The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-07-17
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

submission of cons titutional amend.
mept specifically authorizing congress
to fevy tax ON individual and corpo-
rate incomes, in the end that wealth
may bear it's proportionate share of
the burdens of the federal govern.
ment
Labor and Iniunctions.
The courts of justice are the bull.
wark of our liberties, and we yield to
none in our purpose to maintain their
dignity. We resent the attempt Of
the Republican party to raise false is.
sues respecting the judiciary. 1t is
an unjust reflection upon great body
of our citizens to- assume that they
lack respect for the courts.
Experience has rHeren the necessity
of modification of the present law
relating to injunctions, and we re
iterate the pledge of our national plat
form of 1896 and 1904 in favor of the
measure which passed the United
States senate in 1896, but which 8
Republican congress has ever since
refused to enact, relating to contempt
in federal courts and providing fol-
trial by jury in cases of indirect con
tempt
Questions of judicial practice have
Industrial disputes We deem that the
parties to all judicial proceedings
should be treated with rigid impartial.
ity, and that injunctions should not
be issued in any cases in which in.
functions would not issue if no indus.
trial dispute were involved.
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 ex-
tends, for a general employers liabil.
ity act covering injury to body or loss
Of life Of employees.
We pledge the Democratic party to
the enactment of law creating de-
partment of labor, represented sepa.
rately in the presidents cabinet,
which department shall include the
subject 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 public treasury.
The constitutional provision that
navy shall be provided and maintained
means an adequate navy, and we be-
lieve that the interests of this coun-
try would be best served by having a
navy sufficient to defend the coasts
of this country, and protect American
citizens wherever their rights may
be in jeopardy.
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 natural
ized and without distinction of race
or creed, the equal protection of law
and the enjoyment of all rights and
privileges open to them under our
treaty.
vice should be honestly and rigidly |
enforced to the end that merit and
ability shall be the standard of ap-
pointment and promotion rather than
services rendered to a political party. |
We favor generous pension policy. |
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.
We welcome Oklahoma to the sister
hood of states and heartily congratu- j
late her on the suspicious beginning /
of a great career.
Arizona and New Mexico.
The national Democratic party has
for the past sixteen years labored for
the admission of Arizona and New
Mexico as separate states of the fed
eral Union. and We favor the imme-.