Norwich bulletin., 1912-07-04

The platform as adopted by the na- tfonal convention of the democratic party as Baltimore Tuesday follows:
 We, the representatives of the demo- cratic party of the United States. in national convention assembled. reaf- firm our devotion to the principles of democratic government formulated by Thomas Jefferson and enforced by long and illustrious line of democratic presidents.
 Tariff Reform.
 We declare it to be a fundamental principle of the democratic party that the federal government under the con- stitution has no right or power to i'm pose or collect tariff duties, except for the purpose of revenue, and we de- mand that the collection of such taxes shall be limited to the necessities of government honestly and economically administered.
 The high republican tariff is the principal cause of the unequal distri- button of wealth; it is a system of tax ation which makes the rich richer and the poor poorer; under it's operations the American Farmer and laboring man are the chief sufferers; it raises the l cost of the necessaries of life to them but does not protect their product or wages. The farmer sells largely in free markets and buys almost entirely in the protected markets In the most highly protected Industries such as cotton and wool, steel and iron, the wages of the laborers are the lowest | paid in any of our industries We de- nounce the republican pretense on that 1 subject and assert that American | wages are established by competitive conditions and not by the tarIff.
 
 revision of the existing high and in many cases prohibitive tariff duties l insisting that material reductions be speedily made upon the necessaries of 1 life. Articles entering into cOmpeti- | tion with trust controlled products and articles a of American manufacture which are sold abroad more cheaply i than at home should be put upon the free list.
 1 We recognize that our system of tar | if taxation Is intimately connected With the business of the country, and we favor the ultimate attainment of the principles we advocate by legisla- tiOn that will not injure or destroy legitimate industry We denounce the action of President Taft in vetOing the bills to reduce the tariff in the cotton, woolen, metals and chemical schedules | and the farmers free list bill. all of which were designed to give immediate relief to the masses from the exactions | Of the trusts.
 The republican party. while prom ! ising tariff revision. has shown by it's tariff Legislation that such revision is not to be in the peoples interest and 1 having been faithless to it's pledges of 1908 it should not longer enjoy the confidence of the nation. We appeal l tn Ina 4a in our demand for tariff for revenue only.
 High Cost of Living.
 The high cost of living is a serious problem in every American home. The republican party, in it's platform. at- l tenlpts to escape from responsibility for present conditions by denying thai they are due tO a protective tariff. We take issue with them on this subject and charge that excessive prices result in a large measure from the high tariff laws enacted and maintained by tho republican party and from trusts anC commercial conspiracies fostered anC encouraged by such laws, and we as- sert that no substantial relief can bt secured for the people until import du. ties on the necessaries of life are ma terially reduced and these crimina |
 Anti Trust Law.
 A private monopoly is indefensiblt and intolerabe, We therefore favoi the vigorous enforcement of the crim
 inal as well as the civil law agains trusts and trust officials, and demand the enactment of such additional legis. lation as may be necessary to make i impossible for a private monopoly tC l st in Init fota faU the declaration by law of the eondi
 tiens upon which corporations shall b' permitted te engage in interstate trade including, among others the proven ton Of holding companies or iHteFlecI
 ing directors, of stock watering, of dis
 eFiminatien in price, and the control b!
 any one corpora tioR of So large a pro portion of any industry as to make it menace te competitive conditions,
 We condemn the action of the re [ publican administration in eemproms
 ing with the Standard Oil cemPan! and the tobacco trust and it's failure t invoke the criminal provisions of tn } antitrust law against the officers 0 those corporations after the court hal declared that from the undisBute facts in the record they had violate
 the criminal provisions of the law.
 We regret that the Sherman anti
 trust law has received judicial cen 7 Struction depriving, it of much of it . efficacy and we favor the enaetnen , , of legislation which will restore to tn ] statute the strength of which it ha ! been deprived by such interpretation. Rights of the States. , We believe in the preservation an l maintenance in their full strength an integrity of the three co-ordinat . branches of the federal government
 the executive, the legislative and ju
 dicial-each keeping within its Ow |, bounds and not encroaching upon tn L just powers of either of the others. Be
 lieving that the most efficient result : under our system of government are be attained by the full exercise by tn states of their reserved sovereign pow , CTS, we denOunce as usurpation the eff ! forts of our opponents to deprive tn
 states of any of the rights reserved {
 them, and to enlarge and magnify q indirectiOn the powers of the federa Q government.
 = We insist upon the full exercise C 0 all the powers of the government, bot . state and national, to protect the pee f pie from injustice at the hands of thoS | who seek to make the government . private asset in business. There is T - l"liSuJ zone between the ndtlOn an q the state in which exploiting interest
 can take refuge from both It is a
 necessary that the federal governme1
 shall exercise the powers reserved [ = them, but we insist that federal remC II dies for the regulation of interstat
 commerce and for the prevention
 private monopoly shall be added to an
 not substituted for state remedies.
 Income Tax and Popular Election H Senators.
 7. We congratulate the country upc = the triumph of two important reform # demanded m the last national pla n form, namely. the amendment of u | federal constitution authorizing an il = come tax and the amendment proviC
 ing for the popular election of senator It and we call upon the people of all Il l. states to rally to the support of u