The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-02-24

brother"
That differences are negligible.
And more an outward form
Than an inward state.
The spectacle of this poor little
legislator issuing a pronounciamento
to the effect that the exclusion of
Keegan from the state legislature
would be a benefit to the community
was as pitiable as it was amusing.
| Keegan is, as stated here the other
| day, one of the best friends women
and children of this state have ever
| had in Indiana's legislative halls
He has been the originator of a
number of bills whose substance was
of inestimable value to the social well
fare.
And although defeated by the in
terests," by the Vaccinations of self
seeking politicians and such general
all around dubs as the speaker in ques-
tion-a man who should not be per-
mitted to hold a seat in our state
| ssembly-Keegan still fights away in
the interests of humanity.
IF the legislature was made up of
Keegans something would be done to
advance the social interests of the
commonwealth
1t Is the superlative idiots like the
man who said he voted against the bill
because he wanted to bar Keegan out
that are the shackle on progress
They are of the same calibre as
those who say celebrate Sunday in
a certain way and everybody else must
celebrate it my way. And those who
refuse to be guided by my way are
bad, wicked, vile and a menace to
society"
They are of the class that gives
generously to foreign mission, say, and
grind down it's employees to the last
notch.
Let a little of this money sent out
to convert the highly civilized Japa-
nese, say, be turned into decent wages
for girls and women, and the cause of
Christianity would make a long jump
toward it's goal.
Many employers use specious reas-
oning to convince their women en-
ployees that the eight hour law, in
instance. would be inimical to the
women's best interests.
They say. in effect, that loss of
wages would follow a reduction of the
working hours and that nine hours
with half holiday is preferable to
eight hours with none
In this way the unthinking women
over the state, who would be affected
by the eight hour law, were made to
seem to support the employers protest
against it.
And as long as women remain I'M
thinking just so long will they stand
in their own industrial light.
For men care nothing for women
save in the sex relation.
They will be as merciless on them
when 1t comes to a matter of wage
paying and in sustaining a purely bust
ness relation as any member of the
ravenous pack to another.
What the average employer wants
of his employee is the highest rate OF
} efficiency at the lowest rate of com
= pensation.
Here is where the labor union pro-
} tects it's members
1t has forced recognition of the de
cent living wage.
You will find factory girls in this
town who cannot make more thar
fifty cents day at piece work-ever
though they are experienced--if the
work is phase new and unfamiliar tc
them.
When widows with several children
to support can make but five or six
dollars each week working the present
fifty-four hours, and when it is put
up to them by their employers that il
the number of working hours is re
duced these wages will be even less
what, in common parlance, is "tht
poor woman to do?"
Of course she will say she is not il
: favor of the shorter hours.
: What we need is a little more hu
mainly in Indiana.
l Not so much money gathered to
gether to support missionaries in Indis
4 and China.