DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM Houston, Texas—The text of the platform adopted by the Democratic national convention follows: We, the Democratic party, In vention assembled, pause to pay our trihiite of love and respect to the memory of him who in his life and in official hopes amd aspirations of ail good and women of every and the former President of the United States, Womdrow Wilson. His ample and deeds will i after us as con the men clime, his nections voleed race his ex who and exalt have spirit moves on those come they inspired us We reaffirm principles of formulated by Jefferson and enforced by a long and illustrious line of Demo- cratic Presidents. We hold that function, not to centralize our wealth, but to preserve equal opportunity so that all may share in our resources, and not confine prosperity to a favored few. We therefore pledge the Democratic party to business, small and great alike, to human happiness and Hbh- to break the shackles of monop- oly and free business of the nation, to respond to popular will. The function of a is to party assume to local We the devotion to the government our democratic government must wriceless encourage conserve erty, nation general principles We do not, our party details of platform and therefore, respecting declare policies, bind issues or legisiation, declare the policy of party with regard to the following dominant issues: States’ Rights, demand that the constitutional and powers of the be preserved in their v virtue These consti a therefore Democratic We rights shall and sintes igor t bulwark ga t C aliz ) an the de- structive Republicen party, We oppose bureaucracy and thes mul- tiplication of offices and office holders Ve demand a rev! the spirit of local self government without w hich free institUtions cannot be val of preserved G. O. P. Corruption. Unblushingly the offers as its record: agriculture trate, Industry depressed, shipping destroyed tepubliean party pros. American , Workmen without employment, everywhere disgust and suspicion, and corruption unpunished nd unafraid Never in the entire country has there occurred given period of time or, in all times put together, such tacle of sordid corruption and abashed rasc: 3 whic characterized administration federal affairs under sight bl ghtis years of Republics rule Not the revels instruct compon rauds 1istory the aside and rt made +i 4 a a rovernment ir pledge: Aj=Bus the departmer Ness all (BEI waste and (*).. mination overlapping ~-Substitution of ne:slike methods for ex and antiquated condition resulted from rule, The sav elam take no account of the elimi tion of expenditures following the of the World war, the large sum realized from the sale of war materials failure to sufficient for the effic onduct of many governmental activities Finance, Taxation. (A) The federal reserve system cre. ated and inaugurated under Demos cratic auspices is the greatest legis. lative contribution to constructive bus. ineas ever adopted, The administra- tion of the system for the advantage of stork market speculators should cease, It must be administered for the benefit of farmers, wage earners, merchants, manufacturers, and others engaged In constructive business (8) The taxing function of govern- ments, free of despotism, has for cen turies been regarded as the power above all others which réquires vigl. lant serutiny to the énd that it be not exercised for purposes of favor or oppression, No sconoms party the He. publican fn its funds important supply fent © the World war congress have fa- vored a reduction of the tax burdens of the paaple in face of stubborn 6p- position: from a Republican adminis tration; and each time these reductions Inrgely have been made for the celief of those least able to endure the ex- actions of a Republican fiscal policy The tax bill of the session recently ended was delayed by Republican tac- tics and juggled by partisan considera tions so as to make Impossible a full measure of rellef to the greater body of taxpayers, The moderate reduc tions afforded were grudgingly cone. ceded und the whole proceeding In cone. groxs, dictated as far as possible from the White House and the treasury, de noted the proverbial desire of the Re. publican party always to discriminace Three times sines the Democrats in against the masses ileged classen, The Democratic party avows its he. lef in the fiscal policy Inaugurated by the last Democratic admintstration, which has provided a sinking fund sufficient to extinguish the nat . debtodne within a reasonable period of time, without hara the prosent and next succeeding generations with tax burdens whick, if not unendurable, do in fact initiative in enter- prige and progress in bus Faxes levied beyond the actual! re- quirements of the legally established sinking fund are but an added burden upon the American people, and the surplus thus accumulated In the ernl teeasury is an incentive to nereasingly extravagant expendi t wiiich characterized Republican admini We therefor fay a further reduction of the internal taxes of the in favor of priv. ions 1 check iness have stration people, Tariff, ratic tariff legislat the following poli 1. The maintenance of leg business and a high standard of for American labor, 2. Incroas the ome by those istie ate tariff rates be of political 3 Abolition of log ration of the Wilson ct finding tariff commissic cial and from the has destroved of the present commissic that will p,rmit insure against me produce support of between hit me nnd inte ¢ guard for Amer laborer, every The Demo be ba on ing