Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-06

ton by vessels of standard draft.
We favor national aid TO state and |
local authorities in the construction /
and maintenance of post roads.
RIGHTS OF LABOR
We repeat our declarations of the /
platform of 1908 as follows:
The courts Of justice are the bull /
Wark of our liberties and We yield TO /
none in our purpose to maintain their I
dignity. Our party has given TO the !
bench long line of distinguished JUS !
tees, who have added to the respect |
and confidence in which this depart I!
ment must be jealousy maintained. |
We resent the attempt of the Tepubli- !
can party to raise a false issue re-
specting the judiciary. II is an I'M
just reflection upon a great body of
our citizens to assume that they lack
respect for the courts
1T is the function of the court to
interpret the laws which the people
enact, and if the laws appear to work
economic. social or political injustice
1t is our duty to change them. The
only basis upon which the integrity
of our courts can stand is that of I'M
swerving justice and protection of life,
personal liberty and property. If jul
dicial processes may be abused, we
should guard them against abuse.
! Experience has proved the necessity
of modification of the present law re-
lating 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 indirect contempt.
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 impartial
ty and that injunctions should not be
issued in any case in which an iniunc-
ton would not issue if no Industrial
dispute were involved
The expanding organization of in
dustry makes il essential that there
should be no abTidgement of the right
Of the wage earners and producers to
organize for the protection OF wages
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reoardod nc i1Ie,-s1 combination. j., 70
straint of trade.
eve nIedpe +hc democratic marty IN
rre enactment nj . law creating de-
partmCnt Of labor represented separate
~ in the presidents cabinet, in which
denar.r7cnt sbaIl bo included the sub
iort of r,ires ord r,;,ing
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IN On aprlc.,-as, corran.atio-, Law, nro.
vfdino adeouate Indemnify for iniurv
"a hCdy or loss Of life
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we OeIl' { III encouraging 'ne ue'
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c'iIufe anu s!SleHia,1I 'Hott 10 4il-
prove me 'o'ultiolls q trace II IarIh
.I'ouo'' Is 50 q 20 "e'iei'' oo'h 'iie 'on-
sum- anu % Anu "9 di eli
ci''' llied+Is " 'ii'S eiId we FAVOR me
enactment by CONGRESS- OF leelSia'ioh
mat VIII suppress the peFnlclous pi dc-
u''s ny ORGANIZED exchanges OF o'hers'
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 suprly. our arabic and our min
p eral lands. our nayigable streams. and
| all our material resources with which
! our country has been so layishly en-
dowed, constitute the foundation of
: our national wealth. Such additional
I legislation as may be necessary to pre-
) vent their being wasted OF absorbed bv
) special or privileged interests should
= be enacted and the po1icv of their con.
] servarfon should be rfgfdly adhered to-
] The public domain should be ad-
= ministered and disposed of with due
regard to the general welfare. Res.
: eryations should be limited to the
= purposes which they purport to serve
j. and not extended to include land
! wholly unsuited therefor. The un.
necessary withdrawal from sale and
settlement of enormous tracts OF pub.
= liz land rnoD which tree grOythe