Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-10-27
NO. As

old and remarkable traditions, and i
know your own hearts have been
stirred by an event that occurred only
I few days ago on your own Rhine,
when that magnificent cathedral OF
Cologne, which has been 900 years a
building, the scaffolds hardly down for
day, was just brought to its final
completion and dedicated to peace 1t
had lived through all reigns and
| through all wars, to be dedicated at
last by Kaiser William to peace and
the glorious memories of Germany
That is a wonderful thing for you to
have a share in but | trust, fellow-cit-
izens, that you have come here to help
Us build grander temple, not Gothic
building made from the quarries of the
Rhine, but made out of the hearts and
lives and aspirations and hopes of all
the people who have come into this
country to make it their home, and to
build here institutions that shall not,
| trust, be finished in 600 years from
to-day, but shall go on, the grand
structure, always rising, the foundation
always deepening, and the dome al
ways high and always free for all peo-
pie who come here to America and in
vest with u.s.
To all such people the genius of
America speaks, in the language of
another German poet, the great Nor
wallis, "Gieb Treulich mir die herde sci
hr,dar mir md ,uopda don blioE xyor
deinem elude nicht wiedes neg Won mir.
I'm temple wo mir Knien elm ort wohin
wir zichen Elm geuck fur das wir glehen
elm himmel mir und der" Such is the
welcome that America gives to all peo-
pie.
thank you for this call to-day, fel-
low-citizens. l thank you for your
kindness of expression, and | conclude
by saying, "Wilkommen allie "
EMPLOYEES LIABILITIES.
The tendency of legislation to throw
safugards around human life, and to
hold railway corporations and others
employing men in more or less dan
gerous occupations to the duty of
making use of all available means to
lessen the hazards of travel and labor,
is well shown in the recent bill before
the British Parliament, known as the
Employers Liability Bill. The object
of this particular bill is 40 extend and
regulate the liability of employers to
make compensation for injuries suffered
by workmen in their service" 1t pro-
vides that in cases of injury resulting
in death, the employee shall be liable,
and the representatives of the injured
party shall have the same right of
compensation as if he had not been in
the service of the employer. The
limit of sum recoverable was first set
at three years. earnings of a person in
the same grade of employment in the
district in which the injury was re-
celved but in the House of Lords it
was, on the motion of Lord Beacons-
field, reduced to two years.
By the terms of the bill the employ
er is liable for personal injury if
caused: CD by reason of any defect
in the ways, works, machinery, plant,
or stock in-trade connected with or
used in the business of the employer
or (2) by reason of the negligence Of
any person IN the service of the en-
ployer who has uperintendence in
trusted to him while in the exercise of
such superintendent or (3) by rea-
son of the negligence of any person In
the service of the employer to whose
orders or directions the workman at
the time of the injury was bound to
conform, and did conform, where such
injury resulted from his having so con-
formed or (4) by reason of the act or
omission of any person in the service
of the employer done or made in obedi-
ence to the rules or bylaws of the en-
ployer, or in obedience to particular
instructions given by any person dele
gated with the authority of the en-
ployer in that behalf; (5) by reason
of the negligence of any person in the
service of the employer who has the
charge or control of any signal, points,
locomotive engine, or train upon
railway"