and in monopaol purchasing power the redaction extort ol wage and towed in payment debts, rolling and resto- concep free which effective monopoly Duties tme t the BOveErn- fflerence the tion at adeq tha the must traiff b. SBafeg wage be th rate extreme opoly ion of the tariff ducer, and leg te busine Ken- eral have everythi to gain rom a Democratic tariff based on justice to all the tenet of our made exten system a We shall civil Cleveland i merit faith the preserve and service, Agriculture. Deception upon the farmer and stos raiser has been practiced by the Re- publican party through false and deln. sive promises for more than fifty years Specially favored industries have been artificially aided by Repub- lican legislation, Comparatively little has done for agriculture and stock raising upon which national prog. parity rests. Unsympathetic inaction with regard to this problem must cease, Virulent hostility of the Republican ad- ministration to the advocates of relief, and denial of the right of farm organizations to lead in the develop ment of farm policy, mist yield to Democratic sympathy and friendliness Four years ago, the Republican partly, forced to acknowledge the criti. cal situation, pledged itself to take all steps necessary to bring back a bal- ed condition between agriculture other industries and labor Today ces the country not only with that unredeemed, but broken by the ft a Republican Pres who Is sponsible for the fallu ct program to re- been farm re to ulture and its stead, relief onstructive offer ir vod farm ight t age gre e domestic market the continued the fore the farms and means agriculture, iltons from ¢ on of ultural dis. with agr y come, contin n business and ‘nited Siaten party ree Democrat the problems o netic and largely that 18 betw een ag ndustrial pre under human control, ri pro. duction becausge of lack of co.ordina- t'on, making 6.500.000 individual units, ‘and because of the Influ-« resis beyond that a is produced on a small acre. age and a small erop on a large acre and measured in money value it sntly happens that a large crop fess than a amall erop Producers of crops whose total vol. 1 exceeds the needs of the domestic market confinue at a disadvan until the government shall inter- as seriously and as effectively In the 1armer as it has inter- beanulf of labor and Industry is a nead of supplemental legis. lation for the control and orderly han dling f agricultural surpluses, in sider ths the price of the surplus may not determine the price of the whole crop Labor haz benefited by collective bargaining and some indus. tries by tariff. Agriculture must be as effectively aided, Pledges Adequate Laws, party, in its 1924 its support to such reaffirms that ulturai tie farm and other human con- a crop ence of weather, $ is largely trol lars frequently The result is must tage vene behalf of veied In Trers The platform, legislation It now stand and pledges the united efforts of the legislative and executive branches of government, as far as may be controlled by the party, to the immediate ennctment of such leg. islation, and fo such other steps ns are necessary to place and maintain the purchasing power of farm prods nels and the complete economie qual- ity of agriculture, ‘The Democratic stood against special privilege and for common equality under the law. It Is a fundamental principle of thas party that such tariffe as are levied must not discriminate against any in. dustry, class or section, Therefore, we pledge that in its tariff policy thas Democratic party will insist upon equality sof treatment between agri- culture and other industries, Farm relief must rest on the basis of an economic equality of agricul. ture with other Industries, To give this equality a remedy must be found which will include among other things: (A) Credit aid by loans to co-opera. tives on at least nas favorable‘a basis as the governmeht ald te the mer. chant marine, (B) Creation of a federal Democratic pledged party has always farm board to raiser In ucts ns dons for When rency gystem was record of disaster ¥ $:1 the farmer and stock marketing of their prod- federal rescrve board has banker and business man. banking and cur. revised after (ts and panie under jle- publican trations it wit Lier congress In the admin tration of a Democratic Pr ident that accomplished its stabilization through the federal reserve act ing the federal reserve board, with powers adequate to its purpose Now in the hour of agriculture’s the Demo- cratic the establishment fR new policy fitted to under the direc- ard vested with all sary to. accomplish the federal re- able to accom- full recognition fact that the banks of the through voluntary co-opera- stabilize the em of the country until oked t¢ nasist the the the our archale admini ocratie creat need party pledges agricultural ent conditions, of a farm be powers neces riculture what board has been fw finance In ver able to nment iny them Hedu through proper gove- agencies of spread be what the farmer and stock and what the ultimat with consequent bene- powers were the tween raiser umer ps gels Con eration of ure in the financial the condition formulal ‘ and tax Will Aid Co-Ops. pledge the party to foster operative marketing asso- govern- We and develop co- cigtions through ment aid, We recognize demonstrated appropriate that experience has that members of such alone cannot successfully the full responsibility for a that benefits all producers We pledge the party to an t endeavor to solve this proble of the distribution of the cost of des r with surpluses over