The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-01

E
 eEspeciaIly valuable Is the referen- dunn when franchises and other public property are sought to be disposed of.
 Rfght of Recall.
 Hand in hand with these measures of popular government goes the right of recall. When an official elected for a term of years demonstrates his un- fitness or betrays the public trust early in his term. there should be a speedy and simple way Of recalling or getting rid of him instead of leaving him in office. working public mischief and at the same time strengthening his hands by the use of patronage.
 T believe. furthermore, that to oo-
 tain genuine popular government. the
 corruption of money must be elimi-
 mated and endorse our platform de- ciaration which not only calls for full publicity of campaign contributions. as do the platforms Out not the legis- lation). of the Republican and Dsmo-
 cratic parties, but which prohibits as
 they do not. the use of any money in
 elections except for meetings. litera-
 ture and the necessary travelling ex-
 penses of candidates.
 "Given a genuine popular govern
 ment. the question at once arises what
 conservative measures and reforms dc
 you propose to put Into effect with 1t?
 Here we are emerging painfully and
 slowly from panic and unnatural and
 unnecessary business depression. Im-
 poverished investors. exasperated busi-
 ness men and idle worknnen will no
 longer be baited with shifty evasions crafty straddles and empty promises. They want to know this time.
 "As business 1t seems to me to be a first essential to national pros- perity that there should be economical and businesslike conduct of public af- fairs. Extravagant appropriations due to a horde of unnecessary officials and log rolling legislation for purely political purposes mean higher taxes and all taxes, whether direct or in direct. as our platform declares. come out of the pockets of the people and necessarily add to the ever increasing cost of living.
 NO business man has more reason than to insist upon . strict enforce ment of the law against oppressive trusts and criminal monoplies, but would substitute conviction of crirni- nals for reckless and disturbing threats and denunciation. Furthermore, be. sentences for the responsible offenders instead of fines that are ih reality I'm posed upon stockholders or collected from the consuming public.
 0ver-Capitalizaticn.
 "our platform condemns the evil Of over-capitalization and demands as 6 primary necessity for sounder bushes; conditions, the enactment of law both State and national to prevent watering of stocks. dishonest issuei of bonds and other forms of corpora' tion frauds. I believe that stock watering and dishonest financierins have been potent factors in bringine on the country's business troubles. believe. furthermore, that stock water. ing has been both the means and tho motive for the launching of nine-tenths of the great trusts.
 "ro another anxious body of the country's producing classes, the na- tion's workingmen, the Independence Party's platform proposes definite plain and concrete measures, where the old parties deal with generalities Fair wages, reasonable hours sanitary conditions. safety appliances, proteo- tion from convict, pauper and Astatic labor. abolition of child labor, trial by jury and prohibition of the black list are the objects for which work ingmen have combined and their pro test is against being branded as out laws because of having so combined. II believe in organization among workingmen designed to Increase the effectiveness of human effort and im- prove the conditions Of human life and labor and that such organizations should not be classed as in criminal restraint of trade. stand firmly on
 The Independence party's plank that I gives the American workingman the American right of trial by jury before he shall he deprived of his liberty and that forbids the use of the writ of injunction in labor disputes until after jury trial upon their merits.