Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-09-25

Oklahoma. through Senator n. L.
owen IN the senate and Scott Ferris,
member of the House of Representa-
tiyes at Washington. introduced prop
or resolutions providing for amend
ments to the Constitution of the Unit
ed States. among others, the follow
ing: .,,r
vote.
"B-To legalize national income tax.
."C-To constitutionalize an employ
ers liability act (Which you know &C
cordine to the supreme court OF inc
tinited States cannot be enacted under
the present constitutional limitations.
:. .D-To allow the states the right TO
nrohibit interstate commerce snip
rnents of convict made goods INTO
states whereby state law convict LABOR
90 rrohibited from competing with free
labor. ,.,,,,;o,s
were introduced in Congress and appeaieo
"a yo,, for YOUR official and editorial as
.;s+ance You ignored both. Your ser.
vices might have been very oehehciaA
on that occasion
..such things as this lead me to oeieVe
that YOU are loud talker out NOT
reliable actor.
"If Oklahoma Democracy has done IN
two wears practically all you recommend
in your platform. why don't you heip
.ho.a uyho do things instead of opposing
their efforts?
..rn oklahoma we believe that the or
pan,zation of labor is Indispensable TO
eIevating humanity and protecting the
toiler.
I'VE want respect for these principles to
he mart of the education of chldhood and
the practice in mature years.
therefore we have begun by requiring
the union label to appear on our common
school books.
ono doubt three-fourths of the common
school books are used by children OF
those who toll in the field. the mines. the
shops.
"Now let those who buy these books
ioin the Oklahoma plan and the union
label will be on every book In the union
Even in Oklahoma it can't all be done at
once. but the good work is started, let US
all keep It going.
"Have you done as much? If so. when
and where?
"rhe Oklahoma constitution is conceded
by all to be a model basic law in defence
of human right and happiness.
"Have YOU done as much? II so, when
and where?
"Results speak louder than promises.
Read the following quotations from the
annual report from the State Federation
of Labor unanimously adopted last June:
1.-the above, we believe. is a record in
legislation which has never been equalled
by any other state in the union, and the
following men must be given credit for
this splendid record. First on the list of
friends Of labor comes Governor Haskell.
always ready and willing to lend his as
sistance by day or night to our legisla-
tive board wher our labor laws were in
danger. His Office remains wide open
to us at all times and We are free to con-
fess that had it not been for Governor
Haskell great number of our laws
| enacted during the first session Of the
Legislature would not be on the statutes
of Oklahoma today
"Then. after reading the above and
your talk compared with our acts Gone
| as given below, tell your audience IL there
| is any excuse on earth for your efforts
at a new political party, except for the
sole purpose of boosting a single solitary
| individual who calls himself w. r
Hearst.
| (SignedD &c. N. HASKELL,
| Governor of Oklahoma"
| Governor Haskell supplemented his
statement with comparison of the plat
form of the Independence and Democrat
ic parties.
| Gov. Haskell made no reference to Mr.
Hearst's statement given out by the lat
ter on Monday night with reference to the
controversy over Hearst's charges that
Haskell has sought to influence Atty
Gen. Monnett of Ohio to dismiss certain
suit. pending against the Standard OF
Co.