The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-09-23

some Democrats from other
states were there also. Several Demo-
Gratis from outside of New York sent
of regret at not being able
to attend. A. communication from
Bryan was read there. Among
the planks in the Saratoga platform
are a tariff for revenue only, home
rule, a federal income tax, the cleo
ton of United States senators by a
direct vote of the people, taxation OF
corporations by states alone and not
by the general government, the, d.
rect primary, hostility to the extern
sion of federal power at the expense
of the states, and non-interferenee
with individual liberty.
A few of these principals are ac-
cepted by both parties, and, there
fore, can not be made an issue in
any campaign. Others will cause
trouble for the Democrats If they are
put forward in the national conven-
ton of 1912. A tariff for revenue
only will be ~assailed by the Southern
Democrats, as we have just seen by
the votes of their members of Con-
gress on the tariff. Bailey, McEnry,
Daniels and many of their associates
repudiated the doctrine on many divi-
sions of the Payne bill. An income
tax and the election of senators by
the vote of the people are part of
the Bryanite creed. The country is
surprised that a body composed of
conservative New York Democrats in
dorsed the income tax. The division,
however, on that issue was very near
the middle, and ON this account it
will attract but little attention. 1t
is safe to say that a majority of the
Democrats of the State of New York
are against it. David B. Hill was SO
strongly opposed to it that he voted
against the Democratic tariff bill of
1894 which had an income tax as
one of its provisions. Not many New
York Democratic voters favor the
election of senators by vote of the
people. Not many of them like the
direct primary. Taxation of corpora
be accepted by a majority of the
Democrats in the country at large,
and can get a place IN the Democratic
platform of 1912. 1t must be re-
membered, however, that in it's plat
form of 1908 the Democracy declared
in favor of a tax upon individuals
and corporate incomes" Since then
a corporation tax on net earnings has
beer made a part of a Republican
tariff act, and some of the Demo-
cratic leaders think that it would be
well, in the interest of state rights, to
antagonize the Republicans on this
issue.
But what did the Saratoga confer
ence mean by it's planks in favor of
home rule and noninterference with
individual liberty? Statewide prohi-
bition makes a direct assault on home
rule. The rural districts compel the
cities to accept a law which the cities
oppose and which they refuse to en-
have declared for prohibition in the
past three years. By force the peo-
pie of the rural communities saddled
the people of the cities with statutes
which the cities protested against,
There was direct interference with in
dividual liberty in those acts. What
sort of a reception will the delegates
from Oklahoma, Alabama, Tennessee
and other Southern states in the next
convention give to the demand for
home rule, if they learn that home
rule means the right of the people of
all the counties and big towns in
states to retain or exclude intox-
icants? 1t must be remembered, too,
that Mr.. Bryan is a believer in state
wide prohibition, although he is OPP
posed to the insertion of any plank
of that sort into a national platfrom.
He intends, so report has it, to work
for state prohibition in Nebraska, dis
regarding the feeling of Omaha and
the other cities on that question. The
New York Times, which is anxious
to see the Democratic party rehabil-
ated, says that Saratoga's approval of
the proposition to elect senators by
the direct vote of the people is mot
Democratic doctrine" and it con-
dennis the income tax provision as
"unwise." The Times was the paper
which said that the Saratoga gather
ing could accomplish nothing unless
it cast out Bryan. The average east
ern Democrat feels like this also,
though he has not the courage to say
it out loud. A few months ago Mr..
Taft in an address, said that "a
strong, patriotic opposition" would
be of value to the Republican party
in compelling it to nominate good
men to office and to favor wise
policies. Such an opposition can
hardly find a good working creed in