The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-06-18

WASHINGTON, June THAT the
platform which will be adopted at the
Chicago convention and on which the
next campaign has been completed
with the exception of a few details,
which will be left for the committee on
resolutions to insert, is the opinion of
many who are in the confidence of the
Republican leaders. The work has
been done by Wade Ellis, Attorney
General of Ohio, the craftsman of the
recent Ohio State platform; Senator
Hopkins, who will be the chairman Of
the committee on resolutions; Senator
Long of Kansas, ana a few others, in
GLIDING the President and Secretary
Taft, who have been freely consulted
The policies of President Roosevelt
will be indorsed unequivocaily' and
this Endorsement will be the central
idea of the document. These policies
will be set forth as the embodiment
of the principles of the Republican
party, whose achievements will be
Landed as at all times wise and beneh-
cal; and as ever in the interest of the
people. These principles, it will be
declared, are quite in contrast with the
policies of the Democratic party
which, as embodied in the public ut
terances of its leaders, it will be said
promise nothing good that can be as
sured of accomplishment. The Repub-
lican party's record as the party of
protection and sound money, as the
party of progress and good principles
as the party that gave freedom to Gu
ba and lifted the yoke from the necks
of the people of the Philippines and
from Porto Rico, will be upheld for ad-
miration and made .the subject of much
praise, and the voting power will be
asked to continue to patronize the po-
litical craft that has carried it across
so many streams.
CHANGES IN THE TARIFF.
Specifically speaking, more attention
has been given by the platform makers
to the tariff than to any other sub
Ject There will be an unequivocal dec
Iaration for revision, but the DISPOSE
ton is to leave the working out of de-
tails to tie ingenuity of Congress. The
action of the two houses Of Congress
in instructing the committees which
will seal with the tariff, te Senate
Committee on Finance and the House
Committee on Ways and Means, to
make a special investigation of the sit
uation, will afford sufficient excuse for
this course, as the results of these in
quiries will be unavailable to the con-
vention, wnTIe they supposedly will
furnish Congress with a basis for ac-
ton. This preparatory step will be in
dorsed and tere will be a general an
nouncement in favor of such changes
in the schedules as the advance of time
and the progress of the country may
have made necessary since the enact
ment of tie Dingley law.
The declaration will take the shape
of appearing to so equalize the duties
as to give the consumer the benefit OF
the most favorable prices consistent
with the protection of domestic in
dustries and home labor. 1t will be
emphatically stated that there must
be no invitation that will permit
American labor to come into competi-
ton with foreign tabor, and accord
ingly it will be specified that in al
cases the duty must be equal to the
difference between the American anC
the European cost of production. The
principle of protection will be in
| dorsed in general terms and there may
be a declaration favorable to a maxi
mum and minimum tariff as the one
best calculated to insure the promotion
of American interests under varying
conditions. A clause declaring agains
the utilization of the tariff for the pro
motion of monopolies is also among
the probabilities.
FINANCIAL LEGISLATION.
Next to the traiff the financial
plank has received most careful at
tention, but the enactment of the
emergency currency law just before
the close of the recent session o
Congress has rendered the prepare
ton of this plank much simpler thar
it would have been if there had beer
no such legislation. Congress will b,
congratulated on the Aldrich-Vree
land bill as in the interest of sount
finance and as calculated to protec
the business world against possibl,
panics in the near future and at tn
same time provide for the permaU
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