The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-07-17


market manipulation and has failed to
give to the Is 100000 depositors of the
country protection in their savings.
We believe that in so far as the needs
Of commerce 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-
lish guaranty fund for the prompt pay
ment of the depositors Of any insOlvent
national bank under an equitable syS-
TEN which shall be available to all state
banking institutions wishing to use it.
We favor postal savings bank, If the
guaranteed bank cannot be secured. 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 Republican party in
proposing postal savings banks under a
plan Of conduct by which they will ag
gregate the deposits Of rural communities
and redepOSit the same while under GOV
"rOment ch%rse in the banks of Wall
street thus depicting the circulating mo
dunn Of the producing regions and I'M
Justly faVUring the speculative markets
Income Tax.
We favor an Income tax rs part of our
revenue system, and We urge the sub
mission Of constitutional amendment
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and collect a tax upon individual and
corporate incomes. to the end that
wealth may bear its prOpnrtiouate share
Of the burdens Of the federal govern
ment
Labor and lniunctions.
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 long
line Of distinguished judges. who have
added to the respect and confidence in
which this department must be jealousy
maintained We resent the attempt of
the Republican party to raise false is
sues respecting the judiciary. 1t is an
unjust reflection upon a great body of
our citizens 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 If the laws
appear to work economic. social or pO-
litlCal injustice IT is our duty to change
them The only basis upon which the
integrity of our courts can stand is that
of answering justice and protection of
life. personal liberty and property. If
judicial processes may be abused we
should guard against abuse
Experience has proven the necessity of
a modification of the present law relating
to iniunctions, and We reiterate the
pledge Of our national platforms of 1896
and 1904 in favor of the measure which
passed the United States senate in 1885,
but which a Republican congress has
ever since refused to enact relating to
Contempts in federal courts and provid-
ing for trial by jury in cases Of indirect
contempt. Questions of judicial practice
have arisen especially in connection with
industrial disputes. We deem that par
ties to all judicial proceedings should be
treated with rigid impartality and that
injunctions should not be issued in any
case in which injunctions would not issue
if no industrial dispute We're involved.
The expanding organization of industry
makes 1t essential that there should be no
abrdgment of the right of wage-earners
and producers to organize for the pro-
lection 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
binations in restraint of trade.
We favor the eight-hOur day on all
government work.
We pledge the Democratic party to
the enactment Of a law by congress, as
far as the federal jurisdiction extends.
for general employers liability act
covering injury to body or loss of life
of employees.
We pledge the Democratic party to
the enactment of a law creating a de-
partment of labor represented Sepa-
rately in the presidents cabinet, which
department shall include the subject
VI HliHeS anu mining.
Merchant Marine.
We believe in the upbuilding Of the
American and merchant marine with
out new or additional burdens upon the
people and without bounties from the
public treasury.
The Navy.
The constitutional provision that
navy shall be provided and maintained
means 3n adequate navy. and we be-
lieve that the interests of this country
would be best served by having navy
sufficient to defend the coasts of this
country and protect American citizens
wherever their rights may be in
jeopardy.
Protection of American Citizens.
We pledge ourselves to insist upon
the just and lawful protection of our
citizens at home and abroad and to use
all proper methods to secure for them.
whether native born or naturalized,
and without distinction of race or
creed. the equal protection of law and
the enjoyment Of all rights and priv
ileges open to them under our treaty;
and If. under existing treaties the
right Of travel and sojourn is denied to
American citizens or recognition is
withheld from American passports by
any countries on the ground of race or
creed. we favor prOmnt negotiations
with the governments of such countries
to secure the removal of these unjust
determinations.
We demand that all over the world
n duly authorized passport issued by
the government of the United States
to an American citizen shall be proof
of the fact that he is an American citi-
zen and shall entitle him to the treat
ment due him as such.
Civil Service.
The laws pertaining to the civil serv-
ice should be honestly and rightly en-.
forced, to the end that merit and abi-
ty shall be the standard of appointment
and promotion rather than services
rendered to political party.
Pensions.
We favor a generous pension policy.
both AS matter of justice to the sur
Viving veterans and their dependents
and because 1t tends to relieve the
country of the necessity of maintaining
a large standing army.
Health Bureau.
We advocate the organize ton of all
existing national public health agencies
into a national bureau of public health
lions connected with factories. mines
tenements. child labor and other such
subjects as are properly within the jur-
isdiction Of the federal government and
do not interfere with the power of the
states controlling public health
agencies.
Agricultural and Mechanical Education.
The Democratic party favors the ex-
tension of agricultural mechanical and
industrial education. We, therefore,
favor the establishment of district