The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-06-23
AMER|CAN|SM, PEACE
AND PREPAREDNESS
MAIN POINTS IN DEMOCRATIC
PLATFORM ADOPTED AT ST.
LOUIS CONVENTION.
administration Of Woodrow Wilson In
dorsed and Achievements Praised.
Stand Of Party on the Tariff
and Mexican Situation.

st. Louisville Democratic national
convention finished its work on June
is by adopting the party platform ex-
actly as approved by President Wilson
and submitted by the resolutions com
mittee. The convention adjourned
sine die at 3:11 o'clock.
Following is the Democratic declara-
ton OF principles and platform:
The Democratic party, in national
convention assembled, adopts the fol-
lowing declaration to the end that the
people of the United States may both
realize the achievements wrought by
fours years of Democratic admins
tration and be appraised of the poll
cies to which the party is committed
Tor the further conduct of national
affairs:
Record of Achievement.
We indorse the administration OF
Woodrow Wilson. 1t speaks for itself.
1t is the best exposition of sound
Democratic policy at home and
abroad.
We challenge comparison of our
record, our keeping of pledges and our
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any party at any time.
We found our country hampered by
special privileges, vicious tariff, OBJ
Bolete banking laws and an inelastic
currency Our foreign affairs were
dominated by commercial interests
for their selfish ends. The Republi-
can party, despite repeated pledges,
was impotent to correct abuses which
hod TInd nltys ad
tration, under leadership which has
never faltered, these abuses have
been corrected and our people have
been freed therefrom.
Financial.
Our archaic banking and currency
system, prolific of panic and disaster
in our Republican Administrations
long the refuge of the money trust
has been supplanted by the federal
reserve act, a true democracy of
credit under government control, and
already proved financial bulwark in
a world crisis, mobilizing our re-
sources, placing abundant credit at
the disposal of legitimate industry and
making a currency panic impossible.
We have created a federal trade
commission to accommodate the per-
antitrust laws so that monopoly may
be strangled at its birth and legiti-
mate industry encouraged. Fair com
petition in business now is assured.
We have effected an adjustment of
the tariff, adequate for revenue under
peace conditions, and fair to the con-
sumner and to the producer. We have
adjusted the burdens of taxation so
that swollen incomes bear their
equitable share. Our revenues have
been sufficient in times of world
stress and will largely exceed the ex-
penditures of the current year.
We have lifted human labor from
the category of commodities and have
secured to the workingman the right
of voluntary association for his pro-
lection and welfare. We have pro-
tected the rights of the laborer
against the unwarranted issuances of
writs of Injunction, and have guar
anteed to him the right of trial by
cases committed outside the presence
of the court.
Parcel Post.
We have advanced the parcel post
to genuine efficiency, enlarged the
postal savings system, added 10000
thus reaching two and one-half mil
lions additional people; improved the
postal service in every branch, and,
for the first time in our history, placed
the postoffice system on self-sup-
porting basis, with actual surplus in
1918, 1914 and 1916.
Economic Freedom.
The reforms which were most OBJ
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lege, prevent unfair discrimination
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 uncertainty 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 tariff for the purpose OF
providing sufficient revenue for the
operation of the government econom-
ically administered and unreservedly
indorse the Underwood tariff law as
truly exemplifying that doctrine. We
recognize that tariff rates are neces-
SaI1ly SuDJtCt ~ W mCCt
changing conditions in the worlds pro
duction and trade. The events of the
last two years have brought about
many momentous changes. In some
respects their effects are yet conjec
tural and wait to be disclosed, par
ticularly in regard to our foreign
trade. Two years of war which
has directly involved most of the chief
Industrial nations of the world, and
which has indirectly affected the life
and industry of all nations, are bring
ing about economic changes more
varied and far-reaching than the
world has ever before experienced.
With regard to the changing and
changed conditions under which our
trade is carried on, and in order to
ascertain Just what these changes
may be. the Democratic congress Is
providing for non-partisan tarih
Communication IN mako innartia1 and