The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-07-09


a policy of colonial exploitation, no
matter where or by whom invoked or
exercised; we believe with Thomas JEFF
ferson and John Adams that no gov
eminent has right to make one set
OF laws for those "at home" and an
other and different set of laws, alb
solute in their character for those in
the colonies" All men under the
American flag are entitled to the pro-
lection of the institutions whose en-
blem, the flag is; if they are inher-
emily unfit for those institutions, then
they are inherently unfit to be MEM
bers of the American body polite.
Wherever there may exist a people
incapable of being governed under
American laws. in consonance with the
American constitution of that people,
ought not to be a part of the American
domain.
We insist that we ought to do for the
Filipinos what we have done already
for the Cubans, and it is our duty to
make that promise now, and upon suit
able guarantees of protection 10 citi-
zens of our own and other countries
resident there at the time of our with
drawal, set the Filipino people upon
their feet, free and Independent to work
out their own destiny.
The endeavor of the Secretary of
War, by pledging the governments in
dorsement for promoters" in the Phil
ippine islands to make the United
States a partner in the speculative ex-
ploitation of the archipelago, which
was only temporarily held up by the
opposition of the Democratic senator's,
in the last session, will. if successful,
lead to entanglements from which it
will be difficult to escape.
The Trusts.
The Democratic party has been, and
will continue to be, the consistent OPP
ponent of that class of tariff legisla-
ton by which certain interests have
been permitted. through congressional
favor, to draw a heavy tribute from
the American people. This monstrous
perversion of those equal opportuni-
ties which our political institutions
were established to secure, has caused
what may once have been infant in
dustries to become the greatest COM
binations of capital that the world has
ever known. These special favorites
of the government have, through trust
methods. been converted into monopo-
lies, thus bringing to an end domestic
competition, which was the only alleged
check upon the eXtraVagAnt profits
made possible by the protective sys-
tenn. These Industrial combinations
by the financial assistance they can
give, now control the policy of the Re-
publican party.
We denounce protection as a rob-
berry of the many to enrich the few
and we favor a tariff limited to the
needs of the government, economically
administered, and so levied as not to
discriminate against any industry,
class or section. to the end that the
burdens of taxation shall be distrib-
uted as equally as possible.
We favor a revision and a gradual
reduction of the tariff by the friends
of its abuses, it's extortions and it's
determinations, keeping in view the
ultimate ends of equality of burdens
and equality of opportunities, and the
constitutional purpose of raising
revenue by taxation, to wit, the sup
port of the federal government In all
its integrity and virilty, but in SIM
plicity.
The Tariff.
We recognize that the Gigantic trusts
and combinations desg ued to enable
capital to secure more than it's just
share of the joint produ its of capital
and labor. and which have been foster
ed and promoted under Republican
rule, are menace to beneficial COM
petition and an obstacle to permanent
oily is indefensible and intolerable.
Individual equality of opportunity
and free competition are essential to
healthy and permanent commercial
prosperity and any trust, combination
or monopoly tending to destroy these
by controlling production, restricting
competition or fixing prices, should be
prohibited and punished by law. We
especially denounce rebates and dis
MES.
as the most potent agency in promot-
ing and Strengthening these unlawful
conspiracies against trade.
We demand an enlargement of the
powers of the Interstate Commerce
Commission to the end that the travel
ing public and shippers of this coun-
try may have prompt and adequate re-
lief from the abuses to which they are
subjected in the matter of transporta-
ton. We demand a strict enforcement
of existing civil and criminal statutes
against all such trusts, combinations
and monopolies: and we demand the
enactment of such further legislation
as may be necessary to effectually
suppress them.
Any trust or unlawful combination
engaged in interstate commerce which
is monopolizing any branch of bust
ness or production, should not be per-
mitted to transact business outside of
the state of its origin. Whenever 1t
shall be established in any court of
competent jurisdiction that such
monopolization exists, such prohibition
should be enforced through compre-
hensive laws to be enacted on the sub
ject.
Reclamation of Arid Lands and Do
nestle Development.
We congratulate our Western citizens
upon the passing of the law known as
the Newlands Irrigation Act for the
irrigation and reclamation of the arid
lands of the West; measure framed
by a Democrat, passed in the Senate
by a non-partisan vote, and passed In
the House against the opposition of al
most all the Republican leaders by
vote the majority of which was Demo-
cratic.
We call attention to this great Dem
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