the mar- keted units of the crop "whose ducers are benefited by anos The solution d government i sociations program alike CACHOS crop pro- inte problem AEN Yar C k Wp pos The solu wil @ A prime and concern of a Democratic ad- nist ation, We direct attention to it was a Democratic sdministration of a Democratic Presi- dent, which established the federal n system and laid the foundetion r the rural credits structure, ich has aided agriculture to part the shock of the policies of Republi administrations, and adminis- laws, =o may intended entire guz2iny an thoroughgoing tration of our rural credits that the farmers all sections secure the maxim benefits under thers acts Mining. Mining In one of the basic irien of this country. We more coal, iron, nd copper than any other country. The value of cur min- eral production is second only to agri. Mining has suffered like agriculture and from similar causes, It is the duly of cur government to foster this Industry and to remove the restrictions that destroy its pros perity. we promise indus. produce iiture, has it has drifted with- great nation ' 3 4 m aie In wor Foreign Policy. y administratic cannot sound mn reig pol oft a negnat Ya declare constiru ¥y based on these pr reign nterferen er and interna. conference, wment by agreements for re. naments, and the end @ War preparations, and, the ma ance of adequate for national me riter navy an Full, free, and open cr.opéeration nations for the pror and Justice througHout this and must foreign relations stand as a unit, 11 foreign policies have the approval and the support he American people, Abolition of the practice dent of entering out agreements with a foreign government, either de facto or de jure, for the protection of such gov. ernment against revolution or foreign attack, or for the supervision of its internal affairs, when such agreements have not been advised and consented to by the senate as provided in tha Constitution of the United States, and we condemn the administration for carrying out such an unratified agree- ment that requires us to use our armed forces in Nicaragua, {J} Recognition that the Monroe Doctrine is a cardinal principle of this government promulgated for the pro- tection of ourselves and our Latin. American neighbors, We shall seek their friendly co-operation in the main. ranance of this doctrine, (k) We condemn the Republican administration for lack of statesman ship and efficiency In negotiating the 1921 treaty for the limitation of arma. ments, which limited only the con- struction of battleships and ships of over 10,000 tons Merely a gesture towards peace, It accomplished no limi tation of armaments, because it simply resulted in the destruction of our bat. tieships and the blue prints of bat. tieships of other nations; it placed no limitation upon construction of alr craft, submarines, crulsers, warships under ten thousand tons, poisonous gases, or other weapons of destruc. tion, No agreement was ratified with regard to submarines and poisonous gases. The attempt of the Presiflent to remedy the failure of 1921 by the Geneva conference of 1928 was char- acterized by the same lack of states manship and eMeloncy and regglted in entire failure, In consequence the race belweer nations in the building of unlimited weapons of destruction still goes on and the peoples of the world till are threatened with war and burdened with taxation for additional armament, Water Power The federal government and state gov. ernment respectively now have absolute and exclusive sovereignty and control over enormous water powers, which cons stitute one of the greatest assets of the nation. This sovereign title and con. trol must be preserved respectively, In of the into and carry. 3 federal the people may tected againgt exploftation of resource and that be exepeditiously regulations ns and that the state the end He rea ns inble favor nnd gt whiter nirol ein are of and and wi remo transporia lowerlh sential to and the the mufety property, and the productivi our lands, the ignbility #ir the reclalming of our flowed lands, We favor flood relief Colorado nav of our wet and oy expeditious construction of work on the Mis rivers sand such rec! and irrigation projects orado river as may be We favor the strict federal water ¢ act and upon i found f¢ enforeamnent power act, a Der insist th the water power sites, administratic Conservation, thi country for nid to pre and monopoliz ppearing resources of a naticnal policy of federal government shou develop its public private ted to taxation for wherein administrat and projects ni lands go into Owner sii bjed he states they mocratic fently reclamation economi le adjustments wit} entrymen for the mist government he made and refinance the ken exter pra 8 i to reclar drainage projects Transportation. EMcient and economieal tion Is essential to the every Industry. Cost of controls the income of and and transporia prosperity of transporis every humar ¥y affects the cont ust, therefore, pr ery form of highest Recog Rir n of transportation eMelency prime trans its development Improved roads are not only to commer iso lo federal government maintain at its own its public land We reaffirg eral roads law, administration, Common waler or rail, equal opport Bovernment #l exorbitant rates an i be aided by competition. Labor, We favor the principle of i- bargaining and the Democratic principle . that organized labor should choose It. own representatives with yt coercion or interference (b) Labor Is not 8 commodity righis must be safeguarded. should be exempt from the operation of