Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-15

longer saddened by the spectacle OF
American battleships having their coal
supplies carried by foreign GOLFERS.
We ask that all unnecessary and bur-
| densome restrictions now placed upon
| American shipoWners and American
| lines of ocean transportation be re
moved SO as to place them upon an
equality in their competition with for
| eign owned vessels which now threaten
to drive the American merchant nag
from the ocean.
Eighth--We favor all measures haY-
ing for their legitimate object the
preservation of the forests of our coun-
try in the interest of the people.
Ninth-We thank the Republican ma
jority in congress for their enactment
of laws providing for a national sys-
TEN of irrigation and for their liberal
appropriations of money to carry into
effect the plan devised by the United
States engineers To make irrigation
success.
We pledge our hearty support to any
and all proper efforts to conserve the
water and to wisely govern its dis
tribution SO that the so-called arid
land embracing so many millions of
acres may be redeemed from its des-
ert state and rendered habitable for
the thousands who are anxious to rear
homes for themselves upon the, at
present. barren fields of America.
The regulation and sale of water
flowing through the national reserves
should be provided for under such
conditions that the development of the
industries of the state will not be in
terfered with and so that the people
may not be deprived of the effective
competition which the possession of
sufficient water should assure them.
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gency calls for legislation which will
prevent a like recurrence and will
enable the people of the country to
have currency enough in times of panic
TO carry on their legitimate avocations
without resort to technically illegal de-
vices.
Eleventh-We favor the prosecution
of all illegal and unjust trusts when
ever and wherever found. not in a
spirit of destruction to vested inter-
ests, but solely with the desire to curb
improper ambitions of so-ealled cap
tains of industry, while deriving all
the benefit possible from these Or
ganizatidns of capital
Twelfth--We favor liberal appropri-
atoms by congress for the purpose of
protecting the San Pedro harbor and
for the purpose of improving Newport
bay.
Thirteenth-We indorse the proposed
amendment to the constitution of CAL
fornia regarding the enactment of
direct primary law and recommend its
adoption by the people.
Fourteenth-The Sacramento and
San Joaquin rivers and their tributar-
les form the only highways of COM
merce within this state and give to
the farmer, merchant and manufacturer
a competitive line of transportation for
their products.
The Republican party has ever been
the friend of these highways, and the
work now being carried on for their
Improvement Is of inestimable value to
California.
We favor larger appropriations and
continuous work upon these streams,
to the end that ocean vessels can again
ascend the Sacramento and San Joa-
quin rivers, as they did i'll days
gone by.
We pledge the utmost efforts of our
party and its candidates to carry on
this enterprise. for i'll this successful
prosecution will be found the best
remedy for any sovercharges by any
transportation companies in our state.
Fifteenth-The Republican party has
ever been mindful of the duty that a
nation owes to Its citizens to care for
their right to possess and enjoy their
property, their liberty and their lives,
and it will ever be found ready at all
times, under all circumstances and in
all countries to give complete protec-
ton to every American citizen in his
constitutional rights whenever or how
ever they may be assailed.
Sixteenth-We realize that the large
vote at the unofficial primary held
May 5, 1908, in favor of Roosevelt as
candidate for president indicates to
a large extent the feelings lin which
we share) of the people of California
toward him.
Knowing, however, as We do from
his oft repeated verbal and written
declarations that he will not be a cam
didate for the nomination and that he
decency ask him to violate those
pledges and sincerely DESTROYS to carry
out his policies, we favor the nominal
ton and instruct our delegates to the
national convention to support by all
honorable means the candidacy of that
eminent jurist and r-seeing states
man, who more than any other person
stands for the Rooseveltian measures
who is the candidate favored by the
president, the party and the people
William H. Taft of Ohio.
Seventeenth-We deprecate all dis
sensions in our party and urge upon
all Republicans that it is their duty
to forget personal animositieS and dis
appointed ambitions and to labor unit
eddy for the party and its nominees,
keeping attacks and denunciations for
the common enemy.