Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-08-12
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM

1
We, the republicans of South Da-
koto, in convention assembled, be
lieve our party is true to the basic
principles upon which it was found
ed: that it will continue to be the
party of equality and progress; that it
will measure up to the requirements
created by the changing economic
and industrial condition, holding
human rights above property inter
ests; that it will maintain a govern
ment for any and by the whole peo-
pie with equal opportunity for all
and special privilege to none.
We declare our determined sup
port to those great policies developed
under Theodore Roosevelt, and de
mand that they be given full effect in
| legislation and administration. We
commend President Taft for his re-
peated declarations of loyalty to the
principles. We indorse his admins
| tration for the many substantial
measures of reform it has written into
our statutes and assure him of our APP
proval and support in all efforts to
secure further effective reform in leg
islation and administration.
The true protection in tariff law
should be the difference in cost of
production here and in foreign coun-
tries, as declared for in the last re-
| publican national convention. That
| difference should be ascertained with
the utmost speed and the present law
modified accordingly. The protec-
tive principle should be applied solely
to protect American workers in a
good and liberal wage and to secure
to American capital, actually invested
in industries, a fair and reasonable
profit, and not to build a wall of ex-
clusion behind which giant combina-
tions, formed to eliminate competitor
and monopIize lines Of trade, may
flourish and practice extortion on the
American consumer. We believe the
Payne tariff law, is step in this
direction, but it should have given us
at least free iron ore, lumber and coal,
and should have made very material
reductions in many other schedules.
We We ffasgar permanent and neapaE.:-
san tariff commission with ample
power and duties to be fixed by law.
The amendment to the interstate
commerce law the railroad measure
as finally amended in the senate and
house, passed and signed by the
president, is valuable addition to the
law, enlarging the power of the inter-
state commission, and furnishing
substantial protection and relief.
There yet remains much to be done
to properly safeguard the rights of
the public. The correct physical
valuation of all railway property of
the country is absolutely essential TO
an intelligent adjustment of railway
rates and charges, and we favor a pro-
vision for such valuation, and pledge
our support to such law.
The country has been threatened
with monopolistic control of the
necssaries of life, The danger is not
yet passed. Corporations large and
small are necessary to modern bust
ness. A combination of corporations,
for the purpose of controlling prices.
| is both unnecessary and unlawful
This is the modern trust.
We endorse the proposal TO grant
to congress the power to levy a
graduated income tax.
We believe in thorough system of
federal regulation of corporations in
interstate commerce that will prevent
and suppress unlawful monopolies.
Free competition is the only safety
for the people against the greed of
monopoly. This is the principle of
the Sherman antitrust law, New