The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-10-26
WAGE LAW HITS FARMERS.

/, Charles h. Hughes told crowd o
! farmers at Hastings, Neb., that tn,
, Democratic administration had ignor
ed the agricultural interests Of thu
country in urging the enactment OF
the Adamson Law. The nominee, ir
support of his contention, cited tele-
gram from President II. N. Pope OF
the Texas Farmers Union to Presi-
dent Wilson requesting that the farm
ers be permitted to submit data in ar
bitration proceedings between the rail
roads and the brotherhoods.
Mr.. Hughes also referred to "invis-
IDLE government"
Let me say this" the nominee said,
those who are declaiming to the
American public invisible government
had better remember that when | was
in executive responsibility in the state
of New York there was no invisible
government in that state"
81 want to say in reference to
rates that it seems to me that the
farmers Of the country were very
little considered the other day when
on the demand of the administration
the wages Of group of railroad
workers were increased by law, in
response to force. Somebody has got
TO pay the increased bills, and the
farmers will know very quick who has
to pay them"
"The farmers were not represented
in this discussion, if you may call it
that, in this surrender. have here
copy of telegram that was sent to
the President by Mr.. Pope, the presi-
dent of the State Farmers Union of |
Texas, which shall read to you:
eve ask that you make no conces-
sions or commitments that will re-
suit in an increase in freight rates on
products, produced or consumed on
the farm. The men who pay the
freight have an equity in this dispute,
which neither the railroad trainmen
nor the railroad managers have au-
Ihority to representa- it is your inten
ion to personally dispose of the mat
.er, we ask that you postpone further
until a committee of
'armers can prepare information and
iata, to present their side of the case.
I you conclude to settle by arbitra-
ion, then the organized farmers
hould have representation on any ar
'itration committee that may be
ormed to dispose of this question, for
he men who pay should have repre-
entation as well as the men who re-
Give it. We again urge that all l
uestions involved be settled by arbi- I
ration, where all parties and interests l
an be heard and the subject be dealt $
18th aside from haste and intimida- a
on t
age" Mr.. Hughes said. "The bust
ess men of the country, through the Il
hamber Of Commerce of the United o
tates, were, at the same time, and n
I'd for many weeks before been i'm p
oring the executive and leaders in 81
ongress for an immediate and
-ompt inquiry in order that the JUS D.
&c of this matter might be known. a
he farmers were not there, except m
rough the presence of representa- a.
yes of the people in Congress, and al
ose representatives were asked to
dictate their authority, and the exc 81
tive, instead of standing for the of 81
,ial and moral power of the Ameri- W
n people when a great fundamental IN
inciple of our institutions was in
lived, threw up his hand, gave up the 70
inciple of arbitration and went into II
'ngress demanding an increase by LEI
", without inquiry or knowledge of Sc
justice, of wages amounting to IN
lions of dollars, suggesting that
ere would be an increase of freight Tn
ties if necessary to pay the bill" pu
Il am opposed to that sort of gov CIR
lment. 1t is not government which =
n have any regard, or can be deem pr
to have any regard for the just PIE
erests Of communities like this. pc
/ in favor of everything that can ms
be done for the promotion dil
agriculture. But it is idle to talk TN
interest in the farmer, when you ia
We action like this taken in Con-
ass overnight, against the protests nv
w at the interests of our agricul- sts
the farmer and leveling body ma
al communities. th'
1t is also idle to speak of special po
crest in the farmers when we have fat
} policy of the administration out
ed in such bill as the Underwood gee
l." at