The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-07-11
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM
More Important Items in Declaration
Of Principles.

OF Principles. n
Trusts-A private monopoly is in
defensible and intolerable. We there
of the criminal law against guilty
trust magnates and officials and de-
mand the enactment of such addition
al legislation as may be necessary TO
make II impossible for a private mono
poly to exist in the United States
Among the additional remedies we
specify three: First, law prevent
ing duplication of directors among
competing corporations; second, IL
cense system which will, without
abridging the right of each state to
create corporations or its right to
regulate as it will foreign corporations
doing business within its limits, max
ing II necessary for manufacturing
or trading corporation engaged in in
terstate commerce to take out fed
eral license before it shall be permit
ted to control as much as twenty-five
per cent of the product in which it
deals, the license to protect the pub
lie from watered stock and to prohib-
it the control by such corporation of
more than fifty per cent of the total
amount of any product consumed in
the United States and third, a law
compelling such licensed corporations
to sell TO all purchasers in all parts
of the country on the same terms, af-
ter making due allowance for cost of
Transportation.
The Tariff.
We favor immediate revision of the
tariff by the reduction of import
duties. Articles entering to compel
ition with trust controlled products
should be placed upon the free list
and material reductions should be
made in the tariff upon the necessar
les of life especially upon articles
competing with such American manu-
cheaply than at home; and graduate
reductions should be made in sucf
other schedules as may be necessar,
to restore the tariff to revenue
basis.
Existing duties have given to the
, manufacturers of paper shelter be
hind which they have organized com
binations to raise the protection o
, pulp and OF paper thus imposing {
, tax upon the spread of knowledge
We demand the immediate repeal o
( the tariff on pulp print paper, lumber
: timber and logs and that these arti
cles be placed upon the free list.
Labor.
Experience has proven the necessit.
, lof a modification of the present Law
lrelating to injunctions and we reit
Ierate the pledge of our national plat
forms of 1896 and 1904 in favor o
the measure which passed the Unite'
States Senate In 1896 but which a re
publican Congress has ever since re
5 fused TO enact relating to contempt
3 In federal courts and providing 70
trial by jury in cases of indirect cor
, tempt.
The expanding organization OF In
= dustry makes II essential that Their
!. should be no abridgement of the RICH
of wage earners and producers to o.
ganize for the protection of wages an
q the Improvement of labor condition
u to the end that such labor organize
tons and their members should not
= regarded as illegal combinations In r.
y straint of trade. We favor the eigl
hour day on all government worl
= We pledge the Democratic party
u the enactment OF the law by Congress
y as far as the federal jurisdiction @
tends for general employers II
y bility act, covering injury to body
y loss of life of employees.
u We pledge the Democratic party
Y the enactment OF law creating d
- partment of labor, represented sepa
10 ately in the presidents cabinet, whit