Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-07-18

In downward as promised In the ma.
tional Republican platform, for free
coal. free lumber, sugar and iron ore.
We denounce the veto by the pres.
ident and reduction in the wool sche'
dule passed by the last ongress while
the Republican party had the power
and should have corrected a schedule
which President Taft had declared
twas and is wholly indefensible", as
a betrayal of the platform PIECES OF
the party.
We denounce as a betrayal of the
platform pledges the s~o-called Canad-
ian reciprocity treaty and all similar
treaties which in effect compel the
American farmer to sell all his pro.
ducts in free trade competition and
to buy in a protected market.
We believe that the time is at hand
to declare for laws, both state and
national, which will make 1t ever
lastingly impossible for any presi-
dent, governor of any state, or any
congress or any court. to legalize
spurious capitalization as a basis of
ex%tortionate prices.
We believe that there should be
made at the earliest possible date a
reasonable valuation of the physical
property Of all railroads and other
public service corporations, justly in
ventoried and determined as the bas-
is for fixing rates and for the taxa
ton Thereof, to the end that corpor-
ate property shall be placed on an
equal basis with all other property,
and for the proper adjustment OF rates
charged by such corporations.
We demand the most rigid economy
in the administration of public affairs,
together with such adjustment of tax
alton that the weight will be least
on those who have the least.
We recommend the passage OF laws
both state and national, permitting
and facilitating the organization of a
system of cooperative rural credit
unions, to the end that the farmers
of this country may borrow money
at reasonable rates upon a reasonable
valuation of their property and abil-
ity to repay, thereby freeing them
from the viii mand caprice of the
banker and the periodic stringency
artifcially created in the money mar
ket.
We believe n the Prohibition Law
of our state, and are unalterably OPP
posed to resubmission, believing that
the saloon has proved itself to be the
greatest evil, the most blighting
curse, of our modern civilization
that the legalized liquor traffic as
carried on in the saloons and grog-
SHOES is the tragedy of civilization.
We believe that a public officer Is
the servant, not the master, of the
public, and that this principle is re-
cognized by the nominees Of the Re-
publican party of this county and
state and that it is the duty OF all
Republicans to use every honorable
means to procure their election.
We favor a constitutional amend
ment and the enactment of laws en-
bracing the principles of the inita-
tive. and referendum and recall.
We hereby instruct u member OF
the State Central Committee to adyo-
cate and support the foregoing prin-
ciples and declarations and to use
every honorable mean in his power
to have them adopted in the state
platform.
BE 1T FURTHER RESOLVED,
That we favor increased jurisdiction
of the County Court Of Burleigh
County and recommend the same to
the favorable consideration OF the
electors at the November election.
Dated this 18th DAY Of July, 1912.
Theodore Koffel.
C. w. Nichols.
D. 2. Keller.
Louis Larson.
Fred Klein.
Committee on Resolutions