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THE SCHULENBURG STICKER. SCHULENBURG. TEXAS
Democratic
Platform
The following: la the text of the Dem-
ocratic platform as adopted by the
convention:
We, the representatives of the Demo-
cratic party, in national convention as-
sembled, pay our profound homage to
the memory of Woodrow Wilson. Our
hearts are filled with gratitude that
American democracy should have pro-
duced this man, whose spirit and influ-
ence will live on through the ages; and
that it was our privilege to have co-
operated with him in the advancement
of Ideals of government which will
aerve as an example and inspiration
for this and future generations. We
affirm our abiding faith in those ideals
and pledge ourselves to take up the
standard which he bore and to strive
for the full triumph of the principles
of democracy for which he dedicated his
life.
A vote for Coolidge
chaos.
Is a vot* for
ISSUES ARE SET FORTH
DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES
The Democratic party believes in equal
rights to all and special privilege to
none. The Republican party holds that
special privileges are essential to na-
tional prosperity. It believes that na-
tional prosperity must originate with
the special interests and seep down
through the channels of trade to the
less favored industries, to the wage
earners and small salaried employees.
It has accordingly enthroned privilege
and nurtured selfishness. The Repub-
lican party is concerned chiefly with
material things; the Democratic party
Is concerned chiefly with human rights.
The masses, burdened by discriminat-
ing laws and unjust administration, are
demanding relief. The favored special
Interests, represented by the Repub-
lican party, contented with their unjust
privileges, are demanding that no
change be made. The Democratic party
stands for remedial legislation and
progress. The Republican party stands
still.
COMPARISON OF PARTIES
We urge the American people to com-
pare the record of eight unsullied years
of Democratic administration with that
of the Republican administration. In
the former there was no corruption.
The party pledges were faithfully ful-
filled, and a Democratic congress en-
acted an extraordinary number of con-
structive and remedial laws. The eco-
nomic life of the nation quickened.
Tariff taxes were reduced. A federal
trade commission was created.
A federal farm loan system was es-
tablished. Child labor legislation was
enacted. A good roads bill was passed.
Eight-hour laws were adopted. A sec-
retary of labor was given a seat In the
cabinet of the President. The Clayton
amendment to the Sherman anti-trust
act was passed, freeing American labor.
By the Smith-Lever bill improvement
of agricultural conditions' was effected.
A corrupt practice act was adopted.
A well considered warehouse act was
passed. Federal employment bureaus
were created, farm loan banks were
organized, and the federal reserve sys-
tem was established. Privilege was
uprooted. A corrupt lobby was driven
from the national capital. A higher
sense of individual and national duty
was aroused. America enjoyed an un-
precedented period of social and mate-
rial progress.
During the time which intervened be-
tween the Inauguration of a Democratic
administration on March 4. 1913. and
our entrance into the World war, we
placed upon the statute books of our
country more effective, constructive
and remedial legislation than the Re-
publican party had placed there in a
generation.
^During the great struggle which fol-
lowed we had a leadership that carried
America to greater heights of honor
and power and glory than she had ever
known before In her entire history.
Transition from this period of exalted
Democratic leadership to the sordid
record of the last three and a half
yeirs make the nation ashamed. It
marks the contrast between a high
conception of public service and an
avid purpose to distribute spoils.
The dominant issues of the campaign
are created by existing conditions:
"Dishonesty, discrimination, extrava-
gance and inefficiency exist In govern-
ment. The burdens of taxation have
become unbearable. Distress and bank-
ruptcy in agriculture, the basjc indus-
try of our country, is affecting the hap-
piness and prosperity of the whole peo-
ple. The cost of living is causing hard-
ship and unrest. The slowing down
of Industry Is adding to the general
distress.
The tariff, the destruction ofi our for-
eign markets and the high cost of
transportation are taking the profit out
of agriculture, mining and other raw
material industries. Large standing
armies and the cost of preparing for
war still cast their burdens upon hu-
manity. These conditions the existing
Republican administration has proven
Itself unwilling or unable to redress.
The Democratic party pledges itself
to the following program: We pledge
the Democratic party to drive from
public places all which make barter
of our national power, Its resources or
the administration of its laws; to pun-
ish those guilty of these offenses.
To put none but the honest In public
office; to practice economy In the ex-
penditure of public money; to rever-
ence and respect the rights of all under
the Constitution.
To condemn and destroy government
by the spy and the blackmailer, as by
this Republican administration was
both encouraged and practiced.
