Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-01-07

Because Democracy Means the
Rule of the People.
STANDS FOB RIGHT OF PETITION

ISLANDS tUh h1GdI w f611I4VN
Equal Rights For All and Special
Privileges For NOne-Party of JEFF
ferson and jackson Has Always OPP
posed and Il Still Fighting the
Moneyed Olignrchy.
The Democratic campaign book, Is
sued by the congressional committee,
Washington, contains q great deal OF
valuable information on the political
issues that are before the country.
The first chapter gives reasons for the
faith In Democracy under the title of
"Why l am a Democrat" as follows:
l am Democrat because the eter
nal and inlnutable principles Of Democ
racy are necessary to free govern.
ment, which vary only in their appll
cation and expression, as the needs and
exigencies 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.
lam Democrat because the Democ.
racy Of the United States indorses and
has always Endorsed the enduring Dec.
laration of Independence, in which,
among other things, the fathers Of the
republic particularly declared that:
The right Of petition is ours and
sacred.
All men are created equal, - with
certain inalienable rights, that among
these are life, liberty and the pursuit
Of happiness.
l am q 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.
l am q 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 OF
change the fundamental law when they
deem it necessary.
am a Democrat because the Demo
cratic party stands for home rule, the
right of each organized community te
manage it's own local affairs as may
seem best to the majority Of its citt
Zens.
am Democrat because the Demo
cratic party stands for the least taxa
ton, national, state and local, that viii
support the federal, state and loca
governments honestly and economic
ally administered.
l am a Democrat because the Demo
cratic party opposes and has always
opposed the Capitalization Of power IN
the hands Of the federal government
other than those powers granted by the
constitution.
1 am Democrat because the Demo
cratic party is broad enough for al
men to enlist under it's banner who be
lieve in and indorse its Fundamental
principles and yet catholic enough tt
shelter with its everlasting wings the
rich and powerful and the poor anC
and all conditions Of men can work ou'
their own salvation with absolute
equity.
I am a Democrat because the Demo
cratic party stands for the equal righ'
Of every citizen in his person and prop
achieve what his own efforts entitlt
him to, without any one to modest o,
make afraid, if he does not commit ag
gressions upon the equal rights OF an
other, and this is all from which ht
ought by law to be restrained.
l am Democrat because the Demo
cratic party has always opposed and is
today fighting monopolies and trusts
and the moneyed o!igarchy, even as l.
fought and vanQuishcd the politlca
oligarchy under Jefferson and the mon
eyed oigarchy under Jackson. And be
cause believe it is the only party hon
estly fighting the unlawful combina
tons and corporations made possible
by law, eutrenched behind Il prohib
itive tariff, buttressed by subsidies ant
fostered by special rates and rebates
plundering the people with the one
hand while with the other they reacl
for foreign conquest and sell theh
product cheaper abroad than they sci
1t to our own tariff taxed people.
I am Democrat because the Demo
cratic party in all its enviable histor!
since the foundation of the republi.
has always been the bulwark Of til.
people against special privilege and thu
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 t,
bold fast to that which is good ant
radical enough to push all necessary
reforms.
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