Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1920-01-17

| Wv 'ee'ilS OIL thcSe issues. It
can oppose class party because it is
TOT hsclf the Party of 4 class. but H.,
paf' III the whole people rcyai ilu. :
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| Inc Republican party has become
capitalistic party and has permitted
'arlll DaronS TO write the tariff laws
trust maSnates to direct the policy of
INC party on the trust question. rail
roaa presidents to dictate its policy
:' INC railroad question, while pack
ING mouse companies and other prof
i'ecrs nave used it as their own. If
would divide the country into Glaze
parties and by its own attitude com
pc! inc formation OF farmers marry
and laborers' party.
THE PARTY OF ALL CLASSES
zThe Democratic party, on the con.
, lrary stands for the protection Of ,bc
rights or every class, dealing with
each citizen as an individual insto,d
VI us Il member Of class. II bos
SINCE 1t has been in power giyen :.
"piciolo currency law to the CONNER
I''l cl"sscS. 1t has given a farm loan
! i"M 10 tho farmers. 1t has given M
elsht hour day and greater sccuritv
Ill It's rights to labor and has rivon
relief from the high tariff burdon. ~
an inc people. Democracy con tenn
pla'es cooperation between all clo
mcnts and the promoting of the vol
iarc or society in general,
~ would prevent strikes not nv
ploh'p'tory laws but by the creation,
OF machinery which will irvostir,,.
o'sp"tcs and thus secure n pc,coru,
Se''iement of differences before tho
controversy reaches the stage ~
strike or lockout.
inc Democratic party will disi;pp
niSh between evolution and rcvo,u,
ton guaranteeing freedom >r srooa,,
"'u press TO every one who advocates
governmental changes by constitution
I'll nhelhods, and at the same tim,
prevent the use Of either freedom Of
speech or freedom of tho press fnr
tue overthrow OF constitutional rov
crnment
me democratic party has for
twenty years denounced private mon
opoly as indcfensiblc and intolcrablo
IL cannot surrender its position on
inc subject now when the hcncficioric,
OF all tho private mononolios ,ro mai,
,'"'''E under the banner of the Repub
iicah party for united attack upon
the right Of the people to own and
operate all necessary monopolirs in
the interest Of the public.
Ihe Democratic party will contin-
uc It's Tight against the profitocr A
government that restraints the individ
u'i from the use of force in the pro
lection Of his rights assumes the sol
cmn obligation to protect the d;snrm
"o li1ch from every arm upliftod for
MS injury. We need machinery in
every State and in each community
mat VIII give to the consumer Fri
huhal before which q dealer accused
OF profitcering can be brought for OK
animation. The Federal Trade Com
mission is step in the right direct
ION But the subject is too big to he
handled by the nation alone. or by a
national commists; ON. The remedy
must he rs complete as the evil, anC
1T cannot be complete unless States
and communities as we'll as the Fed
cral Government are prepared to deal
with this subject.
| L assume that the party will ac--
ccpt prohibition as the permanent pol
icy of the country. Three fourths OF
the Democrats in the Senate and tive
thirds of the Democrats in the Hous,
voted to submit the national amend
mcnt and every Democratic State vo,
cd for ratification--and every Rcpul
lican State except three. 1t is incor
celVablc therefore that our party
should antagoniZe the moral sense OF
the nation. John Barleycorn is dead
The Democratic party cannot tie il
self to corpse or become the cham.
ion Of an outlawed traffic.
! l assume that the party will &C
cCpt woman's suffrage also as an az
complshed fact. The women saved our
party from defeat in the last cam
paign and we need their aid to has
ten the triumph Of every righteous
cause.
l venture to suggest three new pro
positions for which / ask considerat
y ion:
l. A national peace way, running II
to every state, wide enough to acccn
modate both passengers and freight
ana permanent so that it will he a las,
ing the building together the fort,
eight Commemorative. It will be ;
memorial to the soldiers and to al
others who took part In the war an(
a monument in commemoration OF
peace restored. 1t will not only be ar
expression Of patriotism but 1t will
be educational as we'll as useful. 1t vii
bring the word peace into the thought
and conversation Of all our people FOL
centuries.
| p We need above all other things
Just now national bulletin-not {
newspaper, but a bulletin-under bi
partisan control, furnished to all who
desire it at a nominal costa bulle
tin which will present to the people
the issues upon which they must act
w IN editorials presenting the argll-
/ montS FOR and against the action pro
? posed 90 that every citizen NAV ir