White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1910-10-23
REPUBLICAN ADDRESSES

builder and employ non-union labor.
| said MY friend, l would be glad to
have you take the contract" he was
a honest fellow, but | said you can't
have it and build with %non-union
labor. and as l was going TO leave the
next day for Europe, l turned the
matter over to my secretary, a great
friend of the builders whose name
was George Sanford, and / told Mr..
Sanford that would give him 10 per
cent of the cost of the house, but
that he would have to employ union
labor and everything that went into
the house would have to be union
made. Now, at that time, ! was not
living in Nevada, and was not play
ing politics. | was living in Wash
ington, and | only speak of this to
show you hat even there | had that
friendly feeling for organized labor,
and the result of it all was that in
the end Mr.. Sanford built the house
and it cost 100000 90 more than his
original bid, and he had to organize
all his other building jobs and he
is now a union builder in the city of
Washington. That's the kind of a
man L am Win ic6did u lSdhlAtu
labor.
In conclusion, the Senator said:
mo mar or corporation has con-
troll over me, and never has had and
never will have, because it is not nee
essary, my friends, if for no other
reason, for me TO be the hireling or
subject of any person or corporation.
! thank you.
T.. T.. Roberts.
Mr.. Roberts expressed himself as
having but a few moments allotted to
him and hat he was therefore going
to talk right off the reel, right from
the shoulder, that he was not going
to mince words. He then thanked
the people of this county for the mag
niicent vote they had given him at
the primary election. He then made
the following statement:
We, as a party, are going through
this campaign without any mud
singing and We don't intend to throw
any, and when this campaign is all
over / want to feel that there is not
a man, woman or child In the state
but what will say that those wen went
through this campaign speaking of
the candidates of the opposition well,
and we can then at least have the re-
spect of the other men.
Mr.. Roberts here gave a brief life
history of Senator Nixon, and then
touched on the tariff question, stating
that under the present system of
wholesale revision it was a give and
take proposition, and advocating
President Taft's policy of a tariff
board of experts who would investi-
gate the tariff item by item and hat
it should be revised by single sched-
ules On their recommendation.
He then took up the question of ir-
rigation. stating that Senator Carter
who is the present chairman of the
Irrigation committee of the Senate,
would soon be promoted 10 another
committee. and that when he was,
Senator Nixon, who is the ranking
member of the Irrigation committee.
would succeed him as chairman, and
calling attention TO the amount of
good he would then be able to do for
the arid lands of the State of Nevada,
and pledging his own Individual sup
port to the aus of irrigation and
reclamation.
On the labor question Mr.. Roberts
expressed himself as unqualiiedly in
favor of organized labor, and abso-
lutely against the importation of
cheap foreign labor to compete with
the American working man, particu-
larry specifying all Chinese. Japanese
and Hindo.
Mr.. Roberts closed his address with
an eulogy to Theodore Roosevelt.