The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-06-13
CHICAGO PLATFORM
REPUBLICAN DECLARATION OF
PRINCIPLES ALL READY FOR
COMMITTEE.

Considerable Attention-Forest POL
lev of President to Be Indorsed-
Trust and Railroad Resolutions.
WASHINGTON, June 8.-That the plat
form which will be adopted at the Chi
cago convention and on which the re-
publican party will stand during the
next campaign has been completed
with the exception of few details
which will be left for the committee
on resolutions to insert is the opinion
of many who are in the confidence of
the republican leaders. The work has
been done by Wade Ellis, attorney
general of Ohio, the craftsman of the
recent Ohio state platform; Senator
Hopkins, who will be the chairman of
the committee on resolutions; Senator
Long, of Kansas, and few others,
including the president and Secretary
Taft, who have been freely consulted.
The policies of President Roosevelt
will be Endorsed unequivocally, and
this Endorsement will be the central
idea of the document. These policies
will be set forth as the embodiment of
the principles of the republican party.
These principles, it will be declared,
are quite in contrast with the policies
of the democratic party, which, as
embodied in the public utterances of
it's leaders, promise nothing that can
| be assured of accomplishment.
Record Upheld.
The republican party's record as the
party of protection and sound money,
as the party of progress and good
principles, as the party that gave free
dom to Cuba and lifted the yoke from
the necks of the people of the Phil
ippines and from Porto Rico, will be
upheld for admiration and made the
subject of much praise.
Specifically speaking, more atten-
ton has been given by the platform
makers to the tariff than to any other
subject. There will be an equivocal
declaration for revision, but the dispo-
sition is to leave the working out of
details to the ingenuity Of congress.
The action of the two houses of con-
gress in instructing the two commit.
| tees which will deal with the tariff.
the senate committee on finance and
the house committee on ways and
means, to make special investiga-
ton Of the situation will afford suf-
ficient excuse for this course, as the
results of these inquiries will be un-
available to the convention, while
they supposedly will furnish congress
with basis for action.
Change in Schedules.
This preparatory step will be in
dorsed and there will be a general
pronouncement in favor of such
changed schedules as the advance of
time and the progress of the country
may have made necessary since the
enactment of the Dingley law. The
declaration will take the shape of ap-
pearing to SO equalize the duties as
to give the consumer the benefit of
the most favorable prices consistent
with the protection of domestic indus
tries and home labor. 1t will be en-
phatically stated that there must be
no innovation that will permit Amer
lean labor to come into competition
with foreign labor, and accordingly it
will be specified that in all cases the
duty must be equal to the differences
between the American and the Eu-
ropean cost of production. The prin-
ciple of protection will be Endorsed in
general terms and there may be a
| declaration favorable to a maximum
and minimum tariff.
! Congress will be congratulated on
the Aldrich-Vreeland bill as in the in
terest of sound finance and as cal
culated to protect the business world
against possible panics in the near fu-
ture, and at the same time provide
for the permanent improvement of our
currency system through the recon-
mendatiOns which it is anticipated will
be made by the commission appointed
under the new law.
Administration Endorsed.
The president will be given much
credit for recent legislation looking
to preservation of the forests, conserv-
alton of the natural resources in the
interest of the entire country and
reclamation Of timber lands of the
West. The presidents attitude in the
matter of the general protection of
the resources of the country will be
favorably commented on as indicating
the best course for future legislation
The convention will place itself on
record as favoring such an amendment
of the Sherman antitrust law as will
enable the railroads to enter into rea-
sOnable traffic agreements without
taking the risk of prosecution in the
criminal courts. Possibly also there
will be a declaration in favor of reg
istration of certain corporations hav-
ing the means to become monopolies
engaged in interstate commerce so as
| to give the national government c,oh