Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-07-05

to develop plans for draining the same
funds to make surveys Of such lands
and to supervise the work Of construc-
tion.
We favor the adoption of a liberal
and comprehensive plan for the de-
velopment and improvement Of our
inland waterways with economy and
efficiency, 80 as to permit their navi-
CATION by vessels of standard draft.
Post Roads.
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:
1.-The courts Of justice are the bull
wark. Of our liberties, and we yield
to none in our purpose to maintain
their dignity. Our party has given to
the bench a long line Of distinguished
justices who have added to the respect
and confidence in which the depart
ment must be jealously maintained.
We resent the attempt Of the Repub-
lican party to raise q false Issue re-
spectins the judiciary. 1t Is an un-
just reflection upon the great body OF
our citizens to assume that they lack
respect for the courts.
1T Is the function OF the courts TO
interpret the laws which the people
enact, and If the laws appear to work
economic, social, or political injustice,
It is our duty to 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 ju-
dicial processes may be abused we
should guard them against abuse.
Experience has proved the neces-
sity Of modification Of the law re-
lating to injunction and we reiterate
the pledges Of our platform Of 1895
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
ity, and that injunctions should not be
issued in any case in which an In
junction would not issue II no indus
trial dispute were involved.
The expanding organization Of in
dustry makes It essential that there
should be no abridgement Of the right
Of the wage earners and producers to
organize for the protection Of wages
and the improvement Of labor condi-
tions, to the end that such labor or
ganizations and their members should
not be regarded as Illegal combina-
tions in restraint of trade.
I'VE pledge the Democratic party to
the enactment Of law creating a de-
partment of labor represented separ-
ately In the presidents cabinet in
which department shall be included
the subject Of mines and mining"
We pledge the Democratic party, Sc
far as the Federal jurisdiction ex-
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 the
people, of the natural resources Of
the country, our forests, our sources
Of water supply, our arabic and our
mineral lands, our navigable streams
and all the other material resources
with which our country has been so
lavishly endowed, constitute the foun-
dation of our national wealth. Such
additional legislation as may be neces-
sary to prevent 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 ad-
ministered and disposed Of with due
regard to the general welfare. Re-
servations should be limited to the
purpose which they purport to serve
and not extended to include land
wholly unsuited therefor. The unnec-
essary withdrawal from sale and set
tlement of enormous tracts Of public
land, upon which tree growth never
existed and canot be prompted, tends
to retard development, create discon-
tent and bring reproach upon the pol
icy Of conservation.
The public land laws should be ad-
ministered In a spirit of the broadest
liberality towards the settler, exhibit
ing a bone-fide purpose to comply
Herewith, to the end that the invita-
tion Of this government to the land
less should be as attractive as pos
sible; and the plain provisions Of the
forest reserve act permitting home
stead entries to be made within the
national forest should not be nullified
by administrative regulations which
amount to. withdrawal of great
areas Of the same from settlement.
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 in
to the hand of monopolizing corpor-
ations, associations or interests.
We rejoice in the inheritance OF
mineral reserves unequalled in extent
variety or value and in the develop
ment of a mining industry unequalled
in its magnitude and Importance. We
honor the men who, in their hazardous
toll underground, daily risk their lives
in extracting and preparing for our
use the products Of the mine, so es-
sential to the Industries, the commerce
and the comfort of the people Of this
country. And we pledge ourselves to
the extension Of the work Of the bu-
reau of mines in every way appropri-
ate for national legislation with q
view of safeguarding the lives Of the
miners, lessening the waste Of essen
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