Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-09-15


( George Washington Tie father Of his
EeoantrI, uttered s grand nagiuln when
he said she q hours Of 4 day should be
i divided into three parts aud. dezots5
eight hours for work, eight hours for
sleep ana eight EMBELLISHMENTS and ian
& proyenents OF the mind And While
I our private industries are not old en-
au9a and rich enough and prosperous
u enough SO thata division oil this kind
could ba probably carried into AT in
diyidual ana corporate enterprises, vet
+ the government Itself is rich enough
and prosperous enough SO it can afford
to be liberal with all of its citizens and
/ this law is q good one and must stand.
This is another thing the republican
party has done for labor.
/ While in congress [ voted with my
party for q law that should exclude all
| Chinese from our country and prevent
them from landing upon our shores.
/ Those people came here invested notL-
ing. lived on nothing but rice and rats
and tea and worked in our mines and
factories in competition with our own
laborers and in many sections OF our
country reduced the wages of our work
ingnen to such an extent that they
were forced to seek other fields or fail
to support their families They are
now kept out, and that is another thing
the republican party has done for lab
OF.
While in congress I voted with my
party for 9 law that prevents our own
government from using III the con-
struction of docks, forts, public build
ings or ships Or in any public improve
ments the government may make any
article that was not produced in this
country by Ai1l~r-can labor. The gov
ernmont can not use any stone, brick.
cement, marble, iron, steel, lumber,
nails. timber, spikes, or anything else
for its public works, or purchase blan-
6ets, yarns, clothing Or any supplies for
It's army, or anything for the Indian
tribes that are not produced in this
country by American labor. That is
another thing the republican party has
done for labor.
While in congress [ voted with my
part; against allowing any article, the
like Of which is produced in this count
ty, to be brought here free of duty that
was produced in foreign countries by
foreign cheap labor and sold III
competition with the things produced
by cur labor. That is another thing
the republican party has done for lab
Or.
While in congress I voted for g law
with my party, that sought to establish
boards Of arbitration to settle all dis
putes between the employee and en-
ployer. the same as differences az, now
settled between co-paItners or debtor
and c1editols That is another thing
the republican party tried 10 do for laoor
and viii DO il they are put back in pow
er again in congress where the laws
are made. The republican party pass
ell law prohibiting the importation Of
contrac5 labor into this country and SO
strictly is that law construed that a
college professor can not come here
under contract. That is another
thing the republican party has done for
labor.
[ have now told you some things the
republican party has done for labor and
could tell you of many more, but upon
my word [ could not tell you Of single
thing that the democratic party has
done for labor for the last thirty years
If my LIE depended upon it.
Now there ought to be no conflict be-
tween labor and capital, each is equally
necessary to the other. Capital could
dc nothing without labor and labor
could DO nothing without capital. They
are all laborer5 and the man who in
vests his capital in enterprise generally
works harder and has more worry and
less sleep than any man about the es-
tablishment Ii honest differences arise
between tho employer and employed, as
they sometimes will, they should be
settled amicably among themselves II
possible, but if not then by arbitration,
but never by force.
I want to say that I am a laboring
man myself and work as hard and as
many hours as any man within the
sound of my voice. I never had an i'm
pulse that was not in sympathy with
honest toll. | could not have for I was
born in the ranks of the laboring classes
and am in those ranks now. And, while
I do not now do hard manual labor that
como of vo1, do and which T did for