The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-05-02

Til they express by their vote a desire
10 con- pete with the labor OF con-
yicts.
The eight-hour day in state, county
and municipal work Is provided for.
and the legislature Is empowered TO
provide a state printing plant which
will relieve tile people from the ex-
actions OF the school textbook trust
and printing comhine that has long
looted the territorial treasury. The
employment OF children under Is
years OF age In factories or under
ground mines Is prohibited. Under
the head of Labor and Arbitration
the constitution contains the follow.
ing provisions:
a department of labor Is hereby
created In charge OF labor commits
sioner To be elected by the people,
whose term OF ofiice shall be four
years, and whose duties shall be pre-
scribed by law.
The legislature shall create board
OF arbitration and concilliation In
the labor department. and, the labor
commissioner shall be ex -officio chair
man.
The legislature shall pass laws To
protect the health and safety OF EN-.
ployes In factories, In mines, and on
railroads.
The interests OF the people have
been looked after In every way. BY
1.-THE people is meant those whose
toll and sweat and sacrifices have
wrested the new state from desert
control and set 1t firmly on the high
way TO prosperity-no the corpora.
lions who seek To so influence law.
makers aud legislation as to enable
them to fatten upon the necessities
OF the people. Oklahomans have not
been deceived by the cry OF driving
out capital, ''wronging widows and
orphans who have their little all In.
vested in railway stocks or tax.
ing enterprise, These cries were
raised, but they fell upon deaf ears,
for the first concern OF Oklahoma
was Tor her own people and the safe
guarding of their interests.
The interests that have so long
kept oklahoma out OF the sisterhood
Of states builded unwisely, for the
longer Oklahomans were unjustly de.
priyed Of statehood the stronger grew
their determination to start right
when given the boon OF statehood ana
the making OF their own eonstitu-
tion. Undisturbed by the partisan
rivalry INDUCED In by the states dur.
ing national elections, Oklahoma
profited by the mistakes made, and
constitution the people avoided the
bad features Of all, drew upon the
good features of all, and initiated
features that other states long TO
have but are prevented from securing
by the shrewdness OF the selfish
points that secured the whip band
when the constitutions were In the
making. AS result, Oklahoma
joins the sisterhood OF states with
the best constitution ever drafted by
the people OF any state. And nc
other territory was ever better fitted
for statehood. The citizenship OF
Oklahoma combines within itself the
best blood and brain and Drawn OF all
the states-a typical Americanism
that is better than Anglo.Saxon,
Norman, Celt or Dane--men who
have netyed themselves TO dare and
do, and in the doing have established
a commonwealth the like OF which
the world never before saw at sim.
liar age.
! Is Oklahoma ready for statehoodi
Yes, and was ready a decade ago
Tue total population Is In excess Of
600, 600, a grea,er population thar
hat CT 6teen other states, some Of
which have been In the sisteIhooc
( for a century. Fourteen other states
have fewer dwelling houses. Not les'
than twelve other states have /;
greater mortgage Indebtedness PEI
capita Few states have bette
school system than this new TERRITORY
that stands on the threshold OF state
hood. The "little white schoo
house, Is To toe seen everywhere
The cities are prosperous, substap
italy built and enterprising to q de
gree that will astonish the new be
holder. Manufacturing is growing a
a wonderful pscs, and the resource
OF the new state offer abundant proc
that not alone In agriculture vii
Oklahoma stand pre-eiDiuent.
More than cleyeu years hay
elapsed since Utah, the last state I'D
mitted, reioiced To see her star upo
the blue OF the nation's banner
When oklahoma star appears
will mark the admission OF stat
that, at the time ~ admission, va
the richest. the most populous, tn
most enterprising and the most or
lightened Of all the galaxy OF states
This is not ekaggeration. The q.
ures and the indisputable facts pros
IL beyond the shadow OF doubt {