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The Commoner.
VOLUME 8, NUMBER 27,
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM
to the 16,000,000 depositors of the country protection in their
isavings,
We heliove that insofar as the needs of commerce require an
emergency currency, such currency should be issued, controlled by
the federal government and loaned, on adequate security, to na
tional and state banks. Wo pledge ourselves to legislation under
which national banks shall be required to establish a guarantee fund
for the prompt payment of the deposits of any insolvent na
tional bank under an equitable system which shall be available to
all state banking institutions wishing to use it.
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REPUBLICAN PLATFORM
Such a system must meet the requirements of agriculturists, manu
facturers, merchants and business generally; must bo automatic
in operation, minimizing the fluctuations in interest rates, and
above all, must be in harmony with the republican doctrine which
insists that every dollar shall be based upon and as good as gold.
Nothing so clearly demonstrates the sound basis upon which'
our commercial, industrial and agricultural interests are founded,
and the necessity of promoting the present continued welfare
through the operation of republican policies as the recent safe pass
age of the American people through a financial disturbance which,
if appearing in the midst of democratic rule or the menace of it,
might have equaled the familiar democratic panic., of the past.
We congratulate the people upon this renewed evidence of Amer
ican supremacy and hail with confidence the signs now manifest
of a complete restoration of business prosperity in all lines of trade
commerce and manufacturing.
Postal Saving f Banks
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM
We favor a postal savings' bank if the guaranteed bank can
-not be"secured, and that it be constituted so as to keep the deposit
ed money in the communities where it is established. But we con
demn the polioy of the republican party in proposing postal savings
banks under a plan of conduct by which they will aggregate the
deposits of rural communities and redeposit the same while under
government charge in the banks of Wall Street, thus depleting the
circulating medium of the producing regions and unjustly favoring
the speculative markets.
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM
We favor the establishment of a postal savings bank system for
the convenience of the people and the encouragement of thrift.
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Popular Election of Senators
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM
We favor the election of United States senators by direct vote
of the people, and regard this reform as the gateway to other na
tional reforms;
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM
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Income Tax
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We favor an income tax as part of our revenue system, and we
urge the submission of a constitutional amendment specifically au
thorizing congress to levy and collect tax upon individual and cor
porate incomes, to the end that wealth may bear its proportionate
share of the burdens of the federal government.
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The courts of justice are the bulwark of our liberties, and we
yield to none in our purpose to maintain their dignity. Our party
has given to the bench a long line of distinguished judges who have
added io the respect and confidence in which this department must
be jealously maintained. We resent the attempt of the republican
party to raise a false issue respecting the judiciary. It is an unjust
reflection upon a great body of our citizens to assume that they
lack respect for the courts.
It is the function of the courts to interpret the laws which the
people create, and if the laws appear to work economic, social or
political injustice, it is our duty to change them. The only basis
tfpon which the integrity of our courts can stand is that of unswerv
ing justice and protection of life, personal liberty and property.
If judicial processes may be abused; we should guard them against
abuse.
Experience has proven the necessity of a modification of the.
present law relating to injunctions, and we reiterate the pledge of
our national platforms of 1896 and 1904 in favor of the measure
which passed the United States senate in 1896, but which a repub
lican congress has ever since refused to enact, relating to contempts
in federal courts and providing for trial by jury in case of indirect
contempt.
Questions of judicial practice have arisen especially in connec
tion with industrial disputes. We deem that the parties, to all judi
cial proceedings should be treated with rigid impartiality, and that
injunctions should not be issued in any cases in which injunctions
would not issue if no industrial dispute were involved.
The expanding organization of industry makes it essential that
there should be no abridgment of the right of wage earners and nro-
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of labor conditions to the end -that such labor organizations arid
their members should not be regarded as illegal combinations in e
straint of trade.
We favor the eight-hour day on all government work.
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REPUBLICAN PLATFORM
The republican party recognizes the special needs of wage
workers generally, for their well-being means the well-being of all.
But more important than all other considerations is that of good
citizenship, and we especially stand for the needs of every Ameri
can, whatever his occupation, in his capacity as. a self-respecting
citizen.
The republican party will uphold at all times the authority and
integrity of the courts, state and federal, and will ever, insist that
their powers to enforce their process and to protect life, liberty and
property shall be preserved inviolate.
We believe, however, that the rules of procedure in the federal
courts with respect to the issuance of the writ of injunction should
be more accurately defined by statute, and that no injunction or
temporary restraining order should be issued without notice, ex
cept where irreparable injury would result from delay, in which
xase a speedy hearing thereafter should be granted.
The same wise policy which has induced the republican party
to maintain protection to American labor, to establish an eight-hour
day on the construction of all public works, to increase the list of
employes who shall have preferred claims for wages under the
bankruptcy laws, to adopt a child labor statute for the District
of Columbia, to direct an investigation into the condition of work
ing women and children, and later, of employes of telephone and
S S?SSh comPanies engaged in interstate business ; to appropriate
$150,000 at the recent session of congress in order to secure thorough
inquiry into the causes of catastrophes and loss of life in the mines,
to amend and strengthen the law prohibiting the importation of
contract labor, will be pursued in every legitimate direction' within
lederal authority to lighten the burdens and increase the opportu
nity for happiness and advancement of all who toil.
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