The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-07-30

Of the State. The demand for tn
y prohibition of cigar making in tene
ment houses came from the work
ingmeny The Governor signed tn
bill for that last year. The act wa
declared invalid by the Court 0
appeals, and another was passeC
which was intended to obviate th,
fatal objections raised, and this wa
signed without hesitation.
PRISON LABOR.
| The workingmen made loud de-
mand for the abolition of contrac
labor in the prison, and one which
we have been forced to regard a:
mistaken; but that proposition was
favored by the Governor in his
message and in his signature of the
Comstock bill, and his criticism
upon the measures for an investi
eating commission. In the general
course Gsv. Cleveland has shown nc
special regard for this or that sepa-
rate interest, but has kept in view
the general we'll being in which all
have share; but if there is any
class to whose demands he has ex~
hibited friendly leaning, it is the
working class. Out of what, then,
was the pretended grievance to be
made? Tammany hit upon just
three of the Governors vstoes or
failures to sign bills in his two years
service, and boldly ventured to base
its pretense on those.
THE FIVE CENT FARE BUGBEAR.
In 1882 there was loud demand
for five-cent fares on elevated rail
roads of this city; at all hours, bas-
ed ou the belief that the receipts Of
the companies would permit it.
The Legislatures failure to pass
the Crane bill produced a good deal
of indignators, and last year SINH
lar bill was passed. The Governor
heard arguments for and against it,
and gave the subject careful consid-
GRAFTON. He concluded that, in
view of previous legislation and the
contract of the Rapid Transit Com
mission with the Elevated Railroad
Companies, the fares could not Justly
or constitutionally be reduced un-
less the net receipts of the compa-
nies were shown to exceed ten per
cent. on the capital actually ex-
pended. His reasoning convinced
such an earnest and fair minded
advocate of the reduction as Theo-
dore Roosevelt, and his conclusions
were subsequently acquieseed in by
the anti-Monopoly member of the
Railroad Commission, Mr.. O'Don-
nell. Moreover, the demand for
the reduction of fares through all
hours of the day did not come from
the workingmen, was not for their
benefit, and its failure has mover
been regarded as a grievance by
them. The other
TWO TRUMPED-UP GRIEVANCES
were the Governors failure to sign
the Mechanics Lien bill and the
bill regulating the hours of car
drivers and conductors, passed at
the late session. 1t has been clearly
shown that the former has been
passed in shape that would have
wrought injury and not benefit to
mechanics, and it was precisely on
that ground that the Governor re-
fused to sign it. His act was a fa-
vor to workingmen. There was
never any evidence of a demand for
the conductors and car drivers
bill. 1t was introduced by cheap
demagegue as bid for, their favor,
bnt from them nothing was heard
on the subject. This bill simply re-
quired that twelve hours should be
a days work for this particular class
of work for this particular class of
workers, without providing against
a corresponding reduction of wages
or preventing contracts for overtime.
In refusing to sign it the Governor
said: ~ cannot think this bill is in
the interest of the workingmen."
This, then, is the case made up,
not by the workingmen, but for
them, and they are quite promptly
repudiating it as none of theirs. 1t
was made by Tammany in the hope
of soaring eff support from Cleve>
land at Chicago. 1t is taken up
now only by small demagogues who
wish to gain netoriety or conse-
quence as agitators and by supporters
of General Butler in his Greenback
Anti>Monepely "racket." 1t is based
on false pretense and misrepresenta-
ton, and the workingmen are sensi-
bic enough not to be fooled with.
lady addressed letter to New
york editor the other day, stating
that her husband was confirmed
snorer and, asking for cure. The
callous hearted editor instead o! re-
comending a devorce ann new