Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-06-08

| large in case 1t Is given such a lease
| of power as to afford it sufficient time
| for the changes which are believed tC
be desirable. The President will also
be given much credit for recent leg
islation looking to 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 mat
ter of the general protection of the
resources of the country will be favor
ably commented upon 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 water ways will come In for
enthusiastic endorsement, as will his
vigorous work in prosecuting the con-
struction of the Panama canal
The convention will place itself on
record as favorable to such an amend
ment of the Sherman antitrust law
as will enable the railroads to enter
into reasonable traffic agreements
without taking the risk of prosecution
in the criminal courts. Probably also
there will be declaration in favor
of the registration of certain cores
pondents having the means to become
mcnopolies engaged in interstate COM
merce, so as to give the national gov
ernment such supervision over them
as is now exercised over transporta-
ton agencies. In this connection there
will be a announcement in favor OF
national control as against national
ownership.
Cognizance will be taken of the de-
mands Of labor to the extent Of recon-
mending such legislation as will in
sure labor organizations against has
ty irjunctions without due notice or
necessary hearing. A recommendation
for the removal of the triple penalty
in conspiracy prosecutions, when such
prosecutions are directed against la
Der organizations is probable.
There will be trust resolution along
the lines of that embraced in the plat
form of 1900 when the necessity and
propriety of honest cooperation and
combination was recognized to meet
new conditions and extend American
trade in foreign countries. but when
conspiraties which create mOnopolies,
limit production and control prices
were pointedly condemned Much at
tention will be given to the planks
dealing with the Philippines and Cuba.
The pacific attitude of this country to-
wards Cuba Will be held to have been
demonstrated by the present relation
ship of the two countries and by the
generally known fact that, having re-
stored peace and order to that island,
the United States is now preparing to
bring its protectorate to an end and to
remove the evidences OF its control.
Our management of affairs of the
Philippines will be extolled: it will be
declared that the Filipinos are pros
pering and improving under the pres
ent administration of affairs and it
will probably be set forth that to
abandon these islands until our work
there is finished and the Philippine
people are made ready for self-govern-
ment would be inhuman, unwise and
In everyway unjustifiable.
AS usual. the platform will declare for
the protection Of the civil liberties of the
negro race. A special effort will be made
to have this plank comprehensive and
emphatic. There will be a strong decla
ration in favor of the continued improve
ment of the navy. Including the constant
increase Of our battleships, with the end
in view OF protecting our interests abroad,
maintaining our standing among tho ma
tons, and supporting the Monroe doc
trine. which doctrine will again receive
unqualified endorsement.
There will be a word in favor OF the
maintenance Of the army on its present
basis, but no recommendation for it's en-
largement.
The action OF Congress in increasing
the pensions of the widows Of soldiers
will be commended and a liberal pension
policy for the future will be advocated.
Among other recommendations that will
be made will be the following:
The admission at the next session of
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