The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-06-15
Platform Adopted by the Republican
National Convention at Chicago

| triation and prevent all discrinlha'
ton of whatever kind between Ameri-
can citizens, whether native born or
alien, and regardless of race. religion
or previous political allegiance. we
renew the pledge to observe this prin-
cjple and to maintain the right of asy-
lum, which is neither to be surrender
ed nor restricted, and we unite In the
cherished hope that the war which is
now desolatng the world may speed
lily end with a complete and lasting
restoration of brotherhood among the
nations of the earth and the assurance
of full equal rights, civil and religious
to all men in every land
Protection of the Country.
| In order to maintain our peace and
make certain the security of our peo-
pie within our own borders, the coun-
try must have not only adequate but
thorough and complete national de-
Tense, ready for any emergency, We
must have sufficient and effective
regular army, and provision for am
pie reserves, already drilled and dis
eiplined, who can be called at once to
the colors when the hour of danger
comes.
We must have navy so strong and
so well proportional and equipped, SO
thoroughly ready and prepared, that
no enemy can gain command of the
sea and effect landing In force on
either our western or our eastern
coast. To secure these results we
must have a coherent and continuous
policy of national defense, which even
in these perilous days the democratic
party has utterly failed to develop,
but which we promise to give to the
country.
Tariff.
The republican party stands now,
and always has, in the fullest sense
for the policy of tariff protection to
American industries and American la
Dor, and does not regard an anti
dumping provision as an adequate
substitute. Such protection should be
reasonable in amount, but sufficient to
protect adequately American industry
and American labor, and be so adj
justed as to prevent undue exactions
by monopolies or trusts. 1t should,
more, give special attention to secur-
ing the industrial Importance of the
stuffs.
Through wise tariff and industrial
legislation our industries can be so or
ganized that they will become not on
ly commercial but a powerful aid to
national defense.
The Underwood tariff act is a COM
plete failure in every respect. Under
its administration imports have enor-
mously increased in spite of the fact
that intercourse with foreign nations
has been largely cut off by reason of
the war, while the revenues of which
we stand in such dire need have been
greatly reduced. Under the normal
conditions which prevailed prior to the
war, 1t was clearly demonstrated that
this act deprived the American pro-
Queer and the American wage Garner
Of that protection which entitled them
to meet their foreign competitors, and
but for the favorable conditions ere
ated by the war, would long since have
paralyzed all forms of American in
dustry and deprived American labor of
its just reward.
1t has not in the least reduced the
cost of living, which has constantly
advanced from the date of it's enact
ment Welfare of our people demands
its repeal and the substitution of a
measure which in peace as well as in
war will produce ample revenue and
give reasonable protection to all forms
of American production in mine, for
est, field and factory.
We favor the creation of a tariff
commission with complete power to
gather and compile information for the
use of congress in all matters relat-
ing to the tariff
Business.
The republican party has long be-
lieved in the rigid supervision and
strict regulation of the transportation
and great corporations of
the country. 1t has put its creed into
its deeds and all really effective laws
regulating the railroads and the great
Industrial corporations are the work
of republican congresses and presi-
dents. For this policy of regulation
and supervision the democrats, in a
stumbling and piecemeal way, are I'M
dertaking to involve the government
in business which should be left with
In the sphere of private enterprise and
in direct competition with its own
policy which is sure to re-
suit in waste, great expense to the
taxpayer and in an inferior product.
The republican party firmly believes
that all who violate the laws in regu-
lation Of business, should be individu-
ally punished. But prosecution is diff
Cerent from persecution, and business
success, no matter how honestly at
tanned, is apparently regarded by the
party as in itself crime.
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