The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-06-15


the mails, and such further legislation
as will build up an adequate American
merchant marine and give US ships
which may be requisitioned by the
government In time of national emer-
gency.
We are utterly opposed to the gov
eminent ownership of vessels as pro-
posed by the democratic party, because
government ownership, while effect
lively preventing the development OF
the American merchant marine by
private capital, will be entirely unable
TO provide for the vast volume of Am
erican freights and will leave us more
helpless than ever In the hard grip of
foreign syndicates.
Transportation.
Interstate and intrastate transpor-
tation have become so interviewer
that the attempt to apply two and Of
ten several sets of laws to its regula-
ton has produced conflicts of au-
thority, embarrassment in operation
and inconvenience and expense to the
public
The entire transportation system Of
the country has become essentially
national We therefore favor such ac-
ton by legislation. or If necessary,
through an amendment to the consti-
tuition of the United States, as would
result in placing it under exclusive
federal control
Economy and a National Budget.
The increasing cost of the national
government and the need for the
greatest economy of it's resources in
order to meet the growing demands of
the people for government service, call
for the severest condemnation of the
wasteful appropriations Of this demo-
cratic administration, of it's shameless
raids on the treasury, and of its op-
position to and rejection of President
Taft's oft-repeated proposals and
earnest efforts to secure economy and
efficiency through the establishment of
a simple businesslike budget system
to which we pledge our support and
which we hold to be necessary to eff
feet any real reform in the admins
tration of national finances.
Conservation.
We believe in careful husbandry
of all the natural resources of the ma
tion-a husbandry which means devel-
opment without waste; use without
abuse.
Civil Service Reform.
The civil service law has always
been sustained by the republicans, and
we renew our repeated declaration
that it shall be thoroughly and hon.
estly enforced and extended wherever
The democratic party
has created since March 4, 1918, 3d.
900 offices outside the civil service law,
at an annual cost of s44,0OO,OO to the
taxpayers of the country.
I'VE condemn the gross abuse and
the misuse of the law by the present
uSIiloCIdlkC ADMINISTRATION anu plSuB6
ourselves to a reorganization of this
service along lines of efficiency and
economy.
Territorial officials.
"Reaffirming the attitude long main
tanned by the republican party, we
hold that officials appointed to admin
ictar tha ynuarnmapt of INV tarritorxy
should be bonafide residents of the ter
ritory in which their duties are to be
performed.
I'VE pledge the republican party to
the faithful enforcement of all federal
laws passed for the protection of labor
We favor vocational education; the
enactment and rigid enforcement of a
federal child labor law; the enactment
of a generous and comprehensive
workmen's compensation law, within
the commerce power of congress, and
an accident compensation law cover
ing all government employees. We
favor the collection and collation. I'M
der the direction of the department of
labor Of complete data relating to in
dustrial hazards for the information of
to the end that such legisla-
ton may be adopted as may be cal
culated to secure the safety, conser-
walton and protection of labor from
the dangers incident to industry and
Suffrage.
1.-The republican party reafflrming
Its faith in government of the people,
by the people. for the people, as a
of justice to sone-balf the
adult people of this country, favors the
extension of the suffrage. to women,
but recognizes the right of each state
to settle this question for itself.
Such are our principles, such are
our purposes and policies. We close
as we began. The times are dangerous
and the future is fraught with peril. |
The great issues of the day have been
confused by words and phrases. The
American spirit which made the coun-
try and saved the union has been for
gotten by those charged with the re-
sponsibility Of power. We appeal to
all Americans, whether naturalized or
native born, to prove to the world that
we are Americans in thought and in |
Iaad Ia,itb ono Inyalfv ono bona ono |