The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-06
VOTE AS A UNIT
 FUR w. J. BRYANT
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1.) questions now under discussion, anI demands immediate consideration. We heartily approve of the laws prohibit ing the pass and rebate and insist upon further legislation, state and national. making it unlawful for any corporation to contribute to campaign funds, and providing for publica tion, before the election of all contributions above a reasonable minimum.
 Sheet Anchor of Peace.
 Believing with Jefferson in the sup port of the state governments in all their rights as the most competent administration for our domestic con- cerns and the surest bulwark against anti-republican tendencies and in the preservation of the general govern ment In its whole con stitutional vigor, the sheet anchor of our peace at home and abroad" we are opposed 10 the centralization implied in the sug- gestions now frequently made that the powers of the general government sh ould be extended by judicial con- struction. While we favor the exercise by the general government of all its constitutional authority for the pre- vention of monopoly and for the inter- state commerce, we insist that federal remedies shall be added to, and not substituted for state remedies.
 We insist upon reorganization of the distinction between the natural man and the artificial person. called cor poration, and we favor the enactment of such law as may be necessary to compel foreign corporations to submi, their legal disputes to. the courts of the states in which they do business and thus place themselves upon the same footing as domestic corporations.
 We favor the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people, and regard this reform as the gateway to all other national reforms.
 Antitrust Laws.
 A private monopoly is indefensible and intolerable.
 We therefore favor the vigorous en- forcement of the criminal laws against trusts and trust magnates, and demand the enactment of such additional leslsia- ton as may be necessary to make it i'm possible for private monopoly to exist in the United States Among the additional remedies we specify three:
 l. A law preventing the duplication Of directors among competing corporations.
 2. A license system which will, without abridging the right of each state to create corporations or It's right to regu- late as 1t will foreign corporations doing business In its limits, make it necessary for manufacturing or trading corpora tion trading in interstate commerce to take out federal license before 1t snail be permitted to control as much as 70 her cent of the product in which 1t deals; +A from watered stock and to prohibit the control by such corporation of more than 5O per cent of the total amount of any product consumed in the United States.
 B. law compelling such licensed cor porations to sell to all purchasers In all parts of the country on the same terms. after making due allowance for cost ot transportation.
 Tariff Reform.
 We welcome tho belated promise of tariff reform, now offered by part of the republican party, as a tardy recognition of the righteousness of the democratic po- sition on this question, but the people can not safely entrust the execution or tnls important work to a party which IS 80 op- ligated to the highly protected interests that it postpones relief until after the election And we call attention 10 the significant fact that the promise now made by those republicans who favor tariff revision is wholly vitiated by the use of the very qualifying words under uyhioh the present tariff iniquities have grown up. Al.
 We favor an immediate revision of the tariff bv the reduction of import duties; articles entering into competition with articIes controlled by trusts should De nlaced upon the free list; material reouc- lions should be made in the tariff upon nscessar,es of life, and reductions should he made in such other schedules as may be necessary to restore the tarin to a revenue basis.
 We favor an income tax as part or our revenue system, and we urge the suo- noission on a constitutional amendment sneciacallv authorizing Congress to levy ana collect a tax upon individual and cor norate incomes. to the end that wealth may hear its proportionate share or the burdens of the federal government.
 We favor national inheritance tax to reach the swollen fortunes already Ill existence, but we believe that 1t IS better to nermanently prevent swollen for tunes,, by abolishing the privileges and favoritism upon which they are based.
 Reclamation of Land.
 We sympathize with the efforts put forth for the reclamation Of the arid lands of the west, and urge the largest possible use of irrigation in the develop ment of the country.
 We also favor the reclamation or swamp lands upon same principles.
 We favor the preservation of the forests still remaining, and the replanting Of the doruded districts in all our mountain ranses as we'll as the forestration of the western plains. ,,,
 We helieye that the Panama canal will rrove of great value to our country ana favor its speedy completion.
 We urge liberal appropriations for the improvement and development of the in tar;or waterways, believing that such ex- r,enditure will return large dividend in iessening cost of transportation.
 We favor a generous pension policy, hotb as a matter of justice to the surviv- ing veterans and their dependents. and because 1t relieves the country of the necessity of maintaining large standing army.
 We condemn the experiments in im-