The morning journal-courier., 1908-06-08
Presidents Theories Will be Set Forth as the Embodi- ment of Republican
 Principles.
DEMANDS TARIFF REVISION
May Declare for Maximum and Minimum Schedule-Con- graduates Congress on It's Emergency Cur
 rency Bill,

Washington, June That the plat form which will be adopted al the Chi cago convention and on which the re- publican party will stand during the next campaign has been completed with the exception of few details, which will be left for the committee on resolutions to insert Is the opinion of many who are in the confidence of the republican leaders. The work has been done by Wade Ellis, attorney general of Ohio, who drafted tho recent Ohio state platform Senator Hopkins of Illinois, who will be the chairman of the committee on resolutions: Senator Long of Kansas City and a few others including the President and Secretary Taft who have been freely consulted.
 The policies of President Roosevelt {, will be endorsed unequivocally and this endorsement will be the central idea of the document These policies will he set forth as the embodying principles of the republican party, whose achieve ment will be lauded as at all times wise and benefcent. as ever in the ln- terest of all the people. These prn- ciples. 1t will be declared. are quite in contrast with the policies of the demo- cratic party. which as embodied in the public utterances of its leaders, 1t will be said, promise nothing good that can be assured of accomplishment. The re- publican party's record as the party of protection and sound money, as the party of progress and good principles. as the party that gave freedom to Cu- ba and lifted the yoke from the necks of the people of the Philippines and Porto Rico. will be held up for admira- ton and made the subject of much praise, and the voting public will he asked to continue to patronize the poll- tical craft that has carried 1t across so many streams.
 Specifically speaking, more attention has been given by the platform makers 10 the tariff than to any other subject. These will be an unequvoca declara- ton for revision; but the disposition Is to leave working out of the details to congress. The action of the two houses Of congress in instructing the commit tees which will deal with the tariff the senate committee on finance and the house committee on ways and means, 10 make especial investigation of the situation. will afford sufficient excuse for this course. for the results of these inquiries will not be available to the convention while they will supposedly furnish congress with a basis for ac. ton. This preparatory step will bt endorsed, and there will be a genera pronouncement in favor of such changes in the schedules as the ad- vance of time and the progress of tho country may have made necessary since the enactment of the Dingley / law. The declaration will take tn, shape of q pledge to so equalize thc duties as to give the consumer the ben. eft of the most favorable prices con sistent with the protection of domestic industries and home labor. It will b, emphatcally stated that there mus be no innovation that will permi American labor to come into competi ton with foreign labor, and according ly 1t will be specified that in all case the duty must be equal to the differ ence between the American and tn European cost Of production, including reasonable profit to the American producer. The principle of protection will be endorsed in. general terms, am there may be g declaration favOrabl to a maximum and a minimum tarif as the one best calculated to insur the promotion of American industr under varying conditions. A clause dc claring against the utilization of tn tariff for tho promotion of monopol is also among the probabilities
 Next to the tariff, the financial plan lns received most careful attention but the enactment of the emergenc currency law just befo,e the close o the recent session of congress has ren dered the preparation of this plan much simpler than 1t would have beeI if there had been no such Legislation Congress- and the administration wi be congratulated upon the passage Q the Aldrich- -Vreeland bill as in the in ] terest of sound finance and as calculat cd to protect the business worl against possible panics in the nea future and provide for the permanen improvement of our currency systel through the recommendations whlcl 1t is anticipated will be made by tn commission appointed under the ne law. Reference will be made to tn financial disturbance of last fall an while the seriousness of that crisis wi be recognized, the claim will be mac that the republican party was foun able to meet the situation and tf country will be informed that by | prompt action the business world wt saved from long drawn out tinanci depression and industrial inactivit, The country wiV be accordingly col graduated upon the fact that when tn emergency arose the republican part --------s------7----------