The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-16

I the essential interests of agriculture
1 involved in farm marketing and
finance for creating the office of mar
kets and rural organization in con-
nection with the department of agri.
/ culture and extending the co-opera
! tive machinery necessary for convey
ing information to farmers by means
of demonstration. We favor con-
| tinued liberal provision, not only fof
| the benefit of production but also for
! the study and solution OF problems OF
! farm marketing and finance and Tor
| 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 conserved
by construction of public highways.
/ We therefore, favor national aid in
! the construction of post roads and
roads for military purposes.
Government Employment.
| 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 where
| ever it acts as the employer of labor,
should both on its own account and
as an example put in effect the fol-
lowing principle of just employment:
| IA living wage for all employees.
! seven.
"A working day not to exceed
eight hours, with one day of rest in
3-The adoption of safety appli-
ances and the establishment OF thor
oughly sanitary conditions OF labor.
adequate compensation for in
dustrial accidents.
5-The standards 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
measures OF race.
Equitable retirement law pro-
viding for the retirement of super
animated and disabled employees of
civil service, to the end that higher
standard Of efficiency may be main
tanned
We believe also that the adoption
OF similar principles should be urged
and applied in the constitution Of
states in regard to labor within their
borders; that through every possible
agency the life and health of the
people of the nation should be con-
served.
Labor.
We declare our faith in the seaman
act passed by the democratic con-
gress and we promise our earnest
continuance Of it's enforcement.
We favor speedy enactment of an
effective federal child labor law and
the regulation of the shipment OF
prison made goods into interstate
commerce.
We favor the creation of federal
bureau of safety in the department of
| labor to gather facts concerning in
dustrial 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 means already
! begun under the present administra-
ton, to assist laborers throughout the
country to seek and obtain employ
ment and retention by federal gov
eminent by same assistance and en-
enlargement as is now given to agri
cultural training.
/ We heartily commend our newly
established department of labor for
| its record in settling strike trouble
| through arbitration.
Public Health.
| We favor thorough consideration OF
means by which the federal govern
ment has handled the question of
public health to that end that human
life may be conserved by the elimina-
ton of loathsome diseases; the in-
provement of sanitation and the diffu-
| sion of a knowledge Of disease pre-
vention
We favor the establishment by the
| federal government of tuberculosis
sanitariums for needy tubercular pa
! tients.
Senate Rules.
We favor such an alteration of the
+, rules of procedure of the senate of
the United States as will permit the
prompt translation of the nations
| legislative business.
Economy and the Budget.
| We demand careful economy on all
expenditures for the support OF the
! government and to that end favor the
return by the house of representatives
to its former practice of initiating
and preparing all appropriation bills
| through a single committee chosen
! from it's membership in order that re-
! sponsibility may be conferred, expedi.
/ tious standards made uniform and
waste and duplication in the public
service as much as possible avoided.
We favor this as practicable first