Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-13
GIVES HIS PLATFORM
La Toilette Fav0rs Recall and
Direct Nominations.
OPPOSES SHIP SUBSIDIES
Also Bars Canadian Reciprocity and
Aldrich Currency Scheme.
WOULD EQUALIZE TAXATION
Sanctions Parcels Post, Government
Ownership, the Initiative
and Referendum.
OPPOSES SHIP SUBSIDIES
WOULD EQUALIZE TAXATION

MtADISON, Wis, March 3D. - United
States Senator Robert NJ La Toilette. in
his campaign platform given out here to-
day, declares among other things his be-
| lief In the initiative, referendum and re-
call and direct nominations, government
ownership and operation of express COM
panles He opposes ship subsidy, the
Aldrich currency plan and Canadian reci-
! procity.
senator La Toilette says it Is not his
| purpose at this time to discuss the issues,
or. indeed, to do more than suggest his
| position upon the vitality important ones.
He says:
II believe in:
The initiative. referendum and recall,
and direct nominations and elections. not
only as applied to states, but also in the
extension of these principles to the ma
ton as a whole.
Would Equalize Taxation.
'The equalization of the burdens of
taxation. upon property basis, through
the adoption of graduated income and in
heritance taxes.
The parcels post.
Government ownership of express COM
panies and government operation of ex-
press business at actual cost to the public.
Inc reasonable valuation of the physi-
cal property of railroads, justly inven-
torled and determined, as the basis for
nxlng rates, and the extension of the
powers and the administrative control of
| the interstate commerce commission.
L would have the nation know how
much of the SIS, 600 600, OOJO capitalization
was contributed by those who own the
railroads and how much by the people
themselves.
For Probe OF Trusts.
I believe in the creation of a commits
sion, with power to investigate and ascer-
tain the illegal acts Of all trusts and com
binations, and with power to ascertain
the reasonable valuation-not the monop-
oily valuation-of the physical properties
Of the great monopolies beginning with
the natural resources. such as coal, oil
and iron; in the creation of tariff COM
mission of experts clothed with real
power to determine the valuation of all
the elements of production, costs and
profits, the reduction of tariff rates to
the ascertained difference between the
labor In this country and abroad
Instead of each of these government
commissions Investigating the same
facts Independently, / believe 1t would
De practical for single board of ex-
pert accountants, statisticians, econmists
and engineers to be empowered to get
the facts, not for the confidential use
of the President or the department
| but for Congress and the public.
What he Opposes.
II am opposed to ship subsidies,
which. once entrenched, will become
another corrupting influence in our
politics.
Il am opposed to further extravaganza,
on the advice of interested persons only,
In Inc hot
yards. and favor an unprecedented COM
mission to investigate and report what
is required In the way Of national de-
tense.
Il am opposed to the dollar diplomacy
which has reduced our State Department
from its high place as kindly inter-
mediary of defenseless nations into a
trading outpost for Wall street interests,
aiming to exploit those who should be
our friends.
Bars Canadian Reciprocity.
II am opposed to the Aldrich currency
scheme, which, under the guise of rrovid-
ing elasticity to our currency system and
relieving monetary conditions, is, in real
ity, means of concentration of the cur
rency and the credits Of the United
States under a fifty-year franchise into
those hands which have already secured
control of the banking and insurance re-
sources Of the country.
Il favor policy of government owner
ship of Alaskan railroads and coal mines
and of an Alaskan steamship line by way
of Pacific ports through Panama to New
York.
Il was opposed to the Canadian recf-
procity agreement when President Taft
submitted it to Congress January rs,
1911; was opposed to it when it was be-
fore the Senate. argued against it, voted
against It, and I am against it now
Slap at Roosevelt.