The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-08
PLATFORM READY
 FOR ADOPTION IndOrsenent of Roosevelt Is the
 Central Idea PARTY GIVEN MUCH PRAISE The President and Secretary Taft Are Freely conslted By the Platform Makers Headed By Wade
 Ellis of Ohio.
PARTY GIVEN MUCH PRAISE

Washington, June That the platform
 which will be adopted at the Chicago
 convention and on which the republican party will stand during the next cam
 pagn has been completed with the ex- | ception of a few details, which will bs
 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 Hon. Wade | lsllis, attorney general of Ohio, the drafts
 man of the recent Ohio state platform;
 Senator Hopkins, who will be the chair
 man of the committee on resolutions;
 Senator Long of Kansas and a few l others, including the President and Sec
 retary Taft who have been frequently
 consulted.
 The policies of President Roosevelt will | be indorsed unequivocally, and this n- | dorsement will be the central idea of :ho
 document. These policies will be set forth | as the embodiment of the principles of
 the republican party, whose achieve
 ments will be lauded at all times wise | and benefieent; as ever in the interest
 of all the people. These principles. it will
 Le declared, are quite in contrast with
 the policies of the democratic party,
 which, as embodied in the public utter
 ances of It's leaders, it will be said, prom
 ise nothing good that can be assured of
 accomplishment. The republican party's record as the party of protection and | sound money, as the party of progress ] and good principles, the party that
 gave freedom to Cuba and lifted the yoke | from the necks of the people of the | Philippines and from Porto Rico; will be
 upheld for admiration and made the sub
 ject of mucn praise, and the voting pub
 lc will be asked to continue to patronize
 the political craft that has carried It
 across so many streams.
 Tariff Revision.
 Specifically speaking more attention has
 neen given by the platform makers ID
 the tariff than to any other subject
 There will be an unequivocal declaration
 for revsion; but the disposition is io
 leave the working out of details to the | ingenuity of Congress-
 The action of the two houses of Con- 1 sress in instructing the committees which | will deal with the tariff, the Senate com
  | tee on ways and means, to make special | investigation of the situation, will afford 1 sufficient excuse for this course, as the 1 result of these inquiries will be unaval-
 able to the convention while they sup
 osedly furnish Congress with a basis for
 action.
 This preparatory step will be indorsed | and there will be a general pronounce l ment in favor of such changes in the
 echedules as the advance of time and | the progress of the country may have
 made necessary since the enactment cf | The Dingley law. The declaration will
 take the shape of a pledge to so equalize
 the duties as to give the consumer the | Lenefit of the most favorable prices con- | sistent with the protection of domestic
 industries and home labor. It will bs | emphaticaly stated that there must oe
 TO innovation that will permit American | labor to come into competition, with Tor | eign labor, and accordingly 1t will De specified that in all cases the duty must | bu equal to the difference between the 1 American and European cost of produ.- | ton and a reasonable profit to the Amer l ican producers.
 The principle of protection will be in- l dorsed in general terms, and there may | be a declaration favorable to maximum 1 and a minimum tariff the one best cal | cuated to insure the promotion of Amer | ican interests under varying conditions. clause declaring against utilization or
 the tariff for the promotion of monopoly | IS also among the probabilities. Financial Plank.
 | Next to the tariff the financial plank l has received most careful attention; but | the enactment of the emergency currency 1 law just before the close of the recent l session of Congress has rendered the preparation of this plank much simpler | than it would have been if there had | been no such legislation Congress will | be congratulated on the Aldrich-Vreeland 1 measure as being in the interest of sound l finance and as calculated to protect the
 business world against possible panics in 1 the near future, and at the same time provide for the permanent improvement 1 of our currency system through the rec | concentrations which it N anticipated will ! be made by the commission appointed under the new law.
 Reference will be made to the new law. l the financial disturbance of last fall and while the seriousness of that crisis Will 1 be recognized. the claim will be made l that the republican party was found | |, hle to meet the situation, and the ] country will be informed that by 1 it's prompt action the business world was l saved from long drawn out financial de- | pression and industrial inactivity. The 1 country will be accordingly congratulated | unon the fact that when this emergency l arose the republican party was in power and in position to come to the rescue. l The republican administration Will also | be complmented on the passage during | the Fifty-ninth Congress of the railroad | rate law, and thls legislation will he | pointed to as example of what the | party will do for the country at large | in case it is given such a lease of power | as to afford it sufficient time for the | changes which are believed to be destr- | able.
 Credit to Teddy.
 The President will also be given much | credit for recent legislation looking to l the preservation of the forests, the con- servation of the public domain in the in- terest of the entire country and tho reclamation of the arid lands of the west | The Presidents attitude in the matter of general protection of the resources of the | country will be favorably commented | upon as indicating the best course for CONTINUED ON PAGE 2.)