River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1916-06-22

the other nations of the world in any
feasible association that will effective
ly serve these principles, TO maintain
inviolate the complete security of the
highway Of the seas for the common
and unhindered use of all nations.
PAN-AMERlcA.
We favor the establishment and
| maintenance of the closest relations
of amity and mutual helpfulness be-
tween the United States and the
other republics of the American con-
| tinents for the support of peace and
| the promotion of common prosperity.
The Monroe doctrine is reasserted
as a principle of Democratic faith.
MEXICO.
The want of a/stable, responsible
| government in Mexico, capable OF
depressing and Furnishing marauders
and bandit bands, who have not only
| taken the lives and seized and de-
stroyed the property of American citi-
zens in that country, but have insolent-
| ly invaded our soil, made war upon and
murdered our people thereon, has rem
dered it necessary temporarily to occu-
by, by our armed forces, portion OF
| the territory of that friendly state.
| Until, by the restoration of law and
order therein, repetition of such in
cursions is improbable the necessity
for their remaining will continue.
| Intervention, implying, as it does,
| military subjugation, is revolving TO
| the people of the United States, not
withstanding the provocation to that
| course has been great, and should pc
| resorted to, if at all, only as last
resort. The stubborn resistance of the
| president and his advisers to every de-
mand and suggestion to enter upon 1t,
is creditable alike to them and to the
people in whose name he speaks.
THE FARMER.
We favor the vigorous prosecution
| of investigations and plans to render
agriculture more profitable and coun-
try life more healthful, comfortable
and attractive, and we believe that
this should be a dominant aim of the
nation as well as Of the states.
In the federal reserve act Of the last
congress and the rural credits act OF
the present congress, the machinery
has been created which will make
credit available to the farmer con-
stantly and readily, and he has at last
been put upon a footing OF equahty
with the merchant and the manufact-
urer in securing the capital necessary
to carry on his enterprises.
We favor continued liberal provision
not only for the benefit of production,
but also for the study and solution OF
problems of farm marketing and
finance, and for the extension of ex-
listing 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 conserved
by the construction of public high
ways. We, therefore, favor national
aid in the construction Of postroads
and roads for military purposes.
EMPLOYMENT.
We hold that the life, health and
strength of the men, women and chill
dren Of the nation are it's greatest as
set, and that in the conservation OF
these the federal government, where
ever it acts as the employer of labor,
should both on it's own account and
as an example, put into effect the fol
lowing principles of just employment :
A living wage for all employees.
A working day not to exceed eight
hours, one day of rest in seven.
Adequate compensation for indus
trial accidents.
The standards of the uniform cid
labor law" wherever minors are en-
ployod.
An equitable retirement law pro.
viding for the retirement of superan-
nuated and disabled employees of the
civil service, to the end that a higher
standard Of efficiency may be main
tanned.
LABOR.
We declare our faith in the sea
mems act, passed by the Democratic
congress, and we promise our earnest
continuance of it's enforcement.
We favor the. speedy enactment OF
an effective federal child labor law
and the regulation of the shipment
of prison-made goods in interstate
commerce.
We heartily commend our newly-es-
tablished department of labor for its
excellent record in settling industrial
strikes by personal advice and
through conciliating agents.
PUBLIC HEALTH.
We favor the thorough reconsider
alton of the means and methods by
which the federal government handles
questions of public health, to the end
that human life may be conserved by
the elimination of lOathsome disease