Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1908-07-22
nrNyER's PLATFORM AND TICK.
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 ,c,,c ,s the ticket" said x.Senator Smith of New Jersey, one of the dele ,u,.. at Denver, "so that on Bryan 's t,t,., in November he cannot lay the blpur on the platform,' says the St. t,ui, Globe Democrat. The convention took The New Jersey democratic leader n, b,, word Except free silver and go,crnment ownership and operation of inc railways, every Bryanite fad and
 folly of any consequence is in the Den yer manifeston An echo of Bryan's old rapulist days is heard in that de
 m,ud for new issue of greenbacks to be uscd as emergency currency. The election of United States senators by a direct vote of the people is urged, as "thc gateway to other national re- forms. a step toward socialism which the people will refuse to sanction Though Bryan's demand for govern. | mcnt ownership of railways is ignored | in inc platform, recommendations are | made for dangerous increase in the | powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission in dealing with the roads. True to Bryan's free trade traditions his platform demands that the tariff. when it is revised by the republicans, | after Taft enters office next March, shall be revised by sweeping cut of duties. regardless of particular eondi' tions m particular industries, and that all articles which compete with com. modities that are controlled by trust shall be placed on the free list. As nearly every article of any consequence is made by concerns which have some sor, of association with other corpora | tions, and which, in the democratic in- depreciation would be called trusts, this stipulation would reduce the duties 10 such small figures in the aggregate that the government would be compelled to close most of it's custom houses, and there would be such an thrush of for. eign goods tha, our home market would be swamped, most of our factories would be closed, and millions of Amer
 ican workers would be thrown out of employment.
 On the injunction issue the platform is characteristically Bryanite and dis. honest. While hypocritieally asserting that the courts "are the bulwarks of our liberties,' it at the same time de
 mands that the property protecting and life preserving powers of ths courts of equity be curtaile to an ex. tent that would render them ineffective for the purpose for which they were created. The demand that "the par. ties 10 all judicial proceedings should be treated with rigid impartiality" has an odd sound in view of the fact that all parties are now treated with rigid impartiality, and in view of the fur ther fact that this Is the very reason why the Bryanite convention wants the procedure changed. The convention, st the demand of MT. Gompers, the nead of the American Federation of Labor, and at the demand Of his friend Bryan. wants partiality in the procedure of the courts. They want discrimination in favor of one element of the citizenship, the members of the labor unions, as against all other citizens. This at. tempt to gain special favors is seen in the innocent looking demand that 'la. bor organizations and their members should not be regarded as illegal com. binations in restraint of trade.' In the Danbury ease the United States su. preme court classed the American Fed. eration of Labor, in its boycott against the hat maDufacturer, as a trust in re. straint of trade, in the plain meaning of the sherman act. Bryan's platform demands privileges for the labor trust to assail and ruin everybody who in, CUTS its displeasure, although such priv. ileges are very properly denied to the industrial, the commercial, the trans. portation and all other sorts of trusts. Any sort of platform which would bs adopted by a convention which would nominate Mir. Bryan would necessarily be Bryanite. He himself would he the platform, regardless of the official pro. nouncement' expressions of omissions. So far as it goes, the Denver platform n typically Bryanite. The omitted plank, that demanding the owenrship and operation of the 225,0OO miles of the eountry's railways by the govern. mont, will be supplied by Mir. Bryan's democratic and republican enemies. It will figure in the campaign, despite the attempts which win be made by the candidate and his spellbinders to dodge it. This Bryanite demand for the expenditure of sl5,OOO ,OOO, ,OOO for the purchase of the country's railways, and this demand that the 100000 em. ployes of the railways be made part of the machine which would be under the control of the president at Washington, whoever he ehaneed to be, will be plac. cd by the republican and anti. Bryan