Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1920 — STATE NEWS ITEMS [ARTICLE]

STATE NEWS ITEMS

The Doings of Hoosierdom Reported by Wire. DEMOCRATS ADOPT PLATFORM Indorse Wilson Administration and Demand Ratification of Treaty—Denounce Congress for Attempt to Create Condition of Peace. Indianapolis, May 21.—Indorsement of the administration of Woodrow Wilson, the record of whose “achievements is unsurpassed in the history of the republic,” demand for the ratification of the treaty of Versailles and American membership in the League of Nations as presented by the president to the senate, and denunciation of the “unlawful and unwarranted effort of the present congress to create a condition of peace by so-called peace resolution are chief points in the platform adopted by the Democratic state convention here. Although vigorous efforts had been made to insert a wet plank in the platform, no liquor plank, either wet or dry entered the party’s “declaration of principles." A boom started for Vice President Thomas R. Marshall for the presidential nomination at San Francisco, Cal., was nipped by the vice president. A “lawful way to lessen what seem to be the rigors” of the federal prohibition amendment will be found by the people, Thomas Riley Marshall, vice president of the United States, declared at the convention. Asserting that “equal and exact justice for all men means for minorities as well as for majorities,” and questioning wheth er “we went forward when we passed the prohibition amendment and then immediately began openly and avowedly to seek ways to evade it,” the vice president said that “while the prohibition amendment remains it must be enforced.” . “Let us quit talking about the profiteer and begin jailing him,” was the vice president’s advice. “Let us not delude ourselves into the belief that the currency and credit of this country can double, the population increase and the production remain at a standstill, and yet that the high cost of living may be reduced and peace, plenty and prosperity abound in the land.- Let us quit talking about the profiteer and begin jailing him. And let the man who works understand that in greater production he benefits himself as well as ds fellow man. “Equal, and exact justice to the people of tins country was not guaranteed to them under old Republican rule ’when it justified special privileges upon the ground of the common good of the American people, for it knew that the legislation was 1 per cent common and 99* per cent preferred. There will not be in the future equal and exact justice if there be but a gamble between cunning and cupidity. Who doubts that in this enlightened age equal and exact justice applied as a principle, would give to labor a fait and honest wage, would demand of labor a fair and honest day’s work, would induce both labor and capital to see their duty to the ultimate consumfer, would punish the profiteer and teach the laborer that he alone can make of himself a cojnmodity?

“Equal and exact justice means legislation for American citizens. They alone have a right to present thelt grievances. Their laws should be readjusted in the Interests of the entire people. Men are not entitled to equal protection of the law because they are bankers or bakers, millionaires or mechanics, lawyers or laborers. For their private good and for the advancement of their own interests, they have a perfect right to form, for Instance, manufacturing associations and federations of labor, but neither has a right to present a grievance to congress as a class grievance. It has every right to present it as an American grievance If it be one.” A woman will be a member of the Indiana big four at the San Francisco convention and three wofnen will be alternates. The big four chosen follow: Vice President Marshall, Thomas Taggart, senatorial nominee; Samuel Ralston and Alice Foster McCulloch of Fort Wayne. Alternates will be: Mrs. Fred Lauensteln of Evansville, Mrs. Mary K. McNutt, Indianapolis ; Mrs. Hortense Tapp Moore, Rockville, and Mason J. Niblack, Vincennes.

Higher Street Car Rate. Indianapolis, May 21. —The public service commission authorized the Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern Traction company to discontinue the sale of six tickets for 25 cents on the Richmond city street car lines. The company was authorized to charge a straight 5-cent fare. The Home Telephone and Telegraph company of Fort Wayne was authorized to continue in effect its present rates at the New Haven exchange. The commission estimated that the annual operating expenses of the exchange would be $7,000 and that the rates will yield $8,500. That will allow a return of 7 per cent, the order said. Distribute Library Books. . Indianapolis, Maj' 21. —William J. Hamilton, secretary of the public library commission, is distributing among the 200 libraries of the state several thousand books allotted to Indiana by the American library association from volumes collected for war service.