Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1919-09-10
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| Mr.. D. G. Ashman OF Olivia, Secre-
Itary Of the Frazier Republican Club,
designed to- boost the candidacy of
Gov. Lynn J. Frazier Of North. Dakota
for president as the Republican nomi-
nee has requested the rank and file.
of the party to write him q "modeT'
platform consisting Of just i've planks.
While I have never been q politician,
or candidate for any public Office
and being only very humble mem
Der Of the party, suppose should
let far wiser heads than mine frame
the platform-yet, If this task were
delegated to me, would frame the
structure about as follows:
: Plank /.
The Republican party having been
called into existence by the demands
| OF the hour to oppose the arrogance
and intolerable presumptions of an
lol1garchy founded upon the theory that
one class has the right to live upon the
unrequited toll of another less FORUM
ate class, under the leadership of
Abraham Lincoln, nobly and credit
ably achieved it's object and purpose.
1t forever destroyed human slavery,
maintained the integrity of the Union
and made all men of whatever race or
color, free and equal in this Republic.
Plank 2.
We declare that the one great evil
in this country, the one menace to the
peace, the happiness, the prosperity
nay the very existence of this ma
ton, is the tendency. of wealth to &C
cumulate in the hands of the few
often the less deserving; and we
pledge the Republican party if entrust-
ed with power to devise, enact and
enforce legislation that will arrest
this alarming and dangerous tenden-
cy. To this end we favor a heavy
inheritance tax and a graduated in
come tax so drafted and planned as
to practically absorb all incomes a.
bove certain reasonably figure, no
matter from what source they may be
derived.
! Plank 8.
| Public Utilities.
| The private ownership and opera
ton of public utilities has in a large
measure proved a failure, and we be-
live that the time has come when the
Government should own and operate
the railroads, telegraph and telephone
lines and all other utilities Of like
nature The Government should op-
crate its own coal mines in Alaska
and elsewhere and furnish the people
| fuel at cost.
| Plank 4.
| Militarism.
! We believe in the right of self de-
Tense, and the American people should
fbe prepared at all times to defend
their rights and their liberties against
all their foes, both from without and
within. But to do this, it is not neces-
sary to exalt the military above the
civil power, nor to build up a vast
military establishment founded upon
universal compulsory training of our
young men in the arts of war.
In our judgment, the time has fully
come when the gradual disarmament
of the world may be safely undertake
en-, and we pledge the party to favor
legislation and the making of treaties
with foreign nations. With this end
in view, we are opposed to any in
crease in: the expenses for warlike
purposes or in the membership of the
regular army. s=~
The nation owes a debt Of honor
and gratitude to the men who were
conscripted and sent over the seas,
which it can never repay. And we ia:
vor the most liberal treatment of
these most deserving soldiers in ev.
cry way.
Plank 5.
Americanization.
We stand for undiluted, uncomprom.
Using and exalted Americanism. No
class of foreigners, except as transi.
ent visitors, should be admitted to our
shores who cannot readily be assimi-
lated into the great mass of our citiZ-
enship. We favor the establishing of
night schools where the English Ian.
guage may be taught along with the
principles of free government, and a
fixed term Of attendance of one of
these schools should be prerequisite
to final naturalization.
The Republican party has right
to remind the nation of it's past
j. achievements and history. and nc
platform would be complete without
such reference. This being done
the crying evils Of the times should
be boldly grappled with.
First, 1t is the menace OF c0ncen
trated wealth. How to prevent the
accumulation of the wealth in the
hands of few has ever been the
mightiest problem that confronted the
world. No nation so far has solved
it, and today America is face to face
: with the issue. ''No Nation" sale
the great Statesman Daniel Webster
"can long endure where the tendenc,
is for the wealth: to accumulate in The
hands of a. few" All history verifies
this observation.
Il If the great experiment of self gov
eminent by the people now being car
ried on in America, Is to be success
than the food hoarders and the prof
> hand of the law and should be punish
! ed without mercy.
Second, the hateful effects of mill
, tarism just exemplitied by Germany
. should next receive attention. Mil
:. tarism the world over, is just tn
. same, and leads to the same results
+ Transportation" said Roosevelt
!. lies at the root of all industrial pros
perity. He who controls the transpo1
tatiOn Of a. country, controls both pr
duction and consumption, and is ma!
l. ter of all it's material interests" Thi
il is true statement as anyone will Sc
2 Ion a little reflection. The entire sy'
TEN should be in the hands of tn
r. government and operated without di'
r elimination and at cost, on the sam
r plan that the postofice is conducte.
y The teaching: of the principles an
z policy Of the government, the nece