Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-07-10
FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1908.
be available to all state banking inst-

be available to all state banking insti-
tutions wishing to use 1t.
We favor a postal savings bank II
the guaranteed bank cannot be secur-
ed and that 1t be constituted so as TO
keep the deposited money In the COM
munities where 1t Is established. But
we condemn the policy Of the Repub-
lican party in providing postal savings
banks under a plan OF conduct by
which they will aggregate the depos-
its of rural communities and re-de-
posit the same while under govern
ment charge In the banks Of Wall
street, thus depicting the circulating
medium Of the producing regions and
unjustly favoring the speculative mar
kets.
State Rights.
Believing with Jefferson In "the sup
port of the state governments In all
their rights as the most competent ad-
ministration for our domestic concerns
and the surest bulwark against anti
republican tendencies" and in "the
preservation of the general government
in its whole constitutional vigor, as
the sheet-anchor of our peace at home
and safety abroad" we are opposed
to the Capitalization implied in these
suggestions, now frequently made, that
the powers Of the general government
should be extended by judicial con-
struction. There Is no twilight zone
between the nation and the state In
which exploiting interests can take ref
uge from BOTH and 1t is as necessary
that the Federal government shall ex-
ercise the powers delegated to 1t as 1t
is that the state governments shall
use the authority reserved to them:
but we insist that Federal remedies
for the regulation Of interstate COM
merce and for the prevention Of pri-
vate monopoly shall be added to-not
substituted for-state remedies.
The Injunction Plank.
The courts Of justice are the bull
wark 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
ana confidence in which this depart
ment must be jealously maintained
We resent the attempt Of the Republi-
can party to raise false issue res
pecting the judiciary. 1t is an unjust
reflection upon a great body Of our
citizens to assume that they lack res
pect for the courts.
1t Is the function Of the courts to
interpret the laws which the people
create, and IL the laws appear to work
economic, social or political injustice,
II Is our duty to change them.
The only basis upon which the in
tegrity Of our courts can stand Is that
Of answering justice and protection
Of life. personal liberty and property.
II judicial processes may be abused,
we should guard them against abuse.
Law Should Be Modified.
Experience has proven the neces-
cit - -
law relating 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 a
Republican congress has ever since
refused to enact relating to contempts
In Federal courts and providing for
trial by jury in cases Of indirect con-
tempt.
Questions Of judicial practice have
arisen especially In connection with
industrial disputes. We deem that the
| parties to all judicial proceedings
should be treated with rigid impartial
| ity and that injunctions should not is
| sue in any cases in which injunctions
would not issue II no industrial dispute
were involved.
The expanding organization Of in
| dustry makes II essential that there
Snould De no aDrldgment or the right
| OF wage-earners and producers to or
ganize for the protection Of wages and
| the Improvement Of labor conditions to
the end that such labor organizations
and their members should not be re-
garded as Illegal combinations in re-
straint 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 ex-
| tends, for general employers liabil-
ity act covering injury to body, or loss
Of life Of employees.
We pledge the Democratic party to
| the enactment of a law creating a
department Of labor, represented sep
arately in the presidents cabinet,
which department shall include the
subject Of mines and mining.