TARIFF AND TAXATION
G. O. P. "CORRUPTION"
Never before in our history has the
government been so tainted by cor-
ruption and never has an administra-
tion so utterly failed. The nation has
been appalled by the revelations of po-
litical depravity which have character-
ized the conduct of public affairs. We
arraign the Republican party for at-
tempting to limit inquiry into Official
delinquencies and to Impede, If not to
frustrate, the Investigations to which
In the beginning the Republican party
leaders assented, but which later they
regarded with dismay.
These Investigations sent the former
secretary of the Interior to Three Riv-
ers In disgrace and dishonor. These
Investigations revealed the Incapacity
and Indifference to public obligation
of the secretary of the navy, com-
pelling him, by force of public opinion,
to quit the cabinet.
These investigations confirmed the
general impression as to the unfitness
of the attorney general by exposing an
official situation and personal contacts
which shocked the conscience of the
nation and compelled his dismissal from
the cabinet.
These Investigations disclosed the
appalling conditions of the veterans'
bureau, with Its fraud upon the gov-
ernment and Its cruel .neglect of the
sick and disabled soldiers of the World
war.
These Investigations revealed the
criminal and fraudulent nature of the
oil leases, which caused the congress,
despite the Indifference of the Execu-
tive, to direct recovery of the public
domain and the prosecution of the
criminal.
Such are the exigencies of partisan
politics that Republican leaders are
teaching the strange doctrine that pub-
The Fordney-McCumber tariff act Is
the most unjust, unscientific and dis-
honest tariff tax measure ever enacted
In our history. It is class legislation,
which defrauds all the "people for the
benefit of a few; It heavily increases
the cost of living, penalizes agricul-
ture, corrupts the government, fosters
paternalism, and, In the long run, does
not benefit the very Interests for which
It was Intended.
We denounce the Republican tariff
laws which are written in great part
In aid of monopolies and thus prevent
that reasonable exchange of commodi-
ties which would enable foreign coun-
tries to buy our surplus agricultural
and manufactured products with re-
sultant benefit to the tollers and pro-
ducers of America. Trade Interchange,
on the basis of reciprocal advantages
to the countries participating Is a tlme-
honored doctrine of democratic faith.
We declare our party's position to
be In favor of a tax on commodities
entering the customs house that will
promote effective competition, protect
against monopoly and at the same time
produce a fair revenue to support the
government.
The greatest contributing factor in
the increase and unbalancing of prices
Is unscientific taxation. After having
increased taxation ahd the cost of living
by $2,000,000,000, under the Fordney-Mc-
Cumber tariff, all that the Republican
party could suggest in tl\p way of re-
lief was a cut of $300,000,000 in direct
taxes; and that was to be given prin-
cipally to those with the largest in-
comes.
Although there was no evidence of
lack of capital for Investment to meet
the present requirements of ajl legiti-
mate Industrial . enterprises, and al-
though the farmers and general con-
sumers were bearing the brunt of tariff
favors already granted to special inter-
ests. the administration was unable to
devise any plan except one to grant
further aid to the few.
Fortunately this plan of the adminis-
tration failed and under Democratic
leadership, aided by progressive Repub-
licans, a more equitable one was
adopted, which reduces direct taxes by
about $450,000,000.
REFERS TO MELLON PLAN
To offset these policies and their dis-
astrous results, and to restore the farm-
er again to economic equality with
other Industrialists, we pledge our-
selves:
(a) To adopt an International policy
of such co-operation by direct official,
Instead of Indirect and evasive unoffi-
cial, means as will re-establish the
farmers' export market by restoring
the Industrial balance In Europe and
the normal flow of international trade
with the settlement of Europe's eco-
nomic problems.
(b) To readjust and lower rail and
water rates, which will make our mar-
kets, both for the buyer and the seller,
national and international, instead of
regional and local.
(d) To bring about the early comple-
tlonal of Internal waterway systems for
transportation and to develop our wa-
ter powers for cheaper fertilizer and
use on our farms.
(e) To stimulate by every proper
governmental activity the progress of
the co-operative marketing movement
and the establishment of an export
marketing corporation on commission,
In order that the exportable surplus
may not establish the price of the
whole crop.
(f) To secure for the farmer credits
suitable for his needs.
(g) By the establishment of these
policies and others naturally supple-
mentary thereto, jfo reduce the margin
between what the producer receives
for his products and the consumer has
to pay for his supplies, to the end that
we secure an equality for agriculture.
