Fort Pierce news. (Fort Pierce, Fla.) 190?-1920, 1908-12-11

renew my recommendation made
In q previous message that half holl.
days be granted during the summer to
all wageworkers in government EN-
ploy.
I also renew my accommodation
that the principle of the eight hour
day should as rapidly and as far as
practicable be extended to the entire
work being carried on by the govern
ment. p a's''- F--- &.
The Courts.
most earnestly urge upon the con-
gress the duty OF increasing the totally
inadequate salaries now given to our
judges. On the whole, there Is no
body Of public servants who do as
valuable work nor whose moneyed
reward is so inadequate compared to
their work. Beginning with the SUI
preme court, the judges should have
their salaries doubled.
1t is earnestly to be desired that
some method should be devised for do
Ing away, with the long delays which
now obtain III the administration of
justice and which operate With pecul-
far severity against persons Of small
means and favor only the very crimi-
mails whom 1t Is most desirable to pun
fish.
At the last election certain leaders
Of organized labor made violent and
sweeping attack upon the entire ju-
dietary OF the country, an attack
couched In such terms as to include
the most upright, honest and broad
minded judges no less than those Of
narrower mind and more restricted
outlook. Last year before the house
committee on the judiciary these same
labor leaders formulated their de-
mands, specifying the bill that con-
tanned them, refusing all compromise,
stating they wished the principle Of
that bill or nothing They insisted on
a provision that In labor dispute no
injunction should issue except to pro-
tect a property right and specifically
provided that the right to carry on
business should not be construed as a
property right, and In a second pro-
vision their bill made legal In labor
dispute any act or agreement by or
| between two or more persons that
would not have been unlawful II done
by single person. In other words,
this bill legalized blacklisting and boy
cotting in every form. The demand
was made that there should be trial
by jury in contempt cases, thereby
most seriously impairing the authority
of the courts. All this represented a
course Of policy which, II carried out,
would mean the enforcement OF class
privilege In Its crudest and most
brutal form and the destruction Of
one of the most essential functions OF
the judiciary in all civilized lands.
The wageworkers, the workhgmen,
the laboring men Of the country, by the
way in which they repudlated the eff
fort to get them to cast their votes In
response to an appeal to class hatred
have emphasized their sound patriotism
and Americanism,
Courts Imperlled by Judges.
But the extreme reactionaries, the
nersons who blind themselves to the
wrongs now and then committed by
tbe courts on laboring men, should
also think seriously as to what such
movement as this portends, The
courts are jeoparded primarily by the
| action Of these federal and state
indges who show inability or unwill-
ingness to put stop to the wrong
doing of very rich men under modern
Industrial conditions
There are certain decisions by va
rIous courts which have been exceed.
,nglv detrimental to the rights OF
yegeyorksrs. This is true Of an tne
decisions that decide that men anu
women are by the constitution guar
anteed their liberty" to contract 70
anter dangerous occupation, or TO
,.orl, an undesirable or improper num-
%S ~ hours. or TO work IN unhealthy
Surroundings, and therefore cannon Sc.
oerer damages When MANNED IN tna1
ooounotIon and cannot be forbidden
70 work what the legislature decioes = =
IN. excessive number OF hours or 70
ca,rv ON the work under conol.lons
SS h,sh ths legislature decides 70 be I'M