The Green Forest tribune., 1912-07-05
The Tariff Reform.

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 The Tariff Reform.
 We declare it to be fundamental principle of the Democratic party that the federal government under the Constitution has no right or pow er to impose or collect tariff duties except for the purpose of revenue and We demand that the collection of such taxes shall be limited to the ne- cessities 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 taxation which makes the rich richer and the poor poorer; under it's opera Hons the American farmer and labor Ing man are the chief sufferers; 1t raises the cost of the neeessaries of life to them, but does not protect their product or wages
 We favor the immediate down ward revision of the existing high, and in many cases, prohibitiYe tariff duties, insisting that material reduc- tions be speedily made upon the nee essartes of life Articles entering in to competition with trust controlled products and articles of American manufacture where sold abroad more cheaply than at home could be put upon the free list
 We denounce the action of Presi- dent Taft in vetoing the bills to re- duce tke tariff in the cotton, woolen, metals and chemicals schedules and the farmers free list bills, all of which was designed to give tmmedi- ate relief to the masses from the ex- actions of the trusts.
 "The Republican party, while promising tariff revision, has shown by it's tariff legislation that such rs- vision is not to be in the peoples in- terests and having been faithless to its pledges Of 1908 it should no longer enjoy the confidence of the nation.
 High Cost of Living.
 "The high cost of living is a se- rious problem in every American home. The Republican party in its platform attempts to escape from re- sponsibility for present conditions by denying that they are due to pro tective tariff We take issue with them on this subject and charge that excessive prizes result in large measure fronsphe high tariff laws en- acted and maintained by the Repub, lican party and from trusts and com, mercial conspirators fOstered and en- couraged by such laws, and we assert that no substantial relief can be se- cured for the people until import du- ties on the necessaries of life are ma terially reduced, and those criminal conspiracies broken up.
 Antitrust Law.
 "A private monopoly Is indefensi- ble and intolerable. We therefore fa- vor the vigorous enforcement of the criminal as well as the civil law against trusts and trust officials. and demand enactment of such additional legislation as may be necessary to make it impossible for private mo- ropoly to exist in the United States.
 We condemn the action of the Re publican administration in compro- missing with the Standard Oil Con- pany and the tobacco trust and it's failure to invoke the criminal pro- visions of the antitrust law against the officers of those corporations aft CT the court had declared that from the updisputed facts in the record they had violated the criminal provis- ions of the law.
 "We regret that Sherman antitrust law has received judicial construc- tion depriving it of much of it's eff fcacy, and We favor the enactment of legislation which will restore to the statute the strength of which 1t has been deprived by such interpretation. Income Tax and Popular Election of
 Senators.
 We congratulate the country upon the triumph of two important reforms demanded in the last national plat form, namely, the amendment of the federal constitution authorizing an in- come tax and the amendment provid- ing for the popular election of sena- tors, and we call upon the people of all the states to rally to the support of the pending propositions and secure their ratification.
 We note with qualification the unanimous sentiment in favor of