Show democratic PLATFORM we the democratic party of san zuan juan county utah in convention assembled sem bled do hereby set forth our platform of principles we reaffirm our allegiance to the principles of the renowned thomas jefferson with the additional pronouncement no mo that all men are born free and equal TI that at this great country shall ever be kept from reverting to a hierarchy dominated by any single group class or creed hut but shall forever be subject only to the will of the masses bf tho the people as defined in the broadest sense of the definition of democracy we would respectfully call the attention of the electorate of the county to the many progressive measures of legislation both national and state enacted in times past when the demo cratic party was vas I 1 in power namely the enactment of the feddern reserve banking system which stabilized the banking business of the country and has kept the business of the country from complete col collapse laPe during present financial der depression the enactment of the law creating a tariff commission designed to so enact tariff laws as ito preclude the arverlean american forkl coming into competition ilithe althe chea cheap labja of 0 Itu europe rope and methods of the republican party in nullifying that law and enacting the present prohibitive hibi tive tariff law which has bus had the effect ot of alienating our heretofore friendly business relations with other otha nations nation s of the world and caused a business stagnation in this thi s country countr from which the country will be years in in overcoming unless speedily repudiated by the people through electing the democratic party to office we heartily commend the administration of go governor arnor george H derm and point with hith pride tollise tol hise efforts effort s for f or the alleviation of the econe economic imi c conditions of the working class his pronounced efforts to retain to the state its water and landed rights when con fronted front edwith wih great odds the masterful ma ster andt i like manner h hi represented the state at conferences and conventions throughout then atlon nation we believe that the lands of the county should be reclassified in orde cordei to more equally spread the tax burden and promise that if the democratic party is returned to power in thi county to take immediate steps to rectify as far as the law permits such inequalities as after careful study are found to exist we believe in a definite program ii of road construction one that will hasten the emple completion tion of arterial higi high ways to facilitate the moving of agricultural products to points at which they can be marketed wark eted and aid bring to the county its just jus proportion of the jurists who annually viboit the state in particular we believe behave in ili tle the building ond and of county roads into the agricultural districts of the county to enable the local population to have easy access to arterial highways afe we believe in the equal distribution of improvements to county roads we believe belleve that the greatest grea wealth and comfort that can be brought to this county will come through the de of its vast agricultural ro sources and that such development be greatly aided through pro curInA the services of a county agent and other aides furnished through the extension department of the agricultural college of the state and other federal agencies cind and pledge our dur ver best efforts to procure our just share from such agencies if returned tu to power we believe that the establishment of a county hospital would save the people of the county much expense eapen se in the care of the more serious cases of acci accident delit and sickness and would mini minimize nilze the chances of death in such cases consequently we declare that the equipment equip mert of such nn an institution should be one of the first acts of our county off officers leem when means are aie at hand to carry yut out tha project |