Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-06-19
PRINCIPLES Of
PARTY DECL AIRED
Republicans in National Con-
ton at Chicago Adopt
a Platform.
REVISION OF TARIFF FAV0RE
Court-Procedure Plank One Of
the Most important in
the Resolutions.
Declarations Oh the Subjects of Trusts,
Currency Legislation. Employ
ers' Liability and 9th
er Matters.

adopted by the national Republican
convention starts out with reciting the
achievements accomplished under the
administration of Theodore Roosevelt
points to the great necessities of civil
zation, congratulates the people upon
the revival of business. It then contin-
ues:
Notwithstanding the indefensible
filltbustering Of a Democratic minority
Ia the house Of representatives during
the last session many wholesome and
progressive laws were enacted, and we
especially commend the passage Of the
emergency currency bill, the appoint.
ment of the national monetary commits
sion, the employers and government
liability laws; the measures for the
greater efficiency of the army and
navy; the widows pension bill, the
child-labor law for the District Of Co.
lumbja; the new statutes for the safe
ty of railroad engineers and firemen,
and many other acts conserving the
public welfare.
Tariff Revision.
''The Republican party declares un-
equivocally for revision of the tariff
by a special session of congress imme-
diately following the Inauguration of
the next president, and commends the
steps already taken to this end in the
work assigned to the appropriation
committees of congress which are now
investigating the operation and effect
Of existing schedules.
''In all tariff legislation the true prfr-
ciple of protection is best maintained
by the imposition of such duties as will
equal the difference between the cost
Of production at home and abroad, to-
American industries.
I'VE favor the establishment Of max
iDum and minimum rates to be admin
istered by the president under limita-
tiOns fixed in the law, the maximum to
be available to meet determinations by
goods entering their markets, and the
minimum to represent the normal
measure of protection at home; the aim
and purpose of the Republican policy
being not only to preserve, without eX-
cessive duties, that security against
foreign competition to which American
manufacturers, farmers and producers
are entitled, but also to maintain the
high standard Of living Of the wage
earners of this country, who are the
most direct benefciaries of the protec-
tive system.
"Retween the United States and the
Philippines we believe in a free inter-
change of products with such lmita-
tions as to sugar and tobacco as will
afford adequate protection to domestic
interests.
Currency Reform.
"We approve the emergency meas
ures adopted by the government dur
ing the recent financial disturbance,
and especially commend the passage
by congress at the last session Of the
law designed to protect the country
from repetition of such stringency.
The Republican party is committed to
the development of a permanent cur
rency system, responding to our great
er needs, and the appointment of the
national monetary commission by the
present congress which will impartial
ly investigate all proposed methods in
sures the early realization of that pur-
pose.
"The present currency lawn have full
ly justified their adoption, but an ex-
panding commerce, amarvelous growth
In wealth and population, multiplying
the centers of distribution, increasing
the demand for movement of crops in
the west and south and entailing peri
Odic changes in monetary conditions,
disclose the need Of a more elastic and
adaptable system.
'Such a system must meet the re-
quirements Of agriculturists, manu-
facturers, merchants and business
generally, must be automatic in opera
ton, minimizing the fluctuations in in
terest rates. and, above all, must be in
harmony with that Republican doctrine
which insists that every dollar shall
be based upon and as good as gold.
Railroad Legislation.
"We approve the enactmnt of the
railroad rate law and the vigorous en-
forcement by the present administra-
ton of the statutes against rebates and
determinations, as result of which
the advantages formerly possessed by
the large shipper over the small ship
per have substantially disappeared; /;
and in this connection we commend the
appropriation by the present congress
to enable the interstate commerce
commission to investigate thoroughly,
and give publicity to the accounts Of
interstate railroads.
We believe, however. that the inter-
state commerce law should be further
amended SO as to give railroads tho