The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-09

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But while making this declaration
and accepting the results as an ac-
complished and irreversible fact, we
cannot too forcibly express our disap-
prevail 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
hone that this precedent of defiant
diplomacy may never be used against
us to our humiliation and injury.
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 product OF
caDitaI and labor and which have
been fostered and promoted under Re
publican rule. are menace TO bene-
fetal competition and an obstacle to
permanent business prosperity.
We demand the vigorous and I'M
partial enforcement of the laws al
ready made to prevent and control
such trusts and combinations and we
favor such further legislation III re-
straint thereof as experience shows
to be necessary.
Corporations chartered by authority
of the people must forever remain
subject to the regulation in the in
terest 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 enlarging 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 productions, To restrain trade
or to stifie 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 protect the public
interests.
We demand that the restraint of
such illegal combinations be entrusted
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 all enlargement of the
powers CT the Interstate commerce
commission to the end that the tray
cling public and shippers OF this
country may have prompt and ade-
quate relief for the abuses they are
subjected to in the matter of trans
portation.
The Monroe Doctrine
We favor the maintenance of the
Monroe I)nPt Fina i'm to fI1II int
Reciprocity.
We favor liberal trade treaty with
Canada.
Army and Navy.
We favor the reduction of the army
and of army expenditure to the point
historically demonstrated to be safe
and sufficient.
We favor the maintenance and lib
eral annual increase of the NAVY as
our best defense in our isolated CON
conditions against foreign foe
and source of no possible danger to
our liberties as a people.
We favor the enactment and adj
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 CAPT
tai.
American Citizenship.
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 nat
uraliZed, and without distinction of
L,
laws and the enjoyment of all rights
and privileges open to them under
the covenants of our treaties 0t
friendship and commerce; and if un-
der existing treaties the right Of
travel and sojourn is denied to Amer
lean citizens or recognition is with
held from American passports by any
countries on the ground of race OF
creed we favor the beginning of ne
gotiations with the governments Of
such counties to secure by new trea-
ties the REMOVAL Of these unjust dis
Pensions.
The Democracy would secure to the
soldiers and sailors and
their dependents, generous pensions.
not by an arbitrary executive order.
but by legislation which a grateful
people Sjdnu IedCy 70 cilotCI'
s Our 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 humilia-
ton with which we have witnessed
the eXaltation of court faVorites.
without distinguished service, over the
SCARED heroes of many battles; or ag
grandized by executive appropriations
out of the treasures of q PROSTATE
people, in violation of the act of Con
gress which fixed the compensation
and allowances of the military Off
GERS.
Merchant Marine.
We denounce the ship subsidy bill
recently passed by the United States
Senate as an iniquitous appropriation
Of public funds for private purposes
and a Wasteful, illogical and useless
attempt to overcome by subsidy the
distractions raised by Republican leg
station to the growth and develop
ment of American commerce on the
sea.
We favor the upbuilding of a mer-i
chant marine without new or addI7
.ional burdens upon the people ana
without bounties from the pubic
treasury.
Civil Service.
The Democratic party stands COM
,,;ttad tn the princiDieS of civil SeriI