Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-08-05
We Favor.

We Favor.
Legislation which will revive our
merchant marine; the equal enforce
ment OF all laws; an adequate nation
al defense, with navy ample to pro-
| tect all our interests at home and
abroad while favoring arbitration and
businesslike improvement of our
rivers, harbors and waterways, and
such amendment of the antitrust law
as final judicial Interpretation proves
to be necessary for the proper reg
ulation of monopolies.
Employers Liability Laws.
We commend the action OF congress
in their creation of commission to
| investigate the question of employers
liability laws and workmen's compen-
sation acts and to make recommends
tions to the president and to congress.
We believe that industrial accidents
to workmen should be treated as in
evitable incidents to industrial opera
tions and the compensation therefor
as part of the cost of production.
The experience of other countries
demonstrates that this principle can
be applied to our industrial conditions
without increasing the burdens of in
dustry.
Conservation Of Resources.
We endorse the principle of con-
servation of our natural resources and
cordially endorse the action of the
present congress in enacting, and of
President Taft in approving, legisla-
ton along this line. We refer par
ticularly, first, to the act of congress
comforting upon the president express
power to withdraw public lands from
entry and settlement whenever the
public welfare demands. and, second,
to the act separating the surface from
the coal and authorizing agricultural
homestead entries on lands heretofore
withdrawn from entry or settlement,
under coal lands classification. Under
this act millions of acres of the public
domain can be entered by homestead
ers and limited patent to the surface
granted, reserving the title to the
coal in the federal government for
future disposition in accordance with
law.
Disfranehisement.
We demand the enforcement of ex-
listing laws and the enactment of new
laws for the protection, wise use and
conservation of the natural resources
under the control of the federal gov
ernment. These resources, such as
the coal deposits of Alaska, woter-
ipove % anu reserv~ir sites, should be
developed under a system by which
any abuses of monopoly can be avoid
ed, eXtortion from the consumer pre-
vented, and just compensation to the
public obtained. We demand equal
= justice for all men without regard
to race or color. We declare once
more and without reservation for the
enforcement in letter and spirit of
the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fiji.
teenth amendments to the constitu'
ton, which were designed for the pro-
lection and advancement of the ne
gro, and we condemn all devices
which have for their real aim his
disfranchisement and that for reason
of color alone, as unfair, un-American
and repugnant to the supreme law oi
the land.
Pension Legislation.
The survivors of the Civil war
whose ranks are rapidly thinning, de
serve the nations gratitude and sup
port in their declining years. We ia
: vor further generous pension legisla
3 tion and liberal administration of al
t pension laws. The Republican party
has enacted all general pension legis
< lation on the statute books and will
: not fail in continued recognition o.
t the services rendered by the brave
men who saved the Union, and VIZ
v denounce the sinecure declaration o
g the Ohio Democratic convention in it:
recent platform in favor of certain
|. dollar day pension bill alleged tt
n have been introduced in the Sixtietl
congress by an Ohio Democratic mem
s ber, whereas no such dollar day bill
v was introduced by him.
State Legislation Favored.
: We favor assessing all property
real and personal, at it's true value il
money and limiting the tax rate TO
all purposes to ten mills.
Supervision and regulation of al
> public utilities by commission giving
> to municipalities the right of hom
rule and to the people the right t
!. vote direct on the granting of publ
S franchises. Legislation for establish
n ing good roads for the benefit of al
s. the people of the state.
l. The administration of our state ii
e tsitutions on strictly business prir
# ciples. Such codificatian and rsvisio
of the tax laws of the state as Wi
n equalize the burdens of taxation an
|. make property of all kinds bear it
It just share.
a. A state law requiring the publicit
t. of campaign contributions. The rat
If fication of the income tax amendmen
" to the Federal constitution. Indiyil