Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-07-03


FOurth-Wenzel Strachota of Milwaukee.
Fifth. ii. Slower of Milwaukee.
Sixth-E. II. Sawyer of Hartford.
SeYenth-C. +. lille of jackson county.
Eighth-Charles ii. Paulus, Manitowoc.
Ninth--Willam Barnhardt, Door county.
Tenth-M. A. Coleman, Eagle River.
Eleventh.. A. Parlow, Clear Lake.
Louis Marchetti, of this city, had the
honor of being selected to head the
committee on resolutions.
John Aylward, of Madison, was
chosen permanent chairman of the con-
vention and made the speech of the
occasion.
The platform was presented by the
committee and only very slight changes
were made. The municipal ownership
plank brought out the most heated dis
cussion and was strennously opposed by
a few
The platform adopted is as follows
The Democratic party of the state of
Wisconsin, in state convention assem-
bled, in the enjoyment of the constitu-
Uional provision that 1.-The right of the
people peaceably to assemble to con-
suit for the common good shall not be
abridged recommends the adoption
of the following platform of principles:
We recognize that the gigantic trusts
and combinations designed to enable
capital to secure more than its just
share of the joint products of capital
and labor, and which have been fos
tered and promoted under Republican
rule, are a menace to beneficial COM
petition, and are obstacles of permanent
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defensible and intolerable.
We demand a strict enforcement of
existing civil and criminal statutes
against all trusts, combinations and
monopolieS, and we commend the
Democratic members of both house of
congress for the loyal support they have
given to the rate bill, the pure food bill
and other measures now in process of
enactment, and which would have
wholly failed but for their answering
and faithful support.
We favor revision of the present tariff,
and hold that the tariff duty should be
levied for the purposes of revenue, such
duties to be so adjusted as to operate
equally throughout the country and not
discriminate between classes or sec
tons, and the taxation should be limit
ed to the needs of the government,
honesty and economically admins
tered. We favor placing on the free
list all commodities chiefly supplied by
trusts and combines.
We deem it imperative in order to
protect the people from the inordinate
eXactionS of coal and oil combinations
and monopolies, that the federal gov
erment should reserve from sale all
coal and oil rights in all government
lands hereafter granted.
We believe in the principle of income
taxation and favor such amendment 10
the federal constitution IS will permit
federal taxation on incomes.
We insist that we ought to do for the
Eilipinos what we have already done
for the CubanS, and il is our duty TO
make that promise now, and upon
suitable guarantees of protection to
citizens of our own and other countries
resident there at the time of our with
drawal, set the Filipino people upon
their feet, free and independent TO
work out their own destiny.
We favor the election of United States
senators by direct vote of the people,
and we demand that the constitution of
the United States be amended accord
ingly. We favor government control
and regulation of all public service Ger
porations so that they shall be operated
for the benefit of the people for whom
they were intended.
We favor the enactment of law by
TIE next legislature amending the pres
eut law, so as TO authorize the state
railway commission to correct upon its
own initiative any schedule or tariff
of rates whsh in its judgment should
be corrected or modified.
We favor such legislation as will en-
able municipalities to own, construct
and acquire by purchase such public
service utilities as they may deem proper
and TO enable them to do so we favor
amending section 3 of article II OF the
constitution of our state SO that lndeot-
edness incurred in acquiring such pub