The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-29

house bill. known as the plumbing
bill
House bill No. 80, the child labor
bill.
In the Session OF 1905.
blouse concurrent resolution No.
IL, relating to the pay of. overtime of
mechanics in the employ of the gov
ernment.
HOUSE bill No. So in relation to
escape shafts in coal mines.
House bill No. SOS relating to
limiting the hours of labor of certain
House bin No. s4o, fixing the
liabilities of railroads.
: Senate bill No. 1913, substitute for
house bill. for the protection of
laborers on buildings.
"House bill No. S44 relating to the
exemptions of earnings of non-resi-
dents.
Senate bill No. Sc. substitute for
house bill, the child labor bill
In the Session or 1907.
Substitute for house bill No. 241.
being an. act to protect mines, miners
and mine laborers.
Substitute for house bill No. SO,
an act to provide for the health and
safety of persons employed In and
about coal mines. @
The laboring people of this state,
Mr.. Stubs, have paid out thousands
of dollars of their hard earned money
since you have been a member of the
legislature to maintain legislative
committee at each session of the
legislature in an attempt to obtain
the passage of the bills above named,
with the exception of the punishment
bill. What did you do? Where were
you Absent and not voting, says the
record. 1 ask you is there not one
vote of yours for the boys, one line
of legislation that you have written,
one single bill by you introduced to
prove your claim of friendship for the
laboring people? In your speeches be-
fore the people of this state. you say
that you have always been the friend
of those who toll. The above record
does not show 1t.
Again, in the special session of the
legislature last winter. in the middle
of a panic, with thousands of railroad
employees out of work and thousands
of others working on short time. what
did you do? 1t was you who was re-
sponsible at that time for the further
to make 1t impossible by
legislation for railroad companies and
other employers of labor to pay good
wages and set to work the unemployed.
At that time the representatives of
1000 railroad employees in this state
before the railroad COM
rnlttee Oh the mousse anu pTOtestcu
against the passage of any
further adverse railroad legislation.
This protest by the laboring people
had no influence over you. In a
speech before the house, speech
replete with red-eyed, blood-thirsty,
populistic, anarchistic utterances, you
demanded the passage of the legisla-
ton against which the representatives
of labor had protested.
with the foregoing record, you, as
a supposed Christian of meek and
Iowly Quaker birth. selfstyled friend
of the oppressed, a pretended re-
former. still insist that you are the
friend of those who labori Why
should any laboring man, organized
or unorganized, vote you you?
Judging from the precering record. if
your advocacy of supposed reform
has no more sincerity to it
ing people, then Kansas has an
applicant at this time for the position
of governor. in the person of your
self. who is the biggest demogog that
ever araced the domain of any state
% Every dollar of your wealth, which
now enables you to build an expensive
mansion on Wind Hill, and to main
tain expensive headquarters at the
Baltimore hotel in Kansas City. Mo,
in your campaign for votes was
wrung from the brow of labor. From
the men whom you have employed in
the construction of railroads in the
west, and your friendship for the
people at this time is only
pretended. in order to further work
them in this instance for votes, and
thereby further line your pockets and
gain honor for yourself. Yours
very truly. N. B. BCRGE.'