Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-01-09
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harm than good. both as a state institu.
lion and also 10 the city wherein 1t is
held. .a3-
All Of which ! submit to you with the
recommendation .fpr; an additional appro.
priation II the revenues OF the state war
ant.
Panama.paciHc International Exposition
This state has been invited to dispfa.
nm exhibit OF its natural resources ant
products at the Panama Pacific lnternn'
,ional Exposition. to be held In San Fran
cisco. California. in 1915, in honor Of thu
opening Of the Panama Canal. This vii
be the creates st exposition eyer held, Al
the states will be represented: tthous'
ands OF people from eastern statV viii
pass through our state ent5ute to SaI
Francisco. n will expect TO See an ex'
~, ition of the resources Of our state
together with the other states of this
Union. We canno AFFORD 10 be. unrepre'
scented at this Exposition, and ! submit
the proposition to your good bushes.
judgment and sund discretion.
Initiative and Referendum.
The. last legislative assembly passed
an amendment to the Constitution pro
viding for the Initiative and Referendum
which proposed amendment will be he
fore this body for approval. j have rec
commended sue legislation in all my mes
sages to- the legislative assemblies; nj
the political parties of this state have
for many years recommended It. to Sth,
people, and this being a government q
the people, the people are entitled tt
his amendment. Being found In all o
the political platforms upon which 70.
were elected to this assembly. 1t win b.
passed as a matter Of course.
Employers liability and W~orkingmcn'
Compensation Acts.
The Twelfth Legislative Assembl!
made provision for q commission to in
vestigate and report IN legislation on tn.
subject OF employers liability and work
ingmen's compensation acts. This re-
port will be made and duly presented t
this assembly,. This is a most import
n subject in many of the states; Il
will be so in this state in the very neal
future. This Is a good time to secure
the best legislation there is on the sub
iect. The states Of Wisconsin. Washing
ton and New Jersey have some of the
most modern legislation. and that OF
Washington has been sustained by The
Supreme Court of that state.
Only q little while ago we had no great
industrial institutions. Every little vii.
lnge, town and hamlet was supplied will
small manufactures. The song of The
spinning wheel and the loom was heard
in every country home. Our homespur
clothes were made by our mothers or by
the village or country tailor. and Oul
shoes by the village or country shoe.
maker. In almost every home there was
n handy man, who. mended the harness
and the shoes. set broken limbs, cut hair
and pulled teeth. Even in the larger cit.
les manufactures were small and the
employees few in number. The owner OF
the institution gave 1t his personal su.
pervision, often working side by side with
his employees as a co.worker and friend
The machinery was simple and accidents
few. On account Of the personal contact
between employer and employee there
was a bond OF sympathy existing between
them that brought forth the employees
best efforts for the success OF his EN-.
ployer; and the employer in return natur.
ally exercised the same care for the pro.
lection and life Of his servant that he
did for himself. If there was an accident
resulting in an injury to an employe II
was usually o that was unavoidable
and any liability wa easily settled
through the mutual sympathy and friend.
ship existing between employer and EN-.
plOye. IL death resulted from the acct.
dent III sorrow of the relatives of the
deceased was shared by the employer ant
employee alike, for all were friends.
But the development in the 2industria
world has changed al this; the corpor.
alton has taken the place of the individ.
ual, and finally the trust the place of the
corporation. The concentration of wealth
has made some of our cities the greatest
manufacturing centers Of the world, and
It binds ocean to ocean with rails Of
steel. The little manufactures ia beer
purchased or uriven out of business by
the large Industrial institutions. to which
the owners 10 longer give their persona
supervision. They are. now managed BY
fOremen and superintendent whose bust.
ness it is to make the institution pay
dividends. The capital is owned by
stockholders in the corporation or a com.
binati0n of corporations known as q
Trust; they know little about the man
agement OF the great institution in which
they are stockholders; they are interest.
ed in its economic management. M ir
t..e dividends which it pays. The insti.
't.tion with employees few in number has
been replaced by the institution which
employs thousands upon thousands. The
simple machinery Of the Old fashioned
factory has been replaced with the new
modern, complex machinery. which
cheapens the cost OF production and cor
respondingly increases the hazard to hu-
man life. The bond of sympathy between
employer and employee is severed. They
do not know each other. They a v nc
interest in each other as individuals. The
n invests his money in the institution
for the dividends 1t will earn. and the
other enters into the employment for his
daily wage. The conditions Of each have
c.langed so that it must .be very appar.
ent that the rule OF liability under the
former conditions Is not adequate MOI
just under present conditions.
While modern inventions and improve.
ments in machinery have facilitated
manufacturing and %cheapened the cost
Of production, human ingenuity has not
been able to construct machinery thai
will run without human agency. Ingen.
ious as it is 1t must be set in motion
and operated by man. If this develop
ment is credited with the decrease in the
COS of production should it not be charg.
ed with the increased waste of. human
life and limb? It is responsible for both
This is an age of conservation and should
not every Industrial institution conserve
its W waste, moi only in material and
machinery. but in the agency which op.
crates the machiery; and should not this
waste in human life and limb be charged
UP to the cost of production and the in.