anti-trust laws fe} We recognize other our approval enacted by er by land, tected In an so that Human Labor that legislative investigations have shown istence of grave abuse In (he injunctions In labor Alsputes id be granted In upon proof of irreparable Infury and hearing. and the in} confined in the acts injury, Unemployment, wyment is at and ex. issuance No in. labor dis threatened the netions aho putea £ except i after notice and threaten irreparable Unempl reasing. destructive tn present wides had in Unemployment ia bapp IAT the ness an we beir Br We Oratect prote Oo bein expend ment We fave Federal Employees. favor legislation making compensation fo gos who are injured In ac occupational disease and to such workers as ereof, We falr and liberal ernment em. picyoes ident by endents of result ti Federal employees should wage based decent living gs a receive a American sis 3. wages flow that ing ards of Present in many nals We fay and law for government claseifled service, Veterans. h Democratic votes two Republican Presidents’ op. position, the congress “has miintained America’s traditional policy to gener. ously care for the veterans of the World war In extending them free hospiiaili. zation, a statutory award for tubercu- a program of progrestive hospital construction, and provisions for compen- sation for the disabled, the widows and orphans, America has surpassed the record of any nation in the history of the world, We pledge the veterans that monetary benefite heretofore accorded by the Wilson administration and votes of Democratic members of con. gress shall not be withdrawn, that these will be added to more In accordance with veterans’ and their dependents’ ac. tunl needs, generous appropriations, hon. est management, the removal of admin. istration delays, and sympathetic assist. ance of the veterans of all ware Is what the Democratic party demands and promises, Women, Children. We declare for equality of women with men in all political and government. al matters, Children are the chief asset of the nation Therefore, their protection through Infancy and childhood against exploitation Is an Important nationa duty, We favor an equal wage for equal pervice, and likewise favor adequate ap- propriations for the Womew's and cin. dren's bureau. Immigration, Laws which limit Immigration must be preserved In full force and effect, but the provisions contained In these Jaws that separate husbands from wives and parents from infant children are ine human and not essential to the purpose of the law, Radio. Government supervision must secure to all the people the advantage of radio communication and likewise guarantee the right of free speech, OMcial cone trol in contravention of this guarantee should not be tolerated, Government coqtrol must prevent monopolistic use of radio vommunication and guarantee equitable distribution and enjoyment thereof, Coal, Bituminove conl Is not only the com. mon base « manufacture, bul Is a vital are stand. ard, liberal re. firornent in the 1 nla empl and In spite jonis, the industr itn waste disordered Consun Law Enforcement, EOovernm er remarkable d in is » Qbhedience to Constitition Bpeaking iB Cony al na ui ele . Merchant Marine. affirm Ir support «¢ operated Kept In an servi in manner t} puld retard the ports or sections of ou We favor. ism an matier marine Favors Help for Armenia. Federal Aid for Education, ith Jefferson and ) ra 2 party eve. ste and dishonest promote, an ad gine © Canal Zone Labor, favor the vment Citizens Wm the operat tenance of the Panama itions above the grade of or as liberal wages and condit smployment as prevailed Democratic administrations, Territories. favor the empl eEsenger ions Alas way, We and through ar: te development «¢ Hawall In the traditional self government. We favor the yintment of bona fide residents office In the territories. We favor extension and Improvement of the air mail telegraph and radio, agri cultural” experimenting, highway struction and other necessary federal ag tivities in the territories. The Filipino people have succeeded In maintaining a stable government and have thus fulfilled the only condition jlajd down by the congress. We declare that It iz now our liberty and our duty to keep our promise to these people by granting them Immediately the inde- pendence which they so honorably covet, We favor granting to Porte Rico such territorial form of government as would meet the present conditions of the island. Public Health, Democratic party recognises that productive wealth of the na tion but its contentment and happiness depends upon the health of its citizens. It therefore pledges itself to enlarge the existing bureau of public health and to do all things possible to stamp out come municable and contagious diseases, and to ascertain preventable means and rem. edies for these diseases, such as cancer, infantile paralysis and others which heres Yofore have largely defied the skill of physicians, Indorse Flood Control, Being deeply impressed by the terrible disasters {rom floods in the Mississippi valley during IB, we heartily indorse the flood control act of last May, which recognizes that the flood water of the Mississippl river and ite tributaries cons stitutes a national problem of the grave est character and makes provieion for their speedy and effective control, This measure is a continuation and expansion of the policy established by a Democratie congress In 1017 In the act of that year for controlling floods on the Missiasipp! and Sacramento rivers. 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