RAILROADS
The sponsors for the Esch-Cummins
transportation act of 1920, at the time
of Its presentation to congress, stated
that It had for Its purposes the reduc-
tion of the cost of transportation, the
Improvement of service, the bettering
of labor conditions, the promotion of
peaceful co-operation between employer
and employee, and at the same time
the assurance of a fair and Just return
to the railroads upon their Investment.
We are In accord with these an-
nounced purposes, but contend that the
act has failed to accomplish them. It
has failed to reduce the cost of trans-
portation. The promised Improvement
In service has not been realized. The
labor provisions of the act have proven
unsatisfactory in settling differences
between employer and employees.
The so-called recapture clause has
worked out to the advantage of the
strong and has been of no benefit to
the weak. The pronouncement In the
act for the development of both rail
and water transportation has proven
futile. Water transportation on our
Inland waterways has not been encour-
aged, and limitation of our coastwise
trade Is threatened by the administra-
tion of the act.
Tt has unnecessarily Interfered with
the power of the states to regulate
purely Intrastate transportation. It
must, therefore, be so rewritten that
the high purposes which the publlo
welfare demands may be accomplished.
Railroad freight rates should be ao
readjusted as to give the bulky basic,
low-prced raw commodities, such as
agricultural products, coal, and ores,
the lowest rates, placing the higher
rates upon more valuable and less
bulky manufactured products.
Iron, copper and silver than any other
country. The value of our mineral
productions Is second only to agricul-
ture. Mining has suffered like agricul-
ture and from the same causes. It is
the duty of our government to foster
this Industry and to remove the restric-
tions that destroy Its prosperity.
We pledge the Democratic party to reg-
ulate by governmental agencies the an-
thracite coal Industry and all other cor-
where public welfare has been subordi-
poratlons controlling the necessaries of life
nated to private interests.
MERCHANT MARINE
The Democratic party condemns the
vacillating policy of the Republican-ad-
ministration in its failure to develop an
American flag shipping policy. There has
been a marked decrease In the volume of
American commerce carried in American
vessels as compared to the record under
a Demecratlc administration.
We oppose as illogical and unsound all
efforts to overcome by subsidy the handi-
cap to American shipping and commerce
Imposed by Republican policies.
We condemn the practice of certain
American railroads in favoring foreign
ships, and pledge ourselves to correct such
discriminations. We declare for an Amer-
ican-owned merchant marine, American-
built and manned by American crews,
which is essential for naval security in
war, and is a protection to the American
farmer and manufacturer against exces-
sive ocean freight charges on products of
farm and factory.
We declare that the government should
own and operate such merchant ships as
will Insure the accomplishment of these
purposes and to continue such operation
so long as It may be necessary without
obstructing the development and growth
of a privately owned American flag ship-
ping.
We demand a revival of the spirit of
local self-government, essential to the
preservation of the free institutions of
our republic.
We pledge ourselves to maintain our
established position In favor of the ex-
clusion of Asiatic immigrants.
INSULAR POSSESSIONS
CIVIL SERVICE
MUSCLE SHOALS
The issue between the President and
the Democratic party Is not one of tax
reductlon*or of the conservation of cap-
ital. It Is an Issue of relative burden
of taxation and of the distribution of
capital as affected by the taxation of
Income. The President still stands on
the so-called Mellon plan, which his
party has Just refused to Indorse or
mention In Its platform.
The Income tax was Intended as a
tax upon wealth. It was not intended
to take from the poor any part of the
necessities of life. We hold that the
fairest tax wl*h which to raise revenue
for the federal government is the In-
come tax.
We favor a graduated tax upon in-
comes. so adjusted as to lay the bur-
dens of government on the taxpayers
In proportion to the benefits they enjoy
and their ability to pay. We oppose
the so-called nuisance taxes, sales
taxes and all other forms of taxation
that unfairly shift to the consumer the
burdens of taxation.
We refer to the Democratic revenue
measure passed by the last congress
as distinguished from the Mellon tax
plan as an Illustration of the policy
of the Democratic party.
We first made a flat reduction of 28
per cent upon the tax of al Incomes
payable this year and then we so
changed the proposed Mellon plan as
to eliminate* taxes upon the poor, re-
ducing them upon moderate Incomes
and. in a lesser degree, upon the in-
comes of multimillionaires. We hold
that all taxes are unnecessarily high,
and pledge ourselves to further reduc-
tions.
