| Show t jt EXPOSES HARMFUL EFFECTS OF CAUCUS RULE AND SECTIONALS Slaughter of 0 Americans in exico Is Ascribed to dung of 0 Administration in Republics Republic's 1 Internal Affairs Af I J nothing in the world will 1 keep him out of ot North orth Carolina Improving Northeast ort east Black and Capo Cape Fear ear rivers from North Carolina Carolina Caro Caro- I lina na North Improving lnA Cape Fear river Carolina 2 3 That l la 18 ono one page concerning one state from the river and anti harbor bi bill Agricultural Bill DiU Now Non o I was about to say sn- something Bar but I wont won't because It might seem Beam harsh Let un ime take tako one ono pa page pago o from the agricultural agricultural ag ag- ag- ag bill bi cotton Special Investigations of ot coton growing 0 4 Special Investigation of ot diseases of or cotton coton Further Furher investigation of oC other dis diseases Ils- Ils dis- dis oases eases of or cotton I Special Investigation tg ton of or bailing baling cotton cotton cot cot- ton ton Special Inv Investigation of ot Dandling cotton coton S I Investigation of ot boll bol wee n weevil I That 1 Is a legitimate appropriation and adds respectability to tho the rest real of ot H. H Investigation aton of Insects Insect affecting cotton coton Investigation of ot other In Insects af affecting affecting at- at In cotton coton There Is no report on file fie as to what became of the time Insects but I suppose b by bytho tho time nil mull al these thes special agents got ot through making tho the Investigation the they would likely die of or nervous prostration Now Non ow I want to call cal your our attention to anol Iem Item a a. I little peculiar to me tue It l mA may be all al right I dont don't know For instruction to the people of or LO I Louisiana Louisi i- i ana how to raise horses and hogs T at is the economy and simplicity government which becomes a D Democratic I have called caled attention to those these matters for the reason that the President lent dent with his great authority behind him lini his great reat prestige e h has deliberately charged tat fiat the tIle Republicans of or th time the United States were wele seeking to get possession pos pos- pos pos-I I I session a again aln of ot the time United States treasury If I we are arc doing loing so so it seems to me mime IC a patriotic purpose If I we are doing so 80 so It i seems to m me that we are entitled to state the reason and If Ul the Republicans were shamelessly extravagant extrAvagant extravagant gant as the they said all we were werl at the be beginning beginning be- be ginning of ot their administration I leave 1030 it to this splendid and intelligent audience audi audi- once ence encl to cl characterize the record rEcord which I have read to you ou 8 o of I want vant to say fa- fa fato to you OU because o I Iw w want t to be fair if 1 I can that there could have ha been men nominated at Chicago Chi cage cago from Crom whom I would not have expected ex cx- ex- ex very ry Cf much In the way ay of oC cutting cut cut- ting ing down extravagances extravaganCes or eliminating lug ing lug machine and caucus CUCUS rule In Wash Wash- ashIngton ash ington Ington There could have been nom nom- nomInated nominated mated at t that convention men who would not have hac roused aroused n my enthusiasm concerning this thus great problem but If It Is S one man throughout throughout- time the United States who Is pe peculiarly fitted Jn in n courage In character r. r in moral purpose purpose pur pur- pose to deal with Just such situations as the these c it i Is Charles 8 E E. E Hughes Great applause Mr Hu Hughes hos began hie his Creer ca career ca- ca reer rear as s a citizen of or the tho Empire state by fighting Just such conditions an as aE are characterized by hy thi record which I Ihlae have been ben r. r reading to tu you Ul His Ills first rH effort In public was his uncovering of the great gas as trust or combine in the tile state of 01 NewYork New New- NewYork ew York How well veli ho performed that service Is now non a matter math I of or history history- After Atter he lie had finished this work he entered entered en entered en- en upon tl-e tl te tank of or uncovering unco peculation pec pee and fraud against the policyholders policyholders policy policy- holders of the gr great at insurance com corn Had he entered the contest against tho the insurance n companies alone it I would have been a manifestation of ot courage seldom equaled in Iii this country but when you take into consideration that aligned with the time Insurance companies wore were other great combines and other great financial Interests intertwined and interlaced and combined for Cor self self- sel- sel protection and when you take Into consideration that back of ot these combines com corn bines binos were two of the most powerful political machines that ever e operated under tho the American flag Ag and then con- con Idol alder the the successful fight which Charles E. E Hu Hughes hes made you ou got get et some measure of the tho Intellectual and arid moral power of or the man who will wil be elected President of or the United States the seventh soy sev da day of next November lo embel Applause And as ae said b by the brilliant speaker who ho preceded me me Charles Hughes hasn't an in the world strong