The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-09-24
Change Of Injunction
Law Urged.
GUARANTEE DEPOSITS.
In Eight Hour Day For Govern.
ment Laborers.

1lent l2DO[erS,
Valuation Of Railroads Should Be
Made on the Basis Of Physical
Property-A Revision Of the Tariff
Demanded-Immisrat Of Asiaties
Unable to AmaIsamate With Amsri-
can Population oppossd-visorous
enforcement Of the Criminal Law
Against Guilty Trust Masnatss and
Officials Acknowledgment Pub.
aie Extravasanee Condemned and
eusinessliIes Economy Urged.
We, the representatives of the Demo.
erats of the United States, in national
convention assembled, reaff1rm our be.
lief in and pledge our loyalty to the
principles Of the party.
We rejoice at the increasing signs Of
IN awakening throughout the country.
The various investigations have traced
graft and political corruption to the
representatives Of predatory wealth
and laid bare the INSCRIPTIONS methods
by which they have debauched cleo
lions and preyed upon a defenseless
public through the subservient officials
whom they have raised to place and
power.
Ehe conscience of the nation Is now
aroused to free the government from
the grip Of those who have made it q
business asset of the favor seeking cor
porations; 1t must become again a PEG.
pies government and be administered
In all its departments according to the
'Jefersonian maxim, Equal rights to
al! and special privileges to none."
"Shall the people rule?" Is the over
shadowing issue which manifests itself
In all the questions now under discus.
slon.
The courts of JUS
Ilabor and In. tice are the bulwark
functions. of our liberties and
we yield to none In
our purpose to maintain their dignity.
Our party has given to the bench a
long line of distinguished judges, who
have added to the respect and con-
f1dence in which this department must
be jealousy maintained. We resent
the attempt of the Republican party to
raise false issues respecting the Judi
eiary. 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 in
terpret the laws, which the people ere
ate. and If the laws appear to work
economic, social or political injustice
1t Is our duty to change them. TIE
only basis upon which the integrity Q.
our courts can stand is that of I'M.
awerving justice and protection of life,
personal liberty and property. II ju.
dicial processes may be abused, we
should guard them against abuse.
Experience has proved the necessity
OF modification of the present law re.
iating to injunctions. and we reiterate
the pledge Of our national platforms of
LS96 and 1904 in favor of the measure
which passed the United States senate
In 1895. but which Republican con.
gress has ever since refused to enact;
relating to contempts in federal courts
and providing for trial by jury in cases
OF indirect contempt.
Questions Of judicial practice have
arisen especially in connection with In.
dustrlal disputes. We deem that the
parties to all judicial proceedings should
be treated with rigid impartiality and
that injunctions should not be issued In
any cases In which injunctiOns would
not issue If no Industrial dispute were
involved.
The expanding organization Of indus.
ny makes 1t essential that there should
be no abridgment Of the right of wage
earners and producers to organize fos
the protection Of wages and the i'm
provement of labor conditions, to the
end that such labor organizations and
their members should not be regarded
as illegal combinations in restraint Of
trade.
We favor the eight hour day on al
government work.
We pledge the Democratic party t.
the enactment Of law by congress, al
Tar as the federal Jurisdiction extends
for general employers liability act
covering injury to body or loss Of iift
OF employees.
We pladge the Democratic party (,
ne enactment Of law creating a Dc
partment of labor, represented sepa
tately in the presidents cabinet, which
department shall include the subject o.
mines and mining.
We welcome tn
Tariff. belated promise o
tariff reform now al
fected by the Republican party in ia.
dy recognition of the righteousness O
the Democratic position on this ques
don, but the people cannot safely In
trust the execution of this importan
work to party which Is so deeply oh