The San Francisco call., 1905-04-23

voded the ten-hour
York applied bakers after had been affirmed
by State of Appeals Justice Peckham who wrote
impar the right of and
obnoxious fourteenth amendment Justice Harlan who
dsented the most
liberty and property The courts have decded that the ght Oh
right Justice Peekam decides that the
individual
The New York any employment bakeries in
of day. baker made private with
employer by which the rate hour he work
in OF hours The law made this misdemeanor and the
dvidua support his family make by the use OF his
his liberty that which the best himself and his
powers and qualities to the best advantage
importance though The
property institutions favored by the pro-
is the right of Contract All economists CLASSIFY labor as property
commodity that is bought and sold All commodities sub
of land weight of material and
the importance of official legal standard of weights and meas
everywhere and properly recognized.
This decision does deny the right of the law
labor by the hour and how hours shall constitute
days labor standard day useful standard bushel
other weight 1t for the protection and
ence OF those who sell and of those who buy labor But that is
the limit of that subject go further
and forbid the right of the individual for the delivery
legal standard abdges liberty mpairs property
right If the standard day be eight hours and by Of
his strength ambition deliver hours labor
period wentyfour hours his right do To for
any property might delivered given
time The law xss the number OF pounds IN a. bushe a but every
than fixed number OF bushels of property in one period
of twenty-four hours.
The DAYS labor and limitation of the de
lerd strangely taken the
thing. The time has and will limit
prescribe of work he accord
his strength and for The of limiting the
OF labor and Of limiting its gains by restriction pro-
hbory the betterment OF the individual 1t leads evil
that be produced this country only by artificial restrictions
the confnng of strictly the position in which
they The great glory institutions properly
administered they favor the of in life Under them
to-day may the employer
mechanic foreman the foreman superintendent and the upen
director the where he began wageworker
In of the Cousa Sun made of the
chase OF large ranch by who landed in the Sacramento
Valley the of Is without dollar and began life
worker Now he ranches aggregatng and does
penny OF his property the envy Others
and there be who regard his accumulaton
but evidence that he got all by thrift and industry anu
by sharp practice and injury of Others He enjoyed the right
and sold his labor the best advantage The
be considered Would society be better off that
still wagewoker denied by law the right benefit by his
superior skill and industry, than with him
holder independent and we'll family
the won by his enterprise and self-denal?
Any law making a msdemeanor for ambitious man to
exceed limit his earnings limitation
liberty, and while society find peril large individual
accumulation oppessivey used peril greater
destruction OF such property right the right
from the resulting classification of the people, keeping
part Of them without hope of getting the world We
such classification this country and in this
Supreme Court has canonzed against it.