The Prescott daily news., 1908-07-11

basis upon which the integrity of our courts can stand is that of unswerving justice and protection of life, personal liberty and property. If judicial pro- cesses may be abused we should guard against these abuses.
 Experience has proven the necessity of a modification of the present law relating to injuctions, and we reiterate the pledge of our national platforms of 1896 and 1904 in favor of the meas. ure which passed the United States senate in 1896, but which Republic an congress has ever since refused to enact, relating to contempt in Fed. eral courts and providing for trial by jury in cases of indirect contempt.
 Questions of judicial practices have arisen, especially in connection with industrial disputes. We deem that the parties to all judicial proceedings should be treated with rigid impar; tiality, and that injunctions should not be issued in any cases in which in functions would not issue in no indus. trial disputes were involved.
 The expanding organization of in dustry makes it essential that there should be no abridgement of the rights 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 organiza- tions 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 ex- tends, or 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 a de. partment of labor, represented sepa- rately in the presidents cabinet, which department should include the subject of mines and mining.
 Tariff.
 We welcome the belated promise of tariff reform now offered by the Re. publican party in tardy recognition of the righteousness of the Democratic position on this question; but these people cannot safely entrust the execu- tion of this important work to a party which is so deeply obligated to the highly protected interests as is the Re- publican party. We call attention to the significant fact that the promised relief was postponed until after the coming election, an election to succeed in which the Republicans must have that same support from the beneficial ries of the high protective tariff, as it has always heretofore received from them; and to the further fact that du. ring years of uninterrupted power no such action whatever has been taken by the Republican congress to correct the admittedly existing tariff iniqui. ties.
 We favor immediate revision of the tariff by the reduction of import du ties. Articles entering into compe- tition with trust-controlled products should be placed on the free list. and material reductions should be made in the tariff upon the necessaries of life, especially upon articles compet. ing with such American manufactures as are sold abroad more cheaply than at home, and graduate reductions should be made in such other sched. ules as may be necessary to restore the tariff to a revenue basis.
 Existing duties have given to the manufacturers of paper a shelter be- hind which they have organized com binations to raise the price of pulp and paper. thus imposing tax upon the spread of knowledge.
 We demand the immediate repeal of the tariff on pulp, print paper, lum' Der. timber and logs, and that these ar. ticles be placed upon the free list. officehoIders.
 Coincident with the enormous in. crease in expenditures have come an addition to the number of office-hold- CTS. During the past year 23,734 were added, costing $16, ,000, and in the past six years of the Republican ad ministration the total number of new offices created, aside from any com. missions, has been 99,319, entailing an additional expenditure of nearly 70,000,000, as against only 10,279 new offices created under the Cleveland and Mckinley administrations, which involved an expenditure of only $5, 000,000. We denounce this great and growing increase in the number of of flee holders as not only unnecessary and wasteful, but as clearly indicating a deliberate purpose on the part of the administration to keep the Repub. lican party in power at public expense, thus increasing the number of it's re. tainers and dependents. Such proceed. ure we declare to be no less danger. ous and corrupt than the open pur. chase of votes at the polls.