Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-07-04
COURTS MUST
De INDEPENDENT
Republican Platform Demands
Freedom of Judiciary.
RECALL STRONGLY OPPOSED
Changes in Antitrust Laws Framed
Protective Tariff Approved and Mod
ifications Sugeested-Lauds Pres
ent and Past Administrations.

ent and Past ADMINISTRATORS
Chicago.-The following is the plat
form adopted by the Republican ma
tionaI convention on Saturday after
noon:
The Republican party, assembled by
its representatives in national conYen-
ton. declares its unchanging faith in
government Of the people, BY the PEG
pie, for the people. We renew our al
Iegiance to the principles of the Re
publican institutions established by
the fathers.
We believe in our self-controlled
representative democracy which is
government of laws, not Of men, and
in which order is the prerequisite Of
progress. The Republican party will
strive. not only in the nation, but in
the several states, to enact the nee
essary legislation TO safeguard the
public health; to limit effectively the
labor of women and children and to
protect wage-earneTs engaged in dan
gerous occupations; to enact compre-
hensive and generous wOrkman's com
pensation laws in place Of the present
wastefuI and unjust system of employ
ers' liability and in all possible ways
to satisfy the just demand Of the
people for the study and so.dtion Of
the complex and constantly changing
problems Of social welfare.
The Republican party reafirms its
intention to uphold at all times the
authority and integrity Of the courts,
both state and federal, and it will ever
insist that their powers to enforce
their process and protect life. liberty
and property shall be preserved in
violate.
That the courts, both federal and
state, may bear the heavy burden laid
upon them to the complete satisfac-
ton of public opinion we favor legis-
lation to prevent long delays and the
tedious and costly appeals which have
so often amounted to denial of jus
tice in civil cases and to a failure to
protect the public at large in criminal
cases
Since the responsibility of the ju-
dietary is so great. the standards Of
judicial action must be always and
everywhere above suspicion and re-
proach While we regard the recall
of judges as unnecessary and unwise,
we favor such action as may be neces-
sary to simplify the process by which
any judge who is found to be derelict
in his duty may be removed from Of
five
Together with peaceful and order
~ development at home, the Republi-
can party earnestly fayors all meas
ures for the establishment and pro-
lection of the peace of the world, and
for the development of closer relations
between the various nations of the
earth.
1T believes most earnestly in the
peaceful settlement of international
disputes and in the reference of all
justiciable controversies between ma
lions to an international court of jus
tice.
The Republican party favors the
enactment of legislation supplement-
airy to the existing antitrust act,
which will define as criminal offenses
those specific acts that uniformly
mark attempts to restrain and to
mOnopOlize trade, to the end that
those who honestly intend to obey the
law may have a guide for their &C
ton and that those who aim. to VIC
late the law may the more surely be
punished
In the enforcement and admins
tration of federal laws governing in
terstate commerce and enterprises
impressed with public use engaged
therein, there is much that may be
committed to a federal trade commits
sion, thus placing in the hands of an
administrative board many Of the
functions now necessarily exercised
by the courts.
We reafiTm our belief in protec-
tive tariff. The protective tariff is SO
woven into the fabric of our industrial
and agricultural life that to substitute
for it q tariff for revenue only would
destroy many industries and throw
millions of our people out of employ
ment. The products of the farms and
of the mine should receive tie same
measure of protection as other prod.
ucts of American labor.
I'VE hold that the import duties
should be high enough while yielding
a sufficient revenue to protect ade
Quately American industries and
wages. Some of the existing import
duties are too high and should be re
duced REIMBURSEMENT should be made
from time to time to conform to chang
/ ing conditions and to reduce excessive
rates. but without injury to any Amer
I lean industry. To accomplish this cor
rect information is indispensable This
/ information can best be obtained by
an expert commission. as the large
volume of useful facts contained il
/ the recent reports of the tariff board
4 has demonstrated.
! The pronounced feature of modern
/ industrial life is its enough diyersif
| cation. To apply tariff rates justly tc
I these changing conditions requires
/ closer study and more scientific meth
/ DDS than ever before. The Republican
/ party has shown by its creation of g
I tariff board, its recognition Of this sit
1 uatiOn, and its determination to be
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