Norwich bulletin., 1912-07-04

to interpret the laws which the people enact, and if the laws appear to work | economic, social or political injustice | 1t Is our daty te change them The only basis upon which the integrity of our courts can stand is that of un- swerving justice and protection of life, personal liberty and property As iu- | dicial processes may be abused, we should guard them against abuse. Ex- | perience has proved the necessity of modification of the present law re- lattng to injunction, and We reiterate | the pledges of our platforms of 1896 and 1904 in favor of a measure which passed the United States senate in 1896, relating to contempt in federal | courts and providing for trial by jury in cases of direct contempt Questions of judicial practice have arisen, espe- clally in con oection with industrial | disputes. We believe that the parties to all judicial proceedings should be treated with rigid impartiality, and that injuctiohs should not be issued in any case in which an injunction would not issue if no industrial dispute were i involved
 The expanding organization of in dustry makes it essential that there should be no abri1gment of the right i Of the wage earners and producers to organize for the protection of wages and the improvement of labor condi- | tions, to the end that labor organiza- tions and their members should not | be regarded as illegal combinations in restraint of trade. We pledge the democratic party to the enactment of 1 a law creating a department of labor represented separately In the presi- dents cabinet, in which department l hn ba ct1b pf min ag and mining" We pledge the democrat ic party, so far as the federal jurisdic tion extends. to an employees compen- sation law, providing adequate indem- nity for injury to body or loss of life.
 Conservation.
 We believe in the conservation and the development. for the use of all the people, of the natural. resources of the country. Our forests. our sources of water supply, our arabic and our min l eral lands, our navigable streams and all the other material resources with which our country has been so lavish 1 ly endowed, constitute the foundation i of our national wealth. Such addi- | tiOnal legislation as may be necessary l to prevent their being wasted or ab- l sorbed by special or privileged inter ests. should be enacted and the policy l of their conservation should be rigidly adhered to.
 The public domain should be admin istered and disposed of with due re- gard to the general welfare. Reser- vations should be limited to the pur- poses which they pUrport to serve and not extended to include land wholly unsuited therefor The unnecessary | withdrawal from sale and settlement of enormous tracts of public land, upon which tree growth never existed and cannot be promoted, tends only to re- tard development, create discontent, and bring reproach upon the policy of conservation.
 The public land laws should be ad- ministered in a spirit of the broadest iliberality toward the settler exhibiting a bona ffde purpose to comply there with to the end that the invita- ton of this government to the landless should be as attractive as possible: and thA plain provisions of the forest reserve act permitting homestead entries 10 be made within the national forests should not be nulliied by administrative reg ulations which amount to a withdrawal of great areas of the same from set tlement.
 Immediate action should be taken by congress to make available the vast and valuable coal deposits of Alaska
 under conditions that will be a per feet guaranty against their falling into
 the hands of monOpolziBg corpora
 tions, associations or interests.
 We rejoice in the inheritance of mia
 eral resources unequaled in extent
 variety or value. and in the develop
 ment of mining industry uRequaleC
 in it's magnitude and importance We
 honor the men who. in their hazardous
 toll underground, daily risk their hvel
 in extracting and preparing for oul
 use the products of the mine, so es
 sentional to the industries the com
 fort and the commerce of the peepl,
 of this country. And We pledge our
 selves to the extension of the work o
 the bureau of mines in every way ap ] propriate for national legislation witt
 a view of safeguarding the lives of tn