New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-08
MOOSE PLATFORM
IS PREPAREDNESS
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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 eowardice, but the
peace OF justice. War and its evils
will not be done away with by suffer
ing injustice to ourselves or others
nor by pledging ourselves TO drastic
action for international right IL we do
not prepare the force which would sus-
tain such action.
I'VE can perform our rightful part
in promoting permanent international
peace only by willingness and pre-
pared ability 10 defend 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 Lincoln
kept them for us.
adequate provision for the common
defence has become the task Of fore
most national concern. We must be
ready In spirit, arms and industry
Preparation in arms requires:
"a navy once more second In battle
efficiency.
"a regular army Of 1000 men
fully armed and trained, as a first line
Of land defence.
ave therefore desire that the women
Of the country, who bear and rear its
soldiers and make and keep It's homes,
shall have the full political right Of
suffrage.
Arms alone cannot maintain a ma
ton. OF far greater permanent impor-
lance must stand a national industry
efficient for the general welfare, pros
perity justly distributed, national
life organized in all points for ma
tionsl ends.
-Four years ago this party was born
OF nations awakened sense of these
fundamental truths. In the platform
then adopted we set forth our position
these declarations. They are made on
national issues.
"A nation to survive must stand for
the principles of social and industrial
justice. We cannot permit the oppres-
sion Of any class and expect Of that
class high ideals OF patriotism. We
must protect the wage Garner, develop
country life and remove the artificial
n
country must be worth living in to be
worth dying for.
ITO make possible social justice, 10
maintain our position in peace and war.
We must insure business and industrial
prosperity. This can be done:
by a regulation of industry aimed
at promoting its growth and prosperity
and just distribution of its returns.
a Il 4
of our national resources, human and
material.
by making a new standard Of gov
ernmental efficiency through a com
plete civil service system, a national
badget and the destruction Of pork
barrel legislation.
Protective Tariff Essential.
by the creation OF permanent.
expe-t tariff commission.
The protective system is essential
to our national prosperity. Tremen-
deus new pressures will be thrown
upon our industries after the war by
the highly modified production of
Europe. At all times conditions of
competition must be equalized between
our own and foreign countries. We
can only get the protection we need
through the use of exact and COM
plete knowledge, unaffected by preju-
dice or politics. We can only secure
that knowledge at all times and when
needed through such a commission.
I'VE have set forth in this platform
the plain essentials OF national exist
ence with which most men agree.
which any man can propose. They
are not new in principle. Our urgent
and immediate need is for their per-
Torrance. We have had ample expert
ence with the promiser. with words
and the bitter taste OF words retract-
ed. We must find a man who not
alone by words, but by past deeds,
gives guarantee that he can and will
make these ideals good.
"The issue is one OF men. In the
midst of world changes unparalleled
in history We cannot forecast the
eminent during the war and at its
end. We, therefore. need as Presi-
dert a leader who knows the nations.
a man who acts. II We continue
longer TO stand for words as above
deeds, for hopes above facts. we shall
receive and merit the fate that surely
awaits the man or people who do not
face the truth.
1--WE will meet and work with any
man or party who sees the nations
need. and puts forward leader fit
TO meet il. We will accept no less.
in plan, or in the man, and we hereby
solemnly charge upon those who place
partisan politics above country the
Tread responsibility for a nations
future. sacrificed TO self-interest and
spoils."
Formal approval Of the platform.
tentatively drawn by Dean William
Draper Lewis, Of the University OF
Pennsylvania, and other leaders, was
postponed until tomorrow By the reso-
lutions committee.
Dean Lewis was elected chairman
and Herbert Knox Smith, Of Connect
cut, former Commissioner OF Corpora
tions. secretary at the organization
meeting this afternoon. The preliml-
nary draft was read 70 the full COM
mittee. and tonight the committee
heard many delegations and individu--
ais advocating insertion OF speclai
planks.
A separate woman suffrage plank was
urged. but IL was stated that the SUI
frsge question probably would be in
cluded in the blanket plank on national
economic, mill
tsry and industrial.
Consideration Of the platform, which
will be presented 70 the convention To-