Medford mail tribune., August 26, 1916, Page 17, Image 17

hig In fulfillment of the policy declared
by the Democratic paity in its last national
platform, and we reiterate our indorse
ment of the purpose of ultimate independ
ence for the Philippine Inlands, expressed
in the preamble of that measure.
WOMAN Sl'FFltAfiK.
We recommend the extension of the fran
chise to the women of the country by
States upon the same terms as to men.
I'KOTMCTION OF ClTI'ViKNS,
We again declare the policy that the sac
red rights of American citizenship must
be preserved at home and abroad, and that
no treaty with any other government shall
receive the sanction of our government
which does not expressly recognize the ab
solute equality of all our citizens, Irrespec
tive of race, creed or previous nationality,
and which does not recognise the right of
expatriation.
The American government should pro
tect American citizens in their rights not
only at home, but abroad, and any coun
try having a government should be held to
Wrict accountability for any wrongs done
them, either to person or properly. At
the earliest practical opportunity, our coun
try should strive earnestly for peace among
the warring nations of lCurope and seek
to bring about the adoption of the funda
mental principle of justice and humanity,
that all men shall enjoy equality of right
and freedom from discrimination in the
lands wherein they dwell.
PRISON RKFOItM.
We demand that the modern principles of
prison reform be applied in our federal
penal system. We favor such work for
prisoners as whall give them training in
remunerative occupations, so that they
may make an honest living when released
from prison; the setting apart of the net
wages of the prisoner to be paid to his
dependent family or to be reserved for
his own use upon his release; the liberal
extension of the principles of the federal
parole law, with due regard both to the
welfare of the prisoner and the interests
of society; the adoption of the probation
system, especially in the ca.se of first of
fenders not convicted of serious crime.
TENSIONS.
We renew the declarations of recont
Democratic pint forms relating to generous
pensions for soldiers and their widows, and
call attention to our record of performance
in this particular.
WATERWAYS ANI FIjOOD CON THOU
We renew the declaration In our Inst
two platforms relating to the development
of our waterways. The recent devastation
of the lower Misslssipoi valley and several
oth?r sections by floods, accent nates the
movement for the regulation of river flow
by additional bank and levee protection
below and diversion, storage nod control of
the flood waters above, and their utilization
for beneficial purposes in the leclamalii .
of sd and swnr. p la,ids, and development
of water power. Instill of permitting the
floor to continue as heretofore, air-.'nts of
destruction.
We hold that the control of the Mis
sissippi liiver Is a national problem. The
preservation of the depth of Its waters
for purposes of navigation, the building
of levees and works of bank protection to
maintain the Integrity of its channel and
prevent the overflow of its valley resulting
in the interruption of Interstate commerce,
the disorganization of the niaJl service nnd
the enormous loss of life and property, Im
pose nn obligation which alono can be dis
charged by the national government.
We favor the adoption of a liberal and
comprehensive plan for the development
ami improvement of our harbors and In
land waterways with economy and efficien
cy, so as ti permit their navigation by
vessels of standard draft.
ALASKA.
It has been and will be the policy uf the
Democratic party to enact all laws neces
sary for the speedy development of Atasha
and its great natural resources.
TFIUUTORIKS.
We favor granting to the people of
Alaska, Hawaii and Porto llico the tradi
tional territorial government accorded to
all territories of the United States since
the beginning of our government, and w
ibelieve the officials appointed to administer
the government or tnose several territories
should be qualified by previous bona fid
residence.
CANDIDATES.
We unreservedly Indorse our I'resid' tit
and Vice President, Woodrow Wilson, of
New Jersey, and Thomas ltiley Marshall,
of Indiana, who have performed the func
tions of their great offices faithfully ami
impartially and with distinguished ability.
In particular we commend to the Amer
ican people the splendid diplomatic vic
tories of our great President, who has pre
served the vital Interests of our government!
and Its citizens and kept us out of war.
Woodrow Wilson stands today the great
est American of his generation.
CONCLUSION.
This Is a critical hour In the history
of America, a critical hour in the his
tory of the world. Upon the record aboV
set forth, which shows great constructive
achievement In following out a consist
ent policy for our domestic and internal de
velopment; upon the record of the Dem
ocratic administration which has maintained
the honor, the dignity and the interest!) of
the United States, and at the same time
rctiained the respect and friendship of a ll
the nations of the world, and upon the grvnt
policies for the future strengthening of the
life of our country, the enlargement of our
national vision and the ennobling of our
international relations as set forth above, w
appeal with confidence to the voters of I lie
country.
