The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-01-22

shall be represented according to the
numerical party strength 1t possesses,
as shown by the previous elections,
and that the newly chosen national
committeeman shall be chosen and in
stalled before such convention meets
and that they shall have charge OF the
temporary roll Of membership and the
preliminary determination of contests;
instead of allowing this tremendous
power to be exercised by the retiring
committeeman chosen four years pre-
vious, who may no longer represent
the sentiment of their constituencies;
also full force and effect shall be
/ given to the primary election laws OF
any state providing for the election
of delegates to national political con
ventions.
s. We declare in favor of that
measure of protection to American in
dustry, and no more, which promotes
the general welfare and keeps labor
employed at reasonable wages; pro-
tection-not to create monopoly-but
to stimulate the productivity of farm
and factory, which are our chief
sources of wealth. The measure of
such protection shall be the difference
in cost of production at home and
abroad, a%scertained by a non-partisan
expert tariff commission. We favor
the policy of the democratic tariff
legislation placing farm products on
the free list and maintaining protec-
ton on manufactured products.
g.. We favor legislation to improve
our banking and currency laws by so
concentrating and mobilizing bank re-
serves that they may be used effect
lively in times of stress to ward off
panic, and by making provision for
an elastic currency redeemable upon
demand in gold and issued by the
government upon liquid assets to meet
the demands of commerce, the volume
of which shall depend upon the legiti-
mate demands of commerce rather
than the arbitrary will of a combina-
ton of great bankers in New York
City. The creation of federal reserve
banks for this purpose and withdrawal
of the reserves now kept by the ma
tional banks of the country in New
York and loaned on the stock ex-
change and the depositing of the re-
serves so withdrawn in the reserve
bank promises to be a material i'm
provement.
Z. We condemn the democratic
party for defeating amendments to the
bill recently passed, providing public
ownership of the stock in the newly
created federal reserve banks, pro-
hibiting interlocking d~irectorates, Civ.
ing the government the control of the
governing boards of these banks, and
allowing them in emergencies, under
safe regulations, to deal with individ-
ual citizens.
8. We favor the cooperation of the
federal with the several state govern
ments in the building and mainten-
ance of a system of good roads which
will lessen the burden of Transports
ton from the farm to the ma~rket-place.
8. We favor the taking over by
the federal government of the bust
ness of the express companies, there.
by ~lessening the cost of ~transporta-
ton to the people.
10. We favor the control and COM
plete regulation of industrial combina-
tons engaged in interstate commerce
by an administrative board acting as
the interstate commerce commission
now deals with the railroads.
IL. We favor the correction of
abuses in the courts and a more sim
pie and direct method of dealing with
delinquent federal judges and the limi-
tation of the enure of the Office Of
judges of the inferior federal courts
to a term of years and making them
elective; and, in cases where the su-
preme court of the state has held u
state statute affecting the health or
police conditions Of the people to be
violative of the state constitution, we
declare that the people should have
the right by a popular vote to say
whether such statutes shall not be en-
forced. notwithstanding the decision
of the court. thus in effect amending
the constitution of the state.
IL. We further declare in favor OF
the enactment Of laws giving greater
security to the health and lives of en-
ployees engaged in the industries, for