Valdez daily prospector., 1912-07-15

| of any industry as to make it. a menace to competitive conditions: We condemn the action of the Republican administration in compromising with the Standard Oil company and the tobacco 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 declared that from the un- disputed facts in the record they had violated the criminal provis- ions of the law.
 We regret that the sherman antitrust law has received a ju- dlcial construction depriving it of much of it's efficiency and we fla Vor the enactment of legislation which will restore to the statute the strength of which it has been deprived by such interpretation.
 Rights of the States.
 We believe in the preservation and maintenance in their full strength and integrity of the three coordinate branches of the federal govcrnmcnL-thc exccu- live, legislative and the judicial, each keeping within it's own bounds and not cncruaching up- on the just powers of either of tn" states.
 Believing that the most eff !ri"nl results under our system of government are lo h. attained by tn" full exercise by the states of their reserved sovereign powers. w" 'rn"unce as uSurpatinn the "ll"riS or our opponents to de prlN" lh" stalrS of any of Inc rights reserved to them and to enlarge and magnify by indirec- lInn Inc powers of the federal government.
 | We insist upon thr full ex.r- else of all the powers of the gov !"rnln"nt, both state and national. L" protect the people from inius- tlcr al the hands of those who seek lO make the government a private asset in business. There lS no twilight zone between the nation and tn" state in which tn . exploiting interests can lake ref lIgr from both. II ii as neccs- sary !haI the federal government shall exercise the powers dele Gaird tO il as it is thai the Sfatrs shall exercise the powers rrsrrv- ed |" them, but We insist that federal remedies for the rrgula- lion of interstate commerce and Tor In" prevention of private mo- n"pnly shall be added io and not substituted for state rrmrdirs.
 Income Tax and the Popular
 Election of Senators.
 We congratulate the country upon the triumph of two inpor- tani reforms demanded in the last national platform, namely, the amendment of the federal constitution authorizing all in- come and the amendment prnvid- ing for the popular election of senators, and We call upon the people of all the states in rally to tn" support of the pending propositions and secure their raf- ilicalipn.
 We not" With qualification Inc linanlmous sentiment in favor of publicity before the election campaign contributions meas. ure demanded in our national plat form of 1908, and at that linl. opposed by the Republican parIy and We commend the Democrat lc house of representatives for rXfrnding the doctrine of public fly to recommendations, verbal and written, upon which presi- dental appointments were taken. to the ownership and control of newspapers and tO the expcndi- lures made by and in behalf of those who aspire to presidential nominations and we point for ad- ditional Justification for this leg islation to the enormous expen- ditures of money in behalf of the president and his predecessor in the recent contest for the Repub- lican nomination for president. Continued tomorrow I