Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-27

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trolled credits, thus making prosper
| ity stable and national panics impos-
sible.
| by setting free the money and the
/ credits of the people and throwing off
the sitting yoke of a monopolistic tar
| if it has prepared the way for ma
tional prosperity, ever increasing in
volume, freedom, stability and pow
| er.
by opening the channels of credit
for the healthful circulation of mon
ey, it has put an end to financial
wars and panics.
1T has provided for the election of
| United States senators by direct
vote of the people.
1T has established and enlarged the
| parcels post service, to the great ben
eft of rural life.
ut has facilitated arbitration be-
tween capital and labor.
1T has extended the Pure Food act
| to the greater protection of life and
| health.
by providing for farm extension
work, for rural credits, for farm pro-
duce markets, it will still further de-
velop rural happiness and prosper
| ity.
Ever mindful of the just claims
| and increasing needs of those who by
| their sacrifices preserved the nations
| life and upheld its honor, it has en-
! acted the most liberal pension laws
! in the history of the country. 1t has
| abolished needless pension agencies,
so that the cost of their maintenance
might be distributed to the soldier
| and has made easier the payment of
| his pension.
LAS further measure of justice, we
! favor more liberal pensions to the
! soldiers widow and the early enact
ment into law of the McGillicuddy
bill for the monthly payment of pen
sions by the coupon system
1T is preparing for enactment an
antitrust bill, which will deal with
| the trust problem in all its details as
wisely, as bravely, as justly and as
patriotically as the tariff problem and
the currency problem were dealt with
by the tariff and the currency bills.
1T has exaulted humanity above
greed; has legislated for human well
fare everywhere, in all conditions and
| OCCUPATIONS; has believed in human
Justice, HuIldH TISHlS, HuiidH
TALLY for virtue and happiness; has
believed the American people capable
Of self-gsvernment and has embodied
| this belief in all it's legislation.
TT has extended this faith to for
eign lands and foreign peoples. send
ing them not soldiers and ships for
the collection of dollars but messages
of faith and hope for their self-govern-
ing future.
1T has made the American flag all
over the globe symbol of human
rights and of popular government,
substituting for dollar diplomacy an
appeal to reason, plea for human
ity. faith in popular government.
we particularly commend its de-
votion to Christian principles and
high ideals in it's refusal to recognize
a cruel and bloody assassin as the
duly constituted head of sister re-
| public: and its maintenance through
all the perpiexfng conditions which
I, have arisen of the highest standards
| Of national honor unmoved by the UNI
Jus tcriticisms of those who for their
| own selsh purposes would plunge us
| into needless and bloody war.
with such a record and with such
n leader, recalling the Golden Age of
the Republic, the age of Washington
and jefferson, the age of patriotism
| ana unselfishness, the Democratic par
~ invites the people of Maine to rally
to lis standard, to rally around its
great and inspiring leader. especially
to send to the national halls of legis-
lation men who will follow the lead
ership, imbibe the spirit and support
the measures of Woodrow Wilson.
1--WE condemn the failure of Re-
publican Legislature of 1919 to enact
tax legislation as promised in their
platform Of 1911 and. in view of the
fact that our Constitution and the
greater part of the general property
tax laws We're adopted many years
age, under vastly different conditions,
we favor such changes as will place
the burden of taxation where it justly
belongs.
"Reaffirming our belief in the his
toric Democratic doctrine of home
rule, we deprecate the continual ten
dency of the State government to en-
croach upon affairs which should be
left solely to municipalities. That va
rious suggestions along the line of
taxation, may be given opportunity
for experimental test, we IdSOT the eA-
tension Of this principle of home rule
by an amendment of the Constitution
which shall permit to towns and cities
homo rule in taxation.
1.-THE State constitution as 1t stands in
some important particulars is bar to
much needed progressive and reformatory
legislation. To revise it properly, through
the medium of the Legislature. is an i'm
practicable method of performing 1t. We
favor the calling of convention the
members of which shall be elected with
out party designation. to undertake a
revision of the constitution, the work of
said revision to be submitted to popular
vote at an election held for that pur-
pone alone, at which election amendment
of the revised constitution may be voted
upon separately and accepted or rejected
by the people.
I'VE favor the passage of such laws as
will enable laborers injured in the en-
ploy of others to receive just and reason
able compensation for the injuries so re-
ceived and insist that the compensation
be adjusted and paid speedily.
"We denounce the action or Gov.
rJoi,a. in dicreparf3ing the we'll defined