We denounce the Mellon plan as a
device to relieve multimillionaires at
the expense of other taxpayers, and we
accept the issue of taxation tendered
by President Coolidge.
We reaffirm and pledge the fulfill-
ment of the policy, with reference to
Muscle Shoals, as declared and passed
by the Democratic majority of the Six-
ty-fourth congress In the national de-
fense act of 1918, "for the production of
nitrates or other products needed for
munitions of war and useful In the
manufacture of fertilizers."
We hold that the production of
cheaper and high-grade fertilizers Is
essentia] to agricultural prosperity. We
demand prompt action by congress for
the operation of the Muscle Shoals
plants to maximum capacity In the pro-
duction. distribution and sale of com-
mercial fertilizers to the farmers of
the country, and we oppose any legis-
lation that limits the production of
fertilizers at Muscle Shoals by limiting
the amount of power to be used In their
manufactures.
We denounce the action of the Repub-
lican administration In Its violations of
the principles of civil service by Its par-
tisan removals and manipulation of the
eligible lists in the Post Office depart-
ment and other governmental depart-
ments; by its packing the civil service
commission so that that commission be-
came the servile instrument of the ad-
ministration in. Its wish to deny to the
ex-service men their preferential rights
under the law and the evasion of- the
requirements of the law, with reference
to appointment^ In the department.
We pledge the Democratic party faith-
fully to comply with the spirit as well as
the regulation of civil service; to extend
its provisions to Internal revenue officers
and to other employees of the govern-
ment not In executive positions, and to se-
cure to ex-service men preference In such
appointments.
We declare In favor of adequate salaries
to provide decent living conditions for
poBtal employees.
The Filipino peoples have succeeded in
maintaining a stable government and
have thus fulfilled the only condition laid
down by congress as a prerequisite to the
granting of Independence. We declare
that It is now our liberty, and our duty
to keep our promise to these people by
granting them immediately the Independ-
ence which they so honorably covet.
The maladministration of affairs in
Alaska Is a matter of concern to all our
people.
Under the Republican administration
development has ceased and the fishing
Industry has been seriously impaired.
We pledge ourselves to correct the evils
which have grown up in the administra-
tion of that rich domain.
An adequate form of local self-gov-
ernment for Alaska must be provided,
and to that end we favor the estab-
lishment of a full territorial form of
government for that territory similar
to, that enjoyed by all the territories
except Alaska during the last century
of American history.
We believe in a policy for continuing
the Improvements of the national parks,
the harbors and breakwaters, and the
federal roads of the territory of Hawaii.
We recommend legislation for the
welfare of the Inhabitants of the Vlr-
gin islands.
WAR AND DEFENSE
POPULAR ELECTIONS
We pledge the Democratic party to a
policy which will prevent members of ei-
ther house who fall of re-electlbn from
participating In the subsequent sessions of
congress. This can be accomplished by
fixing the days for convening the con-
gress Immediately after the biennial na-
tional election; and to this end we favor
granting the right to the people of the
several states to vote on proposed consti-
tutional amendments on this subject.
ACTIVITY OF WOMEN
CREDIT AND CURRENCY
We denounce the recent cruel and unust
contraction of legitimate and necessary
credit and currency, which was directly
due to the so-called deflation policy of
the Republican party as declared In its
national platform of June, 1820, and In the
speech of acceptance of Its candidacy for
the Presidency.
Within eighteen months after the elec-
tion of 1920 this policy resulted In with-
drawing bank loans and discounts by over
five billions of doHars and In contracting
our currency by over fifteen hundred mil-
lions of dollars.
This contraction bankrupted hundreds
of thousands of farmers and stock grow-
ers In America and resulted in widespread
Industrial depression and unemployment.
We demand that the federal reserve sys-
tem be so administered as to give stability
to Industry, commerce and finance, as was
Intended by the Democratic party, which
gave the federal reserve system to the
nation.
CONSERVATION
AGRICULTURE
During the four years of Republican
government the economic condition of
the American farmer has changed from
comfort to bankruptcy, with all Its
attendant miseries. The chief causes
of this are:
(a) The Republican party policy of
lie censure should be directed against Isolation In International affairs has
prevented Europe from getting back
to Its normal balance, and, by leaving
unsolved the economic problems abroad
has driven the European city population
from Industrial activities to the soil
In lariae numbers in order to earn the
mere necessaries of life. This has de-
prived the American farmer of his nor-
mal export trade.
