The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-07-03

n'and waterways with economy an
$ efficiency, SO as to permit their nav
: -ation by vessels OF standard draft.
: Post Roads
e We favor national aid to state an
g local authorities in the constructio
end maintenace of post roads.
Rights OF Labor
1 We respect our declarations of tn
| platform of 1908 as follows:
t The courts of justice are the bu
vark of our liberties and we yiel
: to none in our purpose to mantai
: their dignity. Our party has give
: 10 the bench a long line of distir
: snished justices who have added 4
the respect and confidence in whicl
! this department must be iealousl,
J maintained We resent the attemp
of the Republican party to raise
false issue respecting the judiciary
II is an unjust reflection upon
great body of our citizens to assum,
u'at they lack respect for the courts
II is the function of the courts tC
interpret the laws which the people
enact, and if the laws appear to work
economic, social or political injus
tlce, it is our duty to change them
The only basis upon which the in
ltegrity of our courts can stand Is
that of answering justice and pro
lection of life, personal liberty and
property. If judicial processes may
be abused, we should guard them
against abuse
! Experience has proved the neces.
sity of modification of the present
law relating to injunction and we re-
iterate the pledges of our platforms
CT 1896 and 1904 in favor of meas
Ire which passed the United States
senate in 1896 relating to contempt
in federal courts and providing for
tsial by jury in cases of indirect con
tempt.
Questions of judicial practice have
arisen, especially in connection with
Industrial disputes. We believe that
the parties to all judicial proceedings
should be treated with rigid imparti-
ality and that injunctions should not
&c issued in any case in which an
Injunction would not issue II no in.
dustrial dispute We're involved.
The expanding organization OF 1T
dustrv makes it essential that there
should be no abridgement Of the
right of the wage earners and pro.
ducers to organize for the protection
OF wages and the Improvement of
Ia Dor conditions, to the end that such
labor organizations and their mem
hers should not be regarded as il
legal combinations in restraint of
trade.
We Diedge the Democratic party to
the enactment OF a law creating a.
department of labor represented sep
arately in the presidents cabinet in
which department shall be included
he subject of mines and mining.
We pledge the Democratic party
80 far as the federal jurisdiction ex-
ends to an employees compensation
aw providing adequate indemnity for
injury to body or loss of life.
Conservation
We believe in the conservation
md the development for the use of
III of the people of the natural re-
sources of the country
Our forests our sources of water
irpply. our mineral lands. our navig-
t'iN 81 toitAS anu oil iHE Otiltl ma
eral resources with which our coun-
ry has been so lavishly endowed
constitute the foundation of our ma
ional wealth. Such additional leg
station as may be necessary to pre-
'ent their being wasted or absorbed
" special or privileged interests
Iould be enacted and the policy of
heir conservation should be rigidly
dhered to.
The public domain should be admin
stored and disposed of with due re-
ard to the general welfare. Reser.
ations should be limited to the pur- :
oses which they purport to serve
nd extended to include land unwhol- {
Y unsuted therefor. The unneces
arv withdrawal from sale and set ;
ement of enormous tracts Of public
md in which tree growth never ex. :
,ted and cannot be promoted tends
My to retard development create
lscontent and bring reDroach upon
ne policy of conservation.
The public land laws should be ad- I
mustered in a spirit of the broadest
berality towards the settler exhibit
~ a hOna6de purnose to comply
to the end that the invita- b
on of this government to the land
IS should be as attractive as pos
bic: and the plain provisions of the :
rest reserve act permitting home
cad entries to be made within the
ational forests should not be nulli-
ed by administrative regulations
hich amount to a withdrawal OF
reat areas of the same from settle
ent
Immediate action should be taken
: congress to make available the
lst and valuable coal deposits of
laska under conditions that will he
perfect guaranty against their fall
2 into the hands of monopolizing
associations or inter
is. We rejoice in the inheritance
mineral resources unequalled in
tent. variety or value. and in the
'velopment of mining industry mn
lualled in its magnitude and im-l