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PLATFORM
The Tariff Is Mads
the Issue.
FOB REVENUE ONLY.
Republican Protection System
Is Denounced.
TAX DOES NOT RAISE WAGES.
High Cost of Living Declared to Re
sult From High Tariff—Declaration
In Favor of Enforcing the Criminal
as Well as Civil Law Against Trusts
and Trust Officials—Favors Income
Tax and Popular Election of Sena
tors.
Special Inducements Offered Visiting Buyers
During Trade Week
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Great Reductions in all Summer Goods
5° 0 Railroad Fare Given with all Purchases
J. A. BOWLE^^H
We, the representatives of the Dem
ocratic party of the United States in
national convention assembled, reaf
firm our dcvotiou to the principles of
Democratic government formulated by
Thomas Jefferson anil enforced by a
long and illustrious line of Democratic
presidents.
Tariff Reform.
We x-lare it to be a fundamental
prln iple of the Democratic party that
the federal government under the con
stitution has no right or power to im
pose or collect tariff duties except for
the purpose of revenue, and we de
mand that the collection of such taxes
shall be limited to the necessities of
government honestly and economically
administered.
The high Republican tariff is the
principal cause of the unequal distri
bution of wealth; it is a system of
taxation which -lakes the rich richer
and the poor poorer. Under its opera
tions the American farmer and labor
ing man are the chie. sufferers; it
raises the cost of the necessaries of
life to them, but does not protect tiieir
product or wages. The farmer sells
largely in free markets and buys a I
most entirely in the protected mar
kets. In the most highly protected in
dustries such as cotton and wool, steel
and iron the wages of the laiwrers
are the lowest paid in any of our in
dustries. We denounce the Republican
pretense on that subject and assert
that American wages are established
by competitive conditions and. notr by
the tariff.
We favor the immediate downward
revision of the existing bitrh and. in
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On account of the Special Sales Week we will give these souvenirs away,
commencing August 10th on till the 12th, as long as they last
GRIMES DRUG CO., "On The Square"
many cases, prohibitive tariff duties,
insisting that material reductions be
speedily made upon the necessaries of
life. Articles entering into competi
tion with trust controlled products and
articles of American manufacture
which are sold abroad more cheaply
than at home should be put upon the
free list
We recognize that our system of tar
iff taxation is intimately connected
with the business of the country, and
we favor the ultimate attainment of
the principles we advocate by legisla
tion that will not injure or destroy le
ultimate industry.
We denounce the action of President
Taft in vetoing the bills to reduce the
tariff in the cotton, woolen, metals and
chemical schedules and the farmers'
free list bill, all of which were design
ed to give Immediate relief to the
masses from the exactions of the
trusts.
The Republican party, while promis
ing tariff revision, has shown by its
tariff legislation that such revision is
not to be in the people's interest, and.
having been faithless to its pledges of
1908, it should no longer enjoy the con
fidence of the nation. We appeal to
the American people to support us in
our demand for a tariff for revenue
only.
High Cost of Living.
The high cost of living is a serious
problem in every American home. The
Republican party in its platform at
tempts to escape from responsibility
for present conditions by denying that
they are due to a protective tariff. We
take issue with them on this subiect
and charge that excessive prices result
in a large measure from tbe high tariff
laws enacted and maintained by the
Republican party and from trusts and
commercial conspiracies fostered and
encouraged by such laws, and we as
sert that no such substantial relief can
be secured for the people until import
duties on the necessaries of life are
materially reduced and these criminal
conspiracies broken up.
Anti-trust Law.
A private monopoly is indefensible
and intolerable. We therefore favor
the vigorous enforcement of the crim
inal as well as the civil law against
trusts and trust officials and demand
the enactment of such additional leg
islation as may be necessary to make
it impossible for a private monojxdy
to exist in the United States.
