Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1912-07-05
The Tariff Reform.

except for the purpose of revenue
sand we demand that the collection OF
such taxes shall be limited to the ne
cessities of government honestly and
/ economic ally 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 its opera.
tions the American farmer and labor.
ing man are the chief sufferers; il
raises the cost OF the necessities OF
| life to them, but does not protect their
| product or wages"
The action Of President Taft in We
toing the bills to reduce the tariff in
the cotton, wooden. metals and chem.
icals schedules and the farmers free
list bills is denounced.
| Issue Is taken with the Republican
| platform and much of the present high
cost Of living is laid to the high tariff
laws.
| Antitrust Law.
The platform declares that q pri.
vate monopoly is indefensible and in.
tolerable and says:
I'VE therefore favor 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
| a private monopoly to exist in the
United States"
"The action of the Republican adj
ministration in compromising with
| the Standard Oil company and the to
bacco trust and it's failure to invoke
| the criminal provisions of the anti
trust law against the officers of those
corporations after the court had de
clared that from the undisputed facts
in the record they had violated the
criminal provisions of the law" is de.
nounced.
I'VE regret that the Sherman anti.
| trust law has received a judicial con.
struction depriving it of much Of its
efficiency and we favor the enactment
! of legislation which will restore to
the statute the strength of which it
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| tation
The platform urges people to sup.
! port proposed constitutional amend.
ments, providing for an income tax
! and election of United States sena-
tors by direct vote of the people. AS
justification of the demands of the
party for publicity of campaign ex.
penditures, attention is directed ito
the enormous expenditures of money
in behalf of the president and his
predecessor in the recent presidential
contest"
| Asks Presidential Primaries.
| Following is summary of some of
the more important planks:
Declares for presidential preference
priMaries. Directs national COMMITTEES
to provide for selection at primaries OF
members OF national committee.
Pledges party to enactment of law
prohibiting campaign contributions by
corporations and unreasonable cam.
| paign contributions by individuals.
Opposes AIdrich Bill.
In COuu0CLlOu VIII d uclAduu AO1
such a revision of the banking laws as
will give temporary relief in case OF
| financial distress there is a denuncia
ton of the Aldrich bill prepared by
the monetary commission. The pres.
ent method of depositing government
funds is condemned and the party IL
pledged to the enactment of a law for
| the deposit of such funds by competi-
tive bidding in state or national banks
without discrimination as to locality
Recommends investigation of agri
cultural credit societies in Europe to
ascertain whether system of rural
credits may be devised suitable to con,
ditions In the United States
Pledges party to enactment OF leg1s-
lation to prevent devastation OF low.
er Mississippi valley by floods and the
control Of the Mississippi is declared
to be national rather than state
problem The maintenance of nav
| igable channel Is also recommended
Refers to Russian treaty and re-
news pledge to preserve sacred
rights of American citizenship at
home and abroad.
Fayors single presidential term and
making president ineligible to re-ele-
ction.
Denounces Republican administra-
ton on charge of extravaganza and de-
mands return to simplicity and econ
omy befiitting democratic govern
ment
Favors efiicient supervision and rate
regulation of railroads, express cor
panies, telegraph and telephone lines
and a valuation Of these companies by
the interstate commerce commission.
and also legislation against overis-
suance Of stocks of these corpora
tons.