The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1904-10-13
PARKER And LABOR.
JUDGE PARKER'S LABOR RECORD
SPEAKS FOR ITSELF.
lis Decisions Have Been Of lneStimable
value to the Cause Of Labor
Throughout the Union.

| OF labor as against those VINO woulu
Cypress and degrade the American
nottingham. His record on this sub
ject is clear and straightforward.
There is no duplicity about 1t; no
beating around the bush; no carrying
| water ON both shoulders-the fayorlte
method by which Mr.. Roosevelt evades
personal responsibility, ana seeks to
| conciliate the trusts, while trying at
the same time ito catch the labor
| vote"
| Judge Parker made his record on
the labor issue long before he was
thought of for any other than judicial
office. Doubtless his sympathy with
labor and his keen sense of the rights
Of those who have TO toll for living
are rooted in the fact that from the
first he had 10 earn living for HIM
self, and worked for years at humble
compensation while building up the
reputation which helped TO raise HIM
10 the highest judicial office In the
State of New York. In Republican
campaign literature 1t is stated OF
Theodore Roosevelt, rs something to
brag of, that "he never needed to do
days work" This cannot be said OF
Judge Parker. lie is poor man to-
day, and from boyhood he has had TO
work for living. The Republican
boast that their party has nominated
for President man who never
needed 10 10 Il days work." while the
Democrats have nominated a man who
has always had to work to maintain
himself and his family, illustrates the
difference between the parties rs well
us the men; between the party Of
ariStocracy and oligarchy, which has
named Roosevelt for head of the Ma.
tion, and the party of liberty and equal.
ity, with Parker for standard bearer.
Roosevelt. the arist0crat, who, Re
publican campaign document says,
never needed TO do days work" is
never able TO speak of workingmcn
without Il sheer, as when he said in
his book, Ranch Life" that they
cowboys, are much better fellows and
rleasanter companions than small
farmers or agricultural laborers; nor
are the mechanics and workmen of n |
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 at |
fecting the rights of labor-the rights |
of his fellow-ctizens. 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 large
debt to the broad-minded decisions of |
Judge Parker, who has steadfastly re-
fused to be swayed or warped from
his consistent maintenance of every |
measure tending to secure to the work |
ingman the rights of which men of the |
Roosevelt stamp who, as boosted in
Republican campaign literature, never |
needed to do days work." would like
to deprive him. But for this attitude |
of Judge Parker, as member and
Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals, |
laws intended to promote the interests
of labor would have become dead let
tiers. and the wOrkingman striving to
better his condition with the aid of
wholesome legislation, would have |
been at grave disadvantage.
1t is not necessary, therefore, to |
guess at Judge Parker's course toward |
labor. should he be elected President.
1t is also certain that, with his |
strong regard for the Constitution, and |
the rights which it 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 un-
scrupulous employers, to deprive citi- |
zens Of their constitutional rights, and |
to dep0rt them from their places of |
residence. Roosevelt has by silence |
and inaction tolerated these outrages, |
and given encouragement to Republi- |
can Governor Peabody and Republican
militia General Bell, of Colorado, to
persist In their course of violence, Op- |
preston and persecution of labor, al |
though his sworn obligation as Presi- |
dent leaves no doubt of his duty to in
terfere. With Parker in the Presi-
dental chair Peabody and Bell would |
never have dared to deport miners |
from the State because they belonged
to 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, 1855 N. Y. /, Judge |
Parker argued In defense of the right
Of the Legislature to require that pre-
vailing wages be paid to those en-
ployed upon State and municipal work. |
Never has Judge used language clear
err, or more direct and earnest than
Judge Parker used In this case, which,
In 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-
nicipal 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 ver-
mont. where Senator Proctor. one of
Roosevelt's right hand men, controls
the Quarries, from driving the union
stonecuttefs Of New York out of their
special field.
Judge Parker In the case of the Peo-
pie Y. Hawkins, upheld the law requir-
fnsx that xaoIs ~, N IN In opy ,,oro1 ;,,,tt