Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-08-09
HOW THE wAGE.woRKygs FEEL

t sand voters on Monday evening. and z were addressed by ex-Mayor McLaugh ' iin' of Hardwood, and 4. T. Carpenter C ex-Nice-President of the Amalgamated J Association of Iron and Steel Workers
 MT. Carpenter is an effective speaker
 lie has heretofore worked with the g Democratic party. His denunciatioa of Cleveland was based upon ten different Q grounds. which still left untouched
 Cleveland's private character and ooliti- : cal experience.
 ] These grounds were:
 l. That, although the people of the , State of New York had by a popular [ majority Of l30O0O adopted a constitu- tional amendment concerning convict labor, which had been urged by the la.
 Dor associations of the state. Cleveland had thrown the weight Of his influence as governor against the passage Of the
 statutory measures essential to give ef- Tee; to the constitutional provision and
 so had nullified the expressed will of the
 people.
 2 Ina. the pretense that the 5-ccnt
 fare bill Is unconstitutional Is one that. II true, should have been decided by the
 courts, who are the proper judges of the constitutionality of laws. As 1t is. Cleveland's veto of the lill prevents the question from getting into the courts, and If every governor should do the like the people could never get into the courts at all with the question of con- sti'utionality, even in case in which the courts would, If they heard it. de- eide the act Co be valid.
 3. He vetoed the bill aboiishing con tract child labor in the charitable insti- tutloDs of the State. It certainly could not be constitutional for legislature to decide whether the orphan children of tender years consigned to charit ble in- sti;ulions should Ie let ont to be worked ID gangs, like couyict=, under the con- tract system. The man who would veto such bIll Is too inhuman to be Presi- dent of inc United States.
 :. Ihe bill to reduc- piIotage fees is bill wholly in British interests, as a large portion oi the vessels which now i leave New York are foreign. Thls be- ing a bill to oppress lablrin the interest | of foreign corporations met the fuil ar- l proval of Cleveland. th ju-h had it been {. a bIll t0 lessen the gross earnings af ! capital he would have thought IL uncuu- | stitut.onaI
 3. The bill to levy a lax of $3 a yeGrun . working engineers for the purpose ug ] providing pension fuud tor an already . well paid class Of public servants, beng bill to tax labor, received his friendly ! signature. Had if been a bill to tax | lawyers S5 each per year, in order to i provide u pension for railroad enginocT- be would have vetoed it as uncoust,- tutional.
 6. He signed tEe civIl service bill be- cause it incapacitates q working man, however competent. from holding office. | and reserves the offices, after the English ! system, for the school and college taught younger sons of the American aristocracy. Its constiiutionality Is rn- sidered most doubtful In the minds fl the best lawyers. for tue reason that It trenches upon the just rights of the appointing power by setting up an cX- amIning board to govern the Governor, ! and at the same time restricts the just rights of the people by prescribing con- dit,ons upon winch they shall hold office, which are not found m any cousiI- tuition or statute, but only in the chang .ng caprice of an examining board.
 :. He appointed chief of the Bureau of Labor Statistics political hcnchman | of his own, who was unf.vorable to all ! the objects for which the bureau vas formed, and was favorable only to the , personal interests of Cleveland.
 x. Although tie Democratic National l Convention in its platform pledges itself 1 to reduce the hours of labor to eight l hours a day, they have placed on that platform the same Cleveland who vetoed 1 an act reducing the labOr of car drivers { and conductors only to twelve hours day. on the ground that 1t is unconstliu- ,;on.I If if k unconstitutional to re- duce the hours of one class of workers down to twelve honrs, how can We ex- meet the man who holds 1t to be so to l ali in reducing the hours of all clcsses of workers, including car drivers, down to eight hours day Either the plat form or the candidate must be dishonest on this issue. and we hold that ii is the candidate.
 q Cleveland vetoed the mechanics lien law. which would nave made fine warcs of mechanics and laborers first lien on the product and implements with which they worked. The speaker WAS one of the 5000 liborers at the Bridgeport Rolling Mil At that sud dan failure the Sheriff came and carried oT everything out of which they could gat their wages The agents oi 'he great corporation told the men they had pot a dollar left. It was the dead of ! winter. There was DO lien law to protect ,bem. More than a months wages were dpe. There would have been great sui- fering. But Judge Blodgett, of the Tinted States District Court, determined tbat where there was no law he wolld make the wages of the working men nrior lien and preferred claim hv his own arbitrary power, and he did It, and many were thereby saved from great suffering. But the kind of law that Blodcett asserts by arbitrary power m inc interests of humanity. Cleveland vetoes even when the Legislature have passed it. 10. Finally Cleveland defeated the objects of the act providing for kaii- l