The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-19

politics. Woman's rightful place is by the sade of man. Their blood is min gled in their offspring and they are united as no others can be in guarding the home, the unit of society, the nur- sery of youth. Everything that is good and wholesome will be benefited by woman's counsel. Every righteous cause will triumph the sooner because of her political activity. She will not only be the vigilant defender of health, education and spiritual life, but as treasurer of the household she will pow erfully assist in the introduction of economies in government. The demo- cratic party has no principles, policies or plans that it cannot submit to her judgment and her sense of justice. She has been enfranchised and her request that she be recognized on an equality with man in employment, compensation and jury service is reasonable and equitable.
 Child Welfare
 The welfare, education and protec- tion of child life, and the care of mothers are of first importance and should be given every consideration that law and administration can offer.
 Our party testifIos to its. interest
 in the child labor amendment to
 our constitution by pointing out
 that it could not have been sub-
 mitted without democratic votes.
 Since the adoption of the democrat
 ie platform Arkansas, a democratic state, has the honor to be the first
 state to ratify the child labor
 amendment.
 Support Of Labor
 e. aE A1, wage earner rests on the first sentence of our platforms labor plank, Labor is not q commodity. It is human" Therefore it must be dealt with hu- manly. Lincoln echoed the sentiments of Jefferson when he declared that in case of conflict between the two the man must come before the dollar. That is a fundamental difference between the attitude of republican leaders and the attitude of democratic leaders on this subject. The Captains of Industry" have their place and should be pro tected in their rights, but those whom they employ and whose labor they direct have rights as sacred and these rights are as essential as their em- plOyers to industrial welfare and our political progress. Equality of political rights implies, and should be accom- panied by, equality of opportunity
 The democratic party was tho
 first large party to declare for 8
 Secretary of Labor, and the demo-
 cratic administration of Woodrow
 Wilson was the first to have 8
 representative of labor at the Pres
 ident's council table. The demo-
 cratic party has led in protecting
 the wage earners' rights to organ
 iZe and to bargain collectively. It
 has been labOr's champion in secur-
 ing the eight hour day and in Ob-.
 taining for him protection from
 government by injunction. Labor
 is entitled to a living wage at American standards and 8 margin
 for old age. The refusal of the
 present republican administration
 to permit the railway mail em-
 plOyes to receive living wage at
 American standards was unfair and
 unjust to labor and illustrates the
 fact that their economy program
 is at the expense of labor. EcOnO-
 my at the expense of humanity is
 further illustrated in the veto of
 the pension bill and of the soldiers
 adjusted compensation measure.
 Our party has always been the la- DOrlnS mdu 4EleHuI AOI IO S0SuhS HIS vote but because the nation cannot progress unless he progresses. It can not ignore his inalienable rights without jeopardizing the rights of all.
 Outlawing Of War
 The democratic party pledges all its energies to the outlawing of the whole was system. The statement could not be stronger and it expresses the senti- ment of large majority of the Ameri- can people. The only hope of the world is found in the substitution of machin- cry for peace in the place of machin- cry for war.
 War propaganda, mobilization demonstrations of the civil and in-