The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-10-10

others of its friends in the senate to
do everything honorable and consist
ent towards the passage of the bill,
by jury, as originally migrated in the
bill, shall remain absolute with
defendant. May we hope for sue
cess at this time?
az. 3. SARGENT,
"Grand Master Brotherhood Loco
motive Firemen.
"P. M. ARTHUR,
"Grand Chief Brotherhood Loco
motive Engineers.
sc. E. CLARK,
"Grand Chief Order Railway Con-
ductors.
"P. M MoRRIsEY,
"Grand Master Brotherhood Rail-
road Trainmen.
wv. v.>PoWELL,
"Grand Chief Order Railway
TeIegraphers."
That petition, signed by those men,
was sent to the senate and presented
by Senator Cullom and printed in the
record and eight hundred thousand
railroad men asked for the passage of
the bill we have endorsed and which
! Judge Taft denounced as an attack up
on the judiciary. Now, my friends, if
eight hundred thousand railway en-
ployes believed that they are entitled
to the protection of trial by jury, if
they believe it, if it is matter of mo-
| ment to them, and if the democratic
party endorses this doctrine, and the
republican party refuses to endorse it,
if the democratic candidate stands for
| it and has fought for it for twelve
years and the republican candidate not
only opposes it but denounces it, as an
attack upon the judicial system, in
spite of the fact that it had the sup
port of the great leaders of the repub-
lican party in the past, are we not en-
titled to the support of the eight hun
bred thousand railroad men in secur-
ing legislation in harmony with that
bill?
| I wanted to present this to you be-
cause, my friends, petitions do no
amount to much if they simply express
an inclination. It is conviction that
counts; it is determination that counts
and if you are in earnest in this mat
by supporting those who champion
your cause and defend your rights
And the democratic party in this cam
paign has earned the support of these
laboring men whose pleas for ten
years have been unheeded by the re-
publican leaders, whose pleas in the
Chicago convention were unheard, but
whose demands were accepted and en-
dorsed at Denver and are defended by
the democrats in this campaign.
have thought it worth while to take
this much time in presenting these
differences between the republican
platform and ours, between the posi-
! ton of the republican candidate anG
my position. l thank you for the op
: portunity that you have given me an6
: for the attention with which you have
| listened to me. My coming here was
, not necessary to prove to you my con
fdence in your intelligence and in YOU
, fidelity. Very few men in this coun
try have travelled more than I have.
, have slept on the trains night aftel
night for many years and 1 have hai
such confidence in the intelligence and
moral character of the men who are
managing the train that I have slep
on the train with as little sense o.
danger as I have slept at home; anG
as one of the travelling public I have
been interested in having condition.
such that these men who hold ou
lives in their hands shall not be com
PEELED to work overtime, for, if the.
: do, we are in danger as well as they
2 We are interested in their having no
/ only reasonable hours but reasonabl,
4 compensation, for only by giving reas
$ enable compensation can the railroad
command the intelligence which i
;. necessary for the discharge of tn,
/, duties of your position, and as on
who travels, as well as one who is il
politics, am interested in seeing tina
!, justice is done to the railroad men
THE LABOR MOVEMENT WA:
BORN OF HUNGER-HUNGER Fol
S BREAD IN THE BEGINNING. 1T |.
d STILL A HUNGER, BUT NOW IT |:
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