Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-07-16
DEMOCRATIC
NATIONAL
platform
ChangeOf Injunction
Law Urged.
GUARANTEE DEPOSITS.
An Eight Hour Day For Govern
Tnent Lab0rers.
GUARANTEE DEPOSITS.

W1uS OF tHS 1asiS oI FHyStSdi
Property--A Revision of the Tariff
Demanded-immierati of Asiatics
Unable to AmaIgamate With Ameri-
can Population Opposed-Vigorous
Enforcement of the Criminal Law
Against Guilty Trust Magnates and
Officials dvocated-Friehtfu Pub
lie Extravaganza Condemned and
Businesslike Economy Urged.
We, the representatives of the Demo-
Gratis of the United States, in national
convention assembled, reaffirm our be-
lief in and pledge our loyalty to the
principles of the party.
We rejoice at the increasing signs of
an 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
tons and preyed upon defenseless
public through the subseryient officials
whom they have raised to place and
power.
The conscience of the nation is now
aroused to free the government from
the grip of those who have made it
business asset of the favor seeking cor
porations; it must become again a peo-
PIES government and be administered
In all its departments according to tie
Jeffersonian maxim, Equal rights to
all and special privileges to none''
Shall the people rule?" is the over
shadowing issue which manifests itself
in all the questions now under discus
sion.
The courts of jus
Labor 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-
fdence in which this department must
be jealously maintained. We resent
the attempt of the Republican party to
raise false issues respecting the judi
ciary. It is an unjust reflection upon
that they lack respect for the courts.
1t is the function of the courts to In
terpret the laws, which the people Gre
ate. and if the laws appear to work
economic, social or political injustice
Il is our duty to change them. The
only basis upon which the integrity of
our courts can stand is that of un-
swerving justice and protection of life,
personal liberty and property. If ju-
dicial processes may be abused, we
should guard them against abuse.
Experience has proved the necessity
Of modification of the present law re-
lating to injunctions, and we reiterate
the pledge of our national platforms of
1896 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 IL federal courts
and providing for trial by jury in cases
Of indirect contempt
Questions Of judicial practice have
arisen especially in connection with In
dustrial disputes. We deem that the
RuA Lies ~ u1t Juu4SAdt pAOCSCA1bSS SAOulQ
be treated with rigid impartiality and
that injunctions should not be issued In
any cases In which injunctions would
not issue IL no industrial dispute were
involved.
The expanding organization of indus
try makes it essential that there should
be no abridgment of the right of wage
the protection of wages and the i'm
proyement 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 all
government work.
We pledge the Democratic party to
the enactment Of a law by congress, as
far as the federal Jurisdiction extends,
for general employers liability act,
covering injury to body or loss of life
Of employees.
We pladge the Democratic party to
the enactment Of law creating de-
partment of labor, represented sepa-
rateIy Ia the presidents cabinet, which
department shall include the subject Of
mines and mining
We welcome the
Tariff. belated promise Of
tariff reform now af
fected by the Republican party in tar
dy recognition of the righteousness Of
the Democratic position on this ques-
lion. but the people cannot safely in
trust the execution Of this important
work to party which Is SO deeply cf.