The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-06

the galway to all other national re- forms.
 4 private lnonoply is indefensible and intolerable. We therefore, favor the vigorous enforcement of the crim- inal law against trusts and trust mag mates, and demand the enactment Of such additional legislation as may be necessary to make it impossible for private monopoly to exist in the Uni ted States. Among the additional rem edies, we specify three: First, a law preventing the duplication of directors among competing corporations sec ond, a license system, which will, with out abridging the right of each state to create corporations doing business within its limits. make it necessary for a manufacturing or trading corpora ton engaged in interstate commerce to take out a federal license before It shall be permitted to control as much as 25 per cent of the product in which it deals: the license to protect the pub lie from wa cred stock and to pro- hibit the control by such corporation of more than fifty per cent Of the to- tai amount of my product consumed in the United States; and, third, a law compelling ~uch licensed corpora tions 10 sell to all purchasers in all parts of the country on the same terms after making due allowance for cost of transportation.
 Actual Tariff Reform.
 We welcome the belated promise of tariff reform, now offered by a part of the Republican party, as a tardy rec ognition of the righteousness of the Democratic position on this question, but the people cannot safely entrust the execution of this important work to a party which is so obligated to the highly protected interests that it post pones relief until after the election. And we call attention to the significant fact that the promise now made by | those Republicans who favor tariff re- vision Is wholly vitiated by the use of the very qualifying words under which the present tariff iniquities have grown up.
 We favor an immediate revision of | the tariff by the reduction of import du- ties. Articles entering into competi- ton with articles controlled by trusts should be placed upon free list; ma terlal reductions should be made in the tariff upon necessaries of life and re- auctions should be made in such other schedules as may be necessary to re- store the tariff to a revenue basis.
 We favor an income tax as part of our revenue system, and we urge the submission of an amendment to the constitution specifically authorizing congress to levy and collect a tax up- on individual and corporate incomes, to the end that wealth may bear its proportionate share of the burdens of the federal government We favor a national inheritance tax to reach the swollen fortunes already in exist ence, but we believe that it is better to permanently prevent swollen for tunes" by abolshing the privileges and favoritism upon which they are based.
 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 de- velopment of the country We also
 favor the reclamation of swamp lands
 upon the same principles.
 Forest Preservation.
 We favor the preservation of the
 forests still remaining and the re-
 planting of the denuded districts in
 all our mountain ranges, as well as
 the forestration of the western plains We believe that the Panama cana
 will prove of great value to our coun' try and favor its speedy completion We urge liberal appropriations fol the improvement and development o' the interior waterways, believing tha
 such expenditures will return large
 dividend in lessening cost of transpor
 tation.
 We favor generous pension polio! both as a matter of justice to tn, surviving veterans and their depend ents and because it relieves the coun try of the necessity of maintaining ; large standing army,
 We condemn the experiments in i'm : perialsm as an inexcusable blunde which has involved us in an enormou . expense, brought us weakness in
 stead of strength, and then lait
 our nation open to the charge Q l abandoning the fundamental doctric
 of self-government. We favor an i'm
 mediate declaration of the nation