The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-16
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| "Grades and standards necessary to
the intelligent and successful conduct
! of the business of agriculture have
also been established, or are in the
course of being established by law
| The long-needed cotton futures act
passed by the Sixty-third congress, has
| now been in successful operation for
nearly two years A grain grades bill,
! long needed, and a permissive ware
/ house bill intended to provide better
storage facilities and to enable the
| famer to obtain certificates upon
which he may secure advances of
| money, have been passed by the house
! of representatives, have been favor
ably reported to the senate and will
probably become a law during the
| present session of the congress. Both
houses have passed a good roads meas
/ ure which will be of far reaching
| benefit to all agricultural communities.
Above all the most extraordinary
and significant progress has been
made under the direction of the de-
partment of agricultural in extending
and perfecting practical farm demon
stration work which is so rapidly sub
| shutting scientific for impirical farm
| ing. But it is also necessary that
rural activities should be better di-
| rected through cooperation and or
ganization and unfair methods of COM
petition should be eliminated and the
conditions requisite for the just, or
! Oerly ana economical marketing OF
| farm products created.
I'VE approve the Democratic admin
/ istration for having emphatically di
| rected attention for the first time to
! the essential interests of agriculture
involved in farm marketing and
| finance, for creating the office of mar
kets and rural organization in connec-
ton with the department of agricul-
ture and information to farmers by
means of demonstrations. We favor
| continued liberal provision, not only
/ for the benefit of production but also
| for the study and solution of prob
| lens of farm marketing and finance
| and for the extension of existing
agencies for improving country life.
Good Roads.
The happiness, comfort and pros
perity of rural life and the develop
ment of the city, are alike conserv-
ed by the construction of public high
ways. We, therefore, favor national
aid in the construction of post roads
and roads for military purposes.
| Government Employment.
1--WE hold that the life, health and
strength of the men, women and chill
| dren of the nation are its greatest
| asset, and that in the conservation of
| these the federal government wher-
ever it acts as the employer of labor,
should both on its own account and as
an example, put into effect the fol-
/
IA living wage for all employees.
"A working day not to exceed
eight hours, with one day of rest in
seven.
3-The adoption of safety appli
ance>. and the establishment of thor
oLghly sanitary conditions of labor.
Adequate compensation Tor in
| dustrial accidents.
5-The standard of the Uniform
child labor law wherever minors are
employed.
6-Such provisions for decency
comfort and health in the employment
of women as should be accorded the
mothers of the race.
| Am equitable retirement law pro-
viding for the retiring of superan-
nuated and disabled employees of the
civil service to the end that higher
standard of efficiency may be main
tanned. We believe also that adoption
of similar principles should be urged
and applied in the legislation of states
with regard to labor within their
borders and that through every pos
people of the nation should be con-
served.
We declare our faith in the seamen's
act, passed by the Democratic con-
gresS and we promise our earnest con-
tinuance of its enforcement We favor
the speedy enactment of an effective
federal child labor law and the regula-
ton of the shipment of prison made
goods in interstate commerce. We IA
vor the creation of a federal bureau
of safety in the department of labor,
to gather facts concerning industrial
hazards, and to recommend legislation
to prevent the manning and killing of
human beings. We favor the extension
of the powers and functions of the
federal bureau of mines. We favor the
development upon a systematic scale
of the means already begun under the
present administration to assist labor
ers throughout the nation to seek and
: obtain employment and the extension
by the federal government of the same
: assistance and encouragement as is
now given to agricultural training.
We heartily commend our newly
established department of labor for its
excellent record in settling industrial
, strikes by personal advice and through
; conciliating agents.
| Public Health.
t 1--WE favor a thorough reconsidera-
ton of the means and methods by
which the federal government handles
I questions of public health, to the END
/ that human life may be conserved by
Y the elimination of loathsome diseases
= The improvement of sanitation and the
I diffusion of a knowledge of disease
t prevention. We favor an establish
= ment by the federal government OF
tuberculosis sanitariums for needy
, tubercular patients.
Senate Rules.
= I'VE favor such an alteration of the
3 rules of procedure of the senate OF
Y the United States as will permit the
S prompt transaction of the nations leg
e islative business.
4 Economy and Budget.
I'VE demand careful economy in al
S expenditures for the support of the
n government and to that end favor &
s return by the house of representative.
g to its former practice of initiating anc
n preparing all appropriation bill
q through a single committee chosen
d from its membership and made uni
n form, and waste and duplication il
e the public service as much as possibi,
o avoided. We favor this as practica
| first step toward a budget system.