Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-08
MOOSE DECLARE
FOR ARMAMENT
TO GUARD RIGHTS
Second Navy, Army of 25O,-
600 and Federal Training
in Platform
FOR UNIVERSAL SERVICE
Roosevelt Stand Is Supported.
Declaration for Industrial
Justice and Suffrage

CHICAGO, June o.--lliO pi''Si'' ~ w
~, the Con1mittee on Resolutions during its
sn-nirht session and submitted to the con-
yenton today follows
This is the year of decision Tor the
pation's future. AS we now decide, SO snail
NE 20 forward in righteousness and power
or backward in degradation and weakness
M necessity we deal now with the
,onndation of our national life. We are
facing elements of force, of right from
vrong extreme national peril Our present
choice of path will be irrevocable. The
tradition of isolation has been ended The
United States is now a part VI wVL,u
system of civilization. We stand or fall o.
we prepare to take our parts in peace or
war and hold Our own therein.
OUR BASIC DUTIES.
As members of an international COM
nunty we are subject to certain basic
duties:
First. To secure the rights and equal
treatment of our citizens native or natural
ICED, on land and sea, without regard to
race, creed OF nativity.
Second To guard the honor and uphold
the lust influence of our nation; to main
tain the integrity of international law.
These are the corherStoneS OF civilization.
We must be strong to defend them The
present war shows that 1t is the supreme
duty of civilization to create conditions
which will make peace permanent. Our
country must be able and ready to take its
part in that work. The peace which we
desire for our country is not the peace of
submission and cowardice, but the peace
of Justice War and it's evils will not be
done away with by suffering injustice to
ourselves or others nor by pledging our
selves to drastic action for international
rights IL we do not prepare the force
which would sustain such action. We can
perform our rghtful part in promoting
permanent international peace only by a
Willingness and prepared ability to de-
fend our own rights and the rights OF other
nations We earnestly desire to keep the
peace. But there are higher things that
we must keep, as Washington and Lin
coin kept them for us.
MUST PREPARE
Adequate provision for the common de-
fense has become the task of foremost
national concern We must be ready in
spirit, arms and industry
Preparation in arms requires:
The navy once more second in battle
efficiency.
regular army of 250,OOO men, fully
armed and trained, as first line of land
defense
A system of military training, adequate
to organize a system with promptness. be-
hind that first line of the army and navy
citizen soldery supplied and controlled
by the National Government.
In our Democracy every male citizen is
charged with the duty of defending his
country. This duty, is not new. 1t has
existed from the foundation of the Gov
ernment. Under modern conditions it can
not be performed without military training
service without training means slaughter
and disaster. As the nation has always
recognized and exercised the right to en-
force compulsory military service in time
of war. so should there be universal mill
tary training for that service during times
of peace.
NOT FOR AGGRESSION.
We believe in preparedness for defense,
but never for aggression. We should not
sacrifice the lives of men for the glory or
gain of military conquest And we believe
that the women of the country who share
with men the burdens of Government in
tunes OF peace and make equal sacrifice in
time OF war should be given the full political
right of suffrage.
Arms alone cannot maintain a nation
Or Tar greater permanent Importance must
stand a national industry efficient for the
general welfare, a prosperity justly dis
tributed, the national life organized in all
points for national ends. Four years ago
this party was born of nations awakened
sense or these fundamental truths. In the
PLATFORM then adopted we set forth our
position on public questions. We here re-
affirm the declaration then made on ma
tonal issues
A nation to survive must stand for the
principles of social and Industrial Justice.
we nave no right to expect continued 10y
ATTY from an oppressed class. We must re-
move the artificial cause of his cost of liv-
ing prevent the exploitation of children in
industry, protect the wage-earner, and by a
properly regulated system of rural credits
encourage the farmer and give TO the land
less man opportunity to acquire land. A
fighting for
To make possible social justice, to main.
tain our position In peace and in war, we
must insure business and industrial pros
perity- This can be done:
GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY.
BY regulation of industry aimed at
promoting its growth and prosperity, and a
Just distribution of its returns; by con.
servation and development of our national
resources for the good of all; by the re.
establishment of our merchant marine by
the development of system of Interstate
national highways; by making a new stand.
aFu OF governmental efficiency through a
complete civil service SYSTEM a national
pudget and the destruction of pork barrel
legislation; by the creation of a permanent
expert tartn commission, with view OF in
Ielllgently and scientifically adjusting the
lui a.l SO as 70 build up rather than destroy
American industry"
The protective system is essential to our
national prosperity. Tremendous new
pressure win be thrown upon our indus
Irles after the war by the highly mobilized
production of Europe. At all times CON
altions OF competition. must be eaualized
DetWeen our own and foreign countries.
we can only get the protection we need
through the use of exact and complete
knowledge unaffected by prejudice and pol
lues; We can only secure that knowledge
Al all times and when needed through such
commission
MERCHANT MARINE
The Industrial issues are chiefly national
The present and certain future make 1t i'm
peratlYe that regulation and promotion OF
industry and especially OF transportation
and foreign trade, be national not local
Only Federal power can work justice to
sapital and labor throughout the nation
only national authority can mobilize in
aestry for defense. as q nations needs de.
mand IT,
LOYAL SPIRIT ESSENTIAL.
Beneath a structure OF military and
economic strength must be the spirit OF the
people, deep loyalty ana undivided al
Aeslance 70 America. the land which has
Welcomed Us and our immigrant fore
4atAera. II that foundation ceases to en-
Aafe se shall no longer he 4 nation
ne ha*e seE forth ii this platform uIain