The copper era., 1908-07-02

The following are some of The
planks of the republican platform
adopted at Chicago:
INJUNCTION PLANK.
The republican party will uphold
at all times the authority and in
tegrity of the courts, state and fed
eral, and will ever insist that their
powers to enforce their process and
to protect life, liberty and property
shall be preserved inviolate. We be-
lieve, however, that the rules of pro-
cedure in the federal courts with re-
spect to the issuance of the writ of
injunction, should be more accurately
defined by statute and that no injunc-
ton or temporary restraining order
should be issued without notice, ex-
cept where irreparable injury would
result from delay, in which case a
speedy hearing should be granted.
FOR TARIFF REVISION.
The republican party declars I'M
equivocally for a revision of the
tariff by a special session of congress
Immediately following the Inaugural
ton of the next president, and COM
mends the steps already taken to
this end in the work assigned to the
appropriate committees of congress
which are now investigating the
operation and effect of existing
schedules.
In all tariff legislation the true
principle of protection is best MAIN
tanned by the imposition of such
duties as will equal the difference
between the cost of production at
home and abroad, together with a
reasonable profit to American in
dustries.
We favor the establishment of
maximum and minimum rates to be
administered by the president under
limitations fixed by law, the maxi
mum to be available to meet dis
elimination by foreign countries
against American goods entering
their markets, and the minimum to
represent the normal measure of pro-
lection at home; the aim and policy
being not only to preserve without
excessive duties, that security
against foreign competition, which
American manufacturers, farmers
and producers are entitled, but also
to maintain the high standard of
living of the wage carriers of this
country who are the most direct
benefciaries of the protective sys-
TEN. Between the United States
and the Philippines we believe in
free interchange of products, with
such limitations as to sugar and to-
bacco as will afford equal protection
to domestic interests.
PERMANENT CURRENCY SYSTEM.
We approve the emergency meas
ures adopted by the government dur
ing the recent financial disturb ance,
and especially commend the passage
by congress at the last session of the
law designed to protect the country
from repetition of such strin-
gency. The republican party is COM
mitted to the development of a per-
manent currency system responding
to our greater needs, and the APP
pointment of the national monetary
commission by the present congress,
which will impartially investigate all
proposed methods, insures the early
realization of this purpose.
The present currency laws have
fully justified their adoption, but an
expanding commerce, a marvellous
growth i'll wealth and population,
multiplying the centers of distribu-
ton, increasing the demand for move
meut of crops in the west and south,
and entailing periodic changes in
monetary conditions, disclose the
need of more elastic and adaptable
system. Such system to meet the
requirements of agriculturists,
manufacturers, merchants and bust
ness generally, must be automatic in
operation, minimizing the irctua-
tions in interest rates, and above all,
must be in harmony with that repub-