The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-18
PLATFORM PLANKS
TEXT OF THE FIVE FORMULATED BY THE PRESIDENT AND
 SECRETARY TAFT.
THEY ARE ALL VERY STRONG FOR REFORM
Resolutions on Trusts, Anti-Injunction, Railroad Rate, Tariff and Currency as Drafted by Wade H. Eilis--These PIanks May Be Changed by the Re publican National Convention.

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 Chicago. June 1.-The five most i'm.
 Chicago, June 16.-The five most i'm portant blanks of the Republican plat form, formulated by President Roose- welt and Secretary Taft and drafted by Wade H. Ellis, attorney general of Ohio, and now in the possession of prospective members of the resolu- tions committee of the national con vention for consideration, are hereby given:
 They are the blanks on trusts, anti injunction, railroad rate, tariff revision and currency. The trust plank is as follows
 The Republican party passed the Sherman antitrust law over Demo cratic opposition and inforced it after Democratic dereliction. It has been a wholesome instrument for good in the hands of wise and fearless admins tration. But experience has shown that it's effectiveness can be strength ened and its real objects better at tained by such amendments as will give to the federal government greater supervision and control over, and se- cure greater publicity in the manage ment of that class of interstate corpor- ations having power and opportunity to effect monopolies and at the same time will interfere with the existence of associations among business men, farmers and wage earners so long as their conduct or operation results in positive benefit to the public"
 The exact text of the plank relating to railroads is as follows;
 We approve the enactment of a railroad rate law and a vigorous in- forcement of the present administra- ton of the statutes against rebates and discrimination as a result of which the advantages formerly possessed by the large over the small shipper have substantially disappeared. In this con nection we commend the appropri- ation of s35o.000 by the present con gress in order to enable the Interstate Commerce commission to thoroughly investigate and give publicity to the counsel of interstate roads.
 "We believe, however, that the in erstate commerce law should be x further amended so as to give rail. roads the right 10 make and publish traffic agreements subject to the ap- proval of the commission, but main taining always the principle of com petition between naturally competing lines and avoiding the common con troi of such lines by any means what soever and we specially favor the fnactment of such legislation as will provide for federal restriction against the over-issue of stocks and bonds by interstate carriers"
 More or less serious inaccuracy has characterized the reputed textual pub lications of the plank relating to the tariff The exact text of that plank, as well as of the plank concerning anti-injunction legislation, follows:
 "rhe Republican party declares UT squiyocally for a revision of the tariff by a special session of congress i'm mediately following the inauguration of the next president and comments the steps already taken to this end in the work assigned to the appropriate committees of the two houses, which are now Investigating the operation and effect of existing schedules. In all tariff legislation the true principle of protection Is best maintained by the imposition of such duties as will equal the difference between the cost of production at home and abroad, to- gether with a reasonable profit to American industries and the benefits that follow are best secured by the establishment of maximum and mini mum rates which shall be applied au- tomatically to the trade of other coun- tries in accordance with their treat ment of our trade. The minimum should represent the normal measure of protection required for the benefit of our own industries. The aim and purpose of the Republican policy is not only to preserve, without excess i've duties that security against foreign competition to which American manu- lecturers. farmers and producers are entitled, but also to maintain the high standard of living of the wage-earners tf tlsis country who are the most di- rect benefciaries of the protective bystem Between the United States and the Philippines we have in a free interchange of products with such Limitations as to sugar and tobacco as will avoid injury to domestic in' terests.
 "We declare for such an amendment of the statutes of procedure in the federal courts with respect to the use of the writ of injunction as will on the one hand prevent the summary ls- sue of such orders without proper con sideration and on the other will pre- serve undiminished the power or courts to inforce their process to the end that justice may be done at all times and to all parties"
 The currency plank contains this language
 "The Republican party approves tne Aldrich-Vreeland currency biil Dut only as an emergency measure. we declare for a thorough and new sys- tenn of currency laws that will be m accord with the need of the times and which will be more adaptable to the demands of business and more elasuc in it's character as circulating me Iium"