Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-08-23

bic for their existence and which has
ever protested against their continuance.
we condemn the republican system OF
legislation under which trust monopolics
are enabled to exact higher prices for
their manufactured products from our
own people than they sell them for
aer@ad' o!JTs demand - s,,,.u.. -, ,,.
powers of the interstate commerce COM
mission, to the end that the travelling
public and shippers OF this country may
have a,,eo prompt ,nn and adeauate relief for the
matter of transportation
Monroe Doctrine.
We favor the maintenance OF the Mon
roe doctrine in its fun integrity
We favor liberal trade treaty with
Canada.
Army and Navy.
I'VE favor the reduction Of the army
and OF army expenditures to tho point his
torically demonstrated to be safe and
sufficient. We favor the maintenance and
best defense in our isolated continental
condition against a foreign foe, and a
source of no possible danger to our liber-
Capital and Labor.
I'VE 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
rights. but the rights OF labor are GER
talnly no less vested no less sacred
and no less 'inalienable than the rights
of capital
American Citizenship.
I'VE pledge ourselves to insist upon tho
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 naturalized 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
if
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 discrimina-
tions.
"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 a 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
administration. They must therefore
share with US the humiliation with which
we have witnessed the exaltation Of court
favoritess without distinguished service
over the Scared heroes of many battles;
or aggrandized by executive appropria-
tions out Of the t.easuries of a PROSTATE
people. in violation of the act of con-
gress which fixes the compensation ana
allowances of the military officers.
Merchant Marine.
I'VE denounce the ship subsidy bill re-
Gently passed by the United States SEN
ate as an ubiquitous appropriation OF
public funds for private purposes and q
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.
chant marine without new or additional
burdens upon the people and without
bounties from the public treasury.
Civil Service.
Tho democratic party stands commit
ted to the principles of civil service re-
form, and we demand their honest Just
and impartial enforcement
-. We denounce 1, the republican party for
its its, continuous s.: and nd sinister encroacn.
civil service rules, whereby it has arbi-
trariy dispensed with examinations for
office in the interest of favortes and
reach and set aside the principles upon
which the civil service was established.
Condemnation of PoIygamy.
I'VE demand the determination of po-
lygamy within the jurisdiction of the
United States and the complete separa-
tion of church and state in political at
fairs.
we congratulate our western citizens
upon the passage of the measure known
as 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 q
non.partizan vote and passed in the house
against the. opposition Of almost all the
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 furt her action Of congress- until
the reclamation of all the lands in the
arid west capable of reclamation is ac-
for homeseekers. in small tracts and rigid
Nv guarding against land monopoly. as an
evidence of the policy of domestic devel-
opment contemplated by the democratic
party should it be placed IN power.
Imp
I'VE favor the preservation, so far as
We can, of an open door for the world $
commerce in the orient without unneces-
European affairs and without arbitrary,
unlimited irresponsible and absolute gov
ernment anywhere within our jurisdc-
ton We oppose. as fervently. as did
George Washington himself, an Indefinite ,
irresponsible, discretionary and vague !
absolutism and policy of colonial ex
invoked or eXercised: We believe, with
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams that
no government has a right to make one
set of laws for those 'at home and an
other and a different set of laws, abso- !
lutte in their character, for those .in the
colonies. All men under the American
flag are entitled to the protection OF the
Institutions whose emblem the flag is: if /
they are inherently unfit for those inst-
tions, then they are inherently unfit to be |
members of the American body polite. I
Wherever there may exist people In
capable OF being governed under Amer /
lean laws, in consonance with the Amer [
lean constitution, the territory of that
people ought not to be part Of the Amer
team domain
We insist that we ought to do for the
FilipLnos what we have already done for
the Cubans. And it is our intent as soon
as 1t can be done wisely and safely for
the Filipinos themselves. and after amica- !
Bile arrangements with them concerning
naval stations, coaling stations and trade :
relations, and upon suitable guarantees
Of protection to all national and interna- |
tional interests. to settle the people upon
their feet, free and independent. to work
out their own destiny.
The endeavor of the secretary OF war.
by pledging the governments indorse-
ment for promoters IN the Philippine
ner. in speculative exploitation Of the
archipelago, which was only temporarily
held up by the opposition Of democratic
senators in the last session, will. If sue
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