The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-10-22
Change Of Injunction
Law Urged.
GUARANTEE DEPOSITS.
Ia Eight Hour Day For Govern.
ment Laborers.

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Valuation Of Railroads Should Be
Made on the Basis Of Physical
Property-A Revision Of the Tariff
Observation-Disclosures Of Asiatics
Unable to AmaIsamate With Ameri-
can Population opposed-Visorous
Enforcement Of the Criminal Law
Against Guilty Trust Masnates and
Officials Acknowledgment Pub
lie Extrsvaganee Condemned and
eusinesslits Economy Urged.
We. the representatives of the Demo.
Gratis of the United States, in national
convention assembled, reaf1irm our be-
lief in and pledge our loyalty to the
principles Of the party.
We rejoice at the increasing signs of
IN awakening throughout the country.
The various investigations have traced
graft and political corruption to the
representatives of predatory wealth
and laid bare the INSCRIPTIONS methods
by which they have debauched elec-
lions and preyed upon q defenseless
public through the subservient officials
whom they have raised to place and
power.
The console nee Of the nation is now
aroused to free the government from
the grip Of those who have made It q
business asset Of the favor seeking cor
porattons; 1t must become again q PEG.
PIES government and be administered
IN all its departments according to tile
Senersonian maxim, Equal rights to
Ill and special privileges to .none."
SHALL the people ruler" 1: the over.
shadowing issue which manifests itself
tn all the questions now under discus.
sion.
The courts Of JUS
labor and In. tice are the bulwark
functions. Of our liberties and
we yield to none in
our purpose to maintain their dignity.
Our party has given to the bench a
long line of distinguished Judges, who
have added to the respect and con.
ddence in which this department must
be 5ealously maintained. We resent
the attempt Of the Republican party to
raise false issues respecting the Judi
cdary. 1t is an unjust reflection upon
q great body Of our citizens to assume
that they lack respect for the courts.
1t Is the function of the courts to In.
terpret the laws. which the people Gre
ate. and If the laws appear to work
economic, social or political Injustice
It 10 our duty to change them. TIE
only basis upon which the integrity. Of
our courts can stand is that of nm.
swerving justice and protection of life,
personal liberty and property. II ju.
0lcial processes may be abused. we
should guard them against abuse.
Experience has proved the necessity
o. a mobilization Of the present law re-
tat1ng to injunctions. and we reiterate
The pledge Of our national platforms Of
1880 aud 1904 In favor Of the measure
which passed the United States senate
IN 1885. but which Republican COD
gress has ever since refused to enact:
relating to contempts in federal courts
ana providing for trial by jury In cases
Of indirect contempt.
Questions Of judicial practice have
arisen especially In connection with in.
aostrtaI disputes. We deem that the
parties to all judicial proceedings should
be treated with rigid impartlality and
that injunctions should not be issued in
any cases in which injunctions would
not Issue II no Industrial dispute were
involved.
The expanding organization of indus.
ny makes it essential that there should
be no abridgment Of the right of wage
earners and producers to organize for
the protection Of wages and the i'm.
provement Of labor conditions, to the
end that such labor organizations and
their members should not be regarded
rs illegal combinations in restraint of
trade.
We favor the eight hour day on all
government work.
We pledge the Democratic party to
the enactment Of law by congress, as
Tar as the federal jurisdiction extends.
Tor general employers liability act,
covering injury to body or loss Of life
OF employees.
We pladge the Democratic party to
the enactment Of a law creating a DE-
Sartment Of labor, represented sepa.
rately in the presidents cabinet, which
department shall include the subject Of
mines and mining.
We welcome the
1ar'". belated promise Of
~ tariff reform now a.
Republican party In tar.
= Of the Righteousness q
&c position on this ques
people cannot safely In.
"ation Of this important
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