Above all, the most extraordinary and
significant progress has been made under
the direction of the department of agri
culture In extending and perfecting prac
tical farm demonstration work which is
so rapidly substituting scientific for em
pirical farming. But it is also necessary
that rural activities should be better di
rected through co-operation and organiza
tion, that unfair methods of competition
should be eliminated and the conditions
requisite for the Just, orderly and econom
ical marketing of farm products created.
We approve the Democratic administra
tion for having emphatically directed atten
tion for the first time to the essential in
terests of agriculture involved in farm
marketing and finance, for creating the of
fice of makcta and rural organization In
connection with the department of agricul
ture, and for extending the co-operative
machinery necessary for conveying infor
mation to farmers by means of demonstra
tions. We favor continued liberal provi
sion, not only for the benefit of production,
but also for the study and solution of prob
lems of farm marketing and finance and for
the extension of existing agencies for Im
proving country life.
' COOD ROADS.
The happiness, comfort and prosperity of
rural life, and the development of the city,
ttro alike conserved by the construction
of public highways. We. therefore, favor
national aid in the construction of post
roads and roads for military purposes.
GOVERNMENT EMPLOYMENT.
We hold that the life, health and strength
of the men, women and children of the
nation are its greatest asset, and that in
the conservation of these the federal gov
ftrnment, wherever it acts as the employer
of labor, should both on its own account
and as an example, put into effect the fol
lowing principles of Just employment:
1. A living wage for all employes.
2. A working day not to exceed eight
hours, with one day of rest In seven.
3. The adoption of safety appliances
and the establishment of thoroughly sani
tary conditions of labor.
4. Adequate compensation for Industrial
accidents.
5. The standards of the "uniform child
labor law" wherever minors are employed.
6. Such provisions for decency, comfort
and health in the employment of women
ns should be accorded the mothers of the
race.
7. An equitable retirement law provid
ing for the retirement of superannuated
and disrihled employes of the civil serv
ice to the end that a higher standard of
efficiency may he maintained.
We believe hIro that the adoption of sim
ilar principles should be urged and applied
in the legislation of the States with re
gard to labor within their borders and that
through every possible agency the life
and health of the people or the nation
should be conserved.
UMlOlt.
We declare our faith in the seamen's
act, passed by the Democratic Congress,
and we promise our earnest continuance of
its enforcement.
We favor the speedy enactment of nn
effective federal child labor law and the
regulation of the shipment of prison-made
goods in interstate commerce.
We favor the creation of a federal bu
reau of safety in the department of labor,
to gather facts concerning industrial haz
ards and to recommend legislation to pre
vent the maiming and killing of human
beings.
We favor the extension of the powers
and functions of the federal bureau of
mines.
We favor the development upon a system
atic scale of the means already begun under
the present administration to assist labor
ers throughout the nation to seek and ob
tain employment and the extension by the
federal government by the same assistance
and encouragement as is now given to ag
ricultural training.
We heartily commend our newly estab
lished department of labor for Its excellent
record in settling industrial strikes by per-
sonal advice and through conciliating agents.
PURLIC HEALTH. J
We favor a thorough reconsideration of 1
the means and methods by which the fed- !
eral government handles questions of public !
health, to the end that human life may
be conserved by the elimination of loath
some diseases, the Improvement of sani
tation and the diffusion of a knowledge of
disease prevention.
We favor the establishment by the fed
eral government of tuberculosis sanator
iuma for needy tubercular patients.
SENATE RULES.
We favor such an alteration of the rules
of procedure of the Senate of the United
States as will permit the prompt transaction
of the nation's legislative business.
ECONOMY AND THE BUDGET.
Wo demand careful economy in all ex
penditures for the support of the govern
ment, and to that end favor a return by
the House of Representatives to Its former
practice of Inith-ting and preparing all ap
propriation bills through a single com
mittee chosen from its membership, in or
der that responsibility may be centered,
expenditures standardized and made uni
form and waste and duplication in tho pub
lic service as much as possible, avoided. We
favor this as a practicable first st p toward
a budget system.
CIVIL SERVICE.
We reaffirm our declarations for the
rigid enforcement of the civil service laws.
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.
We heartily Indorse the provisions of
the bill, recently passed by the House of
Hepresentatives, further promoting self
government in the Philippine islands as be-
who surrounded him, and he was not piac-ik-al
enough to deliver the goods that he
had promised.
