Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-08-29
LABOR AND WHAT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS DOME

We come now to the question of labor. One important phase of the
policies of the present administration has been a anxiety to secure for
the wage Garner IN equality of opportunity and such positive statutory
proueCro Is shan place MN OF a level in dealing witt his employer. The
Republican party has passed IN employers liability act for interstate rail-
roads, and has established an eight hour law for government employees
INT on government onsruct the essence II reform effected by the
former is the abolition of the fenowservant rule, and the introduction of
the comparative negligence theory by which a n employee injured in the
service OF his employer does not lose all his right because of slight neglt
gence on his part. Then there is the act providing for compensation
occurring saiety appliances upon interstate commerce railroads for the
protection of their employees, and limiting the hours of their employment.
These ar all instances of the desire Of the Republican party to do justice
TO te a Garner Doubtiessa acre comprehensive measure for com
pensation of government employees will be adopted in the future; the prin-
cpe in such cases has been recognized, and in the necessarily somewhat
slow course of legislation will be more fully embodied in definite statutes
1t comes to a division of the joint profit of labor and capital into divi-
dends and wages This must be a constant source of periodical discus
sion between the employer and employe, as indeed are the other terms of
the employment.
To give to employees their proper position in such a controversy, to
enable them to maintain themselves against employers having great
capital they may well unite because in union there is strength and with
out each each individual laborer and empoye would be helpless. The
promotion of industrial peace through the fundamentally of the trade
conducted.
There is a large body of laborers, however, skilled and unskiled.
who are not organized into unions Their rights before the law are ex-
acuy the same a those of the union men, and are to be protected with
the same care and watchfulness-FrOm Taft's speech of acceptance
The two great political parties once lore appeal tt the voters OF
their records. The Republican party has been in power nearly forty
years, with the qualification that it has not always had a majority in con-
party had complete control All through these years the Republican
party has positively n negatively controlled the administrative policy Of
the country which is constructive, reconstrutive and positive and by
which this nation has become a world power.
The record of the Democratic party is negative, obstructive, and de.
.srucuve. 1t is a party of mistakes, resounding the echoes of the dead, it
declared for slavery, secession, squatter sovereignty; the bred Scott and
Breckenridge dosuine; that the civil war vas a failure; the constitutional
amendments were revolutionary and void; that the negro had no right
which a white man a bound to respect; free trade o r a tariff for reve-
nue. only; free silver; abandonment of the Philippines; it hoIered milnar-
ism, imperialism, all of which are dead, dead, dead, loved in their life;
lamented in death and followed to the grave by the only mourner, the
Democratic party.
A woman doesn't mind if her husband stays out all night occasion
ally, provided he brings home a n expensive peace offering.