The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-02
ate and signed by a Republican gov

ate and signed by a Republican gov
ernor.
The last legislature passed laws
regulating the employment and provid-
ing for the health and safety of men,
women and children employed in manu-
featuring establishments, renovating
works. printing offices and cigar and
cigarette factories, which act was
aimed at the "Sweat Shops" of the
large cities, and was a wise and proper
law 1t passed q law preventing the
publication of immoral writings or lit
erature. 1t passed a law authorizing
boroughs to make appropriations for
free libraries. 1t passed a law to pre-
vent the spread of diseases among
horses and cattle; a law prohibiting
the discharge Of soldiers from public
positions in the state: a law to protect
employees of corporations in their right
to form. belong to and join labor or
ganizations; a law to prohibit the adul-
teration of milk, cream and cheese; a
law preventing penitentiaries and other
penal institutions from using machin-
cry for the manufacturing of articles
inside the institution so as to take
away the competition between machine
made goods by criminal labor and hand
made goods by honest labor; a law
authorizing labor claimants to take
joint appeals; a law prohibiting mine
from their employees; a law preventing
superintendents and other officials of
jailS, penitentiarieS, etc, from employ
ing more than 8 per cent. of the in
mates in making brooms, brushes etc,
and not more than 10 per cent. in the
manufacture of all other goods except
mats and mating, in which only 20
per cent. of the inmates can be en-
ployed; a law to protect the people
against quackery in medicine. 1t passed
a law making eight hours a days work
by employees of the state and munich
pal corporations.
CRITICS DON'T MENTION BENE-
FITS.
These laws are not complained of.
They are not criticised. neither are
they mentioned. Many other good and
wholesome laws were passed by the
last legislature, but the Republican
party is criticised not because of the
laws ii did pass, not because of the
laws it did not pass, but because of
some bills introduced by individuals
that did not pass. 1t seems to me that
such arguments are a reflection upon
the intelligence of the people of Penn
sylvania. And when you come to get
at the real complaints Of our critics
they grow out of and exist because of
the personal animosity which some
against other members of our party.
There have been grievances no doubt.
There have been dsappointments no
doubt. But they are personal and in
dividual. Are the people ready to make
the grievances of individuals their own
grievances? Are they ready to over
throw the party which has blazed the
path of prosperity in the state and in
the nation because some member of
the party has an individual grievance
against some other member of the
party? 1t is claimed that we have
members in our party so potent and so
powerful that they are responsible for
the acts of the party. / do not admit
this. / claim that the Republican party
in Pennsylvania is greater than any
man i'm it, 1t is a party of the people.
1t is the peoples party. No one man
can stem the tide OF Republican sway
nor impede Republican thought. The
time has not come with the people of
Pennsylvania when in order to kill one
man in the Republican party we must
slaughter the party -,