enough to allege aleSe that he ever broke a p. promise which he ho made to his hil constituency con con- or to his uk people and when ho Is elected President of ot tho United Stat States s he lie will vill wil assume th the duty hut as he has pledged the tho l people ople of reducing this tremendous extravagance down to a 3 reasonable basis operating in the tIme public pub pub- lie lic lc where the public may a know kno from the beginning to the tho end eVer every evory tion ton for which their representatives are aT areno no responsible s p o n S I II I 1 believe when imon I think of the tho tre tremendous tremendous tre- tre burden which is finally im- im ii 1 It I I think of the fact that more misery has been put upon overburdened people in the tho way of tremendous taxes I be be lieve lieva that Mr Hughes has a task for tIme tho American people only second to that which Abraham Lincoln had when ho was isas elected President of the United States Applause The tan Law Now Non my friends let us pass by that and go to another subject I want to say Just a row few words In lit regard re regard re- re gard to what is known as the Adamson law lan I want to Sit say a ft few words because I presume that there are those who are Interested In the discussion of it it although I am fill frank to say that I do rio donot not believe that very much can be gained by a measure ao so lately passed and alid Into which enter so much prejudice and feeling It Is very ery difficult with such matters in so short a time to get tile the reasoning power In iii control and amid to subordinate and put aside the class consciousness or the prejudice or the tho bias which accompanies a consideration of It But I must say ay that I ha e been greatly encouraged by many remarks remark made to me by those most directly concerned concerned con con- during the thu last two or three weeks and amid 1 am going therefore to refer to It briefly I can best refer to it it successfully I think by stating the manner br the way wa in which uhichi It presented pre pre- seated Itself to me aim a member of the Senate when It came UD up for con con- In time the first place it did not look to me like an hour eight day bill I could not exactly understand how It could be an aim hour eight bill when under the law you may work a man ten hours or or Ji nouns up UI to the tho time limited by another statute I had always understood that an eight eight- hour day meant that a man could work eight hours and amid no mio more and that ho he was not permitted to work mom mor bo- bo because cause It was bellowed believed to be he In the In Interest Iii Iii- crest terest of society and of himself that his hla after eight hours should be given to his family or to time tha lug ing of his physical and moral well well-be lug ing in order ardor that he might arise and grow to full stature of citizenship In this great greut republic And In that IU way I had always viewed an aim hour eight day to wit a limitation upon the hours or work You nil all know that this bill does not limit hours of work at all There would bo Iju bono no limit to the hours of work under it if It were not hot for another statute to fo wit the hour statute For Instance as an illustration if it you will permit a personal reference about six years year ago I had the honor to Introduce in Iii the Senate the hour eight law Jaw in 11 reference to public works providing for an hour eight day for all government I works and providing that all los Jes contracting with the tho should not employ their laborers government eight hours upon the thc particular over that was covered by the tho work contract I No- No wh n that matter was before the com I of which I had the honor to I b bi chairman this same question which In this bill Is h came camo before F for or Ui us consideration I Plea of I Corporations Corporation J The great corporations said if will permit ns us to work Wont the tho men nien you than eight hours mor wo we will Ira tm for their time We do pay not them want ex cx to ti work men upon one part of our works ten hours and th tho men working government york work eight hours upon it makes for discouragement and demor arid and therefore if the govern mont desires to have a basic hour eight principle we will it by payi ing an extra penalty of permitting to do so an and you yom paying them for nIl all th the cv overtime e r t meNow me Now what was the answer that the tim of the country mado them They said that doesn't meet the tho to hour eight principle at all The eight eight- hour principle Is not based upon tonal pay jay bit upon humanitarian principle print prin- ciple upon the tho theory that no ma man should be under tinder th tho strain or of hr labor for moro more than eight hours nay day and aft r that time ho should be a Permitted to devote himself to culture and to lila his and to his associates or to that kind of an eight eight- hour houm day I lave hive always stood ready to support and the Republican party has supported It time and time again In time the of time the United States op Now whip tug this bill reached us I iii the Senate I wa was told that It wai wa an eight hou day based upon human principles and in the language of our honored President a matter o ol right a matter of humanity a matter of Justice hien It reached me In