the obstructions
raised by republican legislation to the
growth and development of American
commerce on the sea.
1--WE favor the upbuilding of mer-
chant marine without new or additional
burdens upon the people and without
bounties from the public treasury
civil service.
1.-THE democratic party stands commit.
ted to the principles of civil service re-
form, and we demand their honest just
and impartial enforcement.
I'VE denounce the republican party for
its continuous and sinister ent tIo .;
civil service rules, whereby 1t has arbi-
trarily dispensed with examinations for
office in the interest OF favor1tes and
employed all manner of devices to over
reach ! ID set asst the principles upon
which the civil service was established
Condemnation Of POlygamy.
I've demand the determination of POI
lygamy within lie jurisdiction OF the
United States aIrd the complete separa'
ton of church and state in political al
fairs.
We congratulate our western citizens
upon the passage OF the measure known
as the Newiands irrigation act Tor tne
irrigation and rec.amation or the am
lands of the west--a measure framed by
a democrat passed In the senate by
non-partizan vote and passed In the mouse
against the opposition OF almo tS an a i tas
.iy of which was democratic We call al
tention to this great democratic measure
broad and comprehensive as IL Is, WORK.
T.. ttooIl xr
without further action OF congress, until
the reclamation of all the lands in the
arid west capable Of reclamation is &C.
complished reserving the lands reclaimed
for homeseekers in small tracts and rigid
IT, guarding against land monopoly, as an
evidence of the policy of domestic deve-
opment contemplated by the democfauc
party should it be placed power.
imperialism.
1--WE favor the preservation so far 49,
we can. of an open door for the worlds
commerca in the orient withou, uEAeces,
sary e4itanglement IN the oriental anu
European affairs and without afo.udy,
unlimited, irresponsible and absolute s0v'
ernmeHt anywhere within our Jurlsuise,
ton. We oppose. as feryentiy as aa
George Washington himself, an indefinlle
irresponsible, discretionary and Vague
absoiutism and policy of colonial ex.
ploitation, no matter where or Dy Wnoih
invoked or exercised: we believe, WIN
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, Una.
set Of laws fer those at home and an
other and a different set of laws. apso,
lutte in their character. for those IN tns
coionies.' All men under the American
flag are entitled to he protection OF tnss
institutions whose 1blem the nag is ~.
they are inherently Unfit for those llsh "a
tons, then they are inherently unilt 70 ~
members of the American body POLITE
Wherever there may exist peopie IN
capable of being governed under Amer.
lean laws, in consonance with the Amer.
lean constitution, the territory OIL tass
people ought not to be part of the Amef'
lean domain. A..
1--WE insist that we ought to do for w
Fiipinos what we have already done ~,
the Cubans. And 1t Is our intent as sooa
as 1t cam be done wisely and saley ,n 40.
The F'ilipinos themselves, and after AMIGA
ble arrangements with them conceI Iads
naval stations, coaling stations ana tIa TAU
relations, and upon suitable guaran.ee
Of protection to all national and lnternar
tional interests to settle the people uposs
their feet, free and independent. 10 WoiA
out their own destiny. o.
"The endeavor of the secretary o. ao ~a
by pledging the government sr,,liInnins
ment for promoters IN the ni u ppart.
islands, to make the United States a.hs
ner in speculative exploitation oil tnv
archipelago which was only tempo arahe
hold up nv the opposition of demoscf sns.
senators In the last session, VIII, tanele.
ment, from which It will be difhcuN
escape.