Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-07-14

In view the ultimate ends of equality OF
burdens and equality OF opportunities, :
and the constitutional purpose of raising
a revenue by taxation, to wilt, the sup
port of the federal government In all It's
integrity and vlrility, but in simplicity.
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 indiVi-
dual or organizations, by governments
should be summarily rebuked. and pun
lshed.
We deny the right of any executive to
disregard or suspend any constitutional
privilege or limitation. Obedience to the
laws and respect for their requirements
are alike the supreme duty of the citizen
and Official.
The military should be used only to sap
port and maintain the law. We unsuali-
hedly condemn its employment for the sum-
mary Punishment Of citizens without trial,
or for the control of elections #. H..
We approve the measure which passed
| the United States senate in 1895, 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 go.-
eminent. such aid should be extended with
definite plan of continuous 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
national prestige and display OF
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 fOstered and pyO-
NOTED under republican rule, are a menace
to beneficial competition and an obstacle
TO permanent business prosperity
We demand the vigorous and impGrtial
enforcement of laws already made to pre-
vent and control such trusts and combina.
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 indefenslble and
intolerable.
Individual equality Of opportunity and
free competition are essential to healthy
and permanent commercial prosperity, and
any trust, combination or monopoly tend
ing to destroy these by controlling proiuc-
ton, restricting competition or fixing pric-
es. should be prohibited and punished by
law. We especially denounce rebates and
discrimination by transportation compan-
les. the most potent agency In pro.lot-
ing and strengthenin.; these unlawful CON
spiracies against trade.
Any trust or unlawful combination en-
gagged in interstate commerce which IS
monopo!izing any branch of business or
production. should not be permitted to
transact business outside of the state of
its origin. Whenever it shall be estab-
lisfed in any court Of competent jurisdic-
ton that such monopOlization exists such
prohibition should be enforced through
comprehensive laws to be enacted on the
subject
We demand an enlargement Of the now
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 thew
are subject to in the matter of transpor-
tati0n.
The democracy when entrusted with DOW
err will construct the Panama canal speed
llY, honestly and economically, thereby CIV
ing to our people what democrats have al
ways CCntended for. a great interOceanic
canal. furnishing shorter and cheaper
lines of transportation and broader and
less trammeled trade relations with other
peODle of the world
We pledge ourselves to insist unon the
Just and lawful protection of our citizens
at home and abroad and to use all proper
measures to secure for them. whether ma
I'VE born or naturalized and without dis
JUNCTION OF care or creed. the equal pro-
lection of laws and the endowment of all
rights and privileges open to them under
the covenants of our treaties of friendship
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-
IONS with the governments Of such cOun-
tries to secure by new treatise the removal
or these unjust Determinations
we demand that all over the world a
passport issued by the government of the
United States to an American citizen shall
be proof OF the fact that he is an Amer
ican citizen and shall entitle him to the
treatment due him as such
We favor the maintenance of the Mon
roe doctrine in its full integrity.
We favor liberal trade treaty with
We favor the reduction of the army.
"and or army expenditure to the point his
sufficient.
The democracy would secure to the sur
wing soldiers and sailors and their de-
penutSts generous pensions, not by arbi-
trary executive order but by legislation
which a grateful people stand ready to
Our soldiers and sailors, who defend
with their lives the constitution and the
laws. nave sacred interest in their just
admins ration. They must therefore
share with us the humiliat ton with Wa.ch
we have witnessed the exaltation of court
fav9rites, without distinguished service.
over che Scared heroes of many battles
or their ACKNOWLEDGMENT by executive APP
q IL
trate people, in violation of the act of con
gress which fixes the compcnsa ton 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 Instructions raised by re-
publican legislation to the growth and de
velOpment of American commerce on the
sea.
We favor the upbuiIding of merchant
marine without new or additional bur
ties from the public treasury.
The democratic party stands committed
to the principles of civil service reform,
and we demand their honest, just ana
impartial enforcement.
We denounce the republican party for
its continuous and sinister encr0achments
upon the spirit and operation of civil ser
vice rules, whereby it has arbitrarily dis
pensed with examinations for Office in the
interest OF favorites, and employed ali
manner of devices to overreach and set
aside the principles upon which the civil
service was established.
We demand the determination of po-
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
as the Newlands irrigation act for The
irrigation and reclamation Of the arid
lands OF the WeSt-d uitdSuIt w
a democrat passed in the senate by non
partisan vote and passed in the house
against the opposition OF almost all tue
republican leaders by a vote the majority
of which was democratic. We call atten-
ton to this great democratic measure,
broad and comprehensive, and 1t Is work
ing automatically throughout all time with
ont further action of congress, until the re-
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