The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-02
Governor Stubs Explains Posi-
ton to Labor Society.
Didn't Answer Question Because
He Didn't Understand.
GIVEN ROUSING CHEER
Delegates Receive Executive
With Marked Favor.
DIR. Myers of Kansas City De-
liverS Address.

After the invocation by Rev. Thos.
S. Young at the meeting of the So
ciety of Labor and Industry in the hall
of representatives last night, Cover
nor Stubs delivered a welcoming
address, and loosening up. spoke for
nearly half an hour interrupted often
by cheers from the delegates who
filled the hall and the galleries.
at gives me great pleasure said
the governor, ''to meet with you this
evening for you represent the great
movement in the interest of the men
and women who do the work and
without whose service the wheel of
commerce and industry would stop
stone still.
And 1 want to say to you," he said,
that L am for every measure which
can be enacted into the laws of Kansas
TO help laboring men in the state of
Kansas that is just and right. When
you go beyond that you injure your
selves more than. others. All action
must be based on justice.
During my campaign, you sent me
most of questions. many of which
did not know the meaning at that time
and so did not answer. The reason L
l stood on this and that, is that I
wanted to come up and do the right
thing by you as man to man.
'I believe in the employers liability
old engine which has been operated for
ten years runs into ditch and kills
man, not pay for the man as we'll as
the engine? Why is human life not
worth as much as steel and iron and
wood? Anyhow" he added, sit is the
people who pay when they pay the
freight and the interest on capital in
vested and great deal that is not
invested. But 1 am not against the
railroads, I am for them more than
anything except the soil. They are nee
essary in the upbuilding of our coun-
try and undue restriction of the rail-
roads is menace to our DEVELOPMENT
And want to say to you, 1 hope to
see laws to protect the men who pro-
duce. Labor has not had its full re-
ward but there are many fallacious
notions about that reward. This So
cialism, socalled, is tearing you down,
carrying you back in development
1000 years. Plan to give your boys
and girls chance to rise. Do not let
your laws and rules hold down your
promising children. I believe in the
eight hour day, but let the man who
wants to work and rise do more
1T means something to be a citizen
of this great nation and great re-
sponsibility rests upon each one of you.
] am glad of this opportunity of meet
ing you here tonight. shall be pleased
to hear from you any time that YOU
have matters of interest to discuss, and
you may depend upon me, so long as
you are just and right, to help you
) clear to the end of the road"
The president Of the society, Charles
H. Danner of Fort Scott, made the
response and dwelt upon the purpose
of the society in the upbuliding of the
relation of fellow man.
DIR. Myers Speaks.
Rev. James S. Myers of Kansas
City. who delighted the organization
last year, again delivered the principal
address of the evening The Romance
of Achievement" Rev. Myers is large,
dark and handsome. and has a very
pleasant voice and smile. When he
arose and told the assembly that they
looked more like a bunch of bankers
and candidates for governor than they
did like laborers, he had already en-
gagged a long line of laughter for the
evening
He departed a little from the drudgery
of aDor and brought up its romances
the romarces of youth and maturity
bringing happy memories and future
hopes to every one present besprink-
ling the discourse with manv rich and
laughab,e stories.
I'VE live in at the right time. my
Friends" he said. Il would rather live;
my three score years of life now than
the near 1000 of old Methuselah in the
unvarying sameness of that day This
is the greatest age for achievement the
world has ever seen"
Then he began drawing pictures.