The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1912-09-19

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subject to amendment whenever the
needs and necessities OF the times and
the people demand it.
We declare our allegiance to the
pi 4ntIl4es of tariff for the protection
of American industries and labor.
Where the tari.i late is higher than
the difference in the cost of produc-
ton here and abroad, the present tar
iff should be Immediately revised
downward, SO that the manufacturer
and producer shall secure only
enough protection to pay the scale of
| high wages which obtains and ought
to obtain in this country, and secure
reasonable profit from the business.
The investigation should be made
scientifically by non-partisan tariff
board, after full inquiry touching each
particular article to the end that tar
| if revision may be taken out of the
realm of politics.
| We favor law defining the liabili-
ty of employers, and fixing the COM
pensation for accidents or death of
employees received in the course OF
their employment, or in lieu thereof,
a law establishing an employees in
demnity insurance fund to be admin
istered by the state.
We favor the immediate and strict
enforcement of every antitrust law
on the federal and state statute books
and the enactment of such additional
measures or amendments as may be
necessary to eradicate the evil.
We favor law by which the people
may express their preference for par
'|ty candidates for president and vice
president, the election of delegates to
presidential conventions, and the nom-
nation of presidential electors by d.
rect vote.
We favor a law to provide for all
party nominations by direct vote of
the people.
We favor law to instruct the men,
bers of the legislature assembly to
vote for and elect candidates selected
by the people for United States sena-
tor from Montana; and we urgently
request all republican nominees for
the legislative assembly in the coming
election to promptly sign and file
statement No. l, provided for by the
last legislature.
We favor the law now being initial
ed, to limit candidates election ex-
penses; to define, prevent and punish
corrupt and illegal practices in NOM
nations and elections; to secure and
protect the purity OF the ballot, etc.
We favor the passage by the legisla-
tive assembly, of a joint memorial,
ratifying the proposed amendment to
the constitution of the United States,
providing for the election OF United
States senators by direct vote of the
people.
We recommend that the legislative
assembly of Montana, as soon as pos
sible, submit to the voters of the state
a constitutional amendment providing
that the state constitution be amended
by striking out from section 2 of ar
ticle TX, the word male"
We favor the establishment of ma
tiOnal department of labor.
We favor the ratification of the
amendment to the federal constitution
giving the government power to levy
and collect an income tax.
We favor national inheritance tax
on large inheritances.
We favor law prohibiting trial
courts from deciding law suits other
wise than upon their merits; and pro
hibiting the reversal of any cause on
appeal, where the record shows that
substantial justice has already been
done.
We favor complete revision of the
laws of the state of Montana so tina,
obsolete and useless provisions there
of, may be eliminated, technical re
quirements of practice dispensed with
court procedure simplified, and incon
sistent and conflicting provisions re
pealed; to the end and with the object
of securing to the people substantial
justice free from useless legal technic
alities.
We favor the enactment of a law
clearly defining all crimes and the
abolition of degrees of the same
crime, to the end that juries may moi
| be confused by technical definitions Of
: crime. Punishment, in case of convic
ton, should be imposed in accordance
| with the circumstances of mitigation
| or aggravation disclosed by the evi
: dence, rather than according to arbi
trarily fixed degrees of the same of
tense.
5 We favor the immediate passage OF
a law enabling the state of Montana
l and all of the state institutions, to re
| ceive devises and requests of pro
perty
We favor the immediate repeal OF
the law providing for reciprocity with
, Canada.
l We favor a continuation of the repub
; lican policy of pensioning American
= soldiers and sailors.
We favor the prohibition of the is
: suance of injunctions in labor disputes
i, under any other conditions or circum
2 stances than would apply We're the
1 disputes of any other or different
l character.
l We favor the enactment of Law