The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1908-07-31

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occupy any position.
W. T. Fillmore, of Owosso, ma
chinist by trade, spoke of the country
from laboring mans point of view,
wishing to give facts that capital
would not allow to be known. He
thought the labor question the greatest
one before the people today and dis
agreed with Mr.. Fitzgerald in his
statement that the farmers were the
most important class and with Mr..
Fordney that there was danger Of war
with Japan. Labor had not received
it's share of the increase in the price of
everything, the cost of living having
gone up 90 per cent. and wages but A
per cent, The farmers were prosperous
and had not felt the panic, but labor
had been idle. The idleness of the rich,
the marrying of foreign princes by
American girls and taking of money
never earned to foreign shores he con-
demned. The poverty in the tenement
districts, the working of infants in
the cotton mills in the South should
be made known before prosperity was
acclaimed. Labor was as high in in
telligence as those in other spheres and
was determined to have its rights, and
parties today were wondering what the
laboring men would do this year.
J. w. Thorn spoke briefly claiming
that farmers were economical and that
the same economy should be used in
state and national affairs. He dis
approved of President Roosevelt's many
times expressed wish to increase the
navy of the country, believing the army
and navy drew from the farm those
who should be doing its work. He
abused the state government because of
the conduct of the State treasurer's
Office by Glazier.
Hon. Patrick H. Kelly was accorded
hearty reception and was frequently
applauded during his eloquent and
happy discussion of public affairs. He
believed the American flag had always
and did now float over the most pros
porous and fairest nation on earth,
guaranteeing more than any other ma
tion in the way of freedom, education,
comforts and health.
Michigan had spent eleven million
dollars for education last year, two
thirds of which was paid by the trans.
portation corporations-more than the
entire Russian empire had used. Mich
gan provided against child labor, and
other states did the same and con.
ditions were becoming better every
day. He called Mr.. Thorn to account
for his claim of extravaganza in state
affairs-asking for some particulars
would he cut off the money spent for
the Agricultural college, the University
of Michigan, the orphan home at Cold
water, the school for girls at Adrian,
for boys at Lansing, for consumptives
at Howell for the blind, deaf and
dumb, the veterans in the Soldiers
home, the normal schools, etc. Eighty
per cent. of the entire cost of running
the state is for such institutions He
asked where there was wrong in the
conduct of the Secretary of States de-
partment, the Auditor. Generals de-
partment or the state treasury under
John T. Rich.
Rev. G.. w. Jennings of Owosso,
closed the program with an eloquent
appeal for temperance and for aid in
temperance work, showing the terrible
cost of the liquor traffic in lives. in loss
Of home and comforts, in suffering of
the bitterest kind. He urged cooper
alton of capital and labor rather than a
widening of the breach as Mr.. Fillmore
has intimated must come. He denied
the statement of Mr.. Thorn that the
injunction had become power to be
used by corporations against the people
or by the people against corporations,
but that it stood for the full, free and
intelligent enforcement of law for and
against all alike. Returning to the
liquor question he said too much of
labor's earnings were spent for liquor;
that liquor was responsible for most
crimes committed, and the cost of
maintaining the traffic greater than the
cost of the government. He pictured
the terrible results of the use of liquor