(b) The Republican policy of a pro-
hibitive tariff, exemplified in the Ford-
ney-McCumber law, which has forced
the American farmer, with his export
market debilitated, to buy manufactured
goods at sustained high domestic lev-
els, thereby making him the victim of
the profiteer.
(c) The Republican policy of high
transportation rates, both rail and wa-
ter, which has made It Impossible for
the farmer to ship his produce to mar-
ket at even a Uvlns profit
those who expose crime rather than
against criminals who have committed
the offenses. If only three cabinet offi-
cers out of ten are disgraced the coun-
try is asked to marvel at how many
are free from taint.
Long boastful that it was the only
party "fit to govern," the Republican
party has proven Its Inability to gov-
ern even itself. It Is at war with It-
self. As an agency of government It
has ceased to function.
The nation cannot afford to Intrust
Its welfare to a political organization
that cannot master itself, or to an Ex-
ecutive whose policies have been re-
jected by his own party. To retain in
power an administration of this char-
acter would inevitably result in four
years more of continued disorder. In-
ternal dissension and governmental jn_
efficiency.
We welcome the women of the nation
to their rightful place by the side of men
in the control of the government whose
burdens they have always shared.
The Democratic party congratulates
them upon the essential part whleh
they have taken In the progress of our
country and the zeal with which they
are using their political power to aid
the enactment of beneflolent laws and
the exaction of fidelity In the public
service.
We favor generous appropriations,
honest management and sympathetic
care and assistance In the hospitaliza-
tion, rehabilitation and compensation
of the veterans of all wars and their
dependents. The humanizing of the
veterans' bureau Is Imperatively re-
quired.
CAMPAIGN FUNDS
War Is a relic of barbarism and It Is
Justifiable only as a measure of defense.
In the event of war In which the man
power of the nation Is drafted, all other
resources should likewise be drafted. This
will tend to discourage war by depriving
It of Its profits.
We demand a strict and sweeping re-
duction of armaments by land and sea,
so that there shall be no competitive mili-
tary program or naval building. Until
international agreements to this end have
been made, we advocate an army arid
navy adequate for our national safety.
Our government should secure a Joint
agreement with all nations for world
disarmament and also for a referendum
of war, except in case of actual or
threatened attack.
Those who must furnish the blood and
bear the burdens Imposed by war should,
whenever possible, be consulted before
this supreme sacrifice is required of them.
LAUSANNE TREATY
We condemn the Lausanne treaty. It
barters legitimate American rights and
betrays Armenia for the Chester oil
consesslon.
We favor the protection of American
rights lp Turkey and the fulfillment of
President Wilson's arbitral award re-
specting Armenia.
Republic of Greece—We welcome to
the sisterhood of republics the ancient
land of Greece, which gave to our party
its priceless name. We extend to her
government and people our cordial
good wishes.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
We pledge recovery of the navyia oil
reserves, and all other parts of the public
domain which have been fraudulently or
Illegally leased or otherwise wrongfully
transferred to the control of private In-
terests; vigorous prosecution of all public
officials, private citizens and corporations
that participated In these transactions;
revision of the water-power act, the gen-
eral leasing act, and all other legislation
relating to the public domain that may
be essential to Its conservation and honest
and efficient use on behalf of the people
of the country.
We believe that the nation should retain
title to Its water power and we favor the
expeditious creation and development of
our water power, ^e favor strict public
control and conservation of all the na-
tion's natural resources, such as coal,
iron, oil and timber, and their use In such
manner as may be to the best Interest of
our citizens.
The conservation of migratory birds,
the establishment of game preserves,
and the protection and conservation of
wild life Is of Importance to agricul-
turists as well as sportsmen.
Our disappearing* natural resources of
timber calls for a national policy of re-
forestation.
IMPROVED HIGHWAYS
Improved roads are of vital Importance
not only to commerce and Industry but
also to agriculture and national life. We
call attention to the record of the Demo-
cratic party In this matter and favor con-
tinuance of federal aid under existing fed-
eral and state agencies.
Mining Is ont of the baalo Industries
of this country. We nroduo* more ooal.
The nation now knows that the pred-
atory Interests have, by supplying R«pub-
llcan campaign funds, systematically
purchased legislative favors and admin-
istrative Immunity. The practice must
stop; our nation must return to honesty
and decency In politics.
Elections are public affairs conducted
for the sole purpose of ascertaining the
will of the sovereign voters. Therefore
we demand that national elections shall
hereafter be kept free from the poison of
excessive private contributions. To this
end we favor reasonable means of pub-
licity, at public expense, so that candi-
dates, properly before the people*for fed-
eral offices, may present their claims at
a minimum of cost.
