The La Jara chronicle., 1910-10-28
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OF Colorado
COLORADO REPUBLI.
CANS DECLARATION
OF PRINCIPLES
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revision. Future revisions should be
made only after careful investigation
and upon full Information and through
laws applying to individual schedules.
This L. made possible by the estab-
nshment OF a permanent tariff board,
which will go far to remove this ques-
ton from party politics and the influ-
cnos OF special interests
The maximum and minimum provi-
etons Of the present law protect us
from the discriminatory tariffs of
other nations and insure fair treat
mont for American commerce.
has been able to secure from every
civilized nation in the world the ben
eflt of its minimum rate. 1t is. and
will continue to be, the policy of the
government to draw a large portion
of its revenue from import duties.
These duties should be imposed in
ruch manner as best to protect Amer
loan industry and American labor, but
as other tariff reductions are made 1t
may become necessary to resort to
other forms of taxation. To provide
for this a Republican president and
Republican Congress has secured the
enactment of a law providing for the
taxing of corporations, and during the
first year of its operation it has re-
suited in the increase of our national
revenues over $27 100000. They have
also caused to be submitted to the
states an amendment to the federal
constitution providing for a gradual
ed income tax. This amendment the
Democratic executive of Colorado de-
clined to submit to the present ses-
sion of the state legislature; neither
was 1t mentioned in the recent Demo
cratic platform. We highly indorse
this amendment, and promise it's rat
ification in case the Republicans shall
control the next legislature of this
state.
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No president who has ever been
called upon to deal with this trying
question has grasped it in so broad,
so sane and so effective a manner as
has President Taft, and 1t is largely
due to his efforts:
First-That substantial down
ward revision has been secured.
Second-That a permanent tariff
board has been established.
Third-That the principle of revi-
sion of individual schedules has be.
come recognized Republican policy.
Fourth-That the maximum and
minimum clause was included in the
present law; and
Fffth-That the way has been
paved for future reductions by pro-
viding against any impairment of our
national revenues through taxes upon
the incomes of corporations, and
through a constitutional amendment
authorizing the imposition of a grad
uated income tax.
We are in favor of the development
and conservation of all the national
resources of the state without waste
of the substance or affording opportu-
I,ity for a monopoly of the use, we
believe that the control of the irriga
ton resources of Colorado should con-
tinue to be left with the people of
the state under the local laws. GUS
toms and decisions of courts. The
right to appropriate the waters of the
non-navigable streams has been dedi-
Gated by the government to the use
of the people, and we believe that no
further or other regulation is required
to develop, promote or conserve this
resources.
We favor liberal appropriations by
both the state and federal govern
ment for the purpose of measuring
the flow of the natural streams in the
arid region. and in view Of the atti-
tude Of the reclamation service with
reference to the waters of the Rio
Grande. we particularly urge a liberal
appropriation by the next legislature
for the purpose of procuring such data
from Colorado. New Mexico and ad-
joining states as will serve to dem
onstrate the fallacy of the claim of
the federal government that the wa
ters of the Rio Grande in Colorado
may be taken by the federal govern
ment for the purpose of complying
with the terms of its treaty with the
republic of Mexico.