The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-09-26

tle parties TO all judicial proceeding
Should be treated with rigid impart
allty and that iniunctions should no
ee issued in any case IN which al
Injunction would no; Issue n no IN
.urs rial dispute we're involved.
The expanding organization OF In
dustrv makes II essential that ther'
should be no abrideement OF TIA
weht of the WAGE earners and pro
aucers TO organize for the protection
or wages and the Improvement o
h hor conditions. TO the end that suc'
labor organizations and their Nom
hers should not be regarded as il
legal combinations in restraint o
trade.
We Tiedgc the Democratic party Z
! the enactment OF a law creating
department Of labor represented sep
afatSy in the presidents cabinet u
which department shall be included
ihe subject of mines and mining
We pledge the Democratic parts
so far as the federal jurisdiction eX
tends TO an employees compensation
law providing adequate indemnity fol
INJURY to body or loss of life.
Conservation
We believe in the conservation
and the development for the use oi
all OF the people Of the natural re
sources Of the country
Our forests. our sources OF water
supply, our mineral lands. our navis
tnle streams and all the other ma
terial resources with which our eoun
Try has been so lavshly endowed
constitute the foundation Of our ma
tional wealth Such additional leg
islation as may be necessary TO pre-
vent their being wasted or absorbed
Dy special or privileged interests
should be enacted and the policy oil
their cons servation should be risid'y
adhered to-
The public domain should be admin
istered and disposed of with due re-
gard to the general welfare. Reser-
vations should he limited TO the pur-
roses which they purport to serve
ard extended to include land unwhol-
lv unsnlted therefor. The unneces-
sarv withdrawal from sale and set
lement OF enormous tracts of public
land in which tree growth never eX.
isted and cannot he promoted tends
only 10 retard development, create
and bring reproach upon
the policy OF conservation.
The public land laws should be ad-
in a spirit of the broadest
| beralitv towards the settler exhibit
fng a bonaide purpose 10 comply
herewith to the end that the invita-
ton of this government to the land
less should be as attractive as pos
s.bIe: and the plain provisions Of the
forest reserve act permitting home
stead entries TO be made within the
national forests should not be nulli-
fed by administrative regulations
which amount to withdrawal OF
great areas OF the same from settle
nent.
Immediate action should be taken
BY congress to make available the
vast and valuable coal deposits OF
Alaska under conditions that will be
a perfect guaranty against their fall
ing into the hands Of mon0poizing
associations or inter
ests We rejoice in the Inheritance
or mineral resources unequaled in
extent. variety or value. and in the
development OF a mining industry un-
in its magnitude and I'M
ortance. We honor the man, who.
IN their hazardous toll underground.
iailv risk their lives in extracting
and preparing for our use the pro
tucts of the mine, so essential 10 the
the commerce and the
comfort OF the people of this country.
And we pledge ourselves to the eN-
tension of the work of the bureau oil
mines in every way appropriate for
sational legislation with view OF
the lives Of the minors,
essening the waste Of essential re
source and promoting the economic
levelonment OF mining, which, along
With agriculture. must in the future
~ en- more than In the past, serve as
he very foundation Of our national
prosperity and welfare and our in
ernational commerce.
Agriculture
We believe in encouraging the de-
'elopment of a modern system OF
agriculture and a systematic effort
G improve the conditions Of trade
n farm products so as to benefit
10Th the consumers and producers.
md as an efficient means to this end
sc favor the enactment by congress
II legislation that will suppress the
,ernicious practice of gambling IN \
products by organized
or others.
Merchant Marine
We believe i'm fostering by constl-I
utional regulation of commerce the
-rowth OF a merchant marine which !
kall develop and strengthen the
nmmercaI ties which binds us to our
lster republics OF the south. but
,ithout imposing additional burdens
pom the people and without bound /
ries and subsidies from the public
reasury.
We urge upon congress the speedy
nactment Of laws for the greater Sc. 4
urity OF life and property at sea
nd we favor the repeal of all laws
nd the abrogation of so much of our
reaties with other nations, as pro-
de for the arrest and Imprisonment
2 seamen charged with desertion or
nth violation of their contract OF
elvice. Such laws and treaties are
n-American and violate the spirit. I'LL
OF the letter of the constitution OF
be United States
We favor the exemption from tolls
{ American ships engaged in coast
Sc trade passing through the Pana-
" canal
We also favor legislation forbidding
le use of the Panama canal by ships
,vned or controlled by railroad car X