"Huerta was hi Commander in Chief, a
solaier trained by Diaz and dominated by
Diaz's friends. He too believed in saving
.Mexico by force and wealth; he was in
complete sympathy with the philosophy ex
pressed in the Diaz administration. There
is no truth In the oft reeatcd allegation
that all (he trouble with Mexico would tmve
Iktii aoldcd if President Wilson had rev
itgnizcd llucrlii. I ask any one who wishes
to be fair to this Administration to look
back three years and read the newspapers
of that day and the debates in Congress in
which the murder oi Madero and Bua;-ez
was denounced.
WHY WE SAID "III I.HTA MUST GO."
"Had we recognized Huerta or had we
not taken a positive stand against him the
criticism this administration has receded
fur the policy wo have pursued would e
as nothing to what would now overwhelm
us. Who were the American statesmen
who demanded Iluri.Vs recognition? No
one then believed and no one really he
lieves now th'it the recognition of H uc rta
would have solved the Mexican problem.
"Although it Is self-evident that this
country, as the champion of constitutional
government hi America, can never rccogiilxc
a military dos-Mtism based upon assassina
tion. It is not necessary lo call I Inert a an
asHtssin In order to justify our refusal to
recngni-M! him. His attempted dietaturahip
was but a fiction of government. With the
elected I 'resident and Vice- President mur
dered and the Minister of State, who was
their lawful successor, cowed into submis
sion, Huerta took the reins of power at
the best ns a temporary stop-gap.
"The revolution against Mueria broke out
Immediately upon tho news of Modern's
death. The correspondence between Huerta.
and Carranza recently published shows Unit
every practical inducement was held out
to t 'jimirizn to put an end to his revolu
tionary movement. To 'nrranjwi'B credit be
It said, he refused to come to terms with
.those who lie believed had bern the cause
of the President's death and who had set
to one side the laws of bis cou ntry.
A NEW VOHLI CIVILIZATION.
"It Is not to be forgotten that Huerta did
not pretend even to be a constitutional
ruler. He Hint woid lo the United States
that he bad taken the Govern moid of
Mexico into his own hands and that he was
all the law that was to be found in Mexico.
His statement was so bold that even the
Supreme Court of Mexico uttered a feeble,
protest, which was somewhat more loudly
echoed in the Mexican Senate.
"In the fait of this. 1 1 tier I u asked for
recognition from the I'nited S la ten, hut
Prevalent Tul't foil thai he could not con
scientiously grant It, and he left the prob
lem (o Ih! dealt with by his successor, who
had already luf-ii elected. That was I ho
situation when President Wilson look olhce.
Could President Wilson have recognised
Huerta? Surely there can be but one an
swer lo ihut question No!
"To have recognized Huerta would have
been a two-fold injustice. Kind, to the
people of Mexico, and secondly, to alt the
people of South and Centra) America. To
give to the Commander In Chief of an army
recognition as ('resident under such cir
cumstances would have been to announce
to all ambitious military ufilccrs that they
had but to ally themselves with a success
ful Junta, seize the Government by force,
murder the lawful incumbents and an
nounce the overthrow of all law and a
supreme military dictatorship In order to
gain the recognition of the I'nlted States,
we being thoroughly aware of all that had
happened.
HIS FACK SI-.T AGAINST INTI H
VKNTION. "During Jluerta's regime we learned
much of the ability of the Mexican as a c.in
uist. The notes that canio from Mexico
were models of the Seventeenth Century
style of diplomatic state paper. President
Wilson attempted, It will be remembered, in
find a basis upon which there could he set
,ip In Mexico a Government that we. -could
recognize. There was nothing peremptory
nUrj our attitu'V In tho beginning of the
diplomatic exeiii-jes.
"Our whole effort was to the obtaining
of a republican form of Government in
M''ico which would lune the people Inn it
of it, ami guarantees agaiusl the establish
ment of an absolutism on our Southern Ihu
dcr under which the people of M 1 o
would -mi chafe that we r-.hu u Id have a con
stant -lute of rciohition there.
"Many nf the bi-nt Mexicans weie jn sym
pathy with the. attitude that the l-uiuil
St ill is took towf.rd Huerta. They knew
that ist'ihiliti of Government was not lo bo
hoped for b der u man cf his tempcran. ot
THE PRESIDENTS MEXICAN POLICY
Presented in an Authorized Interview by the Secretary of the Interior, FRANKLIN K. LANE.
