New-York tribune., 1908-06-08
FORECAST OF PLATFORM
TO INDORSE PRESIDENT.
Greatest 1ttention To BE Gtuen
Tariff and Financial Ptdnks.

Washington June lit is the opinion oil ilians
who are in the confidence OF the f'ep"I
leaders that the platform which VIII De auop
at the Chicago convention and on Which 'he ~
publican partv will stand during the next cam
paien has been completed with the excepuoh
of few details which will be left for the co'i'-
mttee on resolutions to insert. the WORK mas
been done by Wade Ellis, Attorney General -
Ohio the craftsman of the recent Ohio state
platform n Senator Hopkins, VINO VIII 'o ~
chairman of the committee on resoutions' Sen
ator Long of Kansas, and a few others hhO
ing the President and Secretary Taft, VINO nave
been freely consulted.
Tho noricies of President Roosevelt will be IN
dorsed uneoufvocally and this Endorsement VIII
be the central idea of the document Ihese Poii
cies will be set forth as the embodiment OIL 'he
principles of the Republican party "'oso
achievements will be praised as at All '
wise and benefcent, as ever IN the h',i'"' "
all the people These principles, II VIII pe uo
clared are quite in contrast win the poiieie' "
the Democratic party, which as empooieo III "
public utterances of its leaders, 1t VIII pe ''0
promise nothing good that can be assured Oh ao
complishment. The Republican party ieO
as the party of protection and sound money as
the party OF progress and good principles as 'he
party that gave freedom to Cuba and lifted the
pines and Porto Rico. will be held up Tor ao-
miration and made the subject of much praise
and the voting public will be asked to continue
to patronize the political craft that has carried
it across so many streams.
MUCH ATTENTION GIVEN TARIFF.
Specifically speaking, more attention mas
been given bv the platform makers to the tariff
than to any other subject. There will be an uh-
eouiyocaI declaration for revision, but the dls-
position is to leave the working out of detalis
to the ingenuity of Congress. The action OF the
two houses of Congress in instructlng the CUM
mittees which will deal with the tarlff, the Sell
ate Committee Finance and the House COM
mittee on Ways and Means, to make especlal IN
vestigation of the situation, will afford sufcleht
excuse for this course, the results of these IN
quries will be unavailable to the conventon'
while they will supposedly furnish Congress with
basis for action. This preparatory step VIII
be indorsed and there will be a general pro-
nouncement in favor of such changes In the
schedules as the advance of time and the prog
ress of the country may have made necessary
since the enactment of the Dingley law The
declaration will take the shape of pledge to so
equalize the duties as to give the consumer the
benefit OF the favorable prices consistent
with the protection of domestic industries and
home labor.
1t will be emphaticaHy stated that there must
be no innovation that will permit American la
Dor come into competition with foreign labor,
and accordingly it will be specified that in all
cases the duty must be equal to the difference
between the American and the European cost of
production, including a reasonable profit to the |
America producer. The principle of protection |
will be indorsed in general terms, and there may
be a declaration favorable to a maximum and a
rIata
sure the promotion of American industry under
varying conditions. A clause declaring against |
the utilization of the tariff for the promotion OF
monopoly is also among the probabilities.
CONGRESS SINIPLIFIES WORK
Next to the tariff the financial plank has re- |
cetved most careful attention. but the enactment
of the emergency currency law just before the |
close of the recent session of Congress has rem
dered the shaping of this plank much simpler |
than it would have been if there had been no |
such legislation. Congress and the administra- |
tion Will be congratulated on the passage of the |
Aldrich- Vreeand bill in the interest of sound
finance and calculated to protect the business |
world against possible panics in the future |
and at the same time provide for the permanent !
Of our currency system through |
the recommendations which it is expected will
be made by the commission appointed under the
cial disturbance of last fall and while the seri-
BUSINESS of that crisis will be recognized the |
assertion will be made that the Republican party
was found able to meet the situation and the
country will be informed that by its prompt
action the business world saved from long
drawn out financial depression and industrial in
activity. The country will accordingly be con- |
graduated on the fact that when this emergency
arose the Republican party was in power and
In position to come to the rescue
The administration will be also especially com
plimented on the passage during the Fifty ninth
Congress of the railroad rate law, and this |
legislation will be pointed to as an example of
what the party will do for the country at large
in case it is given such a lease of power as to
afford it sufficient time for the changes which
are believed to be desirable. The President will |
also receive much credit for legislation |
looking the preservation of the forests. the |
conservation of the public domain in the interest |
of the entire country and the reclamation Of the
arid lands Of the West The Presidents attitude |
in the matter OF the general protection of the |
resources of the country will be favorably COM |
mented on as indicating the best course for |
future legislation His position in favor of the |
deepening of the channel Of the Mississippi River
and the general Improvement of the inland |
waterways will come in for enthusiastic indorse-
ment as will his vigorous work in prosecuting |
the construction of the Panama Canal.
PLANK IN AID OF RAILROADS.
The convention will place itself on record as
favorable to such amendment Of the Sher-
man antitrust law as will enable the railroads |
to enter into reasonable traffic agreements with
out taking the risk of prosecution in the Grim
mai courts. Probably also there will be dec
laration in favor of the registration of certain
corpOratiOuS engaged in commerce