The Delta independent., 1908-08-07
THE HEG.0.P.PLATFORM
Fine announcement of Repub.
lican Principles.
DOCUMENT A PATRIOTIC ONE.
Declares For Tariff Revision and the
Continued Protection of American
Industry-For Postal Savings Banks
and Control of Trusts,

Industry-For Postal Savings Banks
and Control of Trusts.
The Republican platform adopted at
Chicago is one of the best pronounce
ments of party principles that the Re-
publican party has made since its first
platform was formulated in 1886. No
living issue of government service is
omitted, no subject is Straddled. and
from one end to the other there is not
paragraph or a sentence that carries
evasion or that can be considered as
mere platitude.
The platform, in the first place, nat
urally calls attention to the record of
the party and particularly to the work
of the present administration. 1t says,
"The Republican party has reached its
highest service during the leadership
of Theodore Roosevelt" and with that
service as basis the party proposes to
go on and build up a still stronger
structure and to place our government
still higher than even the foremost po-
sition which it now occupies among
the nations of the world.
A paragraph is given calling atten-
ton to the legislation of recent con-
crosses. particularly as it affects labor
saying:
1.-The many wise and progressive
measures adopted at recent sessions of
congress have demonstrated the patri-
otic resolve of Republican leadership
in the legislative department to keep
step in the forward march toward bet
ter government"
On the tariff question the plank reads
as follows:
The Republican party declares unequv-
ocally for a revision Of the tariff by
special session of congress Immediately
following the inauguration of the next
president and commends the steps al
ready taken to this end in the work as
signed to the appropriate committees OF
congress which are now investigating the
operation and effect of existing schedules
In all tariff legislation the true principle
of protection Is best maintained by the
imposition of such duties will equal
the difference between the cost of pro-
duction at home and abroad. together
with a reasonable profit to American in
dustries. We favor the establishment of
maximum and minim G'n rates to be adj
ministered by the president under lmita-
tionS fixed in the law, the maximum to
be available to meet Determinations by
foreign countries against American goods
entering their markets and the minimum
to represent the normal measure of pro-
lection at home, the aim and purpose of
the Republican policy being not only to
preserve without excessive duties that
security against foreign competition to
which American manufacturers. farmers
and producers entitled, but also to
maintain the high standard of living of
the wage carners of this countryS-who
are the most direct beneficiaries of the
protective system.
Regarding the currency question. the
platform approves of the emergency
measure adopted during the last ses-
sion of congress and believes that the
new law will protect the country from
q repetition of any financial stringency.
The platform declares for the estab-
lishment of a postal savings bank sys-
TEN.
The plank devoted to the trusts de-
clares for such amendments as will
give to the federal government greater
supervision and control over them and
secure greater publicity, the manage
ment of the class of corporation engag-
ed in interstate commerce having pow
er and opportunity to effect monopolies.
The legislation is favored that will
give greater publicity concerning the
railroads and such supervision as will
prevent the future overissue of stocks
and bonds by interstate carriers.
The plank concerning injunctions
reads as follows:
The Republican party will uphold at all
times the authority and integrity of the
courts. state and federal, and will ever
insist that their powers to enforce their
process and to protect life, liberty and
property shall be preserved inviolate. We
believe, however, that the rules of pro-
cedure in the federal courts with respect
to the issuance of the writ of injunction
should be more accurately defined by
statute and that no injunction or tenn
porary restraining order should be issued
without notice except where irreparable
injury would result from delay. in which
case speedy hearing thereafter should
be granted
Other planks refer to the American
farmer, the right of the negro, ma
tional resources and waterways, the
army and navy, the merchant marine,
civil service and public health.
A bureau of mines is advocated, as
Is also the immediate admission of the
territories of New Mexico and Arizona
as separate states.
Every voter throughout the land
should obtain a complete copy of the
platform and read It from one end to
the other and compare 1t with the
Democratic platform, which, though 1t
may resemble the Republican doctrines
In many ways, will still present very
different views upon certain issues.
The Republican platform concludes
as follows:
Upon this platform of principles and
purposes. reafirming our adherence to
every Republican doctrine proclaimed
since the birth of the party. we go before
the country asking the support not only
of those who have acted with us hereto
fore, but of all our fellow citizens who.
regardless OF past political differences,
unite in the desire to maintain the poll
cies, perpetuate the blessings and make
secure the achievements OF a greater
America