The San Francisco call., 1906-09-23
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safety appliance laws for coupling cars
so as to protect the lives and limbs OF
trainmen; we have created a Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor, over
which your honored and distinguished
citizen, Hon. Victor H. Metcalf, pre-
sides, and we have passed the employ
ers liability act
by the general Government, Next take
the States of thef Union. A far larger
percentage of Republican States nave
cratic States. Eighty-six per cent OF
the Republican States have passed laws
creating labor bureaus. while only oo
per cent of the Democratic States nave
passed such laws.
BENEFICIAL LEGISLATION.
Seventy-six per cent of Republican
States enacted factory inspection laws,
against 81 per cent of the Democratic
States. Eleven Republican and two
Democratic States have provided Tor
free employment bureaus. Four.eteii, n
States have established an eight-hour
day on public works. Nineteen Re-
publican and nine Democratic states
have passed laws prohibiting EMPLOY
ment of children under twelve years
of age Eleven Republican and two
Democratic States have passed iaWs
prohibiting the employment of children
in operating and cleaning dangerous
twenty-five Republican and nine
Democratic States have laws reQuirss =
ing seats for women IN SHOPS ,nu anu
ocratic States have laws regulallns
sweat shops, and thus down the line.
This record should convince any one
where the two parties stand l,sa on iabet 4bet
the laborers of this country or OF TINS
State will turn against party tnat
has done so much for their cause.
What labor wants is 1alr treallieii' ls1i.
at good wages.
The party of prosperity is the iapor-
ers party The party that does things
is the laborer's party, not the parry
that boasts of what it will do. Our
State is prosperous, our people are con.
tented our laborers are employed at
wages higher than paid anywhere IN
the world, and all this under hepup-
lican administration.
The Democratic party can offer moth
ing better than we have, and the IN
dependence League can do NO better'
Every one who thinks knows tnfs 10
be true. Therefore why should He-
forsake the party with which he has
been identified for years and aftacn q
himself to lost cause or cast MS iot
with a new experiment In ponucs'
don't believe he Will do SO.
DEMOCRATS AT OLD TRICK.
II IS an old trick Of the Democracy
to charge nominees on the Republican
ticket as being unfriendly to LABOR.
Such charges are now being MADE
against me by my Democratic friends,
who hope thereby to fool some Repup-
licans into voting the Democratic TICK
ct I am not and never was unlrlenoiy
to the cause of labor. l myself nave
labored in the fields, In the woods and
in the mills, and I know what honest
toll is. I never was charged with be-
ing unfriendly to labor until some
Democrat desired my political deIeat'
Two worthy young gentlemen OF ex-
cellent character and splendid attain
ments running for Governor against
me are at the present time OF the opin-
ion that unless they are elected the
cause of labor will be lost and for
gotten in the land and the wage-earner
reduced to a state Of bondage. This
is only a political hallucination which
is not dangerous and VIII pass away
after November g.
1t is only fair, however, to assure
them that their fears are unfounded and
that the cause of labor will be as SAFE
in the hands of one who not only be-
lieyes in the policies of the Republican
party to treat labor and all other In
terests fairly, but who has himselI
done more hard work than both OF
these gentlemen put together.
PHILIPPINES A BOON.
49, :, Ca1ifornia we are much in