Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-07-24

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and state banks. We pledge ourselves &C
legislation under which the national banks
shall be required to establish a guarantee
fund for the prompt payment Of the de.
positors OF any insolvent national bank
under.an equitable system. which shall
be available to all state banking institu'
tons wishing to use it.
We favor a postal savings bank IL the
guarantees bank cannot be secured. and
that II be constituted so as to keep the
deposited money in the communities where
IL Is established. But we condemn the
policy of the republican party In propos
ing postal savings banks under a plar
OF conduct by which they will absorb the
deposits OF rural communities and rede-
post the same, while under government
charge, in the bsnk of Wall street. thu
depicting the circulating medium of the
producing regions and unjustly favorins
the speculative markets.
Income Tax.
We favor an income tax as part OF our
revenue system, and we urge the sub
mission of a constitutional amendment
specifically authorizing congress to levy
and collect a tax upon individual and cor
porate Incomes, to the end that wealth
may bear it's proportionate share Of the
burdens OF the federal government.
Labor and Injunctions.
The courts of justice are the bulwark
or 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
70 the respect and confidence in which
TINS department. must be jealousy main
tanned. We resent the attempt Of the re-
publican party to raise a false issue re-
sDecting the judiciary. 1t is an unjust
reflection upon a great body of our citi-
zens 10 assume that they lack respect for
the courts. 1t is the function OF the courts
10 interpret the laws which the people
create. and II the avs appear to work
economic, social or political injustice 1t
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basis upon which the integrity Of our
courts can stand is that of unswerving
justice and protection of life, personal lib
erty and property. II judicial processes
against abuse.
Experience has proven the necessity of
a modification of the present law relating
TO inJunctlons, and we reiterate the
pledges or our national platforms Of 1896
n 1904 In favor of the measure which
passed the United States Senate In 1896.
but which a republican congress has ever
since refused TO enact, relating to con-
tempts 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 indus
trial disputes. We deem that the parties
TO all judicial proceedings should be treat
ed with rigid impartiality and that in
functions should not be issued in any
cases In which intunctions would not is
"a ot9PaiC wei
Inc expanding organization OF industry
1t essential that there should be no
idgm of the right Of wage earners
ana producers to organize for the protec-
tion or wages and the Improvement of la
Dor conditions to the end that such labor
organizations and their members should
De regarded as illegal combinations In
Of trade.
We favor the eight-hour day on all gov
eminent work.
We pledge the democratic party to the
enactment OF a law by congress as far as
the federal Jurisdiction extends for a gen.
eral employers liability act covering In
to body or loss Of life of employees.
We pledge the democratic party to the
OF a law creating a department
ot labor, represented separately in the
presidents cabinet. which department
shall include the subject of mines and
mining.
Merchant Marine.
We believe in tho upbuilding of the
American merchant marine without new
Or additional burdens upon the people and
Without bounties from the public treasury.
The Navy.
The constitutional provision tina a navy
shall be provided n maintained means
an adequate navy, and we believe that the
interests of this country would best be
served by having a navy sufficient to de-
end the coasts OF this country and pro-
.ect American citizens wherever their
may be in jeopardy.
Protection of American Citizens.
We pledge ourselves to insist upon just
ana lawful protection OF our citizens at
and abroad and to use all proper
methods TO secure for them, whether ma
i've born or natural;zed and without dis
of race or creed, the equal pro-
ection OF law and the enjoyment of all
and privileges open to them under
'ur treaty; and IL, under existing treaties
he right of travel and %sojourn is denied TO
citizens or recognition is with
leld from American passports by any
on the ground of race or creed
We favor prompt negotiations with the
governments of such countries TO secure
he removal of these unjust discrimina-
ions. We demand that all over the world
duly authenticated passport issued by
government of the United States to
II American citizen shall be proof of the
that he Is an American citizen and
hall entitle him TO the treatment due him
8 such.
Civil Service.
The avs pertaining to the civil service
hould be honestly and rigidly enforced
o the end that merit and ability shall be
he standard of appointment and promo
ion rather than services rendered TO the
party.
Pensions.
We favor a generous pension policy,
9th as a matter Of justice to the surviv-
lg veterans and their dependents and be-
ause it tends to relieve the country of
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landing army.
Health Bureau,
We advocate the organization Of all ex-
sting national public health agencies into
national bureau OF public health, with
UGH power oyer sanitary conditions con-
ected with factories, mines. tenements,
hid labor and such other subjects as are
roperly within the jurisdiction of the
sderal government and do not interfere
nth the power of the state controlling
ublic health agencies,
The democratic party favors the extern
of agricultural, mechanical and edu-
ational industry. We, therefore, favor
he establishment of district agricultural
Experiment. stations and secondary agri-
and mechanical colleges in the
everal states.
Popular Election of Senators.
We favor the election OF United States
by direct vote Of the people and
agard this reform as the gateway to
Their national reforms.
New States.
welcome Oklahoma to the sister
God of states and congratulate her upon
ne suspicious beginning of a great ca
eer.
The national democratic party has for
ne last sixteen years labored for the adj
lission of Arizona and New Mexico as
eparate states Of the union, and recog-
izing that each possesses every quail
cation to successfully maintain separate
tate governments we favor the admission
{ these territories as separate states.
Grazing Lands.
The establishment of rules and regula-