The Monticellonian., 1904-07-14

ot 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 diserimiua- tions.
 Pensions.
 "The democracy would secure to the surviving soldiers and sailors and their dependents generous pensions. not by an arbitrary executive order, but by lesis- lati9n which d 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 admnistration. 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; or aggrandized by executive appropria- tiCns out of the treasuries of q prostrate people, in violation of the act of con; gress which fixes the compensation and allowances of the military officers
 Merchant Marine.
 We denounee the ship subsidy bill re- gently passed by the United States sen ate an iniquitous appropriation of public funds for private purposes and 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.
 We favor the upbuildng of a mer- chant marine without new or additional burdens upon the people and without bounties from the public treasury.
 Civil Service.
 The democratic party stands commit ted to the principles of ciVi! service re- form, and we demand their honest just and impartial enforcement.
 I've denounce the republican party for its continuous and sinister encroach- ments upon the spirit and operation of civil service rules, whereby il 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 Poiygamy.
 We demand the eXtermination If po- lygamy within the Jurisdiction of the United States and the complete sepa.a- tion of church and state in political af- 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 d democrat, passed i'll the senate by q uon-utftizan vote and passed in the house against the opposition of almost all the republican leaders by t vote the major fly of which was democratic. Ne call att tentioa to this great democratic measure, broad and comprehensive as 1t is, work ing automatically throughout all time without further action of congress. until the reclamation of all the lands in the arid west capable of reclamation is ac- eomplished reserving the lands reclaimed for humeseekers in small tracts and rigid
  evidence of the policy of domestic deVe!- oplnent contemplated by the democratic party should il he placed iii power.
 imperialism.
 I've favor the preservation, SD ia: as We can, of an open door Tor the world B eommerce. in the orient without uuneCes= sary cntanglement in the oriental and EUTopcar affairs and without arbitrary. unlimited, irresponsible and ab. olute gov ernment anywhere within our Jurisdic- tion. We oppose. as ferNentlN aS dld George Washington himself, an indefinite, irresponsible, discretionary and vague abSoutism and a 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 q right to make one set of laws for those at home and an other and different set of laws, abso- lute 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 insti- tions. then they are inherently unfit to be members of the American body polite. Wherever there may exist people in capable of being governed under Amer ican laws. in Consonance with the Amer ican constitution, the territory of that people ought not to be part of the Amer ican domain.
 We insist that we ought to do for the Filipinos what we have already done for | the Cubans. And it is our intent, soon as it can be done wisely and safely for the Filpinos themselves, and after amica- ble arrangements with them concerning l naval stations, coaling stations and trade | relations and upon suitable guarantees l of protection to all national and interua- l tional interests to settle the people upon | their feet, free and independent, to wOsk 1 out their own destiny.
 The endeavor of the secretary of war, | by pledgine the governments indorse- | ment for promoters in the Philippine l islands to make the United States q part ner in speculative exploitation of the l archipelago, which was only temporarily | held up bY the opposition of democratic 1 senators in the last session. viii if sue | cessful. lead to a permanent entangle- ment, from which 1t will be difficult to | escape
 l Statehood for Territories.
 We favor statehood for Oklahoma and l the Indian territory. statehood for Ari- zona. statehood for New Mexico and d | territorial government for Porto Rico. ]