The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-05

oF the moh is just as evil & thing as
 the triumph of the plutocracy, and to
 ing whatever if we succumb 10 the
 other. In the end the honest man.
 whether rich or poor, who elrrs his
 own living and tries to deal justly by
 his fellows, has az much 70 fear from
 the insincere and unworthy demagogue.
 promising much and performing noth-
 ing, or else performing nothing but
 evil. who would set on the mob to
 plunder tho rich, as from the craft
 corruptiopist who, for his own ends would permit the common people to be ever let this government fall into the hands nf men of either of these two classes, we shall show ourselves false to America's s past. Moreover, the dem agoCue and the corruptionist often
 work hand in hand. There are at tnis moment wealthy .reactionaries of such public servant who nrc secuteS them
 when they violate the law, or who seeks to make them bear their prope
 share of the RnPtG q fban as tbe oGns eng lent agitator who hounds on the mob to plunder the rich. There Is nothing
 to choose between such reaetionaIr, they are alike in their selfish dtsre gard of the rights ofe others; and it is natural that they should i3tn in the aim is fearlessly to do exact anC even justice to all>
 Eight-HOur Law.
 1 I call your attention to the need of | passing tho bill limiting the number 1 of hours of employment of ra!lroat l employees The measure is very mod crate one and I can conceive of nc l serious objection to it. Indeed so far l as it is in our power It should be our aim steadily to reduce the number of | hours of labor, with as a goal the gen. 1 eral introduction of an eight-hour day l There are industries in which 1t is not | possible that the hours of labor should l he reduoeS; just as there are communt- | ties not far enough advanced for such 1 a movement to be for their good, or, if | in the tropics. so situated that there iY no analogy between their needs and | ours in this matter. On the Isthmas
 of Panama, for instance, the conditions | are in every way SO different From what they arc here that an eight-houI i day would be absurd just as 1t is ab- l cemed. where white labor can not be l employed. t1 bother to whether the necessary work is done J'-- alien blacI men or by alieE fellow Inon. But the wageworkers of the United States are | of so high a grade that alike from the merely indretr'nt etar1n~'--' and fro~
 the civic standpoint it should be. our
 object to do what we can in the direc- : tiOn of securing the 2 neral obServ- | ance of an eight-hour day. Until re- | gently the eight hour law on Our fed ! crai statute books has been very sean | tilv observed. Now however, largc,y 1 through the instrumentality of the 1 Bureau of Labor. It is being r!gidly | enforced, and shall speedily he ablc
 to say whether or not there is need
 of further legislation in reference l thereto; for onr purpose is to see it obeyed in spirit not less than letter
 Half nClida g, du irg summer should ! he established for goVorrment em | ploves. ii iS q desirable tGt wlgcwork ! CTS who tail with .ueir hands as for 1 saslried uajcials whose la1or is men | tai that there StOuid he a reason blc amount of holiday.
 Child Labor.
 i The Congress at its last session | wisely provided for a truant court foJ
 the District of Columbia; a marked.
 step in advance on the part of properly
 caring for the children. Let me again urge that the Congress provide for a | thorough investigation of the condi- l tions of child labor and of the labor of
 women in the United States. More and
 more of our people are growing to re-
 cognize the fact that the questions | which are not merely of industrial but ] of social importance outweigh all oth- CTS. and these two questions most em-