The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1911-09-08
LIKES O'REAR'S STAND
upon LABOR QUESTION
Former Resident Of Ohio County
Writes About Kentucky
Politics.
Keifsr. Okla. Sept. 2. 1911.

Editor RepuDl1can, Dear Sir:
received the Republican this morn
| ing and read the speech of Mr..
ORear and note his attitude towards
organized labor and also noe that
the platform of the Republicans have
planks in 1T which is to my mind
an appeal to every working man who
earns his living by labor of any de-
scription, the farmers, the mechanics,
the common laborers, the merchants
and the clerks. in fact every man
is laborer even the millionaire, all
are Iaboring for the Almighty dollar.
Some mentally and some physically
and the one depends upon the other
for his resources. / have met some
few in my life who thought they
were not laborers. You will find
them mostly among the merchants.
You let an organizer of some labor
organization approach him on the
subject and nine out of every ten will
say, Oh we'll it don't matter to me, /
am no labor5r, and your trouble
don't effect me in any way, this is
what | call a short minded man. 1t
effects him this way and you might
call him a double header for he is a
laborer both mentally and physically,
because it requires mental knowledge
| to run the business and physical La
Dor to dish his merchandise out to
his customers, so his only resources
comes through labor and without
labor his mental faculties would not
produce him anything. Now you take
| this same business man or merchant
and you will find that he is an or
ganized man himself and | will tell
you what he belongs to the American
Protective Association, of Battle Greek
Michigan, he taken $1,000 of the
profit he has made off the farmer or
some other laboring man and pays
his initiation fee into this Associa-
ton and they pay monthly dues.
All this money which is raked in fror
all sources of. the U. IS. is pooled IN
one big pot, what for? For the pur-
pose of destroying organized labor.
Now Mr.. Merchant look yourself
square in the face and think where
your resources come from and stop
IN lsfaic IA ma tn n
sources away from you. Send in
your registration as one of these mem
bers and join some laboring class as
an honorary member and b. home
industrial man instead of donating
to fund that was gotten up by a
corporation such as the American To-
bacco Co., the Standard Oil Go. and
all the r. r. Magnates. you are on
ly furnishing tham club to knock
your own head off with. 81
Another plank in the platform
that every reasonable man should
vote for is the adjustment of con-
vict labor. Every time you take one
out of the prison walls and work
him on the outside, you are cheating
some one out of days work, be-
sides you are paying his board while
he is depriving you of getting that
days work yourself. Now my Ohio
county friends also my friends over
the State of Kentucky, this is not
written to bear on amy one in a po-
lltical way. am Republican and
the reason / ann writing this is that
believe that II Judge O'Rear IS
elected Governor of KentuclSy on the
platform as 1t reads and If you are
he is a man who will carry out the
platform as 1t reads and you are
a laboring man / don't think YOU
could ever find platform that will
suit you better. With success to all
laboring classes and Judge O'Rear
am. Respectfully,