Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-07-15

| reductions Should De maze IN Sucn
other schedules as may be necessary
to restore the tariff to a revenue
basis.
Existing duties have given to the
manufacturers of paper shelter be-
hind which they have organized COM
binations to raise the price of pulp
and Of paper, thus imposing tax
upon the spread of knowledge. We
demand the immediate repeal of the
tariff on pulp paper, lumber, timber
logs and that these articles be placed
upon the free list.
Publicity of Campaign Contributions.
We demand Federal legislation for
ever terminating the partnership
which has existed between corpora
tions of the country and the Republi-
can party under the expressed or i'm
piled agreement that in return for
| the contributions of great sums of
money wherewith to purchase elec-
tions they should be allowed to con-
tinue substantially unmolested in
| their efforts to encroach upon the
rights of the people.
Any reasonable doubt as to the ex-
istence Of this relation has been for
ever dispelled by the sworn testimony
of witnesses examined in the insur-
ance investigation in New York, and
the open admission unchallenged by
the Republican national committee Of.
single individual, that he himself
at the personal request Of the Repuo-
lican candidate for the presidency
raised over quarter Of q million of
dollars to be used in a single State
during the closing hours of the last
campaign. In order that this prac-
tice shall be stopped for all time, W"
demand the passage of statute pun
ishing with imprisonment any officer
of corporation who shall eithc"
contribute Oh behalf of, or consent to
the contribution by corporation Of
any money or thing Of value to be
used in furthering the election of a
President and Vice President of the
United States or of any member Of
tie Congress thereof.
We denounce the action of This
Rer nblican party, havI.g eomc;rTe
ontroi of the Federal gcvernmc =,
for its failure to pass the bill intro
duccd in the last Congress to conf
pei The publication of tic names t
contributors and the amounts con-
trjb,.ted towarl campaign funds, and
point to the evidence of their in
sincerity when they sought by an
absolutely irrelevant and impossible
amendment to defeat the passage of
The bill.
Tho Rights of the States.
Believing with Jefferson in "the
support of the State governments in
all their rights as the most competent
administration for our domestic con-
Germs and the surest bulwark against
anti-republican tendencies" and in
"the preservation of the general gov
ernment in its whole constitutional
vigor, as the sheet-anchor of our
peace at home and safety abroad"
we are opposed TO the Capitalization
implied in these suggestions, now
frequently made, that the powers of
the general government should be
extended by judicial construction.
Economy in Administration.
The Republican Congress in session
just ended has mad, appropriations
amounting to $1,OOS,000,OOO, ex-
ceeding the total expenditures Of the
past fiscal year by $90,O00,000 and
leaving a deficit of more than $780,
100000 for the fiscal year. We de-
nounce the needless waste Of the
peoples money which has resulted
in this appalling increase as 6
shameful violation of all prudent
conditions of government, as no less
than crime against the millions OF
working men and women from whose
earnings the great proportion Of
these colossal sums must be extortcd
through excessive tariff exactions
and other indirect methods.
Pensions.
We favor a generous pension policy
both as matter of justice to the
surviving veterans and their de-
pendents and because it tends to re-
lieve the country Of the necessity of
maintaining large standing army.
Natural Resources.
We repeat the demand for internal
development and for the conservation
of our natural resources, contained in
previous platforms, the enforcement
of which Mr.. Roosevelt has vainly
sought from a reluctant party and to
that end we insist upon the preserva-
ton, protection and replacement of
needed forests, the preservation of
the public domain for home seekers,
the protection Of the natural resources
in timber, coal, iron and oil against
monopolistic control, the develop
ment of our waterways for naviga-
tion and ev0ry other useful purpose,
including the irrigation of arid lands,
the reclamation of swamp lands, the
clarifcation Of streams the develop
ment of water power and the preser-,
vation Of electric power generated
by this natural force from the con-
troll of monopoly; and to such end, we
urge the exercise of all powers, ma
tional, State and municipal, both sep
arately and in cooperation.
Panama Canal.
We believe the Panama canal will
prove of great value to our country,
and favor its speedy completion.
Banking.
The panic of 1907, coming without
any legitimate excuse, when the Re-
publican party had for a decade been
in complete control Of the Fe'lral
government, furnishes additional
proof that it is either unwilling or
incompetent to protect the interests
of the general public. 1t has SO