Such publicity should precede the
primary and the election. We favor
the prohibition of Individual contribu-
tions. direct and Indirect, to the cam-
paign funds of oongre'ssmen, senators
or Presidential candidates, beyond a
reasonable sum to be fixed In the law,
for both individual contributions and
total expenditures, with requirements
for full publicity. We advocate a com-
plete revision of the corrupt practice
act to prevent Newberrylsm and the
election evils disclosed by recent Inves-
tigations.
NARCOTICS, DRY LAW
Recognizing In narcotic addiction, espe-
cially the spreading of heroin addiction
among the youth, a grave peril to Amer-
ica and to the human race, we pledge our-
selves vigorously to take against it all
legitimate and proper measures for edu-
cation, for control, and for the suppres-
sion at home and abroad.
Te Republican administration has failed
to enforce the prohibition law; is guilty
of trafficking In liquor permits, and has
become the protector of violators of this
law.
The Democratic party pledges Itself to
respect and enforce the Constitution and
all laws.
STATE RIGHTS
We demand that the states of the union
shall be preserved In all their vigor and
power. They constitute a bulwark against
the centralizing and destructive tenden-
cies of the Republican party.
We condemn the efforts of the Repub-
lican party to nationalize the functions
and duties of the states.
We oppose the extension of bureaucracy,
the creation of unnecessary bureaus and
federal agencies, and the multiplication
of offices and office holder*.
The Democratic party pledges all Its
energies to the outlawing of the whole
war system. We refuse to believe tfiat
the wholesale slaughter of human beings
on the battlefield 1b any more necessary
to man's highest development than Is kill-
ing by Individuals.
The only hope fer world peace and for
economic recovery lies In the organized
efforts of sovereign nations co-operating
to remove the causes of war and to sub-
stitute law and order for violence.
Under Democratic leadership a prac-
tical plan was devised under which 54 na-
tions are now operating and which has
for its fundamental purpose the free co-
operation of all nations In the work of
peace.
The government of the United States
for the last four years has had no for-
eign policy, and consequently It has de-
layed the restoration of the political and
economic agencies of the world. It has
Impaired our self-respect at home and In-
jured our prestige abroad. It has cur-
tailed our foreign markets and ruined our
agricultural prices.
It Is of supreme Importance* to civiliza-
tion 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
Its 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
statesmanship and religious conviction of
our time to organize the world for peace.
Further, the Democratic party declared
that It will be the purpose of the next
administration to do all In Its power to
secure for our country that moral leader-
ship 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;
therefore we believe that. In the Interest
of permanent peace, and In the lifting of
the great burdens of war from the backs
of the people, and In order to establish a
permanent foreign policy on these su-
preme questions, not subject to change
with changing of party administration, it
is desirable, wise and necessary to lift
this question out of the party politics and
t9 that end to take the sense of the Amer-
ican people at a referendum election, ad-
visory to the government, to be held offi-
cially under act of congress, free from
all other questions and candidacies after
ample time for full consideration and dis-
cussion throughout the country, upon the
question, in substance, as follows:
"Shall the United States become a mem-
ber of the League of Nations upon such
reservations or amendments to the cove-
nant of the league as the President and
the senate of the United States may
agree upon?"
Immediately upon an affirmative vote
we will carry out such mandate.
prompt co-ordinated surveys by the
United States to determine the possi-
bilities of general navigation Improve-
ments and water power development
on navigable streams and their trlbu
taries, to. secure reliable information as
to the most economical navigation im-
provement, in combination with the
most efficient and complete development
of water power.
We favor suspension of the granting of
federal water power licenses by the fed-
eral water power commission until con-
gress has received reports from the water
power commission with regard to applica
tions for such licenses.
POLICY ON EDUCATION
We believe with Thomas Jefferson
and founders of the republic that ig-
norance is the enemy of freedom and
that each state, being responsible for
the intellectual and moral qualifications
of its citizens and for the expenditure
of the moneys collected by taxation for
the support of Its schools, shall use its
sovereign right in all matters pertain-
ing to education. The federal govern
ment should offer to the states such
counsel, advice and aid as may be
made available through the federal
agencies for the general improvement
of our schools in view of our national
needs.
