The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1896-12-04

In relation to employers liability
for injuries to wOrkingmen Massachu-
setts is decidedly advanced, New York
wofully negligent, and varying degrees
Of interest in the matter are shown on
the statute of other States. You
young men, many Of you legislators
that are to be. may well take up this
subject for exhaustive study and de-
termine in your minds to secure Ger
tain uniformity and justice in such
laws. The mechanic Of to-day, de-
barred from intimate acquaintance
with his associates gathered by hun
drcds in factories, aud by thousands
on railroads, is hopelessly at the
mercy Of the carelessness Of others.
1t seems to be in keeping with our
present state OF civilization that the
burden of maintaining the lcglcss or
arniless, and certainly hopeless, suf-
fcrcr, from injuries received while at
the post Of duty for some definite en-.
ployer, should fall on the strong en-
ploy.r, and not on the community at
large, through the p0orhouse or aims
house, or whatever else you may style
the form that cold, perfunctory char
ity takes. The wife and children, de.
privcd of the bread.winner by anOth-
er's negligence. would seem to have a
righteous claim upon the man or cor.
poration that had been served, even
lis the families Of soldiers have worthy
claim upon the country whose battles
disabled the husband and father.
| suggest no wrongful imposition
upon the employer, nor do utter any
rawlings about illegal profits and
I hcartlcss grindings. Employers arc
men like ourselves, and in the average
quite as reasonable as the toilcrs
But l do speak out emphatically fol
uniformity in relation to liability as
much for the sake OF the wage-payel
as the wage-earner; for the intensity
, OF competition has rendered the EN-
ployer in some cases even less certain
Of profit than the workman of wages
Any charge, therefore, upon the EN-
ployers in one State not equally born,
a by men in similar business just acrOs
: the border of another State would b.
quite naturally resisted.
Still, you will find among employer
a decided willingness to have thi
burning question Of nanufactrrin
! age properly discussed and foreve
settled. Wherever progress Is mad
in any State equal to that 10 Masss
chusetts, the natural result will be th
formation Of insurance companies t
;. assume the monetary responsibility
:. the employer at so much per month
year for every cmploye. This is or
J.. Of those subjects, young men, quit
!. worthy OF your intense consideration
W 1t may not have in any money r
wards for your efforts, but it wi
ar have 10 it an element that no mono
'r ought to be able to buy, Justice.
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A child just learning to toddlc Gu
prattle forth a string Of "Whats" AZ
Why's" that will be the dcsper
tion Of the most learned philosophe
heard Of one recently that wi
!" !" prOpOunded when child by
- " former United States Fish Commit
~ sioner. Papa" said he, "befo
: there was anything, what was ther
1. and what did it look like?" The
"a u questions Of childhood signify mu,
Ao to them, II properly and patiently u
Mt swered. Their little inQulsitiye min
OF are like magnets gathering particl
Of metal here, there, and everywlel
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