Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-11-01

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darkies always consider it an event to
attend a funeral. On one occasion
met uam who was coming from a fu-
neral and l told him i understood he
had been to Brown s funeral and ask
ed him what the complaint was. Sam
said, "There weren't no complaint at
all Everybody seemed perfectly salts
fied.o
Legislation for Labor.
"Confronted by world problems, we
have, nevertheless, devoted our atten-
tion to the laboring man, business
man and the farmer. We have ere
ated a labor code. Heretofore labor
was mere commodity in the market
place. For more than quarter of a
century labor had been trying to get
republican administration to abolish
the writ of injunction in labor dis
putes. The democratic administration
within two years after it came into pow-
er abolished that writ.
For more than generation labor
had appealed to the republicans to
give them a trial by jury in cases of
constructive contempt. Within two
years after coming into power the ad-
ministration gave them the right to
such trial by jury. l am not surprised
that we are criticised for this by a
former justice of the supreme court of
the decision in the Danbury hatters ,
Ii a
times the actual damage found to be
done decision resulting in laboring
men in Salem giving up their pay for
one days work in orfder to keep the
roofs over the heads Of those con-
cerned in the case.
81 will not stop to discuss the pass
age of the workmen s compensation
act and the seamen's act, but will
simply hold them up as fruits of demo-
cratic administration.
Proud of Adamson Law.
The Adamson law occupied the
speaker for considerable period. He
began by declaring it to be the firm
conviction of the democrats that a
man should work no more than eight
hours out of every "a, leaving eight
hours for study or recreation and an
other eight for sleep or rest.
"The statement Of this policy is our
defense,' said Senator Gore. "Mr.
Hughes says that he favors the eight
hour principle, but he is opposed to
the eight-hour law. We on the con.
trary, favor the principle and are proud
to have passed the law putting it into
effect.
Hughes Would Have Fiddled"
"Mr. Hughes has three main objec-
tions to this Adamson bill-this eight
hour law His first objection is that it
is a myth; his second that it is not a
myth and his third that it was en-.
acted too quickly. Mr.. Hughes would
have had us take time to deliberate
over this measure, which costs the
railroads only $50,000000 year. and
meanwhile the strike would have cost
the people of the country $4,000, 900
a day and untold misery. Nero fiddled
while Rome burned; that 5 what Mr..
Hughes would have had US do while the
country suffered-fiddle
"Why did the republican nominee
not wire to some republican senator
10 block the unanimous consent vote
to take up the bill2 He reminds me
of lightning bug, for he has his head
light on behind.
A vote for Hughes, judging from
his speeches, is a vote for the repeal
of the Adamson bill-a vote to plunge
the country into the miseries of a gen
eral strike and railway tieup."
A Joke on the Whiskers.
One of Senator Cores most success
full quips was that in which he re-
ferred adroitly to Mr.. Hughes whisk
ers. 1t came toward the end of a dis.
cussion of women as voters.
Mr.. Hughes, when governor of
New York." he said, "vetoed bill
giving women teachers in New York
equal pay with men for equal hours
of work. If he will not give You equal
pay for equal work, why give you the
vote9 We must Judge tree by the
fruit it bears-not by its foliage. "
Hughes never took the trouble to even
vote for equal suffrage the speaker de
clared.
Abolished Child Slavery.
"The republicans emancipated tn,
negro slaves" said Senator Gore priol
to praising the democrats for the pas
sage Of the child labor bill, "but the,
did not emancipate the children of tn,
country from slavery in the mines
mills and sweatshops They believe il
| the conservation of our ntaural re
: sources when dollars and cents arr
: concerned, but we believe in conserv
ing human resources. The democrat
abolished child slavery.
! president Wilson has said: 'Suffe
+ little children to come out of tn,
mines, mills, and sweatshops. Tn
republicans say that this administra
: tion has been a failure. Ask the chill,
workers if it has been failure"
! Not Enough Jobs Made.
, Republican charges of violation o
the civil service and alleged jobmak
ing for democrats was touched on onl,
obliquely by Senator Gore when h