President Wilson's Mexican policy Is ouc
of the things of which, as a liicmls-r of
Ids AdminlMrntlon, I am most proud," says
I rank lln K. Ijuic, Secretary of the Inter
ior, in an authorised interview hi the New
York World. "U shows so well Ids abound
ing tuiih in Immunity, his profound phil
osophy or Democracy and his uuslinkable
belief in the ultimate triumph ol Lilicrty.
Justice and flight. Ho nns never sought
l ho easy solution of any of the dtilicult
)uckUoiik that have arisen hi the last three
years. He has always sought the right
solution.
"Mr. Wilson's Mexican policy has not
been w ea k and vnei I luM ng. It has bcvJi
definite and consistent, firm und construc
tive. How firm Is already known to those
who have sought to force American Inter
vention In MexU-o; how constructive will
hesl be appreciated fitly years from now hj
the whole world. It watt to Mexico perhaps
more than to unthhig that the President
referred the other day when he said that
he was playing for the verdict or mankind.
"The policy of the 1' idled Slates toward
Mexico Is a policy of hope and of helpful
ness. It Is sdley of Mcxh-o for the Mexi
cans. That, after all. Is the traditional
loliey d this country it Is the policy that
drove Maximtlllan out of Mexico."
THT. IXKTHINE OF SYMPATHY.
Secretary of the Interior Lane made this
Fliiternent at his mi miner camp on the
shores of U'Lke Chumplain. He expressed
forcefully bin conviction that the J'resident
w;is right when he refused to recognize
Huertu, and declared that the murderer of
Mndero m"M g: right when he occupied
the I'ort of Vera Cruz, right when he ac
cepted the offer of mediation extended by
the A. B. C, right when he abided by the
agreement reached at Niagara. K-ills, riht
when he withdrew from Vera Cruz, ripht
when he recognized Carranza as head of the
de facto C.overnment. and ritfhl when he
wnt the United .States nrmy into Mrx-.co
after the bandit raid on Columbus. Mr.
11 ne said.
"The doctrine, of force has lieen worked
lo lis limit hi Mexico. President Wil:-on
ht lievcs that the dM trine d sympathy
tthtmld have Its ehaiu-c In that country and
itns is the foiiudiitimi of his Mexican iolii-.
"The ;ym(thy that Mexico needs is the
nyi.1 puthy of und rstandinK- Mexico is
biid neighbor now. Thrre Is no ue Jn
eeoylnj this. Our n-lrhlor'tt s w crape Is
ruimiuc over into our lot. and we must find
some way to stop It even ir we have to o
over the boundary line and stop tlu pipes
ourselves. This Is the easiest thinp hi the
world to say, bill to respect the letter or
the law and at the same time nhute a nui
sance that Is not on your own proeriy is
one of the most diflicult things in the
world.
"Mexico will always be a nuisance to us
until a few fundamental reforms are put
into effect there. If it is to be lasting, how
ever, some one inside of Mexico must do it.
It cannot be done by us unless we are pre
pared not only to corniuer Mexico but to
annex Mexico. We should not only have
to make war on Mexico and impose peace
by force, but after giving it a preliminary
cleaning up we should have to establish and
maintain indefinitely a government there.
SVKVKY OF DIAZ'S ItKGlME.
"Diaz was a preat man, a very great man.
I doubt if, with the possible exception of
Bismarck, there v;as a greater man alive
in his day. After the .r of Kussia he
was the most absolute despot of modern
times.
' The peace that he had maintained was
an imposed peace not coming from the
people themselves. Diaz ruled by fear. He
had gone into office with promises upon
his lips, ajid I am willing to believe that
he meant to keep them. But once in
power he wan appalled by the span of
years necessaiy for the slow process of
constructive civilization, and he determined
that to gain time Mexico was to be paved
hy two things, force and wealth.
"During Diaz's time I had a very Inter
esting talk with a great lawyer in Mexico
City who was an otlice holder in the Diaz
regime. I Asked him the current uucrtion:
After Diaz, what?' To my surprise the man
said: 'I am a Constitutionalist, lather he
fore Din, dies or Immediately upon his death
a revolution will break out hi Mexico having
for Its purpose three thing? the restora
tion of the laud to the people, the estab
lishment of public school throughout the
country, and a .indicia I system In which tne
courts will decide accord hu; to law and not
according to executive desires.'
"The Madero revolution followed exactly
on these lines, but Madero was a dreamer,
an idealist, a man who took his Constitu
tion seriously and who failed for two ica
sons, or rather because of two weaknesses
of his own character. He was not ftrong
j enoutfh to suppress the rapacious raMiJ