The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-07-16
TIE PLATFORM ADOPTED
Favors Injunctions in La
Dor Disputes Only I'm
der Restrictions.
PROSECUTE TRUSTS
For Revision of Tarifr-Want Valua-
ton of Railroads Made on Basis of
Physical Property. To Guaran-
tee Dcposits-Against Immigration
of Asiatics.

Convention Hall. Denver, July 10.
The platform was presented to the
convention soon after midnight and
adopted as follows
We. the representatives of the
Democrats OF the United States, in
National convention assembled, reaf-
firm our belief in and pledge our 10y
atty to the principals of the party.
We rejoice at the increasing signs
ot an awakening Throughout the
country. The various Investigations
have traced graft and political cor
ruption to the representatives of
predatory wealth, and laid bare the
INSCRIPTIONS methods by which they
have debauched elections and preyed
upon a defenceless public. through
the subservient officials whom they
have raised to place and power.
The conscience of the Nation is
now aroused to free the Government
from the grip of those who have
made made 1t business asset of the
favor-seeking corporations; it must
become again peoples Government,
and be administered in all its depart
mcnts according to the Jeffersonian
maxim. Equal rights to all and
special privileges to none"
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 a long line of distin-
gushed Judges, who have added to
the respedt and confidence to which
this department must be jealousy
maintained. We resent the attempt
or the Republican party to raise
false issues respecting the judiciary.
1t is an unjust reflection on great
body of our citizens to assume that
they lack respect for the courts.
Questions of judicial practice have
arisen especially in connection with
industrial disputes. We deem that
the parties to all industrial proceed
ings should be treated with rigid i'm
partiality. and that injunctions
should not be issued in any cases in
which injunctions would not issue
If no industrial suit were involved.
We 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 Fed-rc' juris-
diction extends, for a General EN-
ployers Liability act, covering injury
to body or loss of life by employees.
We pledge the Democratic Party
to the enactment of a law creating a
Department of Labor. represented
separately in the Presidents Cabinet,
which department shall include the
subject of mines and mining.
We favor immediate revision of
the tariff by the reduction of import
duties. Articles entering into COM
petition with trust-controlled prod
ucts should be placed upon the free
list, and material reductions should
be made in the tariff upon the neces-
saries of life, especially upon articles
competing with such American man
Ciactures as are sold abroad more
cheaply than at home and graduate
| reductions should be made in such
| such other schedules as may be nee
essary 20 restore the Tariff to a reve-
nue. basis.
Existing duties have given to the
manufacturers OF paper a shelter be-
| hind which they have organized COM
| binations to raise the price of pulp
and of paper. thus imposing a tax
| upon the spread of knowledge. We
| demand the immediate repeal of the
tariff on pulp. print paper. lumber,
timber, and logs, and that these ar
ticles be placed uron the free liz.
| We demand that the House of Rep
resentatives shall again become de-
| Lucrative body. controlled by a ma
jority of the peoples representatives,
and not by the Speaker, and we
pledge ourselves to adopt such rules
and regulations to govern the House
OF Representatives as will enable a
majority OF its members to direct its
deliberations and control legislation
Publicity We pledge the Democratic
of Csmpaiyn Party to the enactment of a
| law preventing any corpora
Contributions. tion contributing TO cam
anamoun' above reasonable minimum. and
providing for the publication he ore election Of
all 'uch contributions above n reasonable min =
| mum.
We assert the right Of Con
faiiroao gress 70 exercise complete
Eerulst on. control over Interstate Com
| merce and the right oi each
State to exercise like control over commerce
| within t'S borders. We favor the enactment OF
| u law giving to the Interstate Commerce Com
mission the power to inspect proposed railroad
| tariff rates or schedules before they shall take
| effect and II they be found to be unreasonable
| 10 initiate an adjustment thereof
-. Believing. with jefferson.
| Inc Nights in the support of the state
of the States. Governments in all their
| rights as the most competent
| administration for our domestic concerns, aud
| the surest buwark against anti-republican ten
| dcitcies, and in the preservation OF the gem
erl Government in It's whole constitutional
liFOr ms the sheet anchor of our peace at home
and the sa fety abroad" we are opposed 10 the
Capitalization implied In these sugge 'tions now
| lr9Guinly made, that the powers OF the gene al
Government should be extended by judicial
construction.
| The Republican Congress
| Economy IN In session Just ended has
Administration. made ppropriati onS
| alU. n rl amounting to VI COS 900. 900
| ,sxpa.,IiuU he fntnI py of the fs