The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-09-08

Montgomery, September 7-(special)
office.
The platform of the democratic
party of Alabama follows:
1--WE. the representatives OF the
democratic party of Alabama in CON
Yention assembled. do now reaffirm
our faith in and pledge our allegiance
to the support of the immortal prin-
ciples of the democratic party, which
were formulated by Thomas Jeffer-
son, constitutionalized by James
Madison. and proclaimed and pre-
served by Andrew Jackson, Grover
Cleveland. Woodrow Wilson land
other worthy leaders of the party.
I'VE send our affectionate greet
ings to our stricken leader, FOOD
row Wilson. a real soldier in the |
late war. and wounded almost to
death We honor him for his great
and matchless services to his eoun-
try, to humanity, and to the world
1.-THE administration of the guber-
material office by Honorable Thomas
f. Kilby has been distinguished by
high order of courage and business
ability. He has done credit to the
democratic party. We heartily in
dorse his courageous enforcement of
the law and the administration of MS
affice.
Reduction of Expenses
I'VE demand a reduction in the ex-
penses of the state and federal gov
ernments; the abolition of all I'M
necessary offices. a revision of the
revenue laws of the state, to the end
that the burdens of taxation may be
equitably distributed, and that the
assessment and collection of taxes
may be accomplished with the least
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minimum of annoyance to the people.
Prohibition being part of our
federal constitution and the establish
ed policy of the state, we deem it
unnecessary and unwise to further
agtate this question or to change the
present prohibition laws. We demand
the strict enforcement of the ex-
listing laws on this subject and all
the other laws of the state.
Stress Education
"The democratic party holds I'M
reservedly to the principle and policy
of public education. We believe it
to be the duty of the state, and to its
highest interest. to provide for the
fullest and most practical education
possible of all the people.
I'VE recommend, therefore, to the
Legislature to be elected in November
and to the incoming administration,
that they give the whole problem of
public education in the state the most
careful and earnest consideration, re-
spending as fully as conditions will
permit to all the real needs and le-
climate demands of the school sys-
tenn and its several parts, and that
in making appropriations and in 9TH
erwise providing for the support of
education, they keep in mind the fact
that, whatever economics and re-
trenchments must be practiced else
where, wise and patriotic statesman
ship will not permit the curtailment
of the opportunities of the children
and youth of the state for the educa-
ton that makes for individual devel-
opment, industrial and economic eff
cheney and good citizenship. AS rap
idly as the condition of the state and
local treasures will permit"
we recommend and demand suf-
ficient and adequate appropriations
for this purpose, as will afford the
children of this state at least as
good opportunity for educational adj
vantages as the average of the states
of this union. We pledge to the
people that no backward step will
be taken in the matter of education,
but that every possible advancement
will be made.
Public installations
I'VE recognize it as continuing
duty and high privilege to provide
for Confederate veterans to the full
est extent that the condition of the
treasury will admit. We urge upon
the incoming administration the obli-
cation and duty of the state to pro-
vide as far as possible for its mental
detectives, its orphaned and depend
ent infants, and it's deaf and dumb
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state support to the extent of it's
ability the activities of the health
department.. We feel a just pride in
the great achievements of this de-
partment under the present and for
mer administrations, and pledge to
the department and the people of
Alabama the heartiest cooperation
of the democratic party toward the
continuance and improvement of it's
invaluable services; no reduction on
Confederate pensions, no reduction
in appropriations for education or
eleemosynary institutions. hberality
towards the states necessary insti-
tntions for it's unfortunates, and it's
development of the human race. A
poor state and rich people, rather
than a rich state and a poor people.
1--WE condemn the failure of the
republican majorities in Congress to
carry out their platform pledges to
the American people. and for their
failure to lift any of the burdens
that press SO grievously upon an
harassed and overburdened public,
and we condemn in the most en-
phatic language the expressed inten
lions of the party in power to pass
the most Ubiquitous tariff bill that
has ever been proposed. The newt
able effect of this bill will be to
take the meager earnings of the poor
to still further swell the fortunes of
the rich, and to enable a privileged
class to levy a continuing and bur-
densome tax upon one hundred mill
| lion of their fellow citizens. a tax
(which will not be devoted to any of
the purposes of government or the
common welfare, but to the creation
of a monied class. the existence OF
i which endangers the principles upon
which this government is founded.
The legislative program OF the re-
publican party brands 1t as the OPP
presser of the poor, as the agency
through which the burden of living
is made to press still more heavily
upon the shoulders of the common
man. as the friend of the predatory
privilege seeking few and as the de-
stroyer of that principle of equality
of opportunity upon which rests the
welfare and the happiness of the
people of this republic.
More than 10 per cent of our peo-
pie reside on farms and make their
living by tilling the soil. These and
the remainder of our population live
on the products of the soil. The sue
cess of all business and the progress
of our civilization rests upon a con-
tented, happy and prosperous farm
ling people.
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