Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-16
PALMER ON HEELS
OF BEIDLEMAN TO
KILL LABOR BILLS
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tariff, but l never could see any rea-
son why one should spend many words
in explaining to a man, a woman, or
even a child, what the tariff means. If
one of the factories here is selling
81, 900 worth of goods this month and
next month your local factory sells
$500 worth, and some fellow owning
a like factory in Europe sells the other
$500 worth, ii means that the people
of this vicinity have lost trade to the
extent of $500 and the man in Europe
has won it to the extent of $500, and
| it also means that when you take
labor away from here and employ it
on the other side of the water. instead
of protecting the American work
man you are protecting the European
workman. You are throwing your
men out of employment and you are
putting your money where it will
never bear any interest to you. You
nre discharging the American and
are employing the foreigner.
During the last eighteen years
that Senator Penrose has occupied his
place as United States Senator he has
devoted all those years in laboring for
the interests of American workmen
and the protection of American in
dustries. We realize that the people
! of our Commonwealth now appreciate
that service more than they have at
any othr time, for the Democratic vic
tory of 1912 has brought to the Amer
| lean people a depression in business
such as has been seldom witnessed,
and unless l miss my guess the COM
ings winter will be the hardest winter
the people here have ever suffered.
Palmer's Record
1.-The question therefore Isl Are you
going to the polls in November and cast
/ your vote for one who has devoted
his time and attention to the interests
of the people of Pennsylvania, or will
| you support one who has been the
enemy of labor and has devoted his
| time and energy to destroy our busi-
ness and to crush our workmen?
want to make a little comparison of
| Senator Penrose with Congressman
Palmer During three sessions of the
| Legislature l served in the House of
Representatives, and in the session of
! 1913 it was my proud preferment to
represent the people of Dauphin coun-
| ty as their Senator. L have never yet
| been asked by Senator PenroSe to cast
my vote either for or against any
measure that was introduced in the
Pennsylvania Legislature, but l can
not, my friends, say the same thing
| for Mr.. Palmer, who is also a candi-
date for United States Senator, because
l want to ask him if he will recall
when | was a member of the House
the distinction of being the chairman
of the committee on judiciary general,
| to which committee was referred ap-
proXimately so per cent. of all legis-
lation, outside of appropriation bills;
l want to ask him il he recalls COM
ling to me in the hall of the House in
the early part of that session, intro
ducing himself and calling attention to
the fact that for some time he was in
Congressman Olmsteds Harrisburg
office, as lawyer, and that he left it,
as he said, for the purpose of going
into northeastern Pennsylvania to rep
resent corporate interests that were
there located.
Mr.. Palmer was one of the most
bitter enemies and antagonists to labor
| in the session of 1907 as a lobbyist.
| There was not single bill introduced
for the good of the workingmen of our
Commonwealth but that Mr. Palmer
as the solicitor of the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western Railroad
| Company, was there asking the mem
bers of the Legislature to defeat it,
| and constantly, day in and day out,
| he was on my heels asking me to
throttle and kill legislation that fa-
Vored the workingman of Pennsyl-
vania. l do not object to his en-
| ployment as counsel, but l ask him
when he got his change of faith.
II ask him, since he Is now mani
| Testing such an interest in the work
ingmen of Pennsylvania, if in 1907 he
was not on hand early in the session
endeavoring to kill every piece of legis-
lation that was intended for their
| good? At that time he was not a
| Congressman. He has since become
one. He now pretends to be the friend
of labor and is soliciting the voters of
Pennsylvania to send him to the Unit
ed States Senate as the successor of
one who always has been and ever