The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1904-07-15
Declares For Gold.

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day, until o'clock, in perfecting the
details Of the Democratic platform.
concluding at that hour with the
adoption of gold standard plank.
The plank was voted on during the
absence of Mr.. Bryan and Congress
man Williams, and the ballot stood
seven to three, the Affirmative votes
being cast by Messrs. Daniel. Hill,
Pattison, Hamlin. Cable, Poe and
Davis, and thel negative votes by
Messrs. Dubois. Shively and New
lands.
The understanding was that, If
Messrs. Bryan and Williams had been
present, they would have cast their
votes in the negative, thus bringing
the opposition vote to five.
The discoveries of gold within the
past few years, and the great in
crease in the production thereof, add
ing $200,00O,000 to the worlds sup
ply, of which $70,000,000 falls to
the share of the United States, has
contributed to the maintenance of a
money standard of value, no longer
open to question, removing that issue
from the field of political contention.
Our party having long earnestly ad-
vocated the construction of inter-
oceanic 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 dis
approval Of the methods by which,
in disregard of the usages and obliga-
lions 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
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 sub
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
monopoly in it's production, to re-
strain trade, or to stifle 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-
TEN of legislation under which trust
monopolies are enabled to exact high
err 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 ad-
l ministration of laws giving labor and
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Capital and labor ought not to be
enemies. Each is necessary to the
other. Each has its 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
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