The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-07-17

, AACAA 2 SPECIFICALLY nAAl04AAAAS LNAENEes
TO levy and collect a tax upon indiyid
ual and corporate incomes. TO the end
that wealth may bear its proportion
ate share OF the burdens OF the Fed
eral Government"
Labor And lnlunetions.
THE courts Of justice are the bull.
wark OF our liberties and We yield to
none in our purposes to maintain their
dignity. Our party has given to the
bench long line of distinguished
Judges who have added to the respect
and confidence in which this depart
ment must be jealousy maintained.
We resent the attempt of the Repub-
lican party to raise false issues re
speeding the judiciary. 1t is an unjust
reflection upon a great body of our
citizens TO assume that they lack re-
spect for the courts.
1T is the function of the courts to
interpret the laws which the people
create, and if the laws appear to work
economic. social or political injus-
tice. it is our duty to change them.
The only basis upon which the integ-
rity of our courts can stand is that of
answering justice and protection of
life, personal liberty and property.
If judiciary processes may be abused
We should guard them against abuse.
Experience has proven the neces-
sity of a modification of the present
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 1896, but which a
Republican Congress has ever since
refused to enact, relating to contempt
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
parties to all judicial proceedings
should be treated with rigid impair
TALLY, and that injunctions should
not be issued in any cases in which
injunctions would not issue if no in
dustrial dispute were involved
Publicity of Campaign Contributions.
I'VE demand Federal legislation
forever terminating the partnership
which has existed between corpora
tions of the country and the Republi-
can party under the expressed or i'm
piled agreement that in return for the
contribution of great sums of money
wherewith to purchase elections, they
should be allowed to continue sub
stantially unmolested in their efforts
to encroach upon the rights of the
people. Any reasonable doubt as to
the existence of this relation has been
forever dispelled b. the sworn testi
mony of witnesses examined in the
insurance investigation in New York
and the open admission, unchal-
legged by the Republican National
Committee of single indicidual that
he himself at the personal request of
the Republican candidate for the
Presidency raised over quarter of
million dollars to be used in a |
single State during the closing hours
CT the last campaign In order that
this practice shall be stopped for all |
time, we demand the passage of
statute Furnishing with imprisonment
any officer of corporation who shall
either contribute on behalf of or con-
sent to the contribution by corpora
ton of any money or thing of value
to be used in furnishing the election
of a President or Vice President of
theU nited States or of any member
of Congress thereof.
I'VE denounce the action of the Re-
publicans, having complete control of
the Federal Government, for its fail {
ure to pass the BILL introduced in the
last Congress, to compel the publica-
ton OF the names Of contributors and
the amount contributed toward cam {
Daign funds, and point to the evidence t
Of their insincerity when they sought t
~ an absolutely irrelevant and i'm. +
possible amendment to defeat the pas r
sage of the bill. AZ a further evil b
ience of their intention to conduct
heir campaign in the coming contest t
With vast sums Of money wrested a
rom favor-seeking corporations, we t.
all attention to the fact that the re. b
ent Republican National Convention Il
t Chicago refused, when the plank
vas presented to 1t, to declare against Il
UGH practices. p
I'VE pledge the Democratic party to II