The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-07-15

ferson and John Adams, that no govern
ment has right to make one set of laws
for those lat home and another and a
different set of laws, absolute in charac-
ter, fer those sin the colonies" ALI men
under the American flag are entitled to the
protection of the institutions whose en-
blem the flag is; II they are inherently un-
fit for those institutions, then they are
inherently unfit to be members Of the
American body polite. Wherever there
may exist people incapable of being gov
erned under American laws, in consonance
with the American constitution of that
people ought not to be part or the Ameri-
can domain.
we. insist that we ought to DO for tne
Filipinos what we have done already Tor
the Cubans, and 1t is our duty to make that
promise now, and upon suitable guarantees
of protection to citizens of our own and
other countries resident there at the time
of our withdrawal, set the FLIP inc people
upon their feet, free and independent TO
work out their own destiny.
The endeaVor of the secretary OF war, Dy
pledging the government s Endorsement for
promoters" in the Philippine islands to
make the United States a partner in specu-
lative legislation of the archipelago, wn pal
Sition of the democratic senators, IN the
last session, will, If successful, lead 70 en-
tanglements from which it will be difhcuit
to escape.
The Tariff.
The democratic party has been, and
will continue to be, the consistent oppo-
nent of that class of tariff legislation by
which certain interests have been per-
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draw heavy tribute from the American
people. This monstrous perversion OF
those equal opportunities, which our po-
cure, has caused what may once have
been infant industries to become the
greatest combinations of capital that the
world has ever known. These especial
faVOrifpS have through
trust methods been converted into mo-
nopolies, thus bringing to an end domeS-
tic competition, which 1i was the only a al
its made possible by the protective sys-
tenn. These industrial combinations, by
the financial assistance they can give
now control the policy of the republican
party.
We denounce protection as a robbery OF
the many to enrich the few, and we IA
vor a tariff limited to the needs of the
government economically administered
against any industry, class or section, to
the end that the burdens of taxation
shall be distributed as equally as posi-
BILE.
We favor a revision and a gradual re-
duction of the tariff by the friends of the
masses and for the common veal, and
not by the friends of it's abuses, it's ex-
tortions and it's Determinations, keep
ing in view the ultimate ends of equal
ity of burdens and equality of opportu-
mites" and the constitutional purpose OF
raising a revenue by taxation, to-wit the
support of the federal government in all
its integrity and virility, but in sim
plicity.
Trusts.
We recognize that the gigantic trusts
and combinations designed to enable
capital to secure more than it's just share
of the joint products of capital and labor
and which have been fostered and pro-
NOTED under republican rule, are a men
ace to beneficial competition and an OBJ
stacle to permanent business prosperity.
private monopoly is iEdefensible and
intolerable. Individual equality of oppor-
tunity and free competition are essential
to healthy and permanent commercial
prosperity, and any trust combination OF
monopoly tending to destroy these by
controlling production, restricting. com
petition or fixing prices, should be pro-
hibited and punished by law. We espec-
tally denounce rebates and discrimina-
ton by transportation companies as the
most potent agency in promoting and
strengthening these unlawful conspira-
cieS against trade.
We demand an enlargement of the pow
ers of the interstate commerce commits
sion, to the end that the travelling public
and shippers of this country may have
prompt and adequate relief for the abuses
to which they are subjected in the mat
ter of transportation. we demand a
strict enforcement of existing civil and
criminal statutes against all such trusts
combination and monopolies;, and we
legislation as may be necessary to effect
ually suppress them.
Any trust or unlawful combination en-
gagged in interstate commerce which is
nonopolizing any branch of business OF
production, should not be permitted tc
transact business outside of the state OF
its origin. Whenever it shall be estab.
lished in any court of competent juris.
diction that such monopoliZation exists
such prohibition should be >enforceG
through comprehensive laws to be enact.
ed on the subject.
A,;J
We congratulate our western citizens IN.
on the passing of the law 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 nonpartisan vote
and passed in the house against the ODD o.
sition of almost all the republican leaders
by vote, the majority of which was demo.
cratic.
We call attention to this great democrats.
measure, broad and comprehensive as Il
is, working automatically throughout al
time without further action of congress-
until the reclamation Of all the lands in
the arid west capable of reclamation is &C.
complished, reserving the lands reclaimed
for homeseekers in small tracts, and rigid.
ly guarding against land monopoly, as an
ment contemplated by the democratic
party, should it be placed in power
Isthmian Canal.
The democracy when intrusted with DOW.
er will construct the Panama canal speed.
lily, honestly and economically, thereby
giving to our people what democrats have
always contended fora great inter ocean.
ic canal, furnishing shorter and cheaper
lines of transportation and broader and less
trammeled trade relations with the other
peoples of the world.
American Citizanship.
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 ma
tive born or naturaliZed, and without dis.
tinction or race or creed, the equal protec.
ton of laws and the enjoyment of ali rights
and privileges open to them under the COW
enants of our treaties of friendship and
the right of travel and sojourn is denied
to American citizens or recognition is with.
held from American passports by any coun-
tries on the ground of race or creed, we
favor the beginning of negotiations with
the governments of such countries to Sc
cure by treaties the removal of these un.
Just determinations.
We demand that all over the world a
duly authenticated passport issued by the
government Of the United States to an
that he is an American citizen and shall
entitle him to the treatment due him as
such.
We favor the election of United States
senators by the direct vote of the peo-
pie.
Statehood for Territories.
We favor the admission Of the territories
of Oklahoma and the Indian Territory. We
also favor the immediate admission Of Arr.
IONA and New Mexico as separate states
and a territorial government for Alaska
and Porto Rico.
We hold that the officials appointed to
administer the government of any ter
ritory, as we'll as with the district Of Alas.