Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-25

eth tho understanding, unless It was
intended by It's author that II should
bear name in striking contrast with
It's real character What is the origin
and what is the destiny Of this league?
Whence and whittier? That is the
question The word sprang from
Hearst and to Hearst 1t will return.
Amid the fanaticisms Of Hearsts mad
presidential ambition II was born; and
amid the ruins of that delirious am
bition 1t will be laid away to it's long
sleep without pomp or ceremony on
election day. 1t will remain only as a
sorrowful memory with no epitaph ex-
cept that which is inscribed on the
stubs of Hearst's exchequer.
The only serious thing about the In
dependence league is that It furnishes
indubtable proof of Hearsts treason
to the Democratic party, through
which he has foully conspired to de-
stroy the party and It's magnificent
national leader, William Jennings
Bryan.
Hearst stands branded as a traitor
to Democracy and to all the great
principles that party represents, and
as Just and fitting penalty of his
treason he has been expelled from our
ranks. He has been driven out into
the open. Hereafter he will have to
WELD his dirk where its flash can be
seen. | am proud of the part 1 have
taken in this purging of our party. 1t
makes no difference how it affects the
result. I would rather go down to ever
lasting defeat without Hearst or Her
rim than go to victory with either OF
both Of them. If / can't win without
the sandbag and the sack 1 will re.
tire from political life and take my
conscience with me.
Promises a Clean Rule
The affirmative policies of the state
government naturally range them
selves under four heads, namely, edu-
cation, labor. transportation and tax
alton. In the language of Emerson,
THE highest end of government is the
culture of man, and If man can be edu
Gated the institutions will share their
improvement and the moral sentiment
will write the laws of the land" | be-
lieve in more teachers and better pay,
and | know that every dollar expended
In this way will be returned "a hun
dred fold.
1t will be my constant aim to cut off
every unnecessary expense in order
that the moneys thus saved may be
turned to educational purposes. There
satellites to reward, and for that rea-
son the business of the state can be
handled upon busines basis, exact
ing from the people in the form of
taxes only so much as may be actually
needed for the administration of af-
fairs and the maintenance of the gov
ernment.
In my Judgment the children of Cali
fornia, without exception, should be in
Ip In of hn IYcb
and / shall rigidly enforce every law
to that effect and cause the enactment
of such new laws as will most likely
bring about this desired result.
The relation that should be main
tanned between labor and capital /
have already touched upon. So far as
the state is concerned, it has the right
to fix the hours and conditions pertain
ing to all work of a public nature. The
eight hour day is the logical result of
modern conditions and the state should
insist that no man in
the employ of the state or on contract
work of the state should be permitted
to labor more than eight hours in any
one day.
Needs of Labor
1t should likewise insist that safe
appliances be furnished in all cases,
every risk removed and sanitation and
health be insured so that the working
man of California, whether in the em-
ploy of the state or not, may be made
to feel that the state is taking the lead
in making the wage Garner the very
best type of American citizen. The
state should encourage in every pos
sible manner the submission of all dis
putes 20 arbitration and thereby reduce
to a minimum the strained relations
which frequently arise between the
laborer and his employer.
Labor has become organized for the
common good of it's members and has
thus applied the cooperative theory
to its own interests. This it had right
to do and taken as whole. the result
has been beneficial to all classes.
Abuses may occur, but the record of
organized labor can be favorably COM
pared with the record of industrial and
other organizations. The man who has
labor to sell is like any other man who
has a commodity for sale. He desires
to get the best price the market af-
fords.
A daily wage, even with labor so well
organized, is more likely to be fixed
by the natural law of supply and de-
mand as are the thousand and one
things "a laborer Is compelled to pur-
chase for the comfort of himself and
his family. There is, of course, con-
stant shifting of conditions which re-
quire constant readjustment, but the
of the balance between cap
ital and labor should in every instance,
if possible, be effected by peaceable
means. And so far as it can the state