Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1924-06-28
Platform Submitted to
Democratic Convention
Has Total of so PIUnkS

from public office and mete out
prompt punishment.
Al the outset there is a tribute 10
Woodrow Wilson whose ideals. " W. a.
clared will serve as an example and
inspiration for this and future genera
tions.-
The plank on the Klan adopted bv
the committee fer its majority report
was the Bryan plank. Some amend
ments were offered but they were voted
down Mr. Bryan. it was announced.
will defend the KIan plank as adopted
NV the comn.ittee and also the League
MI Nations plank IN the debate On the
floor.
Private Monopolies:
The federal trade commission has sub
mitted to the republican administration
numerous reports showing the existence
M mononolics and combinations i'm ra-
straint cf trade. and has recommended
proceedings against these vioIatorz az
The law. The few prosecutions which
have resulted from this abundant evil
dence furnished hy this agency created
Ivy the democratic party. while proving
the indifference Nh the administration
r. the violations of law ty trusts and
monopolics and its friendship fer them.
nevertheless demonstrate the wa us OF
the federal trade commission.
We declare that private monopoly
in indefansihlc and intolerable and
pledge the democratic party tn vigorous
enforcement of existing laws aEaist
monopoly and Illegal combinations and
90 the enactment on such other meas
urcs as may be necessary.
AVIATION:
We favor a system NJ aviation both nv
he government and commercially.
Labor and Child Welfare:
Labor lis not a commodity. In j. hu-
w ~. We favor collective bargaining ana
laws regulating hours vi labor and con
ditions under which labor IL perform
WI. WE favor the enactment of IcriEla-
tion providing that the product nj con-
vict labor shipped from one state w
another shall bc subject to laws of the
latter state exactly As though they bad
been produced therein. En order to NIT
igate unemployment attending business
depression, we urge the enactment of
legislation authorizing the construction
and repair of public works 10 BE- initia-
ted IN periods NJ acute unemployment
We pledge the party 10 cooperate with
the state governments for the welfare.
education and protection OF child life
and All necessary safeguards against ex-
haustivc, dehilitating employment con-
ditions for women.
Without the votes w democratic mem
hers of the congress. the child labor
amendment would not have been submit
tea for ratification.
The Latin-Amcrican Republics.
From the dav Of their birth friendly
rc ations have existed between the Latin
American republics and the United
States. That friendship grows stronger
as our relations become more intimate
The democratic party sends 10 these re-
publics its cordial greeting: God has
made us neigghbors-iustice shal keep
Us friends.
League M Nati0ns:--
The democratic party pledges all its
energies ~ the outlawing of the whole
war system We refuse IN believe that
the wholesale slaughter of human beings
On the battlefield is any more nrf rsSary
~ mans highest development than il
killing by individuals.
The only hope for world peace and
for economic recovery lies in the or
ganized efforts of sovereign nations CO.
operating 10 remove the causes of war
and to substitute law and order for vio-
lencc.