Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-07-15

Constitutional guarantees are violated
whenever any person Is denied the right
to labor, acquire and enjoy property or
reside where interest or inclination may
determine. Any denial thereof to ndivi.
dual or organizations, by governments
should be summarily rebuked. aud pun
shed.
We deny the right Of any executive to
privilege or Limitation. Obedience to the
laws and respect for their requirements
are alike the supreme duty of the citizen
aud Official.
port anu maintain the law. We uneuaii-
fcdly condemn its employment for the sum
mary Punishment Of citizens Without trial,
or for the control OF elections
We approve the measure which passed
the United Suites senate in 1896 but
which republican congress has ever since
refused TO enact. relating to contempts in
federal courts, and providing for trial by
jury in cases Of indirect contempt.
We favor liberal appropriations for the
care and Improvement Of the water ways
of the country. When any water way like
the Mississippi river Is Of sufficient i'm
portance to demand special aid of the COY
eminent, such aid should be extended with
Il definite plan of con tinuOus work until
permanent Improvement IS secured.
We oppose the republican policy Of starv-
ing home development in order to feed the
greed for conquest and the appetite for
strength.
We recognize that the gigantic trusts
and combinations designed to enable cap
ital to secure more than its just share of
the joint product of capital and labor,
and which have been stored and pYo-
NOTED under republican rule, are menace
to beneficial competition and an obstacle
to permanent business prosperity.
We demand the vigorous and impartial
enforcement of laws already made to pre-
ont md rnl md I>i-,p
tions, and we favor such further legisla,
ton in restraint thereof as experience
shows to be necessary.
Corporations chartered by the authority
of the people must forever remain subject
to the interest of the people
private monopoly is indcfensible and
intolerable.
Individual equality of opportunity snd
free competition are essential to a healthy
and permanent commercial prosperity, and
any trust, combination or monopoly tend
ing to destroy these by controlling proluc-
ton restricting competition or fixing pric-
es, should be prohibited and punished by
law. We especially denonnCe rebates and
discrimination by transportation comDan-
les. as the most potent agency in pro.lot-
ing and Strengthening, these unlawful CON
Splracies against trade.
ANY trust or unlawful combination en-.
gagged in Interstate commerce which Is
monopolizing any branch of business or
production. should not be permitted to
llaESHtt DHSlfeSS OUTSIDE or the state OF
its. origin. Whenever II sha'l be estab-
lisled in any court of "omDetent jurisdic-
ton that such mOnopolAation exists, such
prohibition should be enforced Yrough
comprehensive laws to be enacted on the
subject.
We demand an enlargement of the pow
ers 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 they
are subject to in the matter Of transpor-
taticn.
The democracy when entrusted with DOW
er Will construct the Panama canal speed
lily. honestly and economically. thereby CIV
Ing to our people what democrats have al
ways contondhd for. a great intcroceanic
canal furnishing shorter and cheaper
lines or transportation and broader and
less trammeled trade relations with other
peODle of the world.
We pledge ourselves to insist upon the
Just and lawful protection of our citizens
at nome and abroad. and to use all proDer
measures to secure for them. whether M
tive born or naturaized. and without dis
tlhctlon or care or creed. the equal pro-
tectlon or laws and the enjoyment of all
the covenants of our treaties Of friendship
ard commerce: and If under existing
treaties the right of travel and soiourn 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 negotia-
tiohs with the governments of such coun-
tfles TO secure by. new treatise the removal
Oh these unjust determinations.
We demand that all over the world
passport issued by the government of the
uhited states to an American citizen shall
be proof of the fact that he is an Amer
lean citizen and shall cntltIe him to the
treatment due him rs such
we favor the maintenance Of the Mon
roe doctrine il its full integrity.
CaEada.
We favor The reduction of the army,
an! OF army expenditure TO the p.int has
tor!cnily demonstrated to be safe ana
The democracy would secure to the sur
VlVilIg soldiers and sailors and their de-
peho'AFs generous pensions, not by arbi-
trary executive order, but by legislation
which grateful people stand ready TO
enact.
our soldiers and sailors who defend
with their lives the constitution and The
laws, have sacred interest in their just
admins ration. They must therefore
we have witnessed the exa!tution of court
favorites, without distinguished service,
over the Scared heroes of many battles
or their ACKNOWLEDGEMENT by executive ap- |
preparations out of the treasures OF a pros |
trate People, in violation of the act of con-
gress which fixes the compensation and al
loWances of the military officers.
We denOunce the ship subsidy bill re- |!
Gently passed by the United States senate !
as an Ubiquitous appropriation OF public !
funds for private purposes. and a wastefui, !
illogical and useless attempt to overcome /
by subsidy the obstructions raised by re- !
publican legislation to the growth and de /
velopmert Of American commerce on the
sea.
We favor the upbuilding of a merchant
marine without new or additional bur-
dens upon the people and without boun-
ties from the public treasury.
The democratic party stands committed |
to the principles of civil service reform,
and demand their honest, just ana
impartial enforcement
We denounce the republican party for
its continuous and sinister entertainments
upon the spirit and operation of civil SER
vice rules, whereby it has arbitrarily dis
interest of favorltes. and employed ali
manner of devices to overreach and set
aside the principles upon which the civil
service was established.
iygamy within the jurisdiction of the
United States. and the complete separation
Of church and state in political affairs.
We congratulate our western citizens
upon the passage of the measure known
rs the, Newlands irrigation act for The
irrigation and reclamation Of the arid
lands of the west--a measure framed by
a democrat, passed in the senate by non
against the opposition Of almost all the
republl kln leaders by a vote the majority
of which was democratic. We call atten-
ton to this great democratic measure,
broad and comprehensive and it is work.
ng automatically throughout all time with
out further action of congress. until the re-
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