We favor the declaration by law of
the conditions upon which corpora
tions shall be permitted to engage in
interstate trade. Including among oth
ers the prevention of holding compa
nies of interlocking directorates, of
stock watering, of discrimination in
price and the coutrol by any one cor
poration of so large n proportion of
any Industry as to make it a menace
to competitive conditions.
We condemn the action of the Re
publican administration in compromis
ing with the Standard Oil company
and tobacco trust and its failure
to invoke the criminal provisions of
the anti-trust law against the officers
of those corporations after the court
had declared that from the undisputed
facts in the record thev had violated
the criminal provisions of me law.
We regret that the Sherman anti
trust law has received a judicial COD
struction depriving it of much of its
efficiency, and we favor the enactment
of legislation which will restore to the
statute the strength of which it has
been deprived by such interpretation.
Rights of the State.
We believe in the preservation and
maintenance in their full strength aud
integrity of tbe three co-ordiuate
branches of the federal government—
the executive, the legislative and the
judicial—each keeping within its own
bounds and not encroaching upon the
just powers of either of the others.
Believing that the most efficient re
sults under our system of government
are to be attained by the full exercise
by the states of their reserved sover
eign powers, we denounce as usurpa
tion the efforts of our opponents to de
prive the states of any of the rights
reserved to them and to enlarge and
magnify by indirection the powers of
the federal government.
We insist upon the full exercise of
all the powers of government, both
state and national. to protect the peo
ple from injustice at the hands of
those who seek to make the govern
meut a private asset in business. There
is no twilight zone between the nation
and the state in which exploiting inter
ests can take refuge from both. It is
as necessary that the federal govern
ment shall exercise the powers delegat
ed to it as it is that the states shall ex
ercise the powers reserved to them,
but we insist that federal remedies for
the regulation of interstate commerce
and for the prevention of private mo
nopoly shall be added to and no* sub
stituted for state remedies.
Income Tax and Popular Election of
Senators.
We congratulate the country upon
the triumph of two important reforms
demanded in the last national platform
—namely, the amendment of the feder
al constitution authorizing an income
tax and tbe amendment providing for
the popular election of senators—and
we call upon the people of all the
states to rally to the support of the
pending propositions and secure theii
ratification.
We note with gratification the unani
mous sentiment in favor of publicity
before the election of campaign con
tributions, a measure demanded in our
national platform of 1908 and at that
time opposed by the Republican party,
and we commend the Democratic
house of representatives for extending
the doctrine of publicity to recom
mendations, verbal and written, upon
which presidential appointments art
made, to the ownership and control of
newspapers and to the expenditure?
made by and in behalf of those who
aspire to presidential nominations, and
we point for additional justification
for this legislation to the" enormous
expenditures of money in behalf of
the president and his predecessor in
the recent contest for tbe Republican
nomination for president.
Presidential Primaries.
The movement toward more popular
government should be promoted
throueh legislation in each state which
will permit the expression of the pref
erence of the electors for national can
didates at presidential primaries.
We direct that the national commit
tee incorporate in the call for the next
nominating convention a requirement'
that all expressions of preference for
presidential candidates shall be given
an3l the selection of delegates and al
ternates made through a primary elec
tion conducted by the party organiza
tion in each'state where such expres
sion and election are not provided for
by state law. Committeemen who are
hereafter to constitute the member
ship of the Democratic national com
mittee and whose election is not pro
vided for by law shall be chosen In
each state at such primary elections,
and the service and authority of com
mitteemen, however chosen, shall be
gin immediately upon the receipt n
their credentials respectively.
Campaign Contributions.
We pledge the Democratic party b
the enactment of a law prohibiting air
corporation from contributing to i
campaign fund and any individua
from contributing any amount abov
a reasonable maximum.
Term of President.
We favor a single presidential tern
and to that end urge the adoption 01
an amendment to the constitution mak
ing the president of the United States
ineligible to re-election, and we pledge
the candidate of this convention to
this principle. •
Democratic Congress.
At this time, when Republican
party, after a generation of unlimited
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