Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-07-16

the basis OF bank currency and inviting
market m nan u Son on and has failed 70
country protection in their savings
We believe that in so far as the needs
OF commerce require an emergency cur
rency. such currency should be issued,
controlled by the federal government
and loaned on adequate security TO ma
uonal and state banks. We pledge our
selves TO legislation under which the ma
tional banks shall be required to estab-
fish guaranty fund for the prompt pay
ment Of the ,depositors of any insolvent
tenn which shall be available to all state
banking institutions wishing to use it.
We favor a postal savings bank, IL the
guaranteed bank cannot be secured, and
that il be constituted so as to keep the
deposited money in the communities
where II Is established. But we condemn
the policy of the Republican party in
proposing postal savings banks under
plan of conduct by which they will ag-
gregate the deposits of rural communities
and redeposit the same while under gov
eminent charge in the banks of Wall
street, thus depicting the circulating me-
dunn OF the producing regions and un-
justly faVoring the speculative markets,
Income Tax.
We favor an income tax as part OF our
revenue system, and we urge the sub
mission OF constitutional amendment
specifically authorizing congress to levy
and collect tax upon individual and
wealth may bear its proportonate share
of the burdens of the federal govern
ment.
Labor and InJunctious.
The courts OF justice are the bulwark
OF our liberties, and we yield to none In
our purpose to maintain their dignity
our party has given to the bench long
line OF distinguished judges, who have
added TO the respect and confidence In
which this department must be jealousy
maintained; We resent the attempt OF
the Republican party to raise false is
sues respecting the judiciary, 1t is an
unjust reflection upon a great body of
our citizens to assume that they lack
respect for the courts. 1t is the function
OF the courts TO interpret the laws
which the people create, and II the laws
appear to work economic, social or po-
ltical Injustice II is our duty to change
them. The only basis upon which the
integrity of our courts can stand In that
of answering Justice and protection of
iiifeI personal liberty and property II
should guard against abuse.
Experience has proven the necessity of
a modification of the present law relating
pledge of our national platforms of 1896
and 1904 in favor OF the measure which
passed the United States senate in 1896
but which Republican congress has
ever since refused to enact, relating to
contempts in federal courts and provid-
ing for trial by jury in cases of indirect
contempt. Questions Of judicial practice
have arisen especially in connection with
industrial disputes. We deem that par
ties to all judicial proceedings should be
treated with rigid impartialty and that
injunctions should not be issued in any
case in which injunctions would not issue
If no industrial dispute were involved
The expanding organization of industry
makes 1t essential that there should be no
abridgment of the right of wage-earners
ana producers to organize Tor the pro-
lection of wages and the Improvement
OF labor conditions to the end that such
labor organizations and their men' bers
should not be regarded as Illegal com
binations in restraint OF trade.
We favor the eight hour day on all
government work.
We pledge the Democratic party to
the enactment of law by congress- as
far as the federal jurisdiction extends
for a general employers liability act
covering injury to body or loss OF life
OF employees.
We pledge the Democratic party to
the enactment of a law creating a de-
partment of labor, represented sepa-
Tra anay in the presidents cabinet, which
of mines and mining.
Merchant Marine.
We believe in the upbuilding OF the
American and merchant marine with
out new or additional burdens upon the
people and without bounties from the
The Navy.
The constitutional provision that
navy shall be provided and maintained
means an adequate navy. and we be-
would be best served by having n navy
sufficient to defend the coasts of this
country and protect American citizens
wherever their rights may be in
jeopardy
Protection of Americas Citizens.
We pledge ourselves to insist upon
the just and lawful protection of our
citizens at home and abroad and to use
all proper methods to secure for them,
whether native born or naturalized,
and without distinction of race or
creed, the equal protection OF law and
ileges open to them under our treaty;
and If, under existing treaties, the
right of travel and sojourn is denied to
American citizens or recognition is
withheld from American passports by
any countries on the ground of race or
creed, we favor prompt negotiations
with the governments of such countries
to secure the removal of these unjust
determinations.
We demand that all over the world
the government of the United States
to an American citizen shall be proof
of the fact that he is an American citi-
zen and shall entitle him to the treat
ment due him as such.
Civil Service.
The laws pertaining to the civil serv-
ice should be. honestly and rigidly en-.
forced, to the end that merit and abili-
ty shall be the standard of appointment
and promotion rather than services.
rendered to political party.
Pensions.
We favor a generous pension policy.
both as n matter of justice to the sur
viving veterans and their dependents
and because it tends to relieve the
country of the necessity of maintaining
a large standing army.
Health Bureau.
We advocate the organization of all
existing national public health agencies
into a national bureau of public health
with such power over sanitary condi-
tions connected with factories. mines
tenements, child labor and other such
subjects as are properly within the jur-
isdiction of the federal government and
do not interfere with the power OF the
states controlling public health
Agricultural and Mechanical Education.
The Democratic party favors the ex-
tension of agricultural mechanical and
ndustrisl edqeSton We thersfore
agricultural experiment stations. the
secondary agricultural and mechanical
colleges in the several states.
Popular Election of Senators.
We favor the election of United
States senators by direct vote of the
people, and regard this reform as the
gateway to other national reforms.
Oklahoma.
We welcome Oklahoma to the sister
hood of states and heartily congratu-
late her on the suspicious beginning of
a great career.
Arizona md New Mexico.
The national Democratic party has
for the last 16 years labored for the
admission of Arizona and New Mexico
separate states of the federal union.
and. recognizing that each possesses
every qualification to successfully
maintain separate state governments.
we favor the Immediate admission of
these territories as separate states.
Grazing Lands.
The establishment of rules and regu-
lations, IL any such are necessary in
relation to free grazing upon the public
lands outside of forest or other reser-
vations. until the same shall eventual
ly be DISPOSED of should be left to the
people of the states respectively in
which such lands may be situated.
Water Ways.
Water furnishes the cheapest means
of transportation and the national
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