The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-07-16

ments of traffic or other associations
of railway agents affecting interstate
rates, service or classification, shall
be unlawful unless filed with and ap-
proved by the interstate commerce
commission.
I'VE favor the enactment of a law
giving to the interstate commerce
commission the power to inspect pro-
posed railroad tariff rates or sched-
ules before they shall take effect and,
if they be found to be unreasonable
to initiate an adjustment thereof.
Banking.
"The panic OF 1907, coming without
any legitimate excuse, when the Re-
publican party had for a decade been
in complete control of the federal
government, furnishes additional proof
that it is either unwilling or incom-
petent to protect the interests of the
general public. 1t has SO linked the
country to Wall street that the sins
of the spectators are visited upon
the whole people, While refusing to
rescue the wealth producers from
spoliation at the hands of the stock
gamblers and spectators in farm
products, it has deposited treasury
funds, without interest and without
competition, in favorite banks. 1t
has used an emergency for which it
is largely responsible to force through
congress a bill changing the basis of
bank currency and inviting market
manipulation, and has failed to give to
the 100000 deposltors of the coun.
try protection in their savings
I'VE believe that insofar as the
needs Of commerce require an emer.
gency currency, such currency should
be issued, controlled by the federal
government and loaned on adequate
security to national and state banks
We pledge ourselves to legislation I'M
der which the national banks shall be
required to establish a guarantee
fund for the prompt payment of the
depositors of any insolvent national
bank, under an equitable system
which shall be available to all state
banking institutions wishing to use it.
I'VE favor a postal savings bank. if
the guaranteed bank cannot be Sc
cured, and that it be constituted so as
to keep the deposited money in the
communities where it is established.
But we condemn the policy of the Re-
publican party in providing postal
savings banks under plan of conduct
by which they will aggregate the de-
posits of rural communities and re-
deposit the same while under govern
ment charge in the banks of Wall
street, thus depicting the circulating
medium of the producing regions and
unjustly favoring the speculative mar.
ketS.
Labor and lnjunctions.
"The courts Of justice are the bull
wark 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 who have added to the respect
and confidence in which this depart
ment must be zealously maintained.
We resent the attempt of the Repub-
lican party to raise false issue re-
specting the judiciary. 1t is an unjust
reflection upon great body of our
citizens to assume that they lack re-
spect for the courts. 1t is the func-
ton of the courts to interpret the
laws which the people create, and if
the laws appear to work economical,
social or political injustice, it is our
duty to change them. The only basis
upon which the integrity of our courts
cto &c hot of nrxyir, i,,c.
tice and protection of life, personal
liberty and property. If judicial proc
esses may be abused, we should guard
them against abuse.
Experience has proven the neces-
sity of modification of the present
law relating to injunctions and we re-
iterate the pledges of our national
platforms of 1896 and 1904 in favor Of
the measure which passed the United
States senate in 1896, but which Re
publican congress has ever since re-
fused to enact, relating to contempts
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
the parties to all judicial proceedings
should be treated with rigid impartial.
ity and that injunctions should not be
issued in any case in which injunc-
tons would not issue if no industrial
| dispute were involved.
THE expanding organization of in
dustry makes it essential that there
| should be no Arrangement of the
| right of wage earners and producers
| to organize for the protection Of
wages and the improvement of labor
conditions, to the end that such labor
| organizations and their members
should not be regarded as illegal com.
hinations in restraint of trade.
| I'VE favor the eight-hour day on all
| government work.
we pledge the Democratic party
to the enactment of law by con-
gress, as far as the federal jurisdic-