The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1914-05-30
SENATOR JAS. P. BOYLE OPENS
HIS CAMPAIGN FOR CONGRESS

ment, With this viewpoint, I want
to give you an idea as to how think
and how I feel about governmental
matters, and right here I want to say
this: What a man does on a city
council, what a man does in the state
legislature, what a man does in any
legislative body, is an: index, is a sign
upon which you can rely as to what
he will do in any other legislative
body, even though it be the house of
congress, for a man who has the
sympathy and the understanding, who
stands for certain line of thought
in one legislative body will do just
exactly the same thing in another leg
islative body.
''Such legislation. as the minimum
wage is called-I might term it per-
haps social reforms aimed to do
away. to some extent, with some of
the inequalities that exist. The mini
mum wage idea is based upon the
proposition that no considerable Sec
ton of our citizens should be COM
PEELED to work for wages insufficient
to furnish them with the necessities
of reasonable life. There is no argu-
ment against that, is there? Every
The best employers in this country
court that kind of thing: the best
men in this country want that kind of
legislation, and that sort of thing is
going to he brought about in some
way, despite the objections that are
made to it. I heard a man say that
it was unconstitutional to do that
kind of thing. But it is not uncon-
stitutional.
1t is Constitutional.
Men said that such legislation as
prohibiting women from working long
hours was unconstitutional; men said
the sweat shop, to wipe out the op-
preston of laboring people, was un-.
constitutional. But IGwant to say to
you that just. as the objection of I'M
constitutionality did not prevail
against such legislation. so it will not
prevail against such legislation as the
minimum wage, because it is just as
men and women from injury; that
comes to them through insufficient
wages as it is to protect their bodies
from the assassin, as it is to protect
their bodies from the bully, as it is
to protect their money from the thief,
and that kind of legislation is coming
to be considered by men in the flu
ture. $500 -
I'm the meantime, until this condi-
ton can be, brought about, until we
can reach a condition wherein no
man will be compelled to- work for
wages insufficient to furnish him with
the necessities of reasonable lite
until that time both the state legisla-
ture and the congress of. the United
States, so far as they can, must see
to it that the old and the poor and
the sick and the inflrm and those
whose earning capacity is destroyed,
are protected, are saved by the state,
are supported and cared for, not to
be left in want. in misery
Boyle Against War.
II am against war. said that the
other day and a manrsaid to me: gu
are the first Irishman I ever. knew
who was not looking for fight I
| civilization is the spending Of billions
of dollars annually by the nations OF
the world in preparation for war,
when all over the world tens Of thou
sands of, men, women and children
are, living just below the bread line;
have hardly enough TO furnish them
with the necessities Of reasonable
| life.
Lloyd George is one of the biggest
men in the public life of the past
quarter of q century. He did two
big things. ...
I'm raising revenue enough to carry
on the public business of England,
he took a map of England and he
looked at it and saw that great por-
tions of England were divided into
great tracts of two or, three thousand
acres-that is great tract of land
over there-fenced in, unused, un-
! tilled-kept for what purpose? So
that once year the duke or the lord
| who happens to be fortunate enough
! to own the particular tract, with his
guests, could go out and enjoy a fox
! hunt,-hunt a little fox that had been
| kept in there by an army of work
men throughout the entire year, when
| one-fourth Of London are sleeping in
the parks and have not the necessi-
ties of reasonable life; and compare
lively speaking that One-fourth OF
London. ever were paying four or
five times as much proportionately in
the support of the government as
were the men who own these great
| tracts of land. ;% II
What Lloyd George Did.
And that little Welchman said:
! That thing is not right; that thing
has got to be stamped out; we won't
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