Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-10-13
PARKER And LABOR.
''DuE PARktFS LABOR RECORD
SPEAKS FOR ITSELF.
ll's Decisions Have Ben If InsstimabIe
Va'ue TO The Cause Of Labor
Throughout Ii. Union.

onouid Judge Parker be elected Pros.
iueht OF the United States. no co,,i1
De safely trusted to uphold the intorosts
OF b as against those wiz ua@S
oppress aud degrade the American
"~orAihghlan His record on this srb.
1Sct Is clear and Str~aigbtforward
ihere is no duplicity about If. No
beating around the bush; no carrvino
water on both shoulders-tbe IN vGrito
method by which Mr.I,ooseyelt avodos
personal responsibility, and seeks 70
eoncillate the trusts, while trvIng ~
vote" "' i'uor
Judge Parker made his record on
uie labor issue long before hn wac
thought OF for any other than Judicial
once. Doubtless his sympathy with
labor and his keen sense of tho rlgIts
OF those who have TO toll for n Itving
are rooted In the fact that from tbo
nrst he mad TO earn n living for him
sell, and worked for years at humble
compensation while building up the
reputation which helped to raise him
TO the highest judicial Office I'm Tho
state of New York. In Republican
campaign literature it is stated M
Theodore Roosevelt, as sometime IN
Drag Of. that ''he never needed ia 10 a
Gays work. This cannot be said of
Jtuge Parker. He is Il poor man to.
day, and from bOyhood he has had TO
work for a living. The Republican
boast that their party has nominated
Tor President a man who never
needed to do a days work" while the
Democrats have nominated a man who
mas always had TO work 10 maintain
himself and his family, illustrates the
difference between the parties as wei
as the men; between the party of
~aristocracy and oligarchy, which has
named Roosevelt for head Of the M
uon, and the party of liberty and equal.
lty, with Parker for standard bearer.
Roosevelt, the %arlstocrat, who, a Re
publican campaign document saws,
never needed to do a days work." is
never able to speak of workingmen
without a sheer, as when he said in
his book, Ranch Life" that "they
cowboys are much better fellows and
pleasanter companions than small
farmers or agricultural laborers: norl
are the mechanics and workmen of a
great city to be mentioned in the same
breath"
How different the tone which runs
through the numerous decisions of
Judge Parker in cases before him af-
fecting the rights of labor-the rights
of his fellOw-citizens whom, unlike
Roosevelt, he does not regard as in
%feriors, but as equals in every respect
to himself!
Labor, in the State of New York
and in the United States, owes n large
debt to the brOad-mlnded decisions of
Judge Parker, who has steadfastly re-
fused to be swayed or warped from
his consistent maintenance Of every
tending to secure TO the work
lngman the rights Of which men of the
Roosevelt stamp who, as boosted in
Republican campaign literature, never
needed to do a days work" would like
to deprive him. But for this attitude
OF Judge Parker, as a member and
Chief Justice Of the Court Of Appeals,
intended to promote the interests
Of labor would have become dead let
tiers. and the w%Orkingman striving to
better his condition with the aid of
wholesome legislation, would have
been at a grave disadvantage.
1t Is not necessary, therefore, to
guess at Judge Parker's curse toward
should he be elected President.
1t Is also certain that, with his
regard for the Constitution, and
the rights which 1t guarantees to every
citizen, Judge Parker, as President,
would not be inactive, as Roosevelt
has been, while the Republican Gov
ernor Of Colorado, or any other State,
used the military, at the will of m
employers, to deprive clti-
zens of their constitutional rights, and
to deport them from their places Of
residence. Roosevelt has by silence
and inactlon tolerated these Outrages,
and given encouragement to Republi-
can Governor Peabody and Republican
General Bell, Of Colorado, TO
persist In their course Of violence, OPP
preston and persecution Of labor, al
though his sworn obligation as Presl-
dent leaves no doubt of his duty TO in
terfere. With Parker in the Presi-
dental chair Peabody and Bell would
have dared TO deport miners
from the State because they belonged
to a labor union.
Judge Parker's vigorous advocacy of
the rights and dignity of labor is IL
Illustrated in his whole judicial career.
In a strong dissenting opinion, case
of Rodgers V. Coler, 1G6 n. Y. l, Judge
Parker argued in defense of the right
of the Legislature TO require that pre-
vaillng wages be paid to those EN-
upon State and municipal work.
has a Judge used language clear
er, or more direct and earnest than
Judge Parker used in this case, which,
in a great State like New York, paying
out In the behalf of the State and its
municipal divisions millions of dollars
yearly to wOrkingmen, was of the ut
most Importance and value to labor
throughout the Union.
The New York State law providing
that "all stone used in State and mu-
works, except paving blocks
and crushed stone, shall be worked,
dressed and carved within the State
Judge Parker took the side of labor,
and delivered an opinion in favor OF
the law. which was needed to prevent
the cheap, unorganized labor of Yer
mont. where Senator Proctor, n OF
Roosevelt's right hand men, controls
the Quarrles, from driving the union