The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-03

and we congratulate the country on the fact that Congress of the United States Is now engaged in the solution of this great problem. We also favor such regulations respecting banking as win secure and maintain confidence in the integrity of our banking institutions.
 Throughout it's whole history, the Republican Party has been inspired with an intelligent and enduring in- terest in the welfare of the wage earn CTS. The Republican Party came into being as an advocate of the dignity of labor and in behalf of the cause of free labor. Its cardinal purpose has been the maintenance of the American standard of wages and of living, and since the days of Abraham Lincoln, in State and in nations. it has forced laws in the interest of labor and the upbuilding of a progressive industrial system: and the Republican Party Is pledged to progressive program of labor legislation. is now renewing that pledge to meet the just demands of the working men of the country. We believe in the equal protection of the laws and pledge the party to an im- partial enforcement of the laws in fa- vor of and against all alike.
 Regulation of Railroads.
 we approve the laws enacted for the proper regulation of the railroad corporations and other combinations of capital and we pledge the party to all additional safeguards necessary to &C., compiish regulation of these combina- tions in the interest of trade and com- merce, and in the interest of the gen. eral welfare of the people.
 The last convention of the Repub1i- can Party in the State of Indiana de- clared in favor of revision of the tariff wherever such revision would do more good than harm. Protection was never a matter of schedules and while reaffirming the time-honored doctrine that there shall always be discrimina- tion in duties that will fully protect the wage earner in the United States, we have never desired higher rate than would accomplish that purpose, and have always contemplated revision from time to time as the ever chang ing conditions might make wise. We believe that revision would be now beneficial, and to minimize the harm full disturbance that tariff changes necessarily produce. we insist that re- vision be speedily done. We therefore favor the calling of an extra session early in Novem- Der, 1908. to make such revision, and recommend that Congress take i'm mediate steps to secure the proper data by experts for intelligent revision as advocated by our Senators and Repre- sentatives from this State; but we also insist that in such revision the pro- tective principles shall be maintained and that maximum and minimum rules be imposed so that export trade can amply be protected and foreign dis criminations against us be prevented. We favor the extension of the TYnited States mails service upon the surrounding seas, In the interest of the public business and the establishment and extension of foreign trade. especial iy with South America: but we would limit the appropriation therefor tc legitimate services performed Tn car. rving the malls on the ocean in the
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