Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1904-07-14

Capital and labor ought not to be enc
mics. 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 s.inalienable"
than the rights Of capital.
PROTECTION OF CITIZENS.
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 n~aturalized, and with
out distinction of race Or creed, the
equal protection of laws and the en-
joyment of all rights and privileges
open to them under the covenants OF
our treaties of friendship and COM
merce; and if under existing treaties
the right Of travel and ~sojourn is de-
MED to American citizens or recog-
milton is withheld from American pass
ports by any countries on the ground
Of race or creed, we favor the begin
ming Of. negotiations with the govern
ments of such countries to secure by
new treaties the removal of these UNI
Just determinations.
Pensions: The Democracy would
secure to the surviving soldiers and
sailors and dependents generous pen
slOns, not by an arbitrary executive
order, but by legislation which CRATE
full people stand ready to enact. Our
soldiers and sailors who defend with
their lives and constitution and the
laws have a sacred interest in their
just administration. They must, there
fore, share with us the humiliation
with vyhi0h yv0 hnrA vyit1n oNn0I kh~ -
altatiOQ of court favorites, without dis
tinguished service, owe the SCARED he
roes of many battle, or aggrandized by
executive appropriations out of the
treasures Of a PROSTATE people, in VIC
letion of the act OF Congress which
fixes the compensation and allowances
of the military officers.
SHIP SUBSIDY BILL DENOUNCED.
Merchant Marine: We denounce the
ship subsidy bill recently passed by the
United States Senate as an Ubiquitous
appropriation of public funds for pri-
vate purposes and a wasteful, illogical
and useless attempt to overcome by
subsidy the distractions raised by Re-
publican legislation to the growth and
development of American on
the sea. We favor the upbuilding Of a
merchant marine without new Or addi-
tional burdens upon the people and
without bounties from the public
treasury.
Civil Service: The Democratic
party stands committed to the prin-
ciples of civil service reform, and we
demand their honest, just and impair
t;al enforcement. We %denounce the
Republican party for it's continuous
and sinister entertainments upon the
spirit and operation of civil service
rules, whereby it has arbitrarily dis
penSed with examinations for office in
the interests of %favorites and employed
! all manner of devices to over-reach and
set aside the principles upon which the
civil service was established.
Condemnation of Polygamy: We de-
mand the determination of polygamy
within the jurisdiction of the United
States, and the complete separation OF
church and State in political affairs.
Reclamation of Arid Lands and Do
nestle Development: We congratulate
our Western citizens upon the passage
of the measure known as the New.
lands irrigation act for the irrigation
and reclamation of the arid lands of the
West-a measure framed by a Demo.
crat, passed in the Senate by a non.
partisan vote and passed in the. House
against the opposition Of almost al
the Republican leaders by a vote, thu
majority Of which was Democratic. W.
call attention to this great Democrat,
measure, broad and comprehensive as i
is working automatically Throughout
all time without further action Of Con
gress until the reclamation of all TIT
lands in the arid West capable of re
ciamation is accomplished, ~reservin.
the lands reclaimed for home-seeker
in small tracts and rigidly guardin.
against land monopoly as an evidence
OF the policy of domestic development
contemplated by the Democratic party
should it be placed in power"