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

Charles Evans Hughes is pre- emin-
entity fitted to hold the confidence
and faith of labor. His fine record
Of achievement in behalf of the lab
orinS man, the laboring woman, and
the laboring child testifies to this. The
labor man wants to be dealt with
honestly and fairly; he does not ask
for class preference. He rightly de-
sires to have an equal show with his
fellow citizen and he wants his fellow
citizen to have an equal show with
him. He believes in democracy and
is opposed to class prejudice or
Bourbonism in any form, and wants
m r C to be for Americans,
and wants all who live in Am
erica to be Americans. Therefore,
the labor man reveres and respects
the. leader who stands staunchly
class or section which demands more
than its fair share.
Charles Evans Hughes is just such
man. He came to the Governor
ship of New York State in 1907 with
clear vision of the appalling loss
and suffering that were being caused
in our country by millions of indus
trial accidents and tens Of thousands
of deaths, which resulted from lack
of care and humane and business-like
thoughtfulness on the part of the gov
ernment and the people.
He perceived the serious mental
and physical dwarfing which was be-
ing caused to many of the future
mothers of the country through the
unhealthful and wrong conditions
under which they were often COM
PEELED to labor. He appreciated that
the working children of his State and
country were not being so protected
and trained as to assure them of fall
physical and mental strength and
AT
into their complete duties as citizens
and workers.
He discovered that the foreigner
and the uneducated native within our
boundaries was frequently being sad
ly cheated and mulcted of his rightful
earnings and liberty by INSCRIPTIONS
persons under the guise of employ
ment agents, private bankers, steam
ship agents, padrones, etc.
He found that the public service
corporations, upon which the laboring
man and the poor people, as well as
the rich, were dependent, were so or
ganized and so little controlled that
they became an easy tool for the un-
scrupulous to use in squeezing unfair
gains from the people. His record
shows that he was also deeply i'm
pressed with the feeling that a man
was a man whether poor or rich and
that the great bulk of the men in our
hatioH stdHu SqudrelN upon program
of justice for all, whether they be
employees or employers
Guided by this great vision of the
needs of the people and of their
staunchness and squareness as a
whole, Hughes quickly drew together
the various available governmental
forces into business-like effective
whole, added to their personnel. sell
ected Outstanding. real men to lead
the work, and, as Chief Executive.
vigorously entered upon the task of
protecting labor from danger and i'll
treatment.
In the very first year of his stew
ardship as Governor. he re-organized
and made potent the great Depart
ment of Labor of his State; he
strengthened the laws to protect the
life and limb of the workers; he ad-
vocated and aided in placing upon
the statute books legislation which
would more protect the women work
ers OF the State; he worked out and
put into execution better conditions