Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-07-19

unnr TO pe members or rne
American body polite. Wherever there
erned under American laws, In consonance
with the American constitution OF that
people ought not to be part of the Ameri-
can domain.
We insist that we ought to do for the
F1lipinos what we have done already for
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 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 Endorsement for
promoters" in the Philippine Islands to
make the United States partner in specu-
lative legislation of the archipelago, which
was only temporarily held up by the oppo-
sition of the democratic senators, IN the
last session, will, If successful, lead to en-
tanglements from which 1t will be difficult
to escape.
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-
m1tted through congressional favor, to
draw heavy tribute from the American
people. This monstrous perversion Oh
those equal opportunities, which our po-
litical institutions were established to Sc
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
favorites of the government have through
trust methods been converted Into mo-
nopoi:es, thus bringing to an end domes-
tic competition, which was the only al
legged check upon the extravagant prof
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 denouncs protection as robbery Of
the many to enrich the few, and we IA
vor 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 revision and gradual re-
duction of the tariff by the friends of the
masses and for the common veal, and
not by the friends of its abuses, its ex-
tortions and its determinations, keep
ing In view the ultimate ends OF equal
tty Of burdens and equality of opportu-
mites" and the constitutional purpose Of
raising 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 Its lust share
of the joint products of capital and labor,
and which have been fostered and pro.
NOTED under republican rule, are men,
ace to beneficial competition and an OBJ
stacle to permanent business prosperity,
A private monopoly is indefensibie and
intolerable. Individual equality of oppor-
tunlty 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 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 now.
ers OF the interstate commerce commits.
sion, to the end that the travelling public
and shippers of this country may have
prompt ana ADEQUATE relief for the abuses
10 winch 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
demand the enactment Of such further
aeglsiation as may be necessary to effect
ually suppress them.
Any trust or unlawful combina t;or on
Gagged In interstate commerce which ia
Honopollzinx any branch of business or
production, should not be permitted to
transact business outside of the state Of
its origin. Whenever it shall be estab-
lished In any court of competent iurjs-
diction that such monopolization exists
such prohibition should be enforced
through comprehensive laws to be enact
ed on the subject.
Reclamation of Arid Lands.
We congratulate our western citizens I'm.
on the passing OF the law known as the
Newiands irrigation act for the Irrigation
and reclamation of the arid lands of the
west q measure framed by a democrat,
passed IN the senate by a nonpartisap vote
anu passed In the house against the opp o.
sltlon OF almost all the republican lea ciera
by vote, the majority Of which was demo-
cratic. NS-Ao-
We call attention to this great democratic
measure. broad and comprehensive as n
is, working automatically throughout all
time without further action of congress-
until the reclamation of all the lands in
complished reserving the lands reclaimed
ior homeseekers In small tracts, and rigid
ly guarding against land MONOPOLY. as an
evidence of the policy of domestic develop
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 commended for-a 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 citizenship.
We pledge ourselves to insist upon tho
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 OF creed, the equal protec-
ton Of laws and the enjoyment OF all rights
and privileges open to them under the Gov.
enants OF our treaties of friendship and
commerce; and, II under existing treaties.
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 euch countries to Sc
cure by treaties the removal Of these UNI
just Determinations.
We demand that all over the world a
duly authenticated passport issued by the
government Of the United States to an
American citizen shall be proof Of the fact
that he is an American citizen and shall
entitle him to the treatment due him as
such.
Popular Election Of Senators.
We favor the election Of United States
senators by the direct vote OF the peo-
pie.
Statehood for Territories.