Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-16

| the b-y.is OF bank currency and inviting
market manipulation, and has failed 70
Country protection in their savings.
We believe that in so far as the needs
of require an emergency cur
rency, such currency should be issued.
/ controlled by the federal government
and loaned on adequate security to ma
tional and state banks. We pledge our
selves to legislation under which the ma
tional banks shall be required to estab-
fish a guaranty fund for the prompt pay
ment of the depositors of any insolvent
national bank under an equitable sys-
tenn which shall be available to all state
| banking institutions wishing TO use IL.
We favor a postal savings bank, II the
guaranteed bank cannot be secured, and
that it be constituted so as 10 keep the
where it is established. But we condemn
the policy of the Republican party in
proposing postal savings banks under a
plan &C conduct by which they VIII ag-
gregate the deposits of rural communities
and redeposit the same while under gov,
eminent charge in the banks of wall
street, thus depicting the circulating me
dunn of the producing regions and I'M
Justly ~favoring the speculative markets.
Income Tax.
We favor an income tax as part of our
revenue system, and we urge the sub
mission of a constitutional amendment
specifically authorizing congress to levy
and collect a tax upon individual and
corporate incomes, to the end that
wealth may bear its propDrtionate share
of the burdens of the federal govern
Labor and Iniunctions.
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 Ions
line of distinguished judges, who have
added to the respect and confidence il
which this department must be 1eaiouslS
maintained. We resent the attempt o.
A. DA~.LIt4n@ No ~ IN rn1Gn fllCn 1G
sues respecting the judiciary. 1t is al
unjust reflection upon a great body o
our citizens to assume that they lacl
respect for the courts. 1t is the function
of the courts to interpret the law
/, which the people create, and If the law
appear to work economic, social or po
litical Injustice it is our duty to chang
3 them. The only basis upon which tn
! integrity of our courts can stand is tina
OF answering justice and protection 0
: life, personal liberty and property u
judicial processes may be abused W
should guard against abuse,
/ Experience has proven the necessity &
a modification of the present law relatln
to injunctions, and we relterate "
. pledge of our national platforms OF III
! and 1904 in favor of the measure WING
: passed the United States senate in 1883
= but which a Republican congress ha
3 ever since refused to enact, relating I
{ contempts in federal courts and provit
ing for trial by jury in cases of indire,t
Q contempt. Questions of judicial practit
e have arisen especially in connection wit
4 ties to all judicial proceedings should
e treated with rigid impartiality and tn;
4 injunctions should not be issued in ar
case in which injunctions would not 1ssl
q il no Industrial dispute were involved.
a The expanding organization of industl
= makes it essential that there should be I
n abridgment of the right of Wage-earne
= and producers to organic for the pr
n lection of wages and the improvemel
of labor conditions to the end that sue
IF labor organizations and their membe
should not be regarded as illegal con
IL binations in restraint of trade.
We favor the eight-hour day on a
h government work.
re We pledge the Democratic party
al the enactment of a law by congress,
IF far as the federal jurisdiction eXtenc
Iy for a general employers liability a
n covering injury to body or loss of Ii
ID We pledge the Democratic party
In the enactment of a law creating a d
partment of labor. represented sep
ia rately in the presidents cabinet. viii
department shall include the subJe
ne of mines and mining.
e. Merchant Marine.
n We believe in the upbuilding of t
Ia American and merchant marine wit
ne out new or additional burdens upon t
people and without bountieS from I
" public treasury.
ns The Navy.
The constitutional provision that
navy shall be provided and maintain
:, means an adequate navy: and we !
lie lieve that the interests of this count
or would be best served by having a ma
n sufficient to defend the coasts of Il
.es country and protect American cltlze
wherever their rights may be
jeopardy.
or protection of American Citizens.
M We pledge ourselves to insist UT
wv the just and lawful protection or
,rs citizens at home and abroad and to
I'd, all proper methods to secure for tn
nut whether native born or naturaliz
to and without. distinction of race
creed, the equal protection of law {
ms the enjoyment of all rights and pr
Ike ileges open to them under our trea
or and If, under existing treaties:
err right of travel and s%ojourn is denied
raj American citizens or recognition
to withheld from American passports
he any countries on the ground of race
to creed. we favor prompt negotiate
,ck with the governments of such COUNT
or to secure the remova of these unl
of determinations.
We demand THAT all over the VIC
I'd, a July authorized passport, issued
po- the government Of the United Sta
all to ar American, citizen SHAH pc pr
ms, of the fact that he is an American c
of zen and shall entitle him to the tire
ment due him as such.
Civil Service.
to The laws pertaining to the civil sc
ice should be honestly and rigidly
iSl forced, 10 I1e emu llldI IItill oiu u
m ty shall be the standard Of appointm
and promotion rather than serv
the rendered to q political party
IN pouo.
lpef
as We favor a generous pension pol
i'm both as a matter of justice to the s
viving veterans and their depend'
and and because it tends to relieve
.ged country of the necessity of maintain
this a large standing army.
of Health Bureau.
cree a. orror;,o+ion of
W. existing national public health agen
orn ny into a national bureau of public hes
with such power over sanitary CO.
Lnai tons connected with factories. mi
""u tenements, child labor and other 5
p ~ isdiction of the federal government
III do not interfere with the power of
ttip"1n states controlling public he
a.; agencies.
will Agricultural and Mechanical Ed4 men,
= of tension of agricultural, mechanical
d. Industrial education. We, there
we favor the establishment OF d1s
+ine agricultural experiment stations,
avn1 secondary agricultural and mechal
colleges in the several states.
,ses Popular Election of Senator's:
tn We favor the election of "
ON States senators by direct vote OF
itia- PeQPle, a4 IT, national reform,
ans sa.e""S " ~
the We welcome Oklahoma to the 81:
Its hood of states and heartily congr
late her on the suspicious beginnin
pc a great career.
ores- Arizona and New Mexico.
e by The national Democratic party
state for the last 16 years labored for
ower admission of Arizona and New Nj
com as separate states of the federal u
pper. and, recognizing that each poss'