The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-06-30
PLATFORM OF
DENIS KHAN,
LEAGUE ISSUES
Referendum on the League of
Nations Is Urged in the
Platform Plank
kLAN Is NOT NAMED

New York, N. Y, June 3O.-The
planks adopted by the Democratic
national convention in it's platform,
on the League of Nations and Ku
klux Khan issues, are as follows:
League of Nations
The Democratic> party pledges all
ITS energies to the outlawing of the
whole war system. We refuse to be-
lleVe that the wholesale slaughter of
human beings on the battlefield is
any more necessary to mans highest
development than is killing by in
dividuals.
The only hope for world peace
and for economic recovery lies in
the organized efforts of sovereign
nations cooperating to remove the
causes of war and to substitute law
and order for violence.
Under Democratic leadership a
practical plan was devised under
which fifty-four nations are now OPP
Grating, and which has for it's fun
damental purpose the free cooper
alton of all nations in the work of
peace.
The government of the United
States for the last four years has
had no foreign policy, and conse-
quently it has delayed the restor-
alton Of the political and economic
agencies of the world. 1T has i'm
paired our self respect at home and
curtailed our foreign markets and
ruined our agricultural prices.
1t is of supreme Importance to
civilization and to mankind that
America be placed and kept on the
right side of the greatest moral
question of all time, and therefore
the Democratic party renews it's
declaration of confidence in the
ideal of world peace, the League of
Nations and the World Court of
Justice as together constituting the
supreme effort of the craftsmanship
and religious conviction of our
time to organize the world for
peace.
Further, the Democratic party de-
clares that it will be the purpose of
the next administration to do all in
its power to secure for our country
that moral leadership in the family
of nations which, in the providence
of God, has been so clearly marked
out for it. There is no substitute
for the League of Nations as an
agency working for peace; there
fore, We believe that, in the inter
est of permanent peace, and in the
lifting of the great burdens Of war
from the backs of the people, and
in order to establish permanent
foreign policy on these supreme
questions, not subject to change
with change of party administra-
tions, it is desirable, wise and nee
essary to lift this question out of
party politics and to that end to
take the sense of the American peo-
pie at referendum election, adj
visOry to the government, to be held
officially under act of Congress, free
from all other questions, and can
didacies, after ample time, for full
consideration and discussion
throughout the country, upon the
question, in substance, as follows:
"Shall the United States become
a member Of the League of Nations
upon such reservations or amend
ments to the covenant of the league
as the President and the Senate
L.;
upon?"
Immediately upon an affirmative
vote we will carry out such mandate.
Religious Freedom
Freedom of Religion, Speech, Press
The Democratic party reaffirms it's
adherence and devotion to those car
dinal principles contained in the
Constitution and the precepts on
which our government is founded,
that Congress shall make no laws
respecting the establishment Of re-
ligion, or prohibiting the free exer-
else thereof, or abridging the free
dom of speech or of the press, or the
right of the people peacably to as
semble and to petition the govern
ment for a redress of grievances,
that the church and the state shall
be and remain separate, and that
no religious test shall ever be re-
quired as qualification to any Of
flee of public trust under the United
States.
These principles we pledge our
selves ever to defend and maintain.
We insist at all times upon obedi-
ence to the orderly processes of
the law and deplore and condemn
any effort to arouse religious or
racial dissension.
Conclusion-Affirmi our faith
in these principles We submit our
cause to the people.