Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-10-08

ttOHe. At kuNtIH0T vi 4NtW IOih itC
stated. he vetoed the 2-cent railroad
fare law for the reason that 1t cast an
undue burden ON the railroads, thus
showing that he looked at the inter-
ests of the railroads instead of the in
terests of the thousands and thousands
of people who had to pay fare. For
the same reason, he stated, Hughes as
governor of New York, vetoed the full
crew law, which had been enacted in
many states for the safety of the pub
lie and was the only governor known
to have taken a position against an
income tax: that he even went SO far
as to send a special message to the
state legislature declaring against such
measure. This record, he said,
showed that Hughes was on the side of
big business, the side of business con-
trolled and dominated by Wall street.
SUMMARIZES LEGISLATION.
He also cited that Hughes had not
cast vote in six years, thus showing
his Indifference to the humanitarian
questions which have been at issue in
his state. On woman suffrage, he said,
the records show he did not even leave
his seat at Washington to go to his
state and vote upon that question
when it was an issue, while Woodrow
Wilson went once to register and again
to vote for suffrage for women in his
state.
Among the progressive legislation
passed by the Democrats under the
leadership of Woodrow Wilson, said
Judge Nortoni, were the federal re-
serve banking law, the tariff commits
sion law. the child labor law, the rural
credits law, all of which he classed as
progressive measures. He asserted
earnest Progressives should vote to
continue in power a party which would
carry out their high ideals of govern
ment.
DEFENDS ADAMSoN BILL.
In dealing with the Adamson bill,
Judge Nortoni went into detail to some
extent for the reason, he stated, that
it was the one big issue which Hughes
and Roosevelt were holding up to the
public as injustice Concerning it ne
said:
The Progressive platform declared
in favor of the eight hour day princi-
pie in continuous Industries, and some
three or four different portions of that
document reflect this view. The intel
oNstiNNN
down in favor of the eig'ht-hour prin-
ciple. Indeed, every legislature which
has had the matter brought to its at
tention has given a verdict in favor of
the eigbt-hour law. In Missouri we
have had an eight statute, as I
remember, since the year l was born,
1867.
THE men declined to arbitrate this,
slnr1 -. 1,A
president, after due consideration, he
assumed the position that the eight
hour law was a matter of right, but
that the question as to what the pay
ment should be for overtime was one
to be settled otherwise The men ar
gued that. though an eight hour day
were granted, it would not yield bene-
fits to them unless an increase in
wages were provided for overtime so
as to see that those employing the men
would be interested in its observance.
The president said, as the enlightened
opinion of society has settled the ques-
ton of an eight hour day as right. It
wasn't one for arbitration, but, indeed,
as a matter of positive right should
never be submitted. The owners of
the railroads contended the whole mat
ter should be submitted, and their pro-
posal amounts to the same thing as in
case one who should violate the Sun
day laws would insist upon the matter
of arbitrating the question in respect To
this.
PRESIDENT AVERTED STRIKE.
THE president represented the third
party to the controversy; that is, the
great general public-the one hundred
million of Americans on whom the
blow would fall. To tie up the arteries
4 of transportation thus would entail a
loss so far reaching in its effects that
/ one may not conceive the result in the
fullness of its measure. The man who
lad cattle or hogs on his farm to shir
would be required to keep them there
ready 10 ship. and feed them while he
could not reach the market. The wheat
crops of the farmer would decompose
in the field. The melon crops of south
east Missouri the cabbage crops, the
peach crops, and so, too, all of the
crops would perish for want of means
to transport them to market. The fac.
tories would shut down because, for
sooth, it was impossible to transporf
their goods to the consumer. In this
situa ton the factories would close
down and the men i'll their employ b.
thrown into idleness rather than t.
permit the accumulation of goods
which might not be transported int
the marts of trade; and with the clos
ing down of the factories, the banking
of the fires in the furnaces, the Goa
mines wonld likewise suspend and til,
miners unemployed, for the coal woul,
neither be required to generate tn
heat necessary in propellng the ma
: chinery, nor could it be transported i
removed from the earth. The sam
: situation would obtain in respect to TIL
products of the iron mines, the Yin
mines, and the lead mines. and tn
heavy hand of disaster and ruin woul
; fall alike on every department of in
| dustry, both in the cities and the agri
: cultural districts of the country.
STANDS FOR WILSON.