The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-07-05

industrial disputes. We believe tha
the parties to all judicial proceeding
should be treated with rigid impartl
ality and that injunctions should no
ce issued in any case in which al
injunction would not issue II no IN
dustrial dispute were involved
The expanding organization or In
dustrv makes il essential that ther'
should be no abridgement OF thu
right of the wage earners and pro
ducers to organize for the protection
OF wages and the Improvement o
labor conditions. to the end that sucl
labor organizations and their mem
! bers should not be regarded as il
legal combinations in restraint o
trade
We f,ledge the Democratic party tC
the enactment of law creating {
department of labor represented sep
arately in the presidents cabinet IL
which department shall be included
he subject of mines and mining.
We pledge the Democratic party
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
and the development for the use OF
ali of the people of the natural re
sources of the country.
Our forests. our sources OF water
Supply. our mineral lands. our navig'
able streams and all the other ma
terial resources with which our coun
try has been so lavishly 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
by special or privileged interests
should be enacted and the policy 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-
roses which they purport to serve
and extended to include land unwhol-
ly unsuited therefor. The unneces-
sary withdrawal from sale and set
tiement of enormous tracts of public
land in which tree growth never ex-
only to retard development. create
oiscontent and bring reproach upon
the policy of conservation.
The PUBLIC land laws should be ad-
in spirit of the broadcast
Eberalty towards the settler exhibit
ing a bonafide purpose to comply
herewith to the end that the invita-
ton of this government to the land
less should be as attractive as pos
s.ble: 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 a withdrawal of
great areas of the same from settle
ment
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 monopo!iZing
corporations, associations or inter
ests. We rejoice in the inheritance
OF mineral resources unequalled in
extent variety or value, and in the
~
eQualled in its magnitude and i'm
portance. We honor the man. who,
IN their hazardous toll underground,
daily risk their lives in extracting
and 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
rational legislation with view OIL
the lives of the minors.
essening the waste OF essential re-
source and promoting the economic
Development of mining, which, along
With agriculture, must in the future, |
ven more than in the past, serve as
he very foundation of our national
and welfare and our in-I
commerce.
agriculture
We believe in encouraging the de
elopment of a modern system of
sriculture and a systematic effort
c improve the conditions of trade
n farm products so as to benefit
9th the consumers and producers.
liu 40 di |dibltHl lutdIS W lllS tuu /
favor the enactment by congress
+ legislation that will suppress the
ernicious practice of gambling in
products by organized
Schanges or others. !.
Ierchant Marine /
We believe in fostering by consti-
Itional regulation of commerce. the Z
'owth of merchant marine. which
all develop and strengthen the !
ties which binds us to our a
ster republics of the south, but p
thout imposing additional burdens ;
ION the people and without bound
les and subsidies from the public |;
aasury. In
We urge upon congress the speedy r
actment of laws for the greater Sc
rity of life and property at sea Il
d we favor the repeal of all laws r.
d the abrogation of so much of our D
,aties with other nations, as pro- "
lie for the arrest and Imprisonment G,
seamen charged with desertion or Il
ii violation of their contract OF cr
vice. Such laws and treaties are cl
and violate the spirit. ifIpl
the letter of the constitution of n.
United States. us
We favor the exemption from tolls m
American ships engaged in coast III
e trade passing through the Pana Oh