Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-06-16
Democratic Platform
Is Broad In It's Vieps
and Lofty In Sentiment

II act, true democracy of credit under
government cOntol which already proved
financial uulwark in a world crisis,
mobilizing our resources, placing abund
ant credit at the disposal Of legitimate
industry and making currency panic
impossible.
We have created federal trade com
mission to accommodate the perplexing
questions arising under the antitrust
laws 80 that monopoly may be strangled
at its birth and legitimate industry
encouraged Fair competition in bust
ness is now assured.
! We have effected an adjustment Of
the tariff, adequate for revenue under
peace conditions and fair to the con-
sumer and to the producer. We have
adjusted the burdens of taxation so
that swollen incomes bear their equi'
able share. Our revenues have been
sufficient in times Of world stress and
will largely exceed the expenditures
for the current fiscal year.
We have lifted human labor from the
category of commodities and have Sc
cured to the working man the right of
voluntary association for his protection
4 and welfare. We have protected the
rights Of the laborer against the un-
warranted issuance of writs of injunc-
tion and have guaranteed to him the
right Of trial by jury in cases Of al
legged contempt committed outside OF
the presence of the court.
We have advanced the parcel post to
genuine efficiency, enlarged the postal
savings system, added 10000 rural de-
livery routes and extensions, thus reach
ing two and one half million additional
people, improved the postal service in
every branch, and for the first time
in our history placed the postOffice sys-
TEN on q self.suppOrting basis, with an
actual surplus in 1913, 1914 and 1915.
Economic Freedom.
\ The reforms which were most OBJ
viously needed to clear away special
privilege, prevent unfair discrimina
tion and release the energies Of men OF
all ranks and advantages have been
effected by recent legislation. We must
now remove, so far as possible, every
remaining element Of unrest and uneer
tainty from the path of the business
men Of America, and secure for them
a continued period Of quiet, assured and
confident prosperity.
Tariff.
We reaffirm our belief in the doc.
trine Of q tariff for the people of pro
viding sufficient revenue for the opera
ton Of the government economically ad
mnSiered and unreservedly endorse the
Underwood tariff law as truly exempli.
fying that doctrine. We recognize that
tariff rates are necessarily subject to
change to meet changing conditions in
the worlds productions and trade. The
events of the last two years have
brought about many momentous
changes. In some respects their effects
are yet conjeetural and wait to be
closed, particularly in regard to ouI
foreign trade. Two years Of wal
which has directly involved most Of tn,
cLief industrial nations Of the world and
which directly affected the life and in
dustry Of all natiOna are bringing
about economic changes more varied
and far reaching than the world has
ever before experienced.
In order TO ascertain just what thes'
changes may be, the democratic con
|. gress is providing for a non.partisar
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