Williams news., 1903-09-19
HENRY ASHURSTS SPEECH
CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE.

N-->--- Fair wages mean good citizenship, since they mean better homes, bet ter clothes and better food. The minimizing and selfish who sheer at the labor unions, or who laugh at them when they use their power to enforce their rights will soon come to realize that the labor or ganizations are doing mighty work, not only for their own members, but for the country. The working man who does not belong to one of them is blind to his own interests, and those who are ho stile to labor unions may not be aware of it, but they are opposing what is good for this democratic republic and splendid element thereof - tn e brawn of this country.
 l Laborers, if you suffer it is from self-inficted wounds. Do not try to right any wrongs by violence. Right your wrongs with the ballot. The ballot is in every hand and you should be careful how you use it. Study political economy. Be come a student of men. Beware of the agitator who "reaps where he has not sown." Consider the poli- ticians, 3they toll not. neither do they spin" Throughout the United States there are those who during election time are as sweet as sum- mer, and all things to all men, be- fore election, to them all places are temples to your praise, but after the ides of November they are lofty and sour, their solicitude for the 1 laboring man becomes a gorgeous reminiscence, and they pass us by with supercillious disdain.
 It is pleasure to me to an nounce to you that in the Twenty second legislature of Arizona, Yav-
 apai county's councilmen and her three members of the house all . stood manfully for the rights of
 labor, and none of them could be
 bribed or bluffed. One of these
 men is in this assemblage today ) and the cause of labor should and
 I know does feel grateful to him <. He is entitled to your confidence
 I refer to that intelligent and brave s hearted young gentleman, Lucius
 R. Barrow. One of the best friends
 organized labor has in Arizona is
 Col Wilson. Be true to him, he never surrenders principal for or to policy.
 In conclusion let me say, I bring you message of great joy. The God of the Heroic has never yet and never will desert the laboring
 man, but as further proof of his
 solicitude and loving care for them
 has raised up a man in the United
 States who stands isolated in his greatness, a man of courage, refine
 ment and humanity, whose mag
 nanimity and princely liberality have enshrined his name in the
 hearts of the people forever, as long as the heart has passion, and as long as life has woe. He is not a meteoric statesman, who scorches through the sky and then explodes with a nasuatipg eoncussion, but is a pure and brilliant planet whose effulgent rays light up the path of the common people as Aurora gilds the morning, giving them hope, help and encouragement, who fights their battles with pen, purse and voice, and who asks no odds and fears no foe William Randolph Hearst. Scorne { and reviled, sland- cred and pasquinaded by trust paid attorneys anglo-maniacs and plutocratie presses he stands today the impregnable bulwark of human n liberty and the rights of men and resists the insiduous encroachments of the pillaging and predatory man as the rocks resist the pillows of the sky. Let not his bitterest en- emy deny to him the name and fame of the greatest friend of the
 laboring people since Jesus walked , the waves of Galilee and suffered in