The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-06-27
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from dead Issues and committed them
gclves to the living Issues OF the day.
BY majority of 463 to S54 they refused
to adopt minority report signed by four
members Of the Committee on Resolu-
tons, adding to the platform reported
by the seven members constituting the
ma jority Of the committee q plan reaflirm-
ing the national Democratic platform OF
1900 This means that they refuse to COM
NIT tho party again to the free coinage
of silver
The convention also, by majority OF
Cos to 1919, rejected another min GRITTY report
adding to the plank demanding govern
ment control OF railway charges pro-
vision that In case such control should
not prove effective the national govern
ment should acquire ownership Of rail-
roads.
The convention opposed the Aldrich bill,
but insisted that "the integrity of the
money Of the nation be guarded with jeal-
Gus care" which means, IL 1t means any
thing, that every dollar put forth by the
government shall be equal In value to
every other dollar.
On the subject of tariff and trusts it
says:
'As the most alarming features OF our
present conditions are the evils which
come from trusts, and these evils are
made possible by legislation favoring one
class against another by transportation
privileges and by monopoly of original
sources Of supply of natural products;
therefore, to the end that the evils con-
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eliminated, we call for tho removal OF
the tariff from all trust-made goods. and
demand that all tariff schedules be adj
jrsted with a view Of tariff to revenue
only.
1--WE find much in the domestic affairs
of the nation that ought to be changed.
The tariff policy, originally adopted for
the avowed purpose Of raising revenue to
meet tho enormous burdens of the Civil
War. has been turned to the use of In
div!dual and class interests, until 1t has
become the creator Of countless unearned
fortunes and the shelter of huge comblna,
tons of capital, organized IN the form OF
trusts, which are strangling competition
in many Of our Industries, destroying In
dlyldual effort, crushing ambition largely
in every line of industry. and already &C
quiring power which enables them to die
tate In their own interests the prices OF
labor and raw material and the cost Of
transportation of finished products"
Just what effect strictly revenue tariff
would have on the trusts Of the country
no man can safely predict. Tor can any
man say with certainty that all the trusts
were the creatures Of tariff, But 1t is
a fact known to everybody that the tariff
has enabled many corporations to make
enormous profits at the expense of the
cons umers at home. Everybody knows
that Mr., Andrew Carnegie owes his great
wealth largely to the tariff on iron, and
the Carnegie properties made the United
States Steel Corporation possible. and
the United States Steel Corporation Is
to-day waxing fat on government pap.
Tho whole principle is as wrong as 1t
can be, and so long as Democracy Is true
to Itself it must fight that principle and
endeavor to eradicate the entire system
from our political and domestic affairs.
The Democratic party Is on safe and solid
\ ground when 1t opposes itself TO the prin-
ciple of protection and to all tho evils
growing out Of 1t.