The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1912-06-28
PLATFORM AS ADOPTED
BY the Republican National Con-
vention.

IulSdSOJ ILL llS lOllON liiS 10 TIC
platform presented to and adopted by
the Republican National Convention:
The republican party, assembled by
it's representatives in national Conven-
| ton, declares its unchanglng falLn IN
government of the people, by the peo-
pie, for the people. We renew our
allegiance to the principles of the re-
publican party and our devotions to
the cause of republican institutions
established by the fathers.
1t is appropriate that we should now
recall with sense of generation and
Of gratitude the name of our first
great leader, who was nominated in
this city, and whose lofty principles
and superb devotion to his country are
an inspiration to the party he hon
ored-Abraham Lincoln. In the pres
ent state of public affairs we should
be inspired by his broad statesman
ship and by his tolerant spirit toward
men.
The republican party looks back
upon it's record with pride and salts.
faction and forward to it's new re-
sponsibilities with hope and conf
dence. It's achievements in govern
ment constitute the most luminous
pages in our history.
Party of Progress.
Our greatest national advance has
been made during the years of its
ascendancy in public affairs. 1t has
been genuinely and always a party
of progress; it has never been station
airy or reactionary. 1t has gone from
the fulfillment Of one great pledge to
the fulfillment of another in response
to the public need and to the popular
will
We believe in our self-controlled
representative democracy, which is a
government of laws, not of men, and
in which order is the prerequisite OF
progress.
The principles of constitutional gov
eminent which make provision for or
derby and effective expression OF the
popular will, for the protection OF civil
liberty and the rights of men, and
for the Interpretation of law by ar
untrammeled and Independent ju
dietary, have proved themselves capa
Bile of sustaining the structure of
government which, after more than
century of development, embraces ona
hundred million people scattered over
wide and diverse territory, but
bound by common purpose, com
mon ideals and common affection tt
the constitution of the United States
The United States.
Under the constitution and the prin
ciples asserted by it, the United States
has grown to be one Of the great civil
lized and civilizing powers OF the
earth. It offers home and an OPP
portunity to the ambitious and indus
trious from other lands. Resting upo1
the broad basis of peoples conf
dence and peoples support, ant
managed by the people themselves
the government of the United States
will meet the problems OF the future
as satisfactorily as it has solved those
of the past.
The republican party Is now. as al
ways, a party of advanced and con
structive craftsmanship. 1t is pre-
pared to go forward with the solution
of those new questions which social
economic and political development
have brought into the forefront OF tn
nations interest.
1t will strive, not only in the nation
F but in the several states, to enact tn
necessary legislation to safeguard tn
, public health, to limit effectively tn
labor of women and children, to pre-
tect wage earners engaged in danger
, GUS occupations, to enact compreher
:, sive and generous workmen's comper
sation laws in place of the presen
wasteful and unjust system OF en-
ployers' liability, and in all possibl
WAYS to satisfy the just demand @
the people for the study and solutio
of the complex and constantly chang
!, ing problems of social welfare.
Absolute Freedom.
Y In dealing with these questions
e is important that the rights of ever
D individual to the freest possible d.
velopment of his own powers and II
sources and to the control Of his jus
: " acquired property, SO far as thos
/. are compatible with the rights
n others, shall not be interfered with.
$ The social and political structure
Y the United States rests upon the civ