The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1908-09-02
ITO another anxious body or the

tion's workingmen, the Independence
partys platform proposes definite,
plain and concrete measures, where
the old parties deal in attempts to
delude and mislead
Regulation of court rules and prac.
tice, however desirable, falls far short
of being the goal for which labor has
been waglng its long struggle. Fair
wages, reasonable hours, sanitary con-
ditions, safety Appliances, protection
from convict, pauper and Asiatic labor,
abolition of child labor, trial by jury
and prohibition of the black list are
the objects for which workingmen have
combined, and their protest is against
being branded as outlaws because OF
having so combined.
'Ie believe in organization among
workingmen, designed to increase the
effectiveness of human effort and i'm
prove the conditions of human life
aud labor, and that such organization
should not be classed as in criminal
restraint of trade. l stand firmly on
the Independence party plank that
gives the American workingman the
American right of trial by jury before
he shall be deprived of his liberty, and
that forbids the use of the writ Of in
junction in labor disputes until after
a Jury trial upon the merits.
"When the Independence party's Ia
Dor planks are compared with the Re-
publican plank, which all agree is a
fraud, or with the Democratic plank,
which requires a constitutional law
yer to expound, I do not believe that
any living man can deliver the work
ingman's vote either to Mr.. Bryan OF
Mr.. Taft"
He said he believed in a national
system of good roads to be built by ma
tional aid to states and counties, and
also advocated the immediate eXten'
sion of the parcels post, and con
tinued:
"The gambling transactions of So
called cotton and produce exchanges.
involving the fictitious selling of farm
products for future delivery, are a
menace to great sections Of our coun
try. Such transaction rob the farmer
and planter and unsettle industries
and I sincerely support the demand
for the suppression of such bucketshop
methods and fictitious dealings.
"I declare that the power to issue
money and control its volume should
not be confided to individuals or pri
vate corporations, but is inherent in
the government, and should be eXer
cised by the government, and that the
rational and safe way to put necessary
increased issues of money into circula.
tion Is through the medium of cen
trail government bank.
Postal Savings Banks.
"A most valuable adjunct Of such a
system will be the establishment OF
postal savings banks, which will draw
money out Of hiding, make deposits
secure and furnish a great conven
ience to numerous localities not now
supplied with any banking facilities
81 confidently believe that the dec
laration Of the Independence party fol
a gradual reduction of the tariff, with
just consideration for the rights OF
the consuming public and of establish
ed industry, will appeal more strongly
to businessmen and workingmen than
the Republican demand for an extra
session and an immediate general re-
IL n,NI tIrnf
tie reviving business, or the Demo
cratic demand for a tariff for revenue
only.
81 warmly approve of our platform
declaration favoring the extension OF
public ownership as rapidly as the
government demonstrates ability to
conduct public utilities for the public
benefit. The railroads must be kent
open 10 all upon exactly equal terms
Rebates and determinations are
crimes and must be treated as such
Expressing my cordial and earnest
support of every plank in the careful
ly thought-out and statesmanlike plat
form unanimously adopted by the first
national convention OF the Indepen'
dence party. enter the campaign as
its standard-bearer with solemn ap'
preciation of the duty that devolves
upon me-"