The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-17
NEW DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM
OUTLINED AT THE IROQUOIS
CLUB BANQUET IN CHICAGO.

Y. M. Shepard. the Principal Speaker, Puts
Forward an Autobiography Programme
With Tarin Reduction Auxiliary
New interstate Law Sham. He says.
CHICAGO, March ia Democratic party
In which free silver and other doctrines
OF recent years will DO eliminated and
opposition to trusts and protection will
be the rallying cries was advocated by men
Of national prominence at the banquet
Of the Iroquois Club tonight. Edward
M. Shepard Of New York was the principal
speaker.
Judson Harmon Of Ohio. Attorney Cen
era IN President Cieysland seoond T a W..
souri, and ]. ~. Dickinson, Samuel Aschuier
and Mayor Carter Harrison spoke.
As the name Of Grover Cleveland was
read, leading the list Of those who sent
regrets, the diners burst INTO cheers: WI w.
received with fainter cheers and there was
scattering applause for Richard Olney,
David B. Hill, Adlai Stevenson and Horace
Boies.
Part Of what Mr.. Shepard said follows;
The talk from one end of the land to the
other. ip every shop, on every farm. in every
street every ParGI Or Club a. Is Of Tine
portant as are those topics IL is net even
Ara y q our pGpp3e sGS "a che
The talk Of trusts on one size sn Ss, s1a snd
dyliizatiop may come to be mere Interplay urp.y
between those vas, forces II which tne fr sii
Sss.. % % bs sd isGGspesa.n i""
Can anything involve more danger to
consery.tiys interests Pan h.,tr .ch as
granted in s., Louis The other day by a FedesIal
sas Il asSS s9a Of swaS
and Locomotive tiremen from "persnadins
or Inducing" certain brakemen. swiichmen
and flremen TO nuit the service OF the "aoaSh
No doubt the JUDGE, when he forbade
-peTspason.' beiieycd there vas law lor 'fe
sSS BE- found So then s so much law ought
70 be, forthwith .repesled Is / anything ANYTHING
Of law we weapons should be found 70 restrain
thet kind OF freedom. when thus far the aImory
OF Law has been ransaeked In vain Tor TeaR ons
eaapfas. .S i fSrsIR% EGissHH S stapS
The Interstate Commerce bill affects rt to
rSpSS sd sresd g'p provided for the fling and
publication Of rates The nsT re sse9s,
reSsses re crime al and the sub tHon
place Of a. system Of fines Of not less man y,
81 .OOo and not more than 10000 sgaiIEs y
or rs esF,S r-Satss The ane under the new
act is a strictly technical PENALTY: thai u 70
| saw, the law ~ one oil moss, Tue Ifdc,'N"..
| enforcement OF which IL well nigh the most
! dificult thing lawyers are ever set TO accom-,
| piish This new act has thus abohsheo
The only provision OF law which has made
| railway MANAGERS anxious.
| The act carefully abstains from giving 70
shippers who have been mcde 20 pay Ia,es
| In excess Of lesser rates secretly paid by
favored competitors. the right Of recoyerins
| back the excess from the Railroad companies
In other words the only really efficient remedy
has been sEilfully omitted BY the draus g
! man OF this act The whole law IL mere
sham~,he very worst kind Of sham Nor
can the provisions OF the act ESTABLISHING
| the Depnrtment of Commerce and labor
be Of any more effect in securing equality
| or in defeating monopoly
To the one obvious effective step arains,
| monopolis, tendencies, that IL to SAY, We
| repeal OF their tariir privileges the Presiden'
! row peremptorily refuses his sanction; , AZ
! else that he has done or will do is but child'
PLAY compared with this ] shall not dis.
| pute his sincerity but until he attempts thi'
| his sin cerity is not Of genuine service
! Therefore, IL Is that for The present me
| tarifI issue II again irrevocebly az the lore
front. II is now az the forefront not 40 much
| upon its own separate merits, great as they
| are, but rather as part Of the problem OF me
trusts, as part Of the cause OF indus'ra