Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-01

for child labor, and had erected
schools in which the children could
obtain practical and useful training
| for life.
He was, moreover, pre-eminently
successful in fighting and destroying
the INSCRIPTIONS and corrupt who
were fattening upon extortion and
Ill treatment of the ignorant and
weak. He placed the public service
corporations under business-like and
proper control, which has proved
enormously helpful to both the people
and the corporations themselves.
! He inaugurated a careful study
not only to prevent accidents, but to
care reasonably and without the taint
OF charity, for those who were broken,
while in industry. AS a result of this
study he promoted and had enacted
one OF our first compensation laws
whereby the injured or the widow
and orphans of the killed in industry
would receive a fair competence He
did this with the humane and just be-
lief that if industry willingly and
readily repaired and cared for the ma
chinery in it's plants it should GER
ta1niy repair and care for the human
elements composing it's organization
Each year of Mr.. Hughes's admin
1stration was marked by distinct adj
vances both in legislation of the kinds
named, and in the vigor and force of
the administration of laws for pro-
tecting the working people. He saw
to it, among other things, that an
elght-hour law was made effective in
the employment of all governmental
workers.
All of this great work, done at a.
tlme before our people as a whole
had wakened up to the justice and
right of such activity, was carried on
against what seemingly was an insur-
mountable barrier of opposition on
the part of great influences and the
inertia or those who, at that time.
had not yet seen the light.
He saw the value of labor organiza-
1lohs TO the industries. to the coun-
try, to the workers, and to the gov
ernment. AS early as 1908 he said:
Under wise leadership, with states
manship guidance, with a sincere in
tention to promote the benefit of the
community and to secure honorabIe
progress, the mission of labor organ
iZations Is one of the finest that anv
association of men could guard" !"
He conceived the justice of the plea
that II the government and the people
sanction men with money to band
together, to increase their power SO
also should they sanction laboring men
10 pand together for similar purposes.
Mr. Hughes in his boyhood, felt the
pinch or severe poverty. He forced
ms way against this poverty and other
obstacles to a recognized place of
leadership in the country. He forced
certain great corporations who had
FALLEN into bad leadership, and some
of the greatest and most powerful
insurance companies to rectify their
ways. He carried through as Gov
ernor the enormously valuable and
constructive projects of which / have
spoken. From boyhood on, his win
ming fight against tremendous opno-
sltioh proves him to be an utterly
fearless, undaunted fighter. He has
not hesitated to act, If his con-
science dictated that his action was
right. wa"
Is mere any reason why labor
should not look to Charles Evans
Hughes as one of the greatest lea ders
in the cause of justice and human adj
vancement that the country has ever
produced? 0'e'
believe that he would be of maxi
mum usefulness as Chief Executive of
this Nation. VI