United labor bulletin., 1912-08-15
LOOK At RECORD
NOT At PROMISES
Argument That Is Pertinent To
The Present Situation.
10y J. X. Lea,h.)


The oft repeated saying, The woods
are iuu of candidates.. Is particularly
true In Denver and Colorado just at this
time, and there are others yet to come
There are Democrats, Progressive Demo
Gratis. Republicans and Progressive Re
pubhcans, and in a few days the welkin
VIII ring with oratory, the kettle will
call the pot black" and the compaign
viii wax warm.
aly observation has been that the av-
erage politician seeking office SO frames
his platform that IL will appeal to the
voter and during his lofty orations re-
fers to his fellow countrymen." the
laboring men, with much emphasis as
the horny handed sons of toll before
election. then after. the horny handed
sons guns.
We know that Labor's cause is right.
We know that through Labor's efforts
alone has the grinding heel OF the mill
owner been lifted from the necks of
Il ousands of little children by law and
priced them where they properly be-
legged. in school.
We know that through the generous
hand of Labor poverty and want have
been driven from the doors of thousands
os widows and orphans whose bread
earners had been taken from them by
cruel wheels while at their post of duty
we huuN luat unlpHlsn mas kroWn 10
be mighty power in the land despite
Tie r,ightiest efforts of its enemies to
overthrow 1t, and we believe II will con-
tinue TO grow until Labor will come into
It's own.
We have only to point to that grand
est of all monuments to justify our posi-
tion-the Union Printers Home at Colo
-ado Springs. monument to the living
and not the dead. An institution built
and maintained by printers. An institu-
ton where thousands of men who were
stricken with disease have been nurtured
back to health and sent on their way
rejoicing, without cost to themselves,
who would have otherwise been public
charges upon their respective cities,
counties or states. An institution where
one hundred and fifty or more human
sufferers daily receive shelter. food and
the most skilled medical attention free
of cost to themselves. An institution
thar has won the admiration and COM
incubation of the nations of the earth.
Much could be done by those who fill
our public Offices to tighten the burdens
of life and promote these worthy move
ments. Laws more favorable to labor
should be passed, thereby creating a
more friendly relation between employer
and employe.
Wouldn't II be well then for the COM
mittee of ten appointed by the General
Labor Assembly to pass upon the quail
ficntions of candidates to look more scru-
tinizingly into their past records and
their former attitudes towards union
labor than as to their present party af-
filiations or what they now claim to
stand for?
II is perfectly natural for all men seek
lug ofiice to draw nearer the people than
formerly. to extend n heartier handshake
and feel keener interest in the human
family fondle the children and compli-
ment the women. But after Inauguration
day forget it all.
II there be those in the field whose
sympathies have always been with the
man who tolls II is safe bet that he
will remain the same after election. We
should guard our franchise very closely
and vote on election day, as we do In
our unions. for the good of the order.