The morning journal-courier., 1908-06-16
Roosevelt Taft Declaration on Trusts, Railroad Rate, h. junction, Tariff and
 Currency,
CANNON MUCH DISTURBED
Speaker Wants Injunction and Trust Planks Radically Modified Other Opposition De-
 velops.

remained In Chicago all day today and although keeping away from the noisy centers of convention enthusiasm, he took a most active part in the confer ences on the platform. His unexpected advent here last night, for the express purpose of having voice in the docu- ment which may shape future legisla ton, has led to renewed consideration of some of the details of blanks, nota bly, those on injunction and on trusts The speaker was closeted with Senator Hopkins, prospective chairman of the platform committee. for over m hour today, and then Mr. Hopkins was clos eted with Wade Ellis, custodian of the platform, and Senator Long of Kansas, and Frank B. Kellogg of Minnesota, the only ones to whom copies have been intrused. Mir. Cannons friends believe the injunction and trust blanks will be modified If not eliminated but the custodian of the draft has given no ev- idence of making any notable changes, The feature of the trust plank which is said to have attracted the speakers solcitude, Is one which inferentially would exempt certain organizations, in cluding labor and farming organiza- tions from the operations of lhe law although such exemption In a general law are said to have been pronounced unconstitutional by the supreme court of Illinois some fifteen years ago.
 The five most important blanks of the republican platform formulated by President Roosevelt and Secretary Taft and drafted by Wade II. Ellis. attorney general of Ohio, are hereby given. They are the plank on trusts, i-injunction, railroad rate, tariff revision and currency.
 The trust plank is as follows:
 The republican party passed the Sherman antitrust law over demo cratic opposition, and enforced 1t ai- ter democratic derelieton. Ii has been a wholesome instrument for good in the hands of a wise and fearless ad- ministration But experience has shown that its effectiveness can be strengthened and its real objects bet ter attained by such amendments as will give to the federal government greater supervision and control over, and secure greater publicity in the management of that class of interstate corporations having power and oppor- tunity to efect monopoljes, anu at the same time will not interfere with the existence of associations among business men, farmers and wage earners so long as their conduct or operation results in a positive benefit to the public"
 The exact text of the plank relating to railroads is as follows:
 We approve the enactment of a railroad rate law and a vigorous en- forcement of the present administra ton of the statutes against rebates and discrimination as result of which the advantages formerly pos sessed by the large over the small shipper have substantially disappear ed In this connection We commend the appropriation of s350.000 by the present congress in order to enable the interstate commerce commission to thoroughly investigate and give publicity to the accounts of railroads.
 We believe, however that the in- terstate commerce law should be fur ther amended so as to give railroads the right to make and publish traffic agreements subject to the approval of the commission but maintaining al- ways the principle Of competition be- tween naturally competing lines and avoiding the common control of such lines by any means whatsoever and we specially favor the enactment of such legislation as will provide for federal restriction against the over issue of stocks and bonds by inter state carriers.
 More or less serious In accuracy has characterized the reputed textual publications of the plank relating to the tariff. The exact text of that plank, as well as of the plank con corning anti-injunction legislation fol- lows:
 "The republican party declare unrev- ocably for a revision of the tariff by q special session of congress immediate ly following the inauguration of the next president and comments the steps already taken 10 this end in the work assigned to the appropriate committees or the two houses WnlCn are now ln- vestigating the operation and effect of existing schedules. In all tariff legls- lation the true principle or protection is best maintained by the imposition of such duties as will equal the diff ference between the cost or production at home and abroad, together with a reasonable profit to American industries and the benefits that follow are best secured by the estimate of maximum and minimum rates which shall be ap- piled automatically to the trade of oth CT countries In accordance with their treatment of our trade Tho minimums should represent the normal measure of protection required for the benefit ol our own industries, The aim and pur. pose of the republican policy is not only to preserve without excessive duties that security against foreign competi. tlon to which American manufactur. ers farmers and producers are entitled but also maintain the high standard ot living of the wage earners of thiS country, who are the most direct ben e6ciarIes of the protective system. Be. tween the United States and the Philip pines, we believe in free interchange of products, with such limitations a,
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