The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-07-21

citizens to assume that they lack re-
spect for tht 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.
1t is our duty to change them
THE only basis upon which the in
tegrity of our courts can stand is that
of answering justice and protection of
life, personal liberty and property. AS
judicial processes may be abused, we
should guard them against abuse.
Experience has proved the necessity
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 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 If no industrial dispute were in
volved.
THE expanding organization Of in
| dustry makes it essential that there
should be no abridgement Of the right
organize for the protection of wages
and the improvement of labor condi-
tons, to the end that such labor or
ganizations and their members should
not be regarded as Illegal combinations
in restraint of trade
I'VE pledge the Democratic party to
the enactment of law creating a de-
partment Of labor represented sepa-
| rately 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 extends,
| to an employees compensation law pro-
| viding adequate indemnity for injury
| to body or loss of life.
CONSERVATION.
| We believe in the conservation and
people of the natural resources of the
| country. Our forests, our sources of
! water supply, our arabic and our min
| eral lands, our navigable streams and
| all the other material resources with
which our country has been so lavish
ly endowed constitute the foundation
| of our national wealth. Such addi-
tional legislation as may be necessary
| to prevent their being wasted or alb
| sorbed by special or privileged inter
| ests 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
/ poses which they purport to serve and
not extended to include land wholly
Iunsuited therefor The unnecessary
" ithdrawal from sale and settlement
of enormous tracts of public land upon
which tree growth never existed and
cannot be promoted, tends only to re-
tard development, create discomfort
and bring reproach upon the policy of
conservation.
The public land laws should be ad-
minlstered in q spirit of the broadest
liber atty toward the settler exhibiting
a bona fide purpose to comply there
with, to the end that the invitation of
this government to the landless should
be as attractive as possible, and the
plain provisions of the forest reserve
act permitting homestead entries to be
made within the national forests
should not be nullihed by administra-
| tive regulations which amount to a
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 into
the hands Of monopolizing corpora
tions, associations or interests.
We rejoice in the inheritance of min
eTal resources unequaled in extent, va
riety or value. and in the development
Of a mining industry unequaled in it's
magnitude ard Importance. We honor
t e 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
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the comfort of the people of this coun-
try. 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
safeguarding the lives of the miners,
| lessening The waste of essential re-
sources and promoting the economic
development of mining, which, along
with agriculture, must in the future
even more than in the past serve as
the very foundation of our national
prosperity and welfare and our inter-
national commerce.
AGRICULTURE,
| We believe in encouraging the devel-
| opment Of a modern system of agri-
| culture and a systematic effort to i'm
| uroye the conditions of trade in farm
products so as to benefit both the con-
| sumers and producers. And as an ef-
| fcIent means to this end we favor the
: enactment by congress or legislation
; that will suppress the pernicious prac-
tice of gambling in agricultural prod
ucts by organized exchanges or others
MERCHANT MARINE.
We believe in fostering by constitu-
tional regulation of commerce, the
growth of a merchant marine, which
snail develop and strengthen the COM
, merciaI ties which bind us to our sis
ter. republics of the south but with
out imposing additional burdens upon
the people and without bounties OF
subsidies from the public treaBury.
We urge upon congress the speedy
enactment Of laws for the greater Sc
| clIrity of life and property at sea, and
we favor the repeal Of all laws and
the a brogation Of so much of our trea-
| ties with other nations as provide fol
the arrest and Imprisonment Of sea
men charged with desertion or with
| viola ton OF their contract of service
Such laws and treaties are un-Ameri-
| can and violate the spirit, if not the
letter. of the constitution of the United
States.
:, We favor the exemption from tolls
: of American ships engaged in coast
; wise trade passing through the Pana-
: ma canal
We also favor legislation forbiddine
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