Este es el cuarto
párrafo de la plataforma del partido demócrata para las elecciones de 1900 y
citamos:
“Believing
in these fundamental principles, we denounce the Porto Rican law, enacted by a
Republican Congress against the protest and opposition of the Democratic
minority, as a bold and open violation of the nation's organic law and a
flagrant breach of the national good faith. It imposes upon the people of Porto
Rico a government without their consent and taxation without representation. It
dishonors the American people by repudiating a solemn pledge made in their
behalf by the Commanding General of our Army, which the Porto Ricans welcomed
to a peaceful and unresisted occupation of their land. It dooms to poverty and
distress a people whose helplessness appeals with peculiar force to our justice
and magnanimity. In this, the first act of its imperialistic programme, the
Republican party seeks to commit the United States to a colonial policy,
inconsistent with republican institutions and condemned by the Supreme Court in
numerous decisions.”
¿Será el mismo Partido?