Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-10-30
WHY Am n Democrat.

The Democratic campaign book, is
sued by the Congressional Committee,
Washington, D. c., contains a great
deal of valuable information on the po-
litical issues that are before the coun-
try. The first chapter gives reasons for
the faith in Democracy, un6@r the tllle
of "Why l am a Democrat" as fol-
lows
am q Democrat because the eternal
and immutable principles of Democracy
are necessary 10 free government
which vary only in their application
and expression as the needs and ext
gencies of our country demand.
l am Democrat because Democracy
means the rule of the people; the rule
of the majority, freely and fairly ex-
pressed.
| am a Democrat because the De-
mocracy of the United States endorses
and has always endorsed the enduring
Declaration of independence, in which
among other things the fathers OF the
republic particularly declared that:
The right of petition is ours and sa-
cred.
All men are created equal with
certain inalienable rights; that among
these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit
of Happiness.
L am a Democrat because the Demo
cratic party stands for Equal Rights
to All and Special Privileges to None,
which is the natural corollary of the
great declaration.
am Democrat because the Demo
cratic party is for the preservation OF
all the rights granted to the Federal
government by the Constitution, and
for the preservation of the reserved
rights of the States, and especially for
the right Of the people to alter or
change the fundamental law when they
deem 1t necessary.
/ am q Democrat because the Demo
cratic party stands for Home Rule
the right of each organized community
to manage its own local affairs as may
seem best to the majority of its citi-
zens.
| am a Democrat because the Demo
cratic party stands for the least taxa
ton. national, state and local, that will
support the Federal, State and local
governments honestly and economically
administered.
/ am a Democrat because the Demo
cratic party opposes and has always op-
posed the Capitalization of power in
the hands of the Federal government
other than those powers granted by the
Constitution.
l am a Democrat because the Demo
cratic party is broad enough for al
men to enlist under its banner, who be-
lieve in and indorse its fundamental
principles, and yet catholic enough tc
shelter with its everlasting wings the
rich and powerful and the poor and
needy, where both labor and capital
and all conditions OF men can work
out their own salvation with absolute
equity.
l am a Democrat because the Demo
cratic party stands for the equal right
of every citizen in his person and prop
erty and in their management tC
achieve what his own efforts entitle
him to, without any one to modest OF
make afraid, if he does not commit ag
gressions upon the equal rights of an.
other, and this is all from which he
ought by law TO be restrained.
am q Democrat because the Demo.
cratic party has always opposed and Is
to-day fighting monopolies and trusts
and the money oligarchy, even as II
fought and vanquished the political oil
garchy under Jefferson and the money
ell oligarchy under Jackson. And be-
cause / believe it is the only party
honestly fighting the unlawful combi-
nations and corporations, made posi-.
Bile by law, entrenched behind a pro-
hibitive tariff, buttressed by subsidies
| and fostered by special rates and re-
bates, plundering the people with the
one hand, while with the other they
reach for foreign conquest and sell
their product cheaper abroad than they
sell it to our own tariff taxed people.
am a Democrat because the Demo
cratic party, in all its envlable history
since the foundation of the republic
has always been the bulwark of the
people against special privilege and the
defender Of the many against the pow.
er of money in the hands OF the few.
I am Democrat because the Demo
cratic party is conservative enough to
hold fast to that which is good and
radical enough to push all necessary re-
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