Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-29
FOWLER ANNOUNCES
HIS POLITICAL CREED
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the natural resources of the State for
the benefit of the people.
II am in favor of a law that will
prohibit the marriage of the physical
ly and mentally unfit.
II am in favor of passing law
making Imprisonment for life the PEN
atty for kidnapping children and
abducting girls for the white slave
traffic.
Il am in favor of the enactment CT
strict pure food law with stringent
penalties.
II am in favor of law that will
make ali of our citizens responsible,
civilly and criminally. for statements
made in prospectuses and that will
protect the people of this State
against the false and fraudulent
statements of the citizens of other
States in the sale of worthless Sc
curities.
Pensions Based on Service Term.
Il am in favor of providing for a
civil service pension list based upon
terms of service.
II am in favor of a progressive tax
and q progressive inheritance tax.
The progressive inheritance lax as
well as the progressive income tax,
should be national in scope and The
proceeds should be distributed equit-
ably between the general government
and the respective States.
IT am in favor of submitting to pop
ular vote thes right of suffrage 20
women.
IL am in favor of strengthening in
every conceivable way the corrupt
practises act.
Favors National Divorce Law.
Speaking on the broader questions
of the day Mr.. Fowler enunciates his
views at much length. He says:
II am convinced that the reckless
rules regulating the marriage con-
tract, and the still looser laws that
lead to wholesale trade in divorces
in some States have developed a low
level of ideals, or worked almost a
complete destruction of all ideals
with regard to the marriage rela-
tionship. leaving us in Very quag-
miro of marriage morals that can
only be corrected by a national mar
riage law and national divorce
law" Mr. Fowler favors a national
woman's employment law and ma
tional child labor law or national
hours of labor law. and national de-
partment of health.
In regard to the tariff Mr.. Fowler
points out that a foreign factory
may to all intents and purposes be
DIT, rtieally transferred to our shores
and 1lled with foreign workmen re-
ceiving only two-thirds. one-half,
one-third or even one-tenth of the
wages paid to American workmen.
He is in favor of a broad tariff COM
mission of experts He says IL a
broad tariff commission had been es-
tablished in 1897 that we never would
have had the Payne-Aldrich bill with
its monstrous iniquities nor it's po-
litical antidote. the Underwood, or
Wilson bill, Which Is now in the
forming, with its paralyzing propo-
sails; but that We would have had
tariff changes by evolution and not
by revolution. We should now estab-
| lish a broad trade and tariff COM
mission whose duties would be to
| Investigate and prevent monopoly
either in the production or distribu-
ton of commodities; whose power
would enable it to enforce rules and
regulations established to compel
fair trading: whose authority, sub
| ject to ratification by the Senate,
would be ample to negotiate CONNER
cial treaties.
In regard to currency and banking
reform Mr.. Fowler says: "All banks
should be under national control
Every bank in the United States
should, under the same circumstances
be compelled to carry precisely the
same amount and precisely the same
character of reserves. And those re-
serves should be gold and gold alone
Just as soon as we can convert oul
United States notes into gold certifi-
Gates. The menace to the business In.
| terests of the whole country by allow.
ing more than half the banks to carrs