Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-10-05
PARKER ACCEPTS
THE NOMINATION
HIS LETTER TO THE DEMOCRATIC
NOTIFICATION COMMITTEE.
VIEWS ON PUBLIC POLICIES
Says the Tariff, Imperialism, Honesty
in Public Service and Economy in
Governmental Administration
Are Paramount Issues.


Judge Parker's formal letter Of accept
ance TO the democratic notification COM
mittee is a document of some 5000 WorCS,
and is addressed to Hon. Champ Clark and
other members of the committee. In the
opening paragraph Judge Parker says ne
wishes his remarks made at the time OF his
notification to be considered part OF MS
formal response. Continuing, he says:
Grave public questions are pressing Tor
decision. The democratic party appeals
position on these questions Will be accept
ed and inGorsed at the polls. Whlle the
issues involved are numerous. some stand
forth preeminent in the public mind.
Among these are: Tariff reform, imperial
ism economical administration and hon
esty in the public service. l shall briefly
consider these and some others within the
necessarily prescribed limits OF This letter.
Imperialism.
while l presented my views at the no
tification proceedings concerning this vital
issue, the oVershadowing Importance of
this question iInpeis me to refer TO 1t again.
The issue is oftentimes referred to as
constitutioualism VS.. imperialism.
III we would retain our liberties and
constitutional rights unimpairod, We can
not permit or tolerate, at any time or for
any purpose, the arrogation of uncon-
OF our Government. We should be ever
mindful Of the words Of Webster: Lib
erty is only to be preserved by maintain
ing constitutional restraints and just
division OF political powers.
Continuing on the same subject, he says:
The people Of the UnNed States stand at
the parting Of the ways. Shall we follow
the footsteps of our fathers along the paths
of peace, prosperity and contentment,
guided by the everything spirit Of the con-
stituton which they framed for us, or
shall we go along other and untried paths,
hitherto stunned by all. following biindly
new ideals, which. though appealing with
brilliancy to the imagination and ambi-
ton, may prove a will o the WiSp, leading
us into difficulties from which it may be
impossible to eXtricate ourselves without
lasting injury to our national char
acter and institutions"
The Tariff and the Trusts.
Turning to the subject of the tariff, and
the democratic demand for reform in that
line, he says:
''Tariff reform is one Of the cardinal prin-
ciples OF the democratic faith, and the
necessity for it was never greater than
at the present time. 1t should be under
taken at once in the interest of al our peo-
pie.
of its rates, and, as to them at least, un-
justly and oppressively burdens the peo-
pie. 1t secures to domestic manufacturers.
singly or in combination the privilege of
exacting excessive prices at home and
prices far above the level of sales made reg
ularly by them abroad with profit. thus Civ
ing bounty TO foreigners at the expense
or our own people 1t leVies oppressive
and unjust taxes upon many articles form
ing, in whole or part, the so-called raw
material of many of our manufactured
products. not only burdening the con-
sumner, but also closing to the manufac-
turer the markets he needs and seeks
abroad. It's unjust taxation burdens the
people generally forcing them to pay eX-
cessve prices for food fuel, clothing and
other necessartes of life 1t levies duties on
many articles not normally imported in any
considerable amount, which are made eX-
tensvely at home, for which the most ex-
IRENE protectionist would hardly justify
amounts are exported, such duties have
been and will continue to be a direct in
centive to the formation of huge industrial
combinations, which, secure from foreign
competition, are enabled to stife domestic
competition and practically to monopolize
the home market.
Even now the argument most freollent-
ly urged in behalf of the Dingley tariff.
and against tariff reform generally. is the
necessity, of caring for our infant indus
tries. M;Sy of these industries. after a
hundred years of lusty growth, are looming
up as industrial giants. In their case. at
least, the Dingley tariff invites combina-
ton and monopoly. and gives justification
10 the expression that the tariff is the
mother Of trusts.
For the aforementioned reasons.
among others. the people demand re-
form OF these abuses. and such reform de-
mands and should receive immediate at
'tention.
I'm. the words of our platform. we de-
mand a revision and gradual reduction
of the tariff by the friends of the masses
ana Tor the common veal, and not by the
1rlenus or Its abuses, its eXtortionS and
Determinations
Trust Remedies.
Il pointed out in my earlier response the
remedy which, in my Judgment. can effect
uaIly be applied against monOpolieS and
the assurance was then given that if ex-
listing laws. including both statute and
common law, proved inadequate, contrary
10 my expectations, | favor such further
legislation. within constitutional limita-
tons as will best promote and safeguard
the interests of all the people
Whether there is any common law which
can be aSp1ed and enforced by the fed
'eral courts, cannot be determined by the
president, or by candidate for the pres
The determination of this question was
-lett by the people in framing the consti-
tuition. to the judiciary and not to the ex-
-ScutiNe The supreme court of the United
states has recently considered this qucs-
uon' ana, IN the case of the Western Union
Telegraph company vs. the Cali Publish
ing company, to be found in the one hun
bred and eighty first volume of the United
states supreme court reports. at page %
could be applied by United States courts
in cases involving Interstate commerce. ir
the absence of United States statutes she
'Sihcaty covering the case. Such is IL,
Reciprocity.
he says reciprocity is demanded by the
best interest OF both manufacturers am
consumer, and that reciprocal trade treat
leS would enure to both He quotes ex.
tensively from President McKiniey's las
ADDRESS at Buffalo TO show that ne ;appre
clated the faSt that the so-callcd stand.
pat policy must give way. and that tber,
must De q reduction of duties to erabl.
our manufacturers to compete in foreie-r
markets Continuing. he SAYS
The persistent refusal Of the repub
ican majority IN the federal senate to ra n
~ the reciprocity treaties negotiated i,
pursuance OF the policy advocated alik,
oy Mr. BIalne and Mr.. SIcKinley, and ey
pressy SANCTIONED in the Dingley act il
sell Is discouraging exhibition Of ba,
Ialth. AS already mentioned by me n,
-exoroitant duty imposed on many an i'm
ported article by the Dingley tariff No,
avowedly intended by its aIithor NOT q,
soe permanent. but to servt temporarily a
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