The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1912-04-04
What TIE Republican
Platform of 1908
Pledged.

Tariff revision along protective lines,
With maximum and minimum pro-
vision.
Free Interchange of products with
Philippines.
Development Of permanent currency
Iystem.
Establishment of postal savings
banks.
To increase power of government to
control trusts and secure greater pub
LEFTY of corporation methods.
National supervision of railroad
stocks and bond issues.
Enactment Of employers liability law
and other laws further advancing in
terests of American workingmen.
To define authority of courts with re-
gard to writ of injunction and uphold
integrity of courts.
Extension of rural free delivery.
More federal aid in agricultural ex-
perinents.
Enforcement of fourteenth, fifteenth
and sixteenth amendments to the con-
sttuticn.
Conservation of natural resources
and improvement of waterways.
To maintain and promote American
army and navy.
Expansion of foreign commerce.
Liberal pensions for war veterans.
Protection of American citizens
abroad.
Obedience to and maintenance of civil
service laws.
Greater efficiency in public health
agencies.
Statehood for New Mexico and Ari-
iona.
Extension of principle of arbitration.
Citizenship for Porto Ricans.
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voved eighty or more defendants.
Eight out of twelve defendants We're
convicted on one indictment after trial
by jury and their conviction confirmed
by the court of appeals, and thirteen
criminal prosecutions are pending.
y brief review of the cases brought
under the antitrust law during the ad-
ministration demonstrates clearly its
value to the American people in their
protection Of that equality of opportu-
nifty which is declared by the platform
OF the Republican party to be the right
of every citizen.
Reference to a few of the antitrust
cases brought by the Taft adminiStra
ton gives an excellent idea of the hard
ships some of these illegal combina-
tons entail upon consumers. In the
prosecution Of q case against a number
OF individuals who attempted TO corner
all the free cotton remaining of the
crop of 1903 it resulted in raise in
the price of that commodity to the
spinners, prevented some from making
any purchases and was therefore re-
straining interstate commerce.
In like manner the government took
cogniZance Of the pooling in the wire
industry, with the result that nine in
dictments were found in New York
against eighty three persons engaged
in that business. It was an illegal re
Straint of trade. and when the court
proceedings had been finished the va
rious defendants We're fined in amounts
averaging $1,000 each, with the excep-
ton of the supervisor of the pool. who
was fined $4,000
Ott VI llle A-IOSL outrageous cases 81
combination in restraint Of trade and
a notable violation of the Sherman law
was that of the hand blown window
glass industry Practically all of the
manufacturers (eighty-three in num-
ber formed Il company which control
led the entire output of hand blown
glass. AS a result the price was ad-
vanced 100 per cent within less than IL
year. The Indictment of the men re-
sponsible, the imposition of fines and
the restoration of the business upon its
former lines were followed by sub
stantial reduction in the price Of hand
blown glass.
The federal government is prosecut-
ing suits against the beef trust and the
lumber trust with every promise of
victory.
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