The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-07-08
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Platform Contains GoIdStanddrd plank and Demands
Suppression Ct poIygamy-S Strong
on Tariff Question.

military and naval administration as
right of the people too clear to be
denied or withheld
Second. The enforcement Of honesty
in the public service and through Iegis-
lative investigation Of those depart
ments of the government already
known to TEEN with corruption. as we'll
as other departments suspected of har-
boring corruption and the punishment
Of ascertained cOTrUptioRists without
fear or favor or regard to persons.
The persistent and deliberate refusal
Of the senate and house of representa-
tiVes to permit such investigation to
be made by either branch Of congress
demonstrates that only by a change
in the executive can complete exposure
and punishment OF corruption be OBJ
tanned. The government should per
NIT itself TO be robbed by entering into
contracts with convicted trusts or IN
lawful combinations in restraint of in
ter-state trade. We believe that one
of the best methods OF procuring. econ
cn1y and honesty in the public service
is to have public officials return as
nearly as may be to JeffersOnian sim
plicity Of living.
Tariff Robbery.
we favor the nomination and cleo
ton of a president trained in the ways
of the constitution who shall place his
face steTnly against corruption Of leg
islation and judicial functions, whether
yelled under the guise Of executive con-
struction Of existing laws. or whether
it take refuge in the assertion of
superior wisdom.
The Democratic party has and viii
continue to be the consistent opponent
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which certain individuals have been
permitted through congressional favor
70 draw a heavy tribute from the
American people. This monstrous per
version Of those equal opportunities
which has caused what may once have
been infant industries to become the
greatest combinations of capital that
the world has ever known. These pub
licly favored enterprises have been cen
verified into monOpolies. thus bringing
to an end domestic competition which
was the only check upon the extrav-
agent profits made possible by the pro-
tective system. These industrial COM
hinations. by the financial assistance
, they can give, now control the policy
OF the Republican party.
Revision Advocated.
I'VE favor a wke. conservative and
business like revision and a gradual
reduction of the tariff by the friends
of its abuses its extoTtions and its
determinations, keeping in view the
ultimate end of equality of burdens
an dequaiity of opportunities. and the
constitutional purpose of raising a
revenue by taxation. to-wit: The sup
pert of the federal government. in all
its integrity and viTility and keeping
also in view existing conditions. how
ever wrongfully. mistakenly or un-
justly brought about and the danger
to the cause OF tariff reform itself OF
abrupt reversal of policy.
We should bear in mind. in short
these two things: First. the general
principle that the sole deviation of the
power Of taxation is the support Of the
government economically. effectively
and constitutionally administered: and
second the equal truth that in the as
sertioa of any senedal principle and in
TjgBting any ultimate end. h0weves
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