The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-07-16

loaned on adequate security to national
and state banks. We pledge ourselves 70
legislation under which the national banks
shall be required to establish a guarantees
fund for the prompt payment of the de-
positors Of any insolvent national BANK;
under an equitable system, which sinai
be available to al state banking institu-
tons wishing to use 1T.
We v a postal savings bank IL he
guarantee bank cannot be secured. ana
that it be constituted SO as to keep the
deposited money In the communities where
policy of the republican party in propos-
ing postal savings banks under a plan
of conduct by which they will absorb the
deposits Of rural communities and rede.
charge, In the banks of Wall street, thus
depicting the circulating medium of the
producing regions and u~njustly faVorlne
the speculative markets.
Income Tax.
We favor ar income tax as part of our
revenue system, and we urge the sub
miosion of a constitutional amendment
specifically authorizing congress to- levy
and collect a tax upon individual and COT
porate incomes, to the end that wealth
burdens Of the federal government.
Labor and Injunctions.
The courts of justice are the bulwark
Of 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 la added
to the respect and confidence In which
this department must be jealousy main
tanned. We resent the attempt Of the re-
publican party to raise a false issue re-
specting the judiciary. 1t is an unjust
reflection upon a great body Of our citi-
zens to assume that they lack respect for
to Interpret the laws which the people
create, and If the laws appear to work
economic. social or political injustice 1t
Is duty t1 change them. The only
courts can stand is that of answering
justice and protection of life, personal lib
erty and property. If judicial processes
may be abused. we should guard them
against abuse.
Experience has proven the necessity of
a modification of the present law relating
to injunctions, and we reiterate the
pledges of our national platforms of 1896
and 1904 in favor of the measure whic
passed the United States Senate in 1896,
but which a republican ongress has ever
since refused to enact, relating to con-
tempts in federal courts and providing
for trial by jury in cases of indirect con-
Questions Of judicial practice have
arisen especially in connection with ndus-
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
SooSS III WHICH llJunCtlOuS WOuIu uOl Is
sue If no industrial dispute were involved.
The expanding organization Of industry
makes 1t essential that there should be no
abridgment OF the right Of wage earners
ana producers to organize for the protec-
ton of wages and the improvement. of la
Dor conditions to the end that such labor
organizations and their member should
be regarded as illegal combinations in
of trade.
We favor the eight-hour day on all gov
rnrnen work.
We pledge the democratic party to the
of a law by congress as far as
the federal jurisdiction extends for a gen.
erai 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
of labor, represented separately in the
presidents cabinet, which department
include the subject Of mines and
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.
Tho Navy.
The constitutional provision that a navy
shall be provided and maintained means
an adequate and we believe that the
Of this country would best be
served by having a navy sufficient to de-
fend the coasts of this country and pro-
tect American citizens wherever their
4 ilSS mdS w III jeopardy. N". .H
Protection of American Citizens.
and lawful protection Of our citizens at
home and abroad and to use all proper
methods to secure for them, whether ma
tive born or naturalized and without dis
lection of law and the enjoyment of all
and privileges open to them under
our treaty; and If. under existing treaties,
the right of travel and sojourn is denied to
A M rfN ~ tfioa~ 0p to VT
held from American passports by any
on the ground of race or creed
FAVOR prompt negotiations with the
Of such countries to secure
the removal of these unjust discrimina-
We demand that all over the world
duly authenticated passport Issued by
the government of the United States to
an American citizen shall be proof Of the
entitle him to the treatment due him
as such.
Civil Service.
The avs pertaining to the civil service
should be honestly and rigidly enforced
to the end that merit and ability shall be
the standard of appointment n promo
ton rather h a services rendered to the
political party.
Pensions.
We favor a generous pension policy,
as a matter OF justice to the surviv-
|ng veterans and their dependents and be-
cause it tends to relieve the country OF
the necessity OF maintaining q large
army.
Health Bureau.
We advocate the organization Of all ex-
national public health agencies into
national bureau OF public health, with
power over sanitary conditions con-
nected with factories, mines, tenements,
child labor and such other subjects as are
properly within the jurisdiction OF the
government and do not interfere
the power of the state controlling
public health agencies.
The democratic party fayorss the extern
industry. We, therefore, favor
the establishment Of district agricultural
experiment stations and secondary agri-
cultural and mechanical colleges in the
states.
Popular Election Of Senators.
We favor the election of United States
senators by direct vote of the people and
this reform as the gateway to
other national reforms.
New States.
We welcome Oklahoma to the sister,
hood Of states and congratulate her upon
the suspicious beginning of a great car
reer.
The national democratic party has for
the last sixteen years labored for the adj
separate states of the union, and recog-
nizing that ZACH possesses every quail
sication to successfully maintain separate
state governments we favor the admission
OF these territories as separate states.
Grazing Lands.
The establishment of rules and regula-
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