The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-07-16

loaned on adequate security to national
and state banks. We pledge ourselves to
legislation under which the national banks
shall be required to establish a guarantee
fund for the prompt payment of the de-
posters OF any tnsolvent national bank,
under an equitable system, which shall
be available to all state banking institu-
tons wishing to use IL.
We favor a postal savings bank IL the
guarantee bank cannot be secured, and
that II be constituted SO as to keep the
deposited money In the communities where
1t Is established. Blu we condemn the
policy of the republican party in propos-
Ing postal savings banks under a plan
of conduct by which they will absorb the
deposits OF rural communities and rede-
post the same, while under government
charge, in the banks OF Wall street, thus
depicting the circulating medium of the
producing regions and unjustly 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
and collect a tax upon Individual and cor
porate incomes, to the end that wealth
may bear its proportionate share Of the
burdens OF the federal government.
Labor and lnjunotions.
The courts Of justice are the bulwark
our purpose to maintain their dignity. Our
party has given 20 the bench a long line
Of distinguished Judges who nave added
TO the respect and confidence In which
tanned. We resent the attempt Of the re-
publican party to raise a false issue re-
specting the judiciary. II Is an unjust
reflection upon a great body Of our citi-
Gems 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 IL the laws appear to work
economic social or political injustice 1t
IS our duty to change them. The only
basis upon which the integrity OF our
courts can stand Is that of unswerying
justice and protection Of life, personal lib
erty n property. If judicial processes
may be abused, we should guard them
against abuse. af ~
Experience has proven the necessity of
a modification OF the present law relating
pledges 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 con-
tempts 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 Indus
trial disputes. We deem that the parties
to all judicial proceeding1 should be treat
ed with, rigid impartiality and that in
functions should not be issued in any
cases In which inJunctions would not is
sue II no industrial dispute were involved.
Inc expanding organization of industry
makes 1t essential that there should be no
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
restraint of trade.
We favor the eight-hour day on all gov
I'M work. .
We pledge the democratic party to the
enactment of a law by congress as far as
the federal Jurisdiction extends for a gen.
eral employers liability act covering in
jury to body or loss OF life of employees.
ws pee1se the a Gem moe party deSa 70 enc
OF labor, represented separately in the
presidents cabinet, which department
include the subject Of mines and
mining.
Merchant Marine.
. We believe in the upbuilding of the
or additional burdens upon the people and
without bounties from the public treasury.
The Navy.
The constitutional provision that a navy
shall be provided and maintained
an adequate navy and we believe that. the
served by having a navy sufficient to de-
fend the coasts of this country n pro-
tect American citizens wherever their
may be in jeopardy.
Protection Of American Citizens.
We pledge ourselves to insist upon just
and awful protection of our citizens at
home and abroad and to use all proper
to secure for them, whether ma
tive born or naturalized n without dis
of race or creed, the equa pro-
lection of law and the enjoyment of all
rights and privileges open to them under
our treaty; and IL, under existing treaties,
the right OF travel n sojourn is denied to
American citizens or recognition is with
held from American passports by any
on the ground of race or creed
we favor prompt negotiations with the
governments of such countries to secure
the removal of these unjust discrimina-
tons. We demand that all over the world
a duly authenticated passpor Issued by
government. of the United States to
fact that he is an American citizen and
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 the
political party.
Pensions.
We favor a generous pension policy,
both as a matter of justice TO the surVtV-
ing veterans and their dependents and be-
cause 1t tends to relieve the country of
the necessity Of maintaining a large
standing army.
Health Bureau.
We advocate the organization Of all ex-
listing national public health agencies into
a national bureau of public health, with
such power over sanitary conditions con-
nected with factories, mines, tenements,
child labor and such other subjects as are
properly within the jurisdiction of the
federal, government and do not interfere
with the power of the state controlling
public health agencies.
The democratic party favors the extern
cational' Industry. We, therefore, favor
the establishment of district agricultural
experiment stations and secondary agri-
cultural and mechanical colleges in the
several states.
Popular Election Of Senators.
We favor the election of United States
senators by direct vote of the people and
regard his reform as h gateway to
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