The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-07-18


bonds. And then:
The republican party used emergency for which
it is largely responsible to force through congress
bill changing the basis of bank currency and in
vlt1ng market manipulation and has failed to give
to the 100000 depOSitors of the country protection
in their savings We believe that insofar as the
needs OF commerce require an emergency currency,
such currency should be issued and controlled by the
federal government and loaned on adequate secur
1ty to national banks
After which the platform took up the most popular
idea now before the American people, not especially
because it originated with Mr.. Bryan. The people
know why, and is not necessary to elucidate fur
Their On the subject of guaranteed bank deposits,
the democratic platform says
We pledge ourselves to enact legislation under
which national banks shall be required to establish
guarantee funds for the prompt payment of the de-
posts of any insolvent national bank under
equabe system which shall be available to all banking
institutions wishing to use it.
Republican promise, republican orators, republican
newspapers are silent on this topic excepting that
few bankers have said that its tendency would be to
make them dishonest But that does not weigh
much with the welfare of the people in the other pan
of the scale.
While the republican party claims patent how
make prosperity for wage earners, the democratic
party has monopoly of the formula that tells how
keep the prosperity that has been earned 1t rep
resents the bird in the hand that is worth two in
the bush
On the subjects of the courts and their connection
with labor and the much abused injunction privilege
in its relation to labor the platform is explicit and
advanced. It declares:
The courts of justice are the buwarl of our lib
critics and yield to in purpose to maintain
their dignity Our party has given to the bench a
long line of distinguished judges who have added
respect and confidence in that department which
must be jealousy maintained We resent the at
of he D1rtV tO f11 1851
respecting the judiciary 1t is an unjust reflection
upon the great body of citizens to that
they lack respect for the 1t is the function
of the to interpret the laws which the people
create and if the laws appear to work economic, So
cia political injustice, it is our duty to change
them The only basis upon which the integrity of
our courts can stand is that of answering justice
and protection of life, personal liberty and pros
perity If judicial processes may be abused
should guard against abuse. Experience has proven
the necessity OF modification of the present law
relating to 1nunctlOns and reiterae the pledge of
our national platform of 1896 and 1904 in favor of
measure which passed the United States senate in
1896, but which republican congress has ever since
refused to enact, relating to contempt in federal
courts and providing for trial by jury in cases of
indirect contempt
Questions of judicial practice have arisen es-
peclally in connection with industrial disputes. We
deem that parties to all judicial proceedings should
be treated with rigid imparality and that injunc-
tons should not be issued in any cases in which an
would not issue if no industrial dispute
we're involved
The expanding organization of industry makes it
essential that there should be abridgment of the
light of wage and producers to organize for
he protection of wages and the Improvement of la
Dor conditions to the end that such labor organza
ions and their members should not be regarded as
Illegal combinations in restraint of trade.
We favor the S-hour day on all government works
We, pledge the democratic party to the enactment
If law by congress far as the federal urisdic-
ion exists for general employers liability act COW
ring injury to body or loss of life of employees
We pledge the democratic party. to the enactment
# law creating department of labor represent
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