Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1908-10-09
LABOR AND THE -,
REPUBLICAN PARTY
T. Has Proven Its Friendship Toward
Trade Unionists in Every STATE
in the Union.

in the JnlOus
The Republican party appeals lUt
tho sunDort of trades unionists' IL
docs So because it has proven us
friendship toward organized laDoI ~
every state in the Union. II Is not
Iin-friendship, neither. 1t IS tne
friendshiD which makes itself known
through good deeds done when soOu
deeds were needed. III ann
If the Democratic party in TINS can
Daign were obliged to prove us ill0 ~.
shin toward organized labor IN Ilie
same fashion there would be speedy
end of all the prevailing clamor aDouC
what that party is going to DO "ne"
it gets in power. - ,,oo,, IN
The Democratic party has been IN
mower at many times and IN many
States and localities in the past 10
or 30 years; and it dares not 10 ian
hack uDon it's record of substanIlaI
friendship toward organized laDoI,
as shown either in law-maklhg VI
nublic administration. If forced 10
do that. all its great orators, lnclud-
ing Mr.. Gompers and Mr.. Bryan,
would in a brief space lapse into the
darkest silence. ...
What has the Republican party
done in a practical way to advance
the cause Of organized labor ana TO
make conditions for both unionlst
and non-unionist worker more FAVOR
able than they ever were before!
This question is a broad one. me
answer to it must necessarily also De
broad. It would be impossible TO even
sketch in brief space what the hepuD-
lican party Though its representa-
tives in Mi 4 and state t legislation
7 3 enlightened Republican can
suiBi9 an effective answer IN TINS
wise: He can say in truth that ms
party and its representatives nave
| taken the initiative in the great WoIh
of bringing about improved conGl-
lions for the wage earners OF the
country, and that to Republican lesls-
lators and administrators Is due III
the first instance the existence ol
every provision OF law looking 10 Iue
betterment of those conditions now Oh
the statute books.
In New England. New York, Penn
svivania New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana
and every State in the Middle west
An Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota anc
every Northwestern State, in oregon
Washington, California and ever!
state on the Pacific slope, there exis
to-day excellent laws creating labol
bureaus, preventing child labor, limit
ing the hours of labor for man, WON
an and child alike within reasonable
limits. recognizing and safeguarding
the union label and generally foster
ing the labor unions and their WIS
policies. II.
Who called those laws into exist
ence? Republicans in every instance
because in all of those States RepuDH
cans were in control of State govern
ment.
In many of these same States Their
) are admirable laws, passed Withl
} the past two or three years, eithe
/ smashing or modifying these bruts
> suryiyals of English feudalism, IN
fellow servant rule, the contributor
/ negligence rule and the rule Of a:
= sumed risk. These same States !
= many instances have passed admit
5 able Employers Liability laws.
Take the State of Ohio, for II
2 stance. In that State to-day there e.
/ lists a code of laws for the bettermer
/ OF the lot of the working man, woma
= and child in every one of the dire
t lions enumerated above, which Is
= honor to the humanitarian spirit
1 our time. How did they come there
4 By Republican initiative and Repul
: lican influence in every instance.
Now. take the other side of the pi
= ture: The Democratic party has ha
a its own way in the South. The va
( block of States extending to the Gu
4 of Mexico-what have they done
' improve conditions for the wag
/ Garner? They have not only dor
A substantially nothing, but their Den
{ ocratic officials have taken and mail
n tain and take and maintain to-day
s many cases an attitude OF armed e.
: nifty toward organized labor and
2 representatives and toward the effo
: whenever made to call into existent
= within their borders even the lea
4 important of the remedial measure
n that have been enacted so general
2 by Republicans in Republican state