RECLAMATION
The Democratic party was forehiost
in urging immediate reclamation for
the arid and semi-arid lands of the
West. The lands are located in the
public-land states, and, therefore. It Is
the duty of the government to utilize
their resources by reclamation. Home-
stead entry men under reclamation
projects have suffered from the ex
travagant inefficiencies and mistakes
of the federal government.
The reclamation act of 1924, recom-
mended by the fact-finding commission,
and added as an amendment to the sec-
ond deficiency appropriation bill at the
last session of the congress, was ellm
lnated from that bill by the Republican
conferees In the peport they presented
to congress one hour before adjourn
ment.
The Democratic party pledges ItSelf
actively, efficiently and economically to
carry on the reclamation projects, and
to make equitable adjustment for the
mistakes the government has made.
FRAUD IN STOCKS
We favor the Immediate passage of such
legislation as may be necessary to enable
the states efficiently to enforce their laws
relating to the gradual financial stran-
gling of Innocent Investors, workers and
consumers, caused by the Indiscriminate
promotion, refinancing and reorganizing
of corporations on an Inflated and over-
capitalized basis, resulting already In the
undermining and collapse of many rail-
roads, public service and industrial cor-
porations, manifesting Itself In unemploy-
ment, Irreparable loss and waste, and
which constitute a serious menace to the
stability of our economic system.
PRIVATE MONOPOLY
The federal trade commission has sub-
mitted to the Republican administration
numerous reports showing the existence
of monopolies and combinations In re-
straint of trade, and has recommended
proceedings against these violators of the
law. The few prosecutions which have re-
sulted from this abundant evidence fur-
nished by this agency created by the
Democratic party, while proving the in-
difference of the administration to the
violations of law by trusts and monopo-
lies and its friendship for them, neverthe-
less demonstrate the value of the federal
trade commission.
We declare that a private monopoly is
indefensible and Intolerable, and pledge
the Democratic party to vigorous enforce-
ment of existing laws against monopoly
and Illegal combinations, and to the en
actment of such further measures as may
be necessary.
LABOR, CHILD WELFARE
Labor is not a commodity. It Is human.
We favor collective bargaining and laws
regulating hours of labor and conditions
under which labor Is performed. We favor
the enactment of legislation providing
that the products of convict labor shipped
from one state to another shall be subject
to the laws of the latter state exactly as
though they had been produced therein.
In order to mitigate unemployment at-
tending business depression, we urge the
enactment of legislation authorizing the
construction and repair of public works
be initiated in periods of acute unemploy-
ment. I
Without the yotes of Democratic
members of the congress the child la-
bor amendment would not have been
submitted for ratification.
LATIN AMERICA
From the day of their birth friendly
relations have existed between the
Latin-American republics and the
United States. The friendship grows
stronger as our relations become more
Intimate. The Democratic party sends
to these republics Its cordial greeting;
God has made us neighbors—Justice
shall keep us friends.
THE KLAN PLANK
DEEP WATERWAYS
We favor and will promote deep water-
ways from the Great Lakes to the Gulf
and to the Atlantic ocean.
We favor a policy for the fostering and
building of Inland waterways and the re-
moval of discrimination against water
transportation. Flood control and the
lowering of flood levels Is essential to the
safety of life and property, the productiv-
ity of our lands, the navigability of our
streams and the reclaiming of our wet
and overflowed lands and the creation of
hydroelectric power. We favor the ex-
peditious construction of flood relief
works on the Mississippi and Colorado
rivers and also such reclamation and
Irrigation projects upon the Colorado
river as may be found to be feasible
and practical.
We favor liberal appropriation* for
FREEDOM OF REL4GION.
FREEDOM OF SPEECH.
FREEDOM OF PRESS.
The Democratic party affirms Its ad-
herence and devotion to thosfe cardinal
principles contained in the Constitu-
ion and the precepts upon which our
government is founded, that congress
shall make no laws respecting the es-
tablishment of religion, or prohibiting
the free exercise thereof, or abridging
the freedom of speech or of the press,
or the right of the people peaceably
to assemble and to petition the gov-
ernment for a redress of grievances,
that the church and state shall be
and remain separate, and that no re-
ligious test shall ever be required as
a qualification to any office of publio
trust under the United States.
These principles we pledge our-
selves ever to defend and maintain.
We insist at all times upon obedience
to the orderly processes of the law
and deplore and condemn any effort to
arouse religious or racial dissension.
Affirming our faith in these principles
we aubmit our cauae to the people.
ALONG LIFE'S
TRAIL
By THOMAS A. CLARK
Dean of Men, University of Illinois.
