Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-21

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required to establish a guaranty fund for
| the prompt payment of TIE depositors of
any insoIvent national bank under equit-
/ able system which shall be available to all
state banking institutions wishing TO use 1t.
We favor postal savings bank. il the
guaranteed bank cannot be secured, AID
| that it be constituted so as to keep the de
/ posted money in the communities where 1T
/ Is established. But we condemn the policy
| of the Republican party in proposing postal
| savings banks under Il plan of conduct by
which they will aggregate the deposits of
| rural communities and redeposit the same
while under government charge in the banks
OF Wall street thus depicting the circulating
medium OF the producing regions ana UNI
| justly 1ayoring the speculative markets
Income Tax.
We favor income tax as part of orr
revenue system, and we urge the submits
sion of q constitutional amendment specif-
cally authorizing Congress to levy and
collect tax upon individual and corpor-
ate incomes to the end that wealth may
bear its proportionate share of the 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 long line of
distinguished judges, VINO have added to
the respect and confidence in which this
1
We resent the attempt of the Republican
party to raise false issues respecting the
judiciary 1t is an unjust reflection upon
Il great body of our citizens to assume that
they lack respect 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 politi-
cal injustice it is our duty to change them.
The only basis upon which the integrity
of our courts stand is that of unsT .ry-
ing justice and protection of life, personal
liberty and property If judicial processes
may be abused We should guard against
abuse.
Experience has proven the necessity 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 contempts in federal
courts and providing for trial by jury in
cases of indirect contempt. Questions of
judicial practice have arisen especially in
connection with industrial disputes. We
deem that parties to all judicial proceed
ings should be treated with rigid Impair
TALLY and that injunctions should not
issue If no industrial dispute were in
Vowed
The expanding organization of industry
makes it essential that there should be 70
abridgment of the right of wage-earners
and 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 members should not
be regarded as illegal combinations in re-
straint of trade.
We favor the eight-hour day on all gov
eminent work
We pledge the Democratic party to the
enactment of Il law by Congress as far as
the federal jurisdiction extends, for .
general employers liability act covering
injury to body or loss of life of employees
We pledge the Democratic party to the
enactment of u law creating department
of labor, represented separately In the
Presidents cabinet, which department shall
include the subject of mines and mining.
Merchant Marine.
We believe in the upbuilding of the
American and merchant marine without
new or additional burdens upon the people
and without bounties from the public treas
ury.
The Navy.
The constitutional provision that navy
shall be provided and maintained means an
adequate navy, and we believe that the in
terests of this country would be best
served by having a navy sufficient to de-
fend the coasts of this country and pro
tect American citizens wherever their
rights may be in jeopardy.
Protection of American Citizens.
We pledge ourselves to insist upon the
just and lawful protection Of our citizens
at homo and abroad and to use all proper
methCds to secure for them, whether ma
tive born or naturalized, and without dis
tin ction of race creed, the equal pro-
te,tion of law and the enjoyment OF ali
rights and privileges open to them under
our treaty; and If, under existing treaties
the right of travel and s0journ is denied
to American citizens or recognition Is
withheld from American passports by any
countries on the ground of race or creed
we favor prompt negotiations with the
governments of such countries to secure
ho roynn of fhpcp ST discrimi0at iDOS
We demand that all over the world
duly authorized passport issued by the
government of the United States to an
American citizen shall be proof of the fact
that he is an American citizen and shall
entitle him to the treatment due him as
such.
Civil Service.
The laws pertaining to the civil service
should be honestly and rigidly enforced to
the end, that merit and ability shall be
the standard of appointment and promo
ton. rather than services rendered to po-
litical party.
Pensions.
We favor a generous pension policy, both
as a matter OF Justice to the surviving
veterans and their dependents and because
1t tends to relieve the country of the neees-
sity of maintaining large standing army
Health Bureau.
We advocate the organization of all ex
listing national public health agencies into
a national bureau OF puDilc neatth. Win
such power over sanitary conditions con-
nected with factories mines, teaementS
child labor and other such subjects as are
properly within the jurisdiction of the fed
eral government and do not interfere with
the power of the states controlling public
health agencies.
The Democratic party favors the extern
sion of agricultural. mechanical and indus
trial education. We. therefore. favor the
establishment of district agricultural ex-
pertinent stations the secondary agricul-
tural and mechanical colleges in the sew
eral states.
Popular Election of Senators.
We favor the election of United States
senators by direct vote of the people, and