The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-07-17

can take refuge from both. and il is
as necessary that the Federal Govern
ment shall exercise the powers desig-
mated 10 i as il is that the State Gov
ernments shall use the authority re-
served to them; but We insist that
the Federal remedies for the regula-
ton OF interstate commerce and for
the prevention of private monopoly
shall be added TO. and not substituted
for State remedies
Tariff.
we welcome the belated promise
of tariff reform now offered by the
Republican party in tardy recogni-
ton of the righteousness of the Dem
ocratic position on this question; but
the people can not safely entrust the
execution CT this important work to
a party which is so deeply obligated
to the highly-protected interests as is
the Republican party. We call at
tention to the significant fact that
the promised relief was postponed un-
til after the coming election-an cleo,
ton to succeed in which the Repub-
licans must have that same support
from the beneficiaries of the high pro-
tective tariff as it has always hereto
fore received from them; and to the
further fact that during years of I'M
interrupted power no action whatever
has been taken by the Republican
Congress to correct the admittedly
existing tariff iniquities.
I'VE favor immediate revision of
the tariff by the reduction of import
duties. Articles entering into compe-
tition with trust-controlled products
should be placed upon the free list;
and material reductions should be
made in the tariff upon the neces-
saries of life, especially upon articles |
competing with such American man
ufactures as are sold abroad more |
cheaply than at home, and gradual |
reductions Ahould be made in such
other schedules as may be necessary |
to restore the tariff to a revenue
basis.
Existing duties have given to the
manufacturers of paper shelter be-
hind which they have organized COM
binations to raise the price of pulp |
and of paper, thus imposing tax
upon the spread of knowledge.
I'VE demad the immediate repeal of
the tariff on pulp, print paper, lum-
ber timber and logs, and that these
articles be placed upon the free list"
Trusts.
A private monopoly is indefensi-
BILE and intolerable We therefore
favor the vigorous enforcement of the
law against guilty trust mag
mates and officials, and demand the
enactment of such additional legisla-
ton as may be necessary to make it
for a private monopoly to
exist in the United States. Among
the additional remedies we specify
three: First, a law preventing a
duplication of directors among COM
Deting corporations; second, license
system which will, without abridg-
ng the right of each State to create
or it's right to regulate
IS it will foreign corporations doing
business within its limits, making it
Necessary for manufacturing or :
rading corporation engaged in inter
tate commerce to take out Federal j.,
license before it shall be permitted to ;
control as much as 25 per cent of the ;
'roduct in which 1t deals, the license
o protect the public from watered :
took and to prohibit the control by
UGH corporation of more than so per >
ent Of the total amount of any prod r
ct consumed in the United States, G
nd third, a law compelling such IL =
ensed corporations to sell to all pur- I,
hasers in all parts of the country on a
he same bases earners and producers a
} organize for the protection of wages ~
nd Improvement of labor conditions
the end that such labor organiza-
ons and their members should not be If
'garded as illegal combinations in CT
'straint of trade. We favor the eight &c
our day on all Government work. u,
We pledge the Democratic party to at
e enactment of law by Congress, ia
far as the Federal jurisdiction ex-
nds for a general employers la n
lily act covering injury to body or ~
IS of life of employees.
We pledge the Democratic party to
e enactment of law creating a de-
rtment of labor, represented sepa- :.
tely in the Presidents Cabinet,
III.