The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1906-10-12
PLEDGED TO LABOR
Is the Grand Old Republican
Party.
Every Favorable Law on the Stat
ute Books Passed by Repub-
lican Congress.

idge summed up the WoTh VI 'he
Republican party relative to labor
as follows:
There are those who seek to Gre
ate the impression that the kepub-
ican party is at war with labor.
Such men, if they are Republicans,
misrepresent the party, and II they
are Democrats, they SANDER the par
ty. The only national laws in the
interest of labor ever enacted were
written and passed by the Republic
an party. The only organized
friend of labor in our history has
been the Republican party. 1t
could not be otherwise, for our 3D.
600 900 voters are nearly all labor
ing men.
The Republican party was born
from the conscience of the masses
for the purpose Of freeing labor; and
that labor is free in America to-day
is the work of the Republican par
tvs hands. Who gave free homes
TO the homeless? The Republican
party. Who has protected the
wages of American labor? The Re
publican party. Who has placed
every law for the benefit of labor on
the statute books of the republic!
The Republican party.
1T was a Republican Congress
that enacted the first eight-hour law
in this country. and it was signed by
a Republican President, Ulysses 3.
Grant.
There is the law for the inspec-
ton of all steam vessels navigating
the waters of the United States. 1t
is the work of the Republican party.
There is the law furnishing the man
or corporation that tries to Influence
his employees vote by threat of dis
charge from his work or ejectment
from a rented house. The law was
written by the Republican party.
There is the alien contract labor
law: the skilled labor law in the
Government printing office; the law
for payment of all Government en-
ployes for holidays; the law for the
incorporation of national trades
unions; the law prohibiting the con-
tracing out of the labor of Federal
prisoners; the Board of Arbitration
law: the territorial coal mine regula-
ton and inspection law; the law for
the commission to settle differences
between interstate railroads and
their employees; the indemnify law
guaranteeing the payment by con-
tractors building Government build
ings of all labor in their employ
every one of them enacted by the
Republican party.
There is law prohibiting rail-
roads from forbidding employees to
enter labor organizations or be men,
bers thereof or discriminating
against such employe on account of
such membership-that is Republic
an law. There is a law absolutely
prohibiting the coming of Chinese
laborers to America-that is a Re-
publican law. There is the law Gre
ating the Department of Commerce
and Labor which to-day is doing
more for the uplifting of the masses
than any other three branches of our
Government put together-and that
is Republican law.
"And we are going right on with
this work. At the last session of
Congress in addition to the other
historic things we did we passed the
employers liability act, making the
railroads liable for injuries to en-
ployes which may result from negli-
gence of its officers or other employ
es. abolishing contributory negli-
gence as bar to the recovery of
damages, and finally making the
jury the judge of the degree of neg
ligence. That law is legal revolu-
ton. 1t overthrow the rule of COM
mon law uniformly held by the
courts for $50 years. And it is a
Republican law.
ION the 10th Of next January we
will vote on the bill preventing rail-
roada from, rou,lirinU emDlOyes to