Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-09-13

ever protested against their continuance.
legislation under which trust monopolies
are enabled to exact higher prices for
their manufactured products from our
abroad.
I'VE demand an enlargement OF the
powers OF the interstate commerce COM
mission. to the end that the travelling
public and shippers Of this country may
have prompt and adequate relief for the
abuses they are now subjected to In the
matter OF transportation.
Monroe Doctrine.
I'VE favor the maintenance Of the Mon
roe doctrine in its full integrity.
I'VE favor liberal trade treaty with
Canada.
Army and Navy.
we favor the reduction OF the army
and OF army expenditures to the point his.
torically demonstrated to be safe and
sufficient. We favor the maintenance and
eera h6st ~ OF the navy as our
condition against foreign foe. and
source OF no possible danger to our liber-
ties as people.
Capital and Labor.
I'VE favor the enactment and adminis-
tration Of laws. giving labor and capital
impartially their just rights Capital and
labor ought not to be enemies. Each is
neGessary sthts St to , the 9ther. Each has Its
tainly 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 10 use all proper
measures to secure for them, whether
native-horn 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
friendship and commerce, and if, under
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
the removal OF these unjust discrimina-
tons.
Pensions.
'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
with their lives the constitution and the
laws have a sacred interest in their just
administration They must therefore
share with us the humiliation with which
we have witnessed the exaltation of court
favorites; without distinguished service.
over the Scared heroes Of many battles:
tions out of the treasures Of a PROSTATE
people, in violation, of the act of con-
RreSS Wn1CN ilXeS the compensation and
allowances Of the military officers.
Merchant Marine.
1--WE denounce the ship subsidy bill r4-
Gently passed by the United States SEN
ate as an iniquitous appropriation OF
public funds for private purposes and a
overcome by subsidy the distractions
raised by republican legislation to tho
growth and development of American
commerce the sea.
1--WE favor the upbuilding of a mer-
chant marine without new or additional
bounties from the public treasury.
Civil Service.
"The democratic party stands commit
ted to the principles of civil service re-
form, and we demand their honest, Just
and impartial enforcement.
I'VE denouncs the republican party for
its continuous and sinister encroach-
ments upon the spirit and operation Of
civil. service rules, whereby it has arbi-
office in the interest 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.
I'VE demand the determination OF po-
lygamy within the Jurisdiction of the
United States and tine complete separa-
tion Of church and state in political af-
fairs.
We congratulate our western citizens
upon the passage OF the measure known
AZ tne NeNidnuS lflSdllOn act the
irrigation and reclamation OF. the arid
lands of the west-a measure framed by
democrat, passed in the senate by a
non-partizan vote and passed in the house
against the opposition Of almost all tho
republican leaders by a vote the major
.ty Of which was democratic. We call at
broad and comprehensive as it is, work.
ing automatically throughout all time
Without further action Of congress. until
arid west capable of reclamation Is ac-
complished, reServing the lands reclaimed
for homeseekers. in small tracts and rigid.
lv guarding against land monopoly, as an
evidence Of the policy of domestic devel-
opment, contemplated by the democratic
party should 1t be placed IN power.
Imperialism.
1--WE favor the preservation so far as
we can. of an open. door for the worlds
commerce i'll the orient without unneces-
sary ENHANCEMENT in the oriental and
unlimited irresponsible and absolute gov.
ernment anywhere within jurisdic-
ton. We oppose. as ferxently, as did
George Washington himself, an indefinite,
irresponsible. discretionary. and vague
absolutism and policy of colonial ex-
Ploitation, no matter where or by whom
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
Lutte in their character, for those .in the
colonies Az men under the .America2
Ad6 are cHlllleU 10 lue protection or the
Institutions whose emblem the flag is: If
they are inherently unfit for those insti-
tions, then they are inherently unfit to ba
members of the American body polite.
Wherever there may exist people in.
capable Of being governed under Amer
lean laws, III conSonance with the Amer
tcan constitution. the territory of that
people ought not to be part of the Amer
tcan domain.
I'VE insist that we ought to do for the
F1lipinos what we have already done for
n
the Filipinos themselves. and after amica-
bls 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.
1.-THE endeavor of the secretary of war,
by pledging the governments indorse.
ment for promoters. IN tho Philippine
ner in speculative exploitation Of tn.
archipelago, which was only temporarily