The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-07-16

resulted in this appalling increase as a
shameful violation of all prudent con-
ditiOns of government as no less than
a crime against the millions of work
ing men ana women from whose earn
ings the great proportion of these CO.
lOsSal sums must be extorted through
excessive tariff exactions and other in
direct methods.
COincident with the enormous in
crease in expenditures is a like addi-
ton to the number of ofiiceholders.
During the past year 23.7S4 were add
ed, costing SIG, 156,0OO, and in the past
six years of the Republican admins
tratiOn the total number of new Offices
created, aside from many commissions,
has been 9J,319, entailing an addition
al expenditure of nearly STO,OOO.OOO.
We denOunce this great and growing
increase in the number of ofTiceholders
as unnecessary and wasteful.
Banking.
The panic of 1907, coming without
any legitimate excuse, when the Re-
publican party had for decade been
in complete control of the federal gov
eminent, furnishes additional proof
that it is either unwilling or incompe-
tent to protect the interests OF the GEN
eral public. 1t has so linked the coun-
try to Wall street that the sins of the
Spectators are visited upon the whole
people
We believe that in so far as the
needs of commerce require an emer-
geucy currency such currency should
be issued, controlled 10y the federal
government and loaned on adequate
security to national and state banks
We pledge ourselves to legislation un-
der which the national banks shall be
required to establish guarantee fund
for the prompt payment of the depos-
itOrs of any insolyent national bank
under an equitable system which shall
be available to all state banking instf-
tutiOns wishing to use it.
We favor postal savings bank if
the guaranteed bank cannot be Sc
cured.
The Misuse of Patronage.
We condemn as a violation of the
spirit of our institutions the action of
the present chief executive In using
the patronage of his high Office 70 Sc
cure the nomination of one of his cabi-
net officers
Waterways.
Water furnishes the cheapest means
of transportation, and the national gov
eminent, having the control of navi-
gable waters, should improve them to
their fullest capacity. We earnestly
favor the immediate adoption of a lib
eral and comprehensive plan for i'm
proving every water course in the
Union which is justified by the needs
of commerce
We favor an immediate declaration
of the nations purpose to recognize
the Independence of the Philippine Is
lands as soon as a stable government
can be established
Income Tax and Other PIanks.
We favor an income tax as part Of
our revenue system, and we urge the
submission of constitutional amend
ment specifically authorizing cong ress
to levy and collect a tax upon indi-
vidual and corporate incomes and IA
vor election of United States senators
by direct vote.
We pledge the Democratic party to
the enactment of a law to regulate the
rates and services of telegraph and
telephone companies engag ed in the
transmission of messages between the
states, under the jurisdiction of the in
terstate commerce commission.
The Navy.
The constitutional provision that a
navy shall be provided and maintained
means navy adequate to defend the
entire American coast and all citizens
We are opposed to the admission Of
Asiatic immigrants who cannot be
amalgamated with our population, or
whose presence among US would raise
a race issue and involve us in contro-
versies with oriental powers.
We believe in the upbuilding of the
American and merchant marine with
out bounties from the public treasury.
We advocate the organization of a
national bureau of public health.
We favor a generous pension policy.
Trusts.
We favor the vigorous enforcement
of the criminal law against guilty trust
magnates and officials and demand the
enactment of such additional legislation
as may be necessary to make it impos-
sible for private monopoly to exist in
the United States. Among the addi-
tional remedies we specify three-firSt,
a law preventing a duplication of d.
rectorS among competing corporations;
second, a license system which will,
without abridging the right of each
state to create corporations or its
right TO regulate as it will foreign
corporations doing business within its
limits, make it necessary for a man
ufacturing or trading corporation en-
gagged in interstate commerce to
take out a federal license before it
shall be permitted to control as
much as % per cent of the product IN
which it deals, the license to protect
the public from watered stock and to
prohibit the control by such corpora
ton of more than 30 per cent of the
total amount of any product consumed
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