Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-16

stantially disappeared. In this con-
nection we commend the appropriation
of $S50,000 by the present congress in
order to enable the interstate COM
merce commission to thoroughly inves-
tigate and to give publicity to ac-
counts of interstate railroads. We
believe, however. the Interstate COM
merce law should be further amended
so as to give railroads the right to
make and publish tariff agreements,
subject to approval by the commission,
but maintaining always the principles
of competition between naturally COM
peting lines and avoiding the common
control of such lines by any means
whatsoever, and especially favor the
enactment of such legislation as will
prevent by federal restrictions the
future over issue of stocks and bonds
by interstate carriers
"The enactment by constitutional
form, by the present session Of con-
gress of the employers liability law the
passage and enforcement Of the safety
appliance statutes, as we'll as addi-
tional protection secured for engineers
and firemen; the reduction in the hours
of laborers, trainmen, and railroad
telegraphers; successful exercise of the
powers of mediation and arbitration
between interstate commerce and rail-
roads and their employees; and law
making beginning in the policy OF
compensation for injured employees Of
the government, are among the most
commendable accomplishments of the
present administration.
WORK ONLY JUST BEGUN.
But there Is further work in this
direction yet to be done. and the re-
publican party pledges its devotion to
every cause that makes for safety and
betterment Of the condition among
to the progress and welfare Of the
country. The same wise policy which
has induced the republican party to
maintain protection to American labor;
to establish an eight hour day in the
construction Of all public work; to
increase the list of employees who shall
have a preferred claim for wages under
the bankruptcy laws; to adopt an ade-
quate child labor statute for the Dis
trict of Columbia; to direct investiga-
tion into the conditions Of working
women and children, and later, en-
ployes Of the telegraph and telephone
companies, engaged in interstate bus
mess: to appropriate $150,0O0 at the
recent session of congress in order to
secure thorough inquiry into the
causes Of catastrophes and loss Of
life in mines: and to amend and
strengthen the law prohibiting the Inn
portation Of contract labor, will be pur-
sued in every legitimate direction with !,
in federal authority, to lighter the bur-
dens and increase the opportunity for
happiness and advancement of all who |
toll.
GOOD CITIZENSHIP ABOVE AL.
''The republican party recognizes
the special needs Of wage workers
well-being for ALL But more important
than all other considerations, is that
of good citizenship. and we especially
stand for the needs of every American,
whatever his occupation, in his capac-
ity as a well-respecting citizen.
WELFAFE IMPORTANT.
Among these whose welfare is as
vital as the welfare Of the whole coun-
try, as is that of the wage Garner, is the
American farmers prosperity. The
whole 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 government to the aid Of the
farmer. Not only in advancing agricul-
ture itself, but in increasing the con-
veniences of rural life, in order to at
tract farmers sons and daughters to-
ward, rather than away, from the farm,
have the energies Of the administration
been engaged. .
Free rural mail delivery was estab-
ished over earnest democratic opposi-
ton; it now reaches millions of our
and we favor its extension
until every community in the land re-
;eives the full benefits of the postal
service
NECESSITY OF GOOD ROADS.
I'VE recognize the social and eco
1omical advantage Of good country
ic expense, and less and less at the
expense of the abutting owners. In this
work we recommend the growing fac
ors of state aid, and believe in such
rational assistance as can be appro-
rendered.
OF THE NEGRO,
'We declare for such amendments of
statutes and procedure in the federal
courts with respect to the use Of the
writ of injunction, as will, on one hand,
prevent the summary issue Of such or !
lers without proper consideration, and
m the other, will preserve the undi-
power of the courts to en-
orce their process to the end that JUS
ice may be done at all times, and to
II parties. The republican party has
zen for more than fifty years con-
istent friend of the American negro {
gave him freedom and citizenship 1t y
vrote into the organic law of the land
declarations that proclaim his civil Y
nd political rights, and 1t believes to- {
ay that his noteworthy progress in in
diligence, industry and good citizen {
hip, has earned the respect and en- c
engagement of the nation. We de- v
land equal justice for all men, without S
egard to race or color We approve I
ne efforts of President Roosevelt and r
he republican majority in congress, E
yer solid democratic opposition, to
ecure equal accommodations on rail-
Dads and other public carriers for all c
itizens, whether white or black We S
eclare once more, without reserva-
on, for the enforcement, in spirit and S
,tter, of all those amendments to the r
onstitution which were designed for v
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