The Nenana daily news., 1919-06-05
"On Board Ship Admiral Evans,
 May S., 1919.

May s, 1919 T beg to enclose herewith { copy of the Dunn-Pennington eight hou bill, that was introduced ana defeated, after a very strenuou. contest, during the session of ou! legislature which has just closed would be glad to have our friends in the Fourth division know that both Mir. Dunn and myself ex- pended a great deal of time and labor in an effort to frame a statute covering this matter, that would be fair and impartial to all parties concerned, and that might also be expected to present g rigid degree of strength before any court of law.
 "We had examples of eight hour legislation from three other states which had stood the test of supreme court decisions, and after gleaning from such legislation the very best we could find therein, and incor- porating the same in the Dunn Pennington Act, there seemed good reason to believe that a measure of such character would meet the approval of both houses of our territorial legislature. As you know, our bill did pass the house, by vote of fourteen to two, but went down to defeat in the senate and that it failed there, woud seem 10 indicate one of two things; either the honorable gentlemen who up- hold the dignity of that August body are men of very limited and narrow vision-utterly blind to the trend of development in modern civic life-or else they have become so arrogant and contemptuous of the rights of others, as to feel safe in deliberately robbing their con- stituents of the fruits of a fairly earned victory
 That such an attitude of mind should prevail in any representative body of men in our progressive nation where majority rule is re- garded as the very dearest heritage we possess, is to me, inexplicable.
 ''To students of history. who try to outline and forecast the future by reviewing great leading events of the past, the ultimate triumph of eight-hour legislation covering every class of industry, and the sanctioning of the same by the con- stitution of these United States, is simply a matter of manifest des- tiny"
 Even now, without further amendments to that immortal docu- ment (our constitutionl the wise provisions set forth therein, should be broadly construed by officers of our courts, that no class or party of men could, by any possibility. cite it, or appeal to it, in Q selfish effort to sustain bad or unjust cause.
 We have been told by foreign statesmen and by distinguished men in America, who have lived under its benign influence, that the con stitution of the United States is, beyond doubt, the very greatest public document that ever emanated from the mind of 'man'-Mr. Glad stone, after careful analysis, de- clared it to be unequalled, in all the world. by any other organic act, or any instrument of like chal- aeter; in admiration, he designated it as the 'peerles Magma Charta' of the liberties of the plain people of the United States, and made the additional strong statement that it would live forever. Now every true native born citizen of our country takes great pride in giving unqualified indorsement to state ments and opinions of such char acter; we do regard our consti- tuition as the bulwark of the liber- ties of the plain people of these United States; we do take infinite joy in believing this splendid fact; t.r~ .-