Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-08

courts are acting in excess of their
jurisdiction or strictly WITHIN tnelr
delegated powers. In either case the
people have a right to throw dditional
safeguards around human liberty
There can be no reflection upon the
honesty of the courts in the passage OF
measure that will confine the equity
powers of the federal judiciary WITHIN
such bounds as the people OF the
United States. through the legislative
branches of their government, may de-
| termine.
This Democratic convention must
| frankly, firmly and unequivocallY
pledge itself to such legislation as VIII
prevent the writ of injunction from De
ing converted into an instrument OF
oppression. -.
convention besides pointing out eVlls
and calling the Republican party 10
task for the part it has played IN
creating and perpetuating abuses
Democracy is once more calleq 10 tne
arena to battle for the sacred primer
pies of self-government. 1t must Wdse
an uncompromising war for the re
ttrn of the government to the hanus
of the people, and this means that the
) phalanx of special interests must De
broken. 49,. ..,,,o
"The triumph of the people can come
only through the Democratic party IoI
the life OF its chief political opponent
is sn absorbed into the artificial LIE
of the nonopelies and trusts that II
excludes the hope that the Repuohcal
marty will ever be able, or wiling, 10
regain the separate existence where II
can honestly discharge its duty 10 inc
people. .....,... -
"XVith the power and opportunity 10
carry out Democratic principles We
will be called upon to revise the tariH
laws In interest of the whole people.
This issue cannot be disposed OF by
the assertion that the Republican party
also stands for tariff reform Repupl-
can revision and Democratic revision
are two different things.
Difference In Protection
"1'he Democratic idea is that where
the tariff enables the trusts to main
tain a. system of extortion, the duty
should be removed from all trust-made
goods. SO that competition from abroad
NAV compel reasonable prices to our
own people There is vast difer-
ence between the protection OF Amerl-
can industries and the protection OF
criminal monopolies.
THE expenses of our government
even when most economically admin
istered will always require substantlai
tariff rates, for the customs duties VIII
always be our chief source Of revenue
1.-THE distribution of tariff rates must
always be established with special REL
erence to the expenditures OF govern
ment, keeping in view the greatest good
to the greatest number, and particular
Iy prohibiting the conversion OF the
tariff into an accomplice of monopoly
in the robbery of the American con-
sumner.
1.-THE Democratic idea is that the col
lection of sufficient revenue to meet
the necessities of government must De
the basis for tariff regulations, anu
that the philosophy of excluding com
petition by tax on the American con-
sumner which requires him to pay
greater prices at home than are de-
m anded abroad, is a pernicious abuse
of the taxing power and manifest
injustice to our own people.
IAN election is party affair, and
the people have a right to know before
casting their votes whether a campaign
is being financed by the trusts ana
rnonopolies, and just exactly what in
f1uences are being exerted to gain con-
troll for 1t is not to be presumed that
large appropriations for election pun
poses are being made from the treas
uries of the corporation without an eX-
press or implied promise that the con-
tributors shall receive special bene-
fits in consideration Of their subscrip-
tons.
No Cash Register Needed
upon no other subject has the Re-
publican party shown such utter con-
tempt for the wishes of the people and
its refusal to use a cash register In
its political affairs clearly exhibits
crookedness and dishonesty that will
not bear the light of day.
$50 long as we maintain the present
method of selecting United States sem
ators we cannot hope that the upper
chamber of congress will reflect the
popular will. On five different occa-
sions the house of representatives has
passed a constitutional amendment
providing for the election Of United
States senators by the direct vote of
the people, but these measures have
been sandbagged in the senate by those
who are determined that the senate
shall not become an integral part of
our free, representative institutions.
1.-THE Democratic party will continue
to labor for the direct election of
United States senators, and it appeals
to the voters of America to elect
members of the different state legisla-
lures who will pledge themselves to
vote for no candidate for the United
States senate that is not in favor of
this reform.
1.-THE affirmative position Of the Dem
ocratic party upon these great ques-
lions will be made clear during the
| impending campaign, and disdaining
all subterfuges, it will speak in a Ian
guage that cannot be misunderstood.
| It's voice will ring with a genuine love
for humanity and the charge of in
sincerity will never be brought to its
| doors.
LET our party declaration in this
convention present the strong contrast
between that which we here propose
and that which was declared at Chi
cago. Let any man take the tempera-
ture of the Chicago platform and dis
cover, if he can, any sign of human
warmth Not a single sentiment is
| there to redeem 1t from the materialism
permeating it through and through.
Naval Strength Inadequate
"On the bosom of the Pacific will be
enacted the mighty commercial strug-
giles of the future, and the interests of
the American commerce will demand
that an adequate naval strength be
maintained in the waters of the Pacific
to protect expanding commerce.
"This magnificent western country of
ours has not only proved attractive to
our own people and the other white ma
lions of the earth, but it has likewise
proved alluring to the brown and yellow
races of the east. Some protection has
been afforded by the exclusion of Chi
nese labor, but the evil is but half
met if the immigration Of other Asiatic
peoples be not also excluded from our
shores.
Let the voters of this country Sc
riously consider whether the refusal of
the Republican party to disclose the