Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-15

Ihe government employees of
france resorted TO it and took the
government by the throat. The exec
utiee department was entirely de
pendent upon these employees for its
continuance
f. When those i'll executive authority
refused to acGuiesca in the demands
the government employees struck and
then with the helplessness of the gov
erEment and the destruction of all
authority and the choking CT govern
ment activities, it was seen that to
allow government employees to use
such an instrument was to recognize
revolution as a lawful means of Sc
curing an increase in compensation
fer one class and that privileged
Glass, AZ the expense of all the pub
lie.
I do net think reasonable mind
eel trades union men who are fully
alive to the necessity of vigorous
means to enforce their rights in their
controversies with capital and with
their employers will fail to see the
broad difference that exists between
their case in which they are contend
ing for the betterment of their lveli-
hood against the naturally selfish mo-
tives of their employers, and that Of
the class of government employees
who are privileged not only in the
amount of their compensation, the
less number of hours of their en-
pioyment and the greater permanency
of tenure. and who serve the govern
ment of all the people, the very ex-
istence which will be threatened
should they combine together to quit
the government service all at once
and paralyze the benefit and the equal
benefits that that government is prop
erly supposed and beld to confer up
on the people at large.
1T is likely that this question is
going to be made an issue in Con-
gress and it calls fer the mcst earnest
consideration.
1.-The government employees are priv
ieged class whose work is necessary to
carry on the government and upon whose
entry into the government service it is
entirely reasonable to impose conditions
that should not be and ought not to be
imposed upon those who serve private
employers"
The President was welcomed to the
city by Mayor Meals in a. brief address.
and then Congressman Olmstead discuss
ed recent bills in Congress affecting la
Dor
When the President had finished speak
ing he was escorted to the residence of
Congressman Olmstead by the Governors
Troop and a detachment of state police
from Pottsville. He received a number
of Harrisburg residents and later on Wis
tied the executive mansion to pay his
respects to Governor and Mrs. Tener
and called at the home of James NJ. Lam
berton, his classmate at Yale.
The President left at 5.35 for New
York, his progress to the station being
through streets lined with people from
the central section of the state, who
came to the city during the afternoon
He was repeatedly cheered and when the
train left the station crowds lining
bridges and railroad tracks waved him
farewell.
The Presidents change of plans obliged
the abandonment of the elmer to have
been given in his honor by Governor
Tener at the executive mansion and re-
view of Boy Scouts of this city and vicin-
ity planned fer tomorrow morning
New York, May l-President Taft
road at 1920 O'Clock from Harrisburg and
went directly to the home of his brother,
Henry w Taft, where Mrs. Taft Is Ill.