The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-18
From the Commoner.

The platform adopted by the Nebraska democrati, convention September 24, 1907, follows
 We .ej the increasing signs of a moral ay n, in the United States. The varo{ estisitions have traced graft and po 4l corruption to the rep resentatlves c. predatory wealth and laid bare the unscrurulous methods by which they have debauohed elections and preyed upon a defense ess public through the subservent officials whom they have raised to place and power. The conscience of the nation is now awakened and must not sleep until the government Is freed from the grip of those who have made it a business asse of the favor-seeking corporations it must become again n government of the people, by the people and for the people, and be administered in all its departments according to the Jefersonian maxim "equal rights 10 all and special privileges to none"
 We heartily approve of the laws pro- hibiting the pass and the rebate, and in- sist upon further Legislation, state and national making 1t unlawful for any corporation to contribute to campaign funds, and providing for publication, be- fore the election, of an individual con tributions above d reasonable minimum
 
 port of the state governments in all their rights as the most competent adminis- trations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwalk against anti-republlcan tendencies" and in "the preservation of the general government in its whole con- stltutional vigor, as tho sheet anchor of our peace at home ana safety abroad" we are opposed to the centralization inn piled in the suggestions, now frequently made. that the powers of the general government should be extended by judicial construction. | While we favor the exercise by the general government of all it's constitutional authority for the prevention of monopoly and for the regu- lation of interstate coIhmeree, we insist that federal remedies shall be added to, and not substituted for, state remedies.
 We favor the election of United States senators by direct vote of the ,ople, and regard this reform as the gateway to all other national reforms
 A private monopoly IS indefensible and intolerable. We therefore favor the wig orouS enforcement of the criminal law against trusts and trust magnates. and demand the enactment of such additional legislation may be necessary to make it impossible for a private monopoly to exist in the United states. Among the additional remedies we specify three first. law compelling corporations en- gagged in interstate commerce to sell to all purchasers in all parts of the country on the same terms, after making due a1- lowance for cost of carriage; second a law preventing the duplication of direc- tors among competing corporations; and third, license system. which will, with out abridging the right of each state to create corporations. or it's right to resu- late as it will foreign corporations doing business within it's limits, make it neces- sary for manufacturing or trading cor poration engaged in interstate commerce to take out n federal license before 1t shall ho permitted to control as much as 20 per cent of the product in which 1t deals the license to protect the public from watered stock and to prohibit the control by such corporation of more than 70 per cent Of the total amount of any product consumed in the United States.
 We infst upon the recognition of tho dlstin' ,etween the natural man and th' .l person. called a corporation.
 Favor the enactment of such law
 be necessary to compel foreign
 'orations to submit their legal disputes ,s,, .-e courts of the states in which they do business, and thus place themselves upon the same footing as domestic cor pors tlons.
 We favor an immediate revision of the tariff by the reduction of import duty. Articles entering into competition with articles controlled by trusts should be placed upon the free list: material re- auctions should be made in the tariff upon the necessaries of life. and reductions should be made in such other schedules as may be necessary t6sTestore the tariff to a revenue basis.
 We favor an income tax a part of our revenue system. and we urge the submis- sion of q constitutional amendment spe- officially authorizing Congress to levy and collect a tax upon individual and cor porate incomes, to the end that wealth may bear it's proportonate share of the burdens of the federal government. We favor q national inheritance tax to reacn the "sw0ien fortunes by abolshns the privileges and favorltism upon which they are based.
 We assert the right of Congress 10 ex- ercfse complete .s1ntrol over interstate commerce. and we assert the right of each state to exercise just as complete control over commerce within it's bor- ders We demand such an enlargement of the powers of national and state rail- way commission as may be necessary 10 give full protection to persons and places from discrimination and extortion. We believe that both the nation and the va rlous states should. first, ascertain the present value of the railroads. measured by the cost of reproduction. second, pro hlbit the issue of any more watered stock