The Green Forest tribune., 1912-07-12


 justices who have added to the re- spect and confidence in which this de partment must be jealously main tained. We resent the attempt of the Republican party to raise false . issue respecting the judiciary. It is an unjust reflection upon great body of our citizens to assume that they lack respect for the courts.
 Tt 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 injus- tices, 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. If judicial processes may be abused, we should guard them against abuse.
 Experience has proved the neces- sity of a 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 1896 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 te all judicial proceedings should be treated with rigid impar- tiality, and that injunctions should not be issued in any case in which an injunction would not issue if no individual dispute were involved"
 The expanding organization of in- dustry makes 1t essential that there should be no abridgment to 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 combination in restraint of trade.
 We pledge the Democratic party to the enactment of a 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. Reserva- tions should 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 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 bona 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 forests should not be nulli- fled 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 mineral resources unequaled in ex- tent variety or value, and in the de- velopment of a mining industry un- equaled in its magnitude and impor- tance. 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 as the 'OiJ iouhddIiOu .'l OuI HdJlOUdl pros perity and welfare and our interna- tional commerce.
 Agriculture.
 We believe in encouraging the de | velopment of a modern system of agriculture and systematic effort to improve the conditions of trade in farm products so as to benefit both the consumers and producers. And as an efficient means to this end, we