Show REPUBLICAN PARTY THE FRIEND OP OF LABOR LABORS l SENATOR S SUTHERLANDS vigorous denial of the charges that he naJ nad voted inimical to the interests of labor during the last session ought to put an end ond to the sort of stories that are emanating from headquarters All 11 of the measures mea ures that were brought up in the Senate that thai were vere ere in the interest of labor that wore were calculated to improve conditions for the tho workingman received the earnest support of the Utah senators Senator Sutherland on OH several seer occasions occasions fought injurious amendments that were proposed d to nullify the good the measures would do Just why wh Aguinaldo Weber should lend his voice oice to a n story that could be so easily disproved one cannot readily see Charity would suggest that the view be taken that Weber knew no better and was too lazy l to find out The record of the tile Republican party of the Republican majority in the Senate of which Senator Sutherland is not an nn inconsiderable member and aud of the majority in is the House Houte of which Joseph Howell is an important part lart did good work ork in the interest of the American workingman during the lasi lasiS last session S The Republican party 1 at the last session of Congress again exhibited its deep deel and Slid sincere interest in the general welfare of ot the working men and women of tile the th country by b adding important enactments enactment to its already long record of ot legislation l on this subject Practically all classes of at employee especially those thOle enraged engaged in occupations more or less lass hazardous are arc the beneficiaries ben s of laws Ins should operate to lighten the burdens which naturally fall upon the tho shoulders of man The Republican party part recognized the necessity of reducing the dangers under which hundreds of thousands of miners work by creating the bureau burean of mines mins Senator Sutherland was earnest in Ia promoting this measure in the Senate and it was due largely la ely to the sincere work of Congressman Howell that the bill was wag passed tl through the House Houie The bill was passed for the purpose of establishing an efficient govern governmental governmental governmental mental instrument for investigation examination and report to the world of the kind of safety appliances hat will ill prevent the awful losses of life in the operation of mines mince and aud especially of coal mines A second purpose of the bureau is to perform tile the office in iu relation to mining milling that the depart department department ment mont of agriculture performs in ill respect to the farming fanning interests of the coun country country country try that is by experiment and investigation to determine the most effective methods of mining and the best means of f avoiding the deplorable waste wn te that now obtains in hi the best mining methods It will prove a boon to the em plo e as well as the mine owner No more important legislation l in the interest Jt of human life lite has hag ever eer been enacted by Congress than the laws of the recent session on smug giving iv ug the interstate commerce commission ampler powers to the UIO needed safety appliances for the prevention of accidents to employee and passengers pus and after a hearing to require their operation oP ration by oy interstate railways s Other legislation legi lation with re to the inspection of locomotive boilers and the re removal moval inoval of overhead obstructions awaits the consideration of the next session of Congress and there is no it will be he speedily passed But in one sense SenN the most moat important top step taken by the present Congress during its last session in iu the interest of the worker was the tha creation of a congressional commission to report a practical bill biD for the fixing of work mens compensation for injuries received re vod in t the e employment of interstate commeree railways as risks risk in In the business II to be fixed Axed by arbitration and to tobe tobe tobe be graduated according to the extent of the injury and awl the earning capacity of the injured person parson This is ii important not only as affecting interstate commerce commeree railways but if adopted as furnishing a IL model to the country for a beneficial change ha ge in the legal relation between employer and employs This reform I would put an end eDd to the vexatious and costly litigation through which hith an must go in ill itt order to recover damages litigation which on account of the poverty of the frequently serves senas to defeat the ends of justice and in other instances leads to exorbitant and unjust verdicts There are some interesting facts concerning the attitude of the two great political parties toward towar the interests of the working men inca and women that are not generally understood by the members of the unions union themselves They are too often content to take the word of some one who does not Dot know or had an interest t himself in deceiving his hearers heareN It is not generally known that 87 8 per cent of the states of the Union under Republican control have passed laws creating labor bureaus and that only 44 1 per cent of the states controlled by the Democratic party part have doue done doneso so of the states under Republican rule have hae passed laws recognising recognizing the union label and only 70 per cent of Democratic states have hae done doneso so per cent of the states under Republican control have bae passed laws limiting the of labor on public works to eight hours Only twelve anti and ot th states under the control of the Democratic party parD have done clone so 1 It sm difficult to select the party that has bas done most for the men inca who earn their broad bread by b the sweat of their faces And when it comes comBS to local affairs the Republican record is even better than it is nationally Although it has not added one iota to the gen general ral tax expense paid by the taxpayers aers in ill ten years the Republican ad administration administration administration ministration pays tip tift th highest wages for work ork OH on county matters than is paid anywhere in the United States Stab s The laborers on work done by the county are receiving l 20 per cent more than they the did five fh e years ago While the Tribune party in the city government has bas increased the cost of all street improvements anywhere front from 25 to GO Oper per cent it has not raised the wages of the men who ho work on OR these improvements They The are getting the same wages they thov wore were paid five years ago None of the grafting that has been going on OD has been divided among the men that do Ute the work It has all gone to the Tribune inner circle That outfit had no objection to mulcting the taxpayers for far all they could get out of them but they preferred to see seethe seethe seethe the extra money mone go to the favored contractors rather than thau to permit it to tobe tobe be paid to the men who do 10 the work S |