that condition I said If it It is I a matter of principle or humanitarIanism upon what theory do you apply It to only 29 21 por cent of the men maim engaged In that industry Jm why should we be so stingy sting with time the matter of principle principle Upon what theory do ou apply the hour eight day to the mini engaged In a particular line hue In time the arid and take It away from the tho man engaged In another line in the same Is not time the men working in ho machine shops of the tha railroad Just as much entitled to hi hid loaf is not tie family Just aa as much en entitled cn- cn titled to hla presence and amid ho he Just as much to the consideration of thus this matter 33 ma the tho man who is actually operating thi ii train Therefore when the bill a proposition of votIng vot- vot Ing to apply the principle to 20 per pert cent and to It from the tho 80 SO percent per cent It to me so absolutely un un j lust In its Itu that T I u have refused o 0 vote for It for that rca rca t son If for T TI I was up h ii Maine a few fow weeks ago and crossing tic tic- river where they thie take tile the train across on a ferry I was up and down time tho ferry and throe three men who were operating the thel ferry came camo tonic tome and amid said We to ask you wl we wore were not miot included In the tho eight day What day do dor you refer to They said the Adamson Adam son bill billI I id I dont don't know why you were not Included There Is only one man in tie United States I pre pre- sumo sume wh dod doel know and you had bet V ten ter telegraph him because I don't dont know Well said are you not in- in In i eluded Tile They said No NoI I said what is your wi wage e They told me amid me-amid and it was very ery low I said well I dont understand my friends why you were not Included Well they said here are two men will not vote ote to In Indorse in 1 dorse that bill We were not present In lii Washington Therefore these humanitarian hu- hu principles were not applied I Ito to us It was applied to those t. t who were Irene present presen if If It was a matter of justice a matter motter of humanity it J ought to have lt applied to us Just j the same samo as the tho rest of us and there Is no answer for proposition Applause Ap Ap- Compulsory But mn my friends there was another reason why I vot d against the bill and I am discussing it in that light because because be- be cause I can best it in that way that Is a deeper anc a profounder reason rca rea- son to my mind Whenever the workIngmen work work- Ingmen of this country consent to time the fact or to the precedent or principle that lint Congress shall fix wages either cither through direct legislation or through an established the they have then t consented Just so sure as time the night v fol allows al- al lows the th day to tiomi Applause f You can no imo more stop compulsory arbitration after you have havo established the precedent of wages by government than you on can stop In your flight when yo oi Jump over the t Niagara falls fails Now If the tho laboring men of this country wint compulsory arbitration then I have misread tile 1 f t i inv inra ni r n r this thin v try because It will ultimately ultimate In Involuntary servitude for hundreds of thousands of in thus Co country U n t ry j But do you suppose tint the Congress Con Con- gross gress of the United States State's Is going to 0 fix a wage and then have It disregarded Time The President In his message to Congress recommended six sit additional propositions One of them was tho tue cs es of this wage another was time the Increase of th tile Interstate Coni- Coni merce commission In iii numb r. r and the third was making Jt t a criminal offense to strike during the of a settlement set set- set of the wage question and It a m. m follows the fact of making inal offense to disregard the when It Is once established If that lint Is established In this country country coun coun- try the will have traded their birthright 6 r a mess of pottage For the sake of establishing wages for for a few months they will have conceded the proposition that time the government Is itt entitled to the performance of of- the wage wago which has been established i n Prediction t But there is another reason the bill did not commend Itself to me If this bill is founded In right and in Justice and in iii humanity why wa lt it Inactive for nine or twelve months except ex- ex ex that there as wasP upon time the theory Why an election In iii the tho meantime should It expire b by force of its own commission re re- re terms as soon oon u as the Now I want the in this audience to take do dorn down this rn nut It In lit you and take it In iii two years irom izu and read it and see if I am not either dle prophet This law will at the end of twelve months or it will bo bc followed b by another law laWI providing for compulsory arbitration Applause to going Now my friends I am ama cuss another feature of the situation what IB Iii known as time tho Mexican ques tion I dislike to detain yon Oit so long nh hut but I do not come often Applause in uis- uis dis' dis I want to ask your privilege cussing the tho Mexican question to 0 vio violate io late lato the better rules of public speak mat mat- ing by referring to jome personal be a mel 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