Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-04
TEXT OF The PLATFORM
Full Text of Resolutions Adopted
by Democratic Convention
at Des Moines.
The Whole Field Covered. But
Without Reference TO Sill.
yer Issue.
Considerable Space Devoted to
Trusts and the Question Of
Imperialism.
Special to Times Republican.

DeS MONIES, Sept. 4.-FOllOWlnS
the text of the democratic platforr
adopted at the convention yesterday
I'VE, the chosen representatives Q
. the democratic party in Iowa, in dele
gate convention assembled, hereby de
|clare anew our faith in the Fundamental
principles of the democratic party am
renew our allegiance thereto.
I'VE find much in the domestic affair
of the nation that ought to be changed
The tariff policy originally adopted TO
the avowed purpose of raising revenue
to meet the enormous burdens OF tn
civil war. has been turned to use o
individual and class interests until /
has become the creator of counties
unearned fortunes and the shelter o
huge combinations of capital. organ
lied in the form of trusts, which arr
strangling competition in many of ou
industries, destroying individual efforts
|cruslling ambition largely in every linz
iof industry and already acquiring I
power which enables them to dictate
IN their own interest the prices of la
Dor and raw material and the cos
of transportation and of finished pro-
ducts.
1--WE affirm the power and declare u
4 to be the duty of the government tt
grapple with all monopolies of this
character, and by laws which car
neither be evaded nor detied, drive then
from every inch of American soil.
1--WE assert that an immediate reduc-
Ition Of our tariff system to a revenue
basis is one absolutely essential rem
edy for these overshadowing evils
without which they can never be over
come.
I'VE congratulate our republican
| friends in Iowa who have become able
to realize that protective tariff mag
be made so high as to become a shelter
I to monopolies. but regret that their
brief reference to the subject in their
platform is matter of severe criticism
on the part of leading members of their
party turnout the country and openly
repudiated by many of their own dele
gates in congress from this and other
| states.
That the republican party as now
organized is poWerless to revise the
tariff downwards or curb the monstrous
trusts 1T shelters is, as we believe,
clearly and conclusively shown by the
present attitude of it's national lead
ers We therefore appeal to every
citizen of the state whose judgment
Heads him to believe such revision nee
essary, to come to our aid and help
us to demonstrate to the world that
Iowa, at least, will no longer submit
to conditions which the conscience of
the vast majority of her people, as we
believe, does not approve
I'VE charge that discrimination In
freights by common carriers is the
handmade of an eXorbitant protective
tariff, in fostering the gigantic trusts
that have become a menace to the wei.
fare of the masses. and we demand
such changes in our Interstate COM
merce act as may be necessary to Sc
cure the speedy punishment by i'm
prisonment of any officer or agent of a
corporation engaged in Interstate COM
merce, who is guilty of such dlscrimin-
alton, and the enactment of further
provisions that shall make such dis
termination a ground Cor prohibitine,
the offending corporation from trans
acting the business of Interstate com.
1nercc
I'VE are especially proud Of the fact
that our party in state and nation alike
is loyal to the principles enunciated in.
that immortal chart Of human liberty,
the Declaration of American Indepen-
dence, and today with mistaken faith
in it's wisdom and justice alike we
reaffirm it's central and ever enduring
truth that governments derive their
just power from the consent of the
governed.
we charge that the republican party
in it's recent administration of the af-
fairs of the nation has wonderfully
violated this fundamental principle of
our government upon which its most
beneticent institutions were built, and
must continue. to rest, if their blessings
are to be preserved for generations to
come.
ITO sustain this Indictment we point
to the fact that in the recent death
struggle OF the Boer republic lin South
Africa our government by permitting
the use of one of its ports for the col
lection of horses and mules, the most
essential to the English armyp of all
the munitions of war, and the constant
and open shipment therefrom by En-
glish agents and officers to the seat of
Nttf VI SuCli supplies lildue US loI eN-
cry practical purpose allies of the Brit
ish empire, in its wanton and finally
consummated purpose to blot from that
continent every vestige of democratic
government and to subject to monarch
zeal rule as brave and determined a
people as ever welded weapon in de-
Tense OF human liberty.
I'VE assert that the commencement
of the Philippine war was the fragrant
abuse of the most noble sentiment of
the American people that lead them to
assume the onerous bur-
dens of a foreign war in aid of a strug-
Cling race for freedom. That its UNI
justifiable prosecution has loaded our
people with a financial burden of hun
dreds of millions of dollars, sacrificed
the lives of thousands upon teus of
thousands of the bravest and best of
our young men, the very flower and
glory of American manhood, and pre-
pared cur pension rolls for Il long list
of names of these with broken and
shattered constitutions, whom the hon
or of the nation requires shall hereafter
be supported at public expense.
..In behalf of the honor of the Amer
lean people, in the name of justice to
a race we have wronged, in defense
of the American doctrines of govern
ment by consent of the governed, in
support of the most sacred of the in
situations of our country, bequeathed
us by the fathers of the republic, and
in obedience to all the traditions of all
our people from the foundation of the
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