The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-08-13

the parties to all judicial proceedings
Should be treated with rigid imparti'
aiity and that iniunctions should not
re issued in any case In which an
.liIJunction would not issue II no in
\ Idustrial dispute were involved.
4 The expanding organization or Ir-
Idustry makes il essential that there
Ishould be no abridgement OF the
uucers to organize for the protection
lor wages and the Improvement OF
Labor conditions. to the end that such
labor organizations and their mem.
hers should not be regarded as H.
legal combinations in restraint of
\ trade.
II We pledge the Democratic party to
the enactment of a law creating a
department of labor represented sep
lafately in the presidents cabinet in
which department shall be included
The subject of mines and mining.
We pledge the Democratic party
so far as the federal jurisdiction ex-
4 tends to an employees compensation
law providing adequate indemnity for
Injury to body or loss of life.
CONSERVATION
We believe in the conservation
and the development for the use OF
all OF the people OF the natural re-
lsources Of the country. tt
Our forests, our sources OF water
lsppply. our mineral lands, our naviy-
i allie streams and all the other ma.
n terial resources with which our cotin.
TRY has been so lavishly endowed,
Iconstitute the foundation of our ma.
ltional wealth. Such additional Leg
Iislation as may be necessary 10 pre-.
went their being wasted or absorbed
Iby special or privileged interests
Isliould be enacted and the policy or
their conservation should be rigidly
adhered to.
i The public domain should be admin
lietered and disposed of with due re-
gard to the general welfare. Reser-
lvations should be limited to the pur-
lroses which they purport to serve
and extended to include land unwhol-
.lly unsuited therefor. The unneces-
sary withdrawal from sale and set
tlement of enormous tracts of public
land in which tree growth never ex.
listed and cannot be promoted, tends
only to retard development, create
discontent and bring reproach upon
the policy of conservation.
The public land laws should be ad-
mnistered in spirit of the broadcast
',Eberality towards the settler exhibit
l1ng a bonaIfde purpose to comply
iltnerewith to the end that the. invita-.
ltIon of this government to the land
! less should be as attractive as pos
Isible; and the plain provisions of the
forest reserve act permitting home.
stead entries to be made within the
national forests should not be nulli-
'ifiedi by administrative regulations
which amount to withdrawal of
great areas of the same from settle-
merit.
+ Immediate action should be taken
by congress to make available the
west and valuable coal deposits OF
Alaska under conditions that will be
O perfect guaranty against their fall
ling irito the hands of monopolizing
cCrporations, associations or inter
lests. We rejoice in the inheritance
of mineral resources unequalled in
extent, variety or value, and in the
development of mining industry un-
equalled in its magnitude and i'm
portance. We honor the man; who,
in their hazardous toll underground,
daily risk their lives in extracting
land preparing for our use the pro.
ducts of the mine, so essential to the
Industries, the commerce and the
comfort of the people of this country.
And we pledge ourselves to the ex-
tension of the work of the bureau OF
mines In every way appropriate for
IraftAnaI lootcIotfnp r1yfth a nj
Safeguarding the lives of the minors,
lessening the waste of essential re-
source and promoting the economic
development of mining, which, along
with agriculture, must in the future,
leyen more than In the past, serve as
1.-THE very foundation or our national
prosperity and welfare and our in
Iternational commerce.
agriculture
We believe in encouraging the de-
lveiopment of a modern system of
agriculture and systematic effort
tc improve the conditions Of trade
I'm farm products SO as to benefit
both the consumers and producers.
And as ain efficient means to this END
I've favor the enactment by congress
fof legislation that will suppress the
Ipernicious practice of gambling In
horticultural products by organized
Iexchanges or others.
Merchant Marine
We believe In fostering by consti-
tutional regulation OF commerce, the
growth of a merchant marine. which
shall develop and strengthen the
commercial ties which binds us to our
Isister republics of the south, but
without imposing additional burdens
hipon the people and without bound
aries and subsidies from the public
TREASURY.
We urge upon congress- the speedy
enactment of laws for the greater se
Iciirityl OF life and property at sea
lard we favor the repeal OF all laws
and the abrogation of SO much Of our
treaties with other nations. as pro-
wide for the arrest and Imprisonment
or seamen charged with desertion or
with violation of their contract OF
service. Such laws and treaties are
un-American and violate the spirit. II
rot the letter of the constitution of
the United States
We favor the exemption from tolls
Iof American ships engaged In coast
wise trade passing through the Pana-
ma canal.
We also favor legislation forbidding
1.-The use of the Panama canal by ships
c@ned or controlled by railroad car
riers. engaged in transportation COM
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