The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-12-05

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which the national government should
take supervision. 1t might be well TO
begin by providing for "a federal IN
spector OF Interstate railroads some
where along the lines OF federal inspec-
ton of steamboats,. although not going
go far; perhaps at first all that IT
would be necessary to have would be
come officers whose duty it would be
to investigate all accidents on Interstate
railroads and report in detail the
causes thereof.
Employers Liability.
Congress should adopt Legislation pro-
viding limited but definite eornperIsa-
ton for accidents TO all workrnen wath-
I'm the scope of the federal power, m
Guiding employees of navy yards and
arsenals. In other words, a model en-
! ployers' liability act, far reaching and
thoroughgoing, should be enacted
which should apply to all positions,
public and private, over which the ma
tional government has Jurisdiction.
The law should be made such that
the payment for accidents by the EN-
| ployer would be automatic instead of
being a matter for lawsuits. Workmen
should receive certain and definite COM
pensation for all accidents in industry
irrespective OF negligence.
BY h proposed law, employers
would gain a desirable certainty Of OBJ
ligatton and get rid OF litigation 70
determine It, while The workman and
his family would be relieved from a
crushing load. 400.
The constitutionality of the employ
ers' liability act passed by the proceed
ing congress has been carried before
the urts In the event that the
court should affirm the constitutional
ity OF the act, / urge further Legislation
along the lines advocated in my mes
sage to the preceding congress. Since
12QE nra rffaollNy atynf~xy .nnart,trNr 30 Tr.,
rope, together with Great Britain, New
Zealand, Australia, British Columbia.
and the Cape Of Good Hope has enacted
legislation embodying In one form or
another the complete recognition OF the
principle which places upon the EN-
ployer h entire trade risk in the
various lines of industry.
Eight Hour Law.
The principle OF the eight-hour Gay
should as rapidly and as far as prac-
ticable be extended to the entire work
carried on by the government; and
the present law should be Amended 10
embrace contracts on those pubic
works which the present wording OF the
act has been construed TO exclude.
Investigation Of Industrial Disputes.
Strikes and lockouts, with their mt
tendant loss and suffering, continue TO
increase. For the five years ending
December 81, 1906, the number Of strikes
was greater than those in any previous
ten years n was double the number
in the preceding 1--WE years. These fig-
ures indicate the Increasing need OF
providing some machinery to deal WITH
his class of disturbances in the inter
est alike OF the employer. the employee,
and the general public. / renew my
previous recommendation that the con
gress favor2bly consider the matter of
creating the machinery for compulsory
investigation of such Industrial contro-
versies as are of sufficient magnitude
and OF sufficient concern to the people
of the country as a whole to warrant
the federal government in taking ac-
ton.
Employment Of Womsn and Children.
A thorough and comprehensive meas
IRE should be adopted at this session
OF the congress relating to the employ.
ment OF women and children In the
District of Columbia and the terKi-
tories. The investigation into the
condition OF women n children
wage-earners recently authorized n
directed by the congress is now being
carried on in the various states, n B
recommend that the appropriation
made last year for the beginning OF this
work be renewed, in order that we may
investigation which the subject de-
mands. The national government has
as an ultimate resort for control OF
child labor the use Of the interstate
commerce clause TO prevent the PROD
ucts of child labor from entering iIrtO
interstate commerce. But before using
this II ought certainly to enact model
under its own immediate control.
The Really Dangerous Criminals.
"a Vice in fits cruder and more
n-lIanAn Canvas ChnnRo. ANr0NNghn6Us. hH1f
there is very urgent need that public
opinion should be just as severe in con
demnation Of the vice which hides itself
behind class or professional loyalty, pr
which denies that 1t is vice If It cah
escape conviction In the courts.
{: Swindling in stocks. corrupting
/: legislatures, making fortunes by
{: the imitation of securities, by wreck.
/: ing railroads, by destroying COM
T: petitors through rebateS-theBe
/: forms OF ~wrongdoing in the cap
/: italist, are for more infamous than
{: any ordinary form of embezzleInent
{: or forgery; yet 1t is a matter of ex-
/: treme difficulty TO ecu the pun
: tshment Of the man most guilty OF
/: them, most responsible for them.
4: The business man who condones
: such conduct stands on q level with
the labor man who deliberately sup
(. pOrIS a corrupt ueIndBOBue anu I'll
/: tator, whether head of a union or
/: head Of some municipality, because
: he is said to have stood by the
: union" The members of thes buslSN:
{: ness community, the educators, or
: clergymen, who condone and en-
/: courage the first kind of wrongdo-
(: ing, are no more dangerous to the
{: community, but are morally even
4: worse, than the labor men who are
/: guilty OF the second type of wrong
{: doing, because less is to be par
/: doned those who have no such ex-
cuse as is furnished either by ignor-
4: ance or by dire need.
Farmers and Wage Workers.
The national government, through
the department OF agriculture, SHOULD
do all 1t can b. joining with the STATE
governments and with independent as
sociations of farmers to encourage The
growth in the open farming country
Of such institutional and social move
ments as will meet h demand OF the
hazk tuna ~ farrnarS both for the I'm.