The Savannah morning news., 1901-12-04

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MUNYON'S INHALER CURES CATARRH.
broadening our markets, securing our
business interests on a safe basis, and
making firm our new position in the in
ternational Industrial world; while
scrupulously safeguarding the rights
of wage-worker and capitalist, of in
weston and private citizen, so as to Sc
cure equity as between man and man
in this republic.
The Question of Labor.
With the sole exception of the farm
ing interest no one matter is of such
vital moment to our whole people as
the welfare of the wage workers. If
the farmer and the wage-worker are
we'll off. it is absolutely certain that all
others will be we'll off, too. 1t is,
therefore, a matter for hearty congrat-
ulation that on the whole wages are
higher to-day in the United States
than ever before in our history, and
far higher than in any other country.
The standard of living is also higher
than ever before. Every effort of leg
islator and administrator should be
bent to secure the permanency of this
COnQIllOH Oh llllHSS anu It's lbiplONCT
ment wherever possible. Not only must
our labor be protected by the tariff, but
it should also be protected so far as it
is possible from the presence in this
country of any laborers brought over
by contract, or of those who, coming
freely, yet represent standard of liv-
ing so depressed that they can under
sell our men in the labor market and
drag them to a lower level. / regard
it as necessary, with this end in view
to re-enact Immediately the law ex-
Guiding Chinese laborers and to
strengthen it wherever necessary in or
der to make it's enforcement entirely
effective.
The national government should de-
mand the highest quality of service
from its employees; and in return 1t
should be a good employer. If possible
legislation should be passed, in connec-
ton with the interstate commerce law,
which will render effective the efforts
of different states to do away with
the competition of convict contract Ia
Dor in the open labor market. So far
as practicable under the conditions of
! government work, provision should be
made to render the enforcement OF the
| eight-hour law easy and certain. In
! all industries carried on directly or NJ
/ directly for the United States govern
| ment women and children should be
! protected from excessive hours OF Ia
! Dor, from night work, and from
work under unsatintary conditions.
| The government should provide in ITS
! contracts that all work should be done
under fair conditions. and in addi-
| ton to setting high standard should
uphold e by proper inspection, eN-
| tending if necessary to the sub-con-
| tractors. The government should for
| bid all night work for women ana
! children as we'll as excessive over
time For the District of Columbia a
good factory law should be passed;
and, as q powerful indirect aid to Such
laws, provision should be made to turn
the Inhabited alleys, the existence OF
which is a reproach to our capital city.
into minor streets where(t the inhabi-
tants can live under conditions faVor-
able t. health and morals.
American wage workers work with
their heads as well as their hands.
Moreover. they take a keen pride Iii
what they are doing; so that lnde-
pendent of the reward, they wish TO
| turn out a perfect job. This is the great
secret of our success in competition
with the labor of foreign countries.
The most vital problem with which
this country, and for that matter the
whole civilized world has to deal, is
the problem which has for one side the
betterment of social conditions, moral
| and physical, in large cities, and for
another side the effort to deal with
that tangle of far-reaching questions
which We group together when we
speak of labor" The chief factor in
| the success of each man--wage- worker,
farmer, and capitalist alike-must ever
be the sum total of his own individual
qualities and abilities Second only to
| this comes the power of acting in com
bination or association with others
Very great good has been and will be
accomplished by associations or unions
of wage workers, when managed with
| forethought, and when they combine
| insistence upon their own rights with
law abiding respect for the rights of
others. The display of these qualities
in such bodies is a duty to the nation
no less than to the associations them
elves Finally, there must also in
many cases be action by the govern
ment in order to safeguard the rights
and interests of all. Under our .consti-
tuition there is much more scope for
such action by the state and the mum
icipalty than by the nation. But on
points such as those touched on above
the national government can act.
When all is said and done. the rule
of brotherhood remains as the indis-
| pensable prerequisite to success in the
kind of national life for which we
strive. Each man must work for him
self, and unless he so works no outside
help can avail him: but each man must
remember also that he is indeed his
brothers keeper, and that while no
man who refuses to walk can be car
ried with advantage 10 himself or any
one else yet that each at times STUN
bles or halts, that each at times needs
to have the helping hand outstretched
to him. To be permanently effective
aid must always take the form of help
ing a man to help himself and we can
all best help ourselves by joining to-
gether in the work that is of common
interest to all.
New Immigration Law Needed.
Our present immigration laws are I'M
satisfactory. We need every honest and
efficient immigrant fitted to become an
American citizen, every immigrant who
comes here to stay, who brings here a
strong body stout heart, good head,
and a resolute purpose to do his duty
well in every way and
to bring up his children as law
abiding and God-fearing members OF
the community. But there should be
a comprehensive law enacted with the
object of working a threefold improve
ment over our present system. First
| we should aim to exclude absolutely
not only all persons who are known
to be believers in anarchistic princi-
pies or members of anarchistic socie-
ties, but also all persons who are of a