The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-08-06
issues Of bonds and other forms of cor
poration frauds


| We denouuce the so-called labor
! blanks Of the Republican ana Demo-
| cratic platforms as polltlcal puncoInpe
| and contemplate clap-trap, unworthy
/ of national parties claiming to De serl-
! Gus and sincere. .
The Republican declaration that mo
/ Injunction or temporary restraining
/ order should be issued without notice
/ except where irreparable injury woulu
/ result from delay" is empty Verblage
! for a showing Of irreparable injury
/ can always be made ana is always
made in eXparte afdaVlts.
The Democratic declaration that in
functions should not be issued In any
case in which injunction should not
issue If no Industrial dispute were In
volyed" is meaningless and worthless
such insincere and meaningless declar-
atoms place a low estimate upon the
intelligence of the average working
man and exhibit either Ignorance OF, or
Indifference To. the real interests of
labor.
The Independence party condemns
the arbitrary use of the writ or IN
junction and contempt proceedings as
violation of the fundamental Ameri-
can right of trial by jury
The Currency.
The Independence party declares
that the right to issue money Is inner
ent in the government, and II favors
the establishment of a central govern
mental bank through which the money
so issued shall be put into general cir
culation.
The Tariff.
We demand a revision of the tariff,
not by the friends of the tariff, but by
the friends OF the people, and declare
for a gradual reduction of tariff duties
with just consideration for the rights
Of the consuming public and of estab-
lished industry. There should be no
protection for oppressive trusts which
sell cheaply abroad and take advantage
of the tariff at home TO crush compe
tition, raise prices. control production
and limit work and wages
The Railroads.
The railroads must be kept open to
all upon exactly equal terms. Every
form of rebate and discrimination and
railroad rates is n crime against bust
ness and must be stamped out We de-
mand adequate railroad facilities and
advocate a bill empowering shippers,
in time of need, to compel railroads to
provide sufficient cars for freight and
passenger traffic and other railroad IA
cilities. through summary appeal to
the courts. We favor the creation of
an interstate commerce court, whose
sole function it shall be to ,reyiew
speedily and enforce summarily the or
ders of the interstate comerce commits
sion. The interstate commerce COM
mission should have the power to ini-
tate investigation into the reasonable
ness of rates and practices, and no in
crease in rates should be put into eff
tigation is afforded. The interstate
commerce commission should proceed
at once with a physical valuation of
railroads engaged in interstate COM
merce.
The Trusts.
We believe that legitimate organiza-
ton in business designed to secure an
economy of operation and increased
production are beneficial wherever the
public participates in the advantages
which result.
We denounce all combinations for re-
straint of trade and for the establish
ment of monopoly In all products Of
labor, and declare that such combina-
tons are not combinations for produce
ton, but for extortion, and that activ-
ity in this direction is not industry.
but robbery.
In cases of infractions of the anti
trust laws of the interstate commerce
act, We believe In the enforcement Of a
prison penalty against the guilty and
responsible individuals controlling the
management of the offending corpora
lions, rather than a fine imposed upon
stockholders.
Public Ownership.
We advocate the extension Of the
principle OF public ownership of public
utilities. including railroads, as rap
ldly as municipal. state or national
government shall demonstrate ability
TO conduct public utilities for the pub
lie benefit.
National Resources.
We rejoice in the adoption by both
the Democratic and Republican plat
forms of the demand OF the Indepen-
dence party for improved waterways
and the Mississippi inland deep water-
ways project. TO complete a ship chan
mel from the gulf to the great lakes.
we favor the extension OF this system
TO the tributaries of the Mississippi nv
means OF which thirty states shall be
served and twenty thousand miles
added to the coast line OF the United
states. The reclamation of arid lands
should be continued and the irrigation
ProSfamme now contemplated by the
government extended and steps taken
Tor the conservation OF the country's
natural resources, which should be
guarded not only against devastati ton
anu waste. but against falling into
the control of monopoly The abuse
growing out of the administration of
our forest preserves must be corrected
and provision should be made for fres
grazing from the public lands outside
OF forest reservations In behalf ~
tue people residing in arid portions Of
our western states we protest vienr~
ouslY against the policy OF the Federal
government In selling the excIusiya
use or water and electric mower da
rived from public works to nrivate
corporations, thus creating "a mononoiy
and subJecting citizens living in tboso
sections to exorbitnnt charges for 1jght
ana power and divertinR enternrises
primarily started for public benefit ~
the channels of corporate greed ana
oppression. and we demand that NO
more exclusive contracts be made.