Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-11-01
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The Rights Of Labor.
We repeat our declarations OF the
platform Of 1908, as follows: "The
courts of Justice are the bulwarks Of
our liberties, and we yield to none
in our purpose to maintain their dig.
nifty. Our party has given to the
bench long line Of distinguished
Justices who have added to the re-
spect and confidence in which this de-
partment must be jealously main.
tanned. We resent the attempt Of
the Republican party to raise false
issue respecting the Judiciary. It 10
an unjust reflection upon great body
of our citizens to assume that they
lack respect for the courts.
ut Ia the function of the courts
to interpret the laws which the people
enact, and II the laws appear to work
economic, social, or political injus-
tees, it Is our duty to change them.
The only basis upon which the integ-
rity of our courts can stand is that Of
answering Justice and protection Of
life. II 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
reiterate the pledges of our platforms
OF 1896 and 1904 In favor Of meas
ure which passed the United States
Senate in 1895 relating to contempt
in federal courts and providing for
trial 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 Impair
TALLY, and that injunctions should
not be issued in any case In which
an injunction would not issue II no
individual dispute were involved"
The expanding organization Of in.
dustry makes 1t essential that there
should be no abridxment to the right
Of the wage earners and producers to
organize for the protection Of wages
and the improvement Of labor condl-
lions, to the end that such labor or
ganizations and their members should
not be regarded ~ illegal combination
in restraint Of trade.
We pledge the Democratic party to
the enactment Of law creating . 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,
so 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 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
foundation Of our national wealth.
Such additional legislation as may be
necessary to prevent their being
wasted or absorbed by special or priv.
ileged interests should be enacted and
the policy of their conservation should
be rightly adhered to,
The public domain should be admin
istered and disposed Of with due re-
gard to the general welfare. Reservar
tons sho aid be limited to the pur-
poses which they purport to serve and
not extend to include land wholly un.
suited therefor. The unnecessary
withdrawal from sale and settlement
Of enormous tracts Of public land, up.
on which tree growth never existed
and cannot be promoted, tends only
to retard development. create discon'
tent and bring reproach upon tho pol.
icy of conservation.
The public land laws should be ad.
ministered in spirit Of the broadcast
liberality towards the settler exhibit.
ing a bona fide purpose to comply
Herewith, to the end that the invita-
ton 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 forests should not be nulli
fed by administrative regulations
which amount to withdrawal Of
great areas Of the senate 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
perfect guaranty against their fall
ing into the hands of monopolizing
corporations. associations or inter.
ests.
We rejoice in the inheritance Of
tent. variety or value, and in the de-
velopment of mining industry un.
equaled in it's magnitude and impor-
lance. 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 essential to the indus
tries, the commerce and the comfort
Of the people Of this country. And
we pledge ourselves to the extension
Of the work Of the bureau Of mines
in every way appropriate for national
legislation with a view of safeguard
ing the lives Of the miners. lessening
the waste Of essential resources, and
protecting the economical develop
ment Of mining, which, along with
agriculture, must in the future, even
more than in the past. serve ~ the
very foundation Of our national pros.