Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-11-05

\ democratic ballot upside down, w6%
you be satisfied simply to draw9
YOU knew one was democratic and me
other republican and wanted something
TO happen which would you draw
Why. If you drew the republican ballot
and wanted something to happen you
would show that you had just moved
into the state, because that ballot has
not made anything happen for a great
length of time, and therefore you would
show that you did not know how to
reckon the probabilities. If you want
something to happen you would invar-
iably draw the democratic ticket, and
/ will tell you why; If nothing else
happens, this viii happen; that you
will have several interesting years, for
If the democratic program is not car
ried out, then there is going to be
trouble in the democratic family,
"Nothing more satisfied gossip, there
is nothing more piquent and interest
ing than a family row, and II this fam
ily does not keep to its program, does
not keep its family arrangements and
engagements, there is going to be the
biggest kind Of a row that you ever
heard of, because if it wants to con-
tinue a family on the promises it has
made it has to do something or 1t must
go out of business permanently. 1t
has been out of business for a good
while. Is it creditable to you that it
wants to risk everything and go out
of business permanentlyf 1
heard of a political party that wished
permanently to be in the minority, and
vet I say to the democratic party, both
in the state and the nation, that 1T 1t
does not fulfil the expectations of the
country, it is going to be In the minor
ity for smother generation; and l want
to say as a nal that in those circum-
stances 1t will deserve nothing better.
We want progress then. We want
movement which is progress and we
want intelligent movement, and we
know in what direction we are to move.
Employers Liability Bill.
awe have made up our minds about
a lot of things. For example we have
made up our minds that we want an
EMPLOYERS liability law. We have an
employers liability law from a recent
legislature; but that kind OF an employ
ers' liability that there islnot a lawyer
In the state of New Jersey that knows
what it means. We want at least an
ineligible and workable employers liza
bility law. This law we have now vas
not intended to work just between just
YOU and me; and l must say that it
was most skillfully and successfully
drawn for that purpose. 1t Is N of
those ~statical instead of a dynamic acts,
which stands still instead of moving. We
want a genuine act. Something that
will work. Whyf Because we are af-
ter the labor vote and are counting the
labor votef Not at all. l would be
ashamed of any man that courted any
particular interest. l would be just as
ashamed of counting the labor vote as /
would of counting the Wall Street vote.
It is none Of my business as a public
man to serve either Wall Street or the
laborer. But it is my business to serve
them both and to serve everybody.
can employers liability act is not
intended to serve the special interests
of a particular class Of men, namely
the ordinary working man. 1t is inten-
ded to keep up the levels of commun-
ity. What constitutes eommupltles any
howy 1 would like to know. 4 Why, the
majority of any community is made
up of working men. Suppose that you
to maintain the physical and spir-
itual levels of a community taken as
a community, where would you most
naturally beginF By safeguarding the
health and the interests Of those who
constitute the major part of it.
Protection for Employee.
"Now, an employers liability act is
a means of insurance against accident
in the midst Of. society most of whose
working men are engaged in dangerous
occupations, I might say, handling ex-
tremely powerful machines and tools
some slight miscarriage or acct
dent will make deadly to their person
al safety. Suppose that you do not
provide for this. Suppose that you let
the working man take the consequence
of accidents, what do you dos The
head of the family gets MANNED. That
whole family is, nine times out of ten,
rendered helpless. Then what do you
dos They go through g period Of inf
mite privation when their hope and
slowly ooze out until there is
hardly anything left of physical or
heart vigor in them. Then they are Ia
ken care of by charity. In the first
instance, you let them sink below their
level of self-respect, and then you com-
pIete the Generalization by taking care
of them by somebody's benevolent
kindness. That is not the way to main
tain the spirit and strength of a com.
munity.
HLet a man know that the eommun-