(©, 1824, Western Newspaper Union.)
VACATIONS
THREE young girls came hastily
and noisily into the car as the train
moved out of the station. They had just
barely escaped being left. The vaca-
tion was over, and they were going
back to work. As they disposed of
their various belongings, settled back
in their seats, mussed up their hair a
little more becomingly, and made dis-
criminating use of their powder puffs,
fragments of conversation began to
float through the car. I buried my-
self in the book I was reading, but I
found it impossible not to hear some-
thing of a "peach of a vacation" min-
gled with grand opera and Farrar in
Carmen, with New Year's eve at the
Congress hotel, with a lovely formal
party at Northwestern university, and
with an all-night party at the Country
club.
"I am simply dead," one of them
said, "and I have a pack of back work
to hand in tomorrow." The babble of
conversation ceased shortly^ and the
silence became so great that I turned
to find the cause. They were asleep,
their tired, pallid faces and the dark
rings .under their eyes showing all too
well what a lovely, restful vacation
they had had.
The man who said that It takes the
strongest constitution to stand the
average trip for the health might have
added that it takes the strongest man
to stand the ordinary vacation. A.
woman whom I once kpew when askedi
If she employed a servant girl, re-
marked that she had one, but that she
was just then doing her own work.
She hoped as soon as she was# strong
enough to try one again. I have often
felt that it might be a good thing to
require young people to pass a physi-
cal test to determine whether or not
they are strong enough to Indulge in
the dissipations of a vacation. A line
of pale, sad-eyed, tired, and physically
knocked-out undergraduates who come
into my office after every vacation may
have had a "peach of a time," but
they very seldom reveal much of the
bloom on their return. A real vaca-
tion ought to be stimulating and rest-
ful, but it oftentimes leaves them exr
hausted, unprepared for their work,
and worth nothing for days after they
get back. Instead of finding them-
selves eager and ready for hard work,
they come back to rest up.
There is no more severe test of a
man's character than the way in which
he spends the time that is his own and
the way in which he puts In the hours
or days of leisure and vacation. Most
of the moral delinquents whom I know
strayed away from the path of virtue
and self-control first when they had
nothing else to do—when they were
having a vacation.
FALSE FACES
BILL WITHERS and I—Bill lived
across the road from us—had been
reading "Bentley Burrows, or The
Skeleton Hand," a tale of ghosts and'
bandits and general horror, continued
from week to week in "The Saturday
Night," a literary journal which our
hired man bought every week at
Cole's drug store in town. Shivering
with fear, I was just finishing the last
chapter In the dusk of a dull Novem-
ber evening, when I heard a knock at
the door. I called "Come in." as was
the polite custom in our community,
and to my horror a real bandit entered
—leather leggins, big revolver, bris-
tling moustache, and all. I was fright-
ened for a moment, and then I caught
sight of a lock of curly red hair stick-
ing out through a hole in the sombrero
and a freckled" ear protruding. It wu
only Bill Withers wearing a false face
and trying to fool me.
I have had the experience often
since.
I was at a party a few nights ago,
where on the surface everything was
hilarious. Through the dim light,
however, I could see that all the fel-
lows were wearing false faces. Above
the din of the ragtime sounded out
from the long-suffering piano I could
detect the hollow unnatural voices is-
suing through the masks that the men
were wearing.
I watched Mary Gay, rosy-cheeked
and bright-eyed, and I thought I had
never seen a happier and a more ani-
mated face. She was smiling on every
one and showing a vivacity and an In-
terest that held a pleased crowd about
her. A few minutes later I came upon
her unobserved as she was standing
before the mirror in the hallway sur-
reptitiously adjusting her false face,
and I could see how pitifully bored
and tired she looked.
I ran onto Jim Burton one Sunday
this summer at church with his par-
ents. He was looking pious, attentive,
and altogether unsophisticated. As he
leaned over to pick a hymn book from
the floor I could see how crudely he
had adjusted his false face, for under-
neath he was the same irreligious, lr-
reverant. Irresponsible youth whom I
had known at college.
The false faces which we wear or
see every day seldom deceive anyone.
They are like rouge or oleomargarine,
or hair dye or face powder—no one
ever thinks them real. We put them
on to make ourselves beautiful or im-
pressive to our teachers or our sweet-
hearts or the tax collector or the home
folks or the minister or our Creator,,
but more often than otherwise the lock
of red hair escapes or the freckled ear
■ticks out and gives ns away.
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