The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-09
INJUNCTION PLANK
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 ----->----%->------------- cluding. among others, provision for free print paper, free wood pulp, lumber logs, etc. No definite announcement on the question of the Philippine tariff rel ative to sugar was made by the sub committee.
 Tariff Plank.
 Following is the text of the sub-commit- tees tariff recommendation:
 We welcome the belated promise of tariff reform, now offered by the republi- can party as a tardy recognition of the righteousness of the democratic position on this question, but the people cannot safely entrust the execution of this com plete work to party which Is sC obliga- ted to the highly protected that It post. rones relief until after the election. And we call attention to the significant fact that. the promises now made are wholly vitIateo by the use of the qualifying words under which the present tariff iniquities have been fostered and developed
 We favor an immediate revision of the tariff and the reduction of import duties on articles entering into competi- ton with articles controlled by trusts should be made in the tariff upon the ne- cessities of life, and especially on ar tIeles competing with such American manufacturers as are sold abroad cheaper than at home, and graduated reductions should be made in such other schedules as may be necessary to restore the tariff to a revenue basis.
 suggests the conservation of our wood lands and the removal of these import duties which put premium upon the de- struction of our forests. Existing duties have given to paper manufacturers shelter behind which they have organized combinations to raise the price of pulp and of paper and to impose tax upon knowl- edge.
 We, therfeore, demand the immediate repeal of the tariff on wood pulp, print paper, lumber, logs, wood and timber, rlacing the same on the free list
 Platform Preamble.
 The full subcommittee gave consider able attention to the subject of the pre-
 amble for the platform, and there was for time a good deal of rivalry between the preamble of the New York platform and that of the Nebraska platform, the former being championed by Judge Park CT and the latter by former Senator Pet tigrew and others. Ultimately the Ne braska language was accepted because of it's brevity. It read as follows: s, I've, the representatives of the democ- racy of the United States, in national convention assembled, reaffirm our faith in, and pledge our loyalty to, the princi- ples of our party.
 we rejoice< at the increasing signs of an awakening throughout the country. The various investigations have traced grafted and political corruption to the representatives of predatory wealth, and laid bare the unscrupulous methods by | which they have debauched elections and | preyed upon the defenseless public l through the subservient officials whom they have raised to place and power ..,rhe conscience of the nation is now aroused and must be appealed to to free the government from the grip of those who have made 1t business asset of the favor-seeking corporations; 1t must become again a peoples government and be administered in all it's departments according to the Jeffersonian maxim, Equal rights to all and special privileges to none
 "Shall the people rule? Is the overshad- owing issue at this time; it manifests itself in all the questions now under discussion, and demands immediate con- sideration."
 Simplicity Advocated. During a discussion of the preamble, Senator Pettigrew declared that there was too much of a tendency toward the making of stump speeches in the plat form, and he announced his intention of moving for the appointment of com mittee of three for the simplification of the language of the entire document as soon as 1t shall have been completed. Among the other questions discussed at length during the. day were those relative to the writ of injunction, the expression of confidence in the courts the physical statue of railroads and the guarantee of bank deposits. There was a sharp division of sentiment upon many of these, but as the day wore on it became evident that a large ma jority of the full sub -commiWee Was completely committed to all of MT. Bryans polic>es and, while the mem. hers did not manifest the willingness to accept the language even of MT.