Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1908-06-24

increase the list Of employees who shall have
preferred claims for wages under the bank
| ruptcy laws; to adopt child labor statute for
| the District Of Columbia; to direct an investi-
CATION into the condition Of working women
and children. and later, of employees Of tele-
phone and telegraph companies engaged in
| Interstate business; to appropriate $4,000 at
| the recent session Of Congress in order to
cure thorough inquiry into the causes Of
catastrophes and loss Of life in the mines;
and to amend and strengthen the law prohib-
iting the importation of contract labor, will be
pursued in every legitimate direction within
federal authority to tighten the burdens and
increase the opportunity for happiness and
advancement Of all who toll.
The republican party recognizes the special
needs Of wage workers generally, for their
well being means the we'll being OF ALL But
more important than all other considerations
is that of good citizenship, and we especially
stand for the needs OF every American what
ever his occupation in his capacity as o self
respecting citizen.
COURT PROCEDURE.
The republican party will uphold at all
times the authority and integrity of the
courts, state and federal, and will ever insist
that their powers to enforce their process and
to protect life, liberty and property shall be
preserved inviolate. We believe, however,
that the rules of procedure in the federal
courts with respect to the issuance Of the
writ of injunction should be more accurately
defined by statute, and that no injunction or
temporary restraining order should be issued
without notice, except where irreparable in
jury would result from delay, in which case
speedy hearing thereafter should be granted
THE FARMER.
Among those whose welfare is as vital to
the welfare of the whole country as is that of
the wage Garner, is the American farmer.
The prosperity of the country rests peculiarly
upon the prosperity of agriculture. The re-
publican party during the last twelve years
has accomplished extraordinary work in
bringing the resources of the national gov
eminent to the aid of the farmer, not only in
advancing agriculture itself, but in increas-
ing the convenences of rural life. Free rural
mail delivery has been established; it now
reaches millions of our citizens and we favor
its extension until every community in the
land receives the full benefits Of the postal
service.
We recognize the social and economic adj
vantages of good country reads, maintained
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less and less at the expense of the abutting
owners. In this work we commend the grow
ing practice Of state aid, and we approve the
efforts of the nationalragricultural depart
ment by experiments and otherwise to make
clear to the public the best methods of road
construction.
d. RIGHTS FOR THE NEGRO.
The republican party has been for more
| than fifty years the consistent friend Of the
| negro. 1t gave him freedom and citizenship.
| 1t wrote into the organic law the declarations
that proclaim his civil and political rights
and it believes to-day that his noteworthy pro-
| gress in intelligence, industry and good citi-
| zenship has earned the respect and encour
| agement of the nation. We demand equal
| Justice for all men, without regard to race
| color; we declare again and without reserva-
ton. for the enforcement in letter and spirit
| Of the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments Of the constitution which were
designed for the protection and advancement
| of the negro, and we condemn all devices that
| have for their real aim his disfranchiseme emit
| for reasons Of color alone, as unfair, un-
American and repugnant to the supreme law
| of the land.
| NATURAL RESOURCES.
We endorse the movement inaugurated by
| the administration for the conservation Of
natural resources; we approve all measures
| to prevent the waste of timber; commend
| the work now going on for the reclamation Of
| arid lands, and reafirm the republican policy
| of the free distribution OF the available areas
| of the public domain to the landless settler
| No obligation Of the future is more insistent
| and none will result in more blessings to pos
terity. In line with this splendid undertake
| ing is the further duty, equally imperative, to
| enter upon systematic improvement upon
large and comprehensive plan Just to all por-
lions of the country, of the waterways, har-
| bors and great lakes, whose natural adapta-
bility to the increasing traffic of the land is
one Of the greatest gifts of benign Provi-
| dence.
| ARMY AND NAVY.
The present Congress passed many COM
mendable acts increasing the efficiency of the
army and navy; making the militia of the
states an integral part of the national estab-
| lishment; authorizing joint man9uvres OF
army and militia; fortifying new naval bases
| and completing the construction of coaling
| stations; instituting female nurse corps for
naval hospitals and ships, and adding two
new battleships, ten torpedo boat destroyers,
| three steam GOLFERS and eight submarines to
| the strength of the navy.
! Although at peace with all the world, and
| secure in the consciousness that the American
| people do not desire and will not provoke
| war with any other country, we nevertheless
| declare our unalterable devotion to policy
that will keep this republic ready at all times
| to defend her traditional doctrines and assure
her appropriate part in promoting permanent
| tranquility among the nations.
| PROTECTION OF AMERICAN CITIZENS.
| We commend the vigorous efforts made by
] the administration to protect American citi-
| zens in foreign lands, andipledse ourselves to
| insist upon the just and equal protection of
| all our citizens abroad. 1t is the unques-
| toned duty of the government to procure for
| all citizens, without distinction, the rights of
| travel and sojourn in friendly countries, and
we declare ourselvesyin favor of all proper
| efforts tending to that end.