The morning journal-courier., 1908-07-20
CAMPAIGN FIGHT BY DEMOCRATS George M. Wallace Points Out How It Should Be
 Made by tho
 Party,
ATTACK AT WEAK POINTS
Fayors u Constructive Rather Than n Destructive Propaganda-Must Attempt Something Really
 Worth While.

The democratic party should attack at the weak points of its opponent, and should make constructive rather than destructive propaganda, and must at tempt something really worth the while If ever 1t would get there and achieve success
 First-lt should promise that it's pres ldentlal candidate lf lscted will cal, together at the Hague as many as will come of the nations of the world to form a permanent International con gress and court of arbitration, the first to declare and codify the existing law Of nations and to make new interna- tlonal laws. the second to arbitrate all disputes between the nations concern ed except on matters of national honor and territorial integrity. All to con ceHn only those nations voluntarily po- Ing into the arrangement, and the ball to be started rolling If only U. S. and Venzuela join the game.
 Second-It should move in the drec ton of placing federal taxation upon the natural resources and taking them off eventually from everything else. Legitimate subjects of taxation are land, coal, iron, oils. minerals lh the land, railroad rights of way and pub lie service street franchises over and In the land. water and natural water | powers, etc, A proper tax on the wa ter powers of the country alone. begin hing with Niagara and down tho line would now or soon support the federal | government and be burden to no one Some great reform of this sort, cutting | special privilege to the roots and free. ing the white man must be achieved | to give democracy the lease of life that freeing the black man has given the republican party
 Thlrd-The democratic party should fly at the topmast a Determination tc reduce the tariff on the raw materials of industry, on the necessaries of life and on goods sold abroad more cheanly than al home.
 Fourth-lt should promise banking and currency system severed from gov. ernment, freely permitted to develor by Its own principles and laws It's in. stitutions business methods and lega restraints based upon the banking ex. perlence of the world and history freely confessing it's banking goal tc be some such successful system as tn, Scotch or Canadian systems.
 Fifth-1t should attract attention O course to tariff beneflciarles. but als, to tho special privileges of the land lord and raw material owner class Land or raw material, labor and cap ital, unite to form product which f. divided up into rent, wages and profte If normally they each should get third, then, if the raw material mal gets four ninths, labor or capital mus take up with two instead of thre ninths, and to see which shall take II, with less than its legitimate part pro duces the war between labor and cap ital They should unite and fight tn landlord and raw material men
 Sixth-Now while democracy shoul, fight special privilege everywhere an, all the time 1t should not, supposedl
 under the same reform flag, pitch int economic development and the laws O nature. This last is how 1t is tha President Roosevelt has struck terro to all business including leeitimat business, and done the country to
 panic. When legitimate and llleglti mate business alike is 10 be hit the
 panic and reign of terror is the logca outcome. The Boston and Maine an 2 the New York, New Haven and Hart
 ford railroads should have been per
 mitted to consolidate as should hay been the Northern Pacific merger fe
 the democratic party allay bushes fear by making the distinction betwee
 punishing special privilege and finn and destroying economic development
 seventh-A permanent internationt
 congress and court of arbitration whic
 can be achieved as soon as unanimou 3 action Of all the nations Is no longc : thought necessary; taxation place |, upon the natural resources and socii I assets, such as the coal trusts coal, tt 0f'Ni VI IT blli lllt t7itlllNtil' VI 0 VII, , Astors unearned increment, the Ne 1 Haven Water company's water, tf Q Southern New England Telephone Go.
 franchise, tho part of Niagara Fa
 now privately owned by Mir Morga' . inc Vanderbilts and the Astors, tt 2 New York & New Haven roads rigl @ of way; reducing the exorbitant moi 1 ument of special privilege the tarif n reforming our banking and currenc - system, so 1t will not oftener and O . tener strike dowr solvent concern . curtail production labor, time, wage y and profits, and turn prosperity int s adversity; striking blow at the spe 7. cial privilege of earth ownership,
 landlordism and raw material mono
 poly, allaylng business fears and d, a piesSons by ptnishing special priv a leges and encouraging economic deve opment instead of visiting the wrat f of the powers upon the just and unju e alike; along such lines should the den
 ccratic fight be made and by sue V achievement 1t, the democratic part will merit and will gain the respect a the country and a long lease of powe
 GEORGE M. WALLACE.
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