| Show THE elmei HOUR LAW govar or wells has baa given the eight hocur haur bill his hie official approval and it to la bow w a law anere Toe can be no question or a to his bis having acte actea I cot coi D n this matter or that begale be gave thesus the aub jyce ample consideration and acted io in accordance with his judgment in the promise but that his bis action will give as much vatis satisfaction faction to the thinking part of the public as ae nearly all of his bis other official acts have given is hardy to be looked for there is a certain class of people who hink bink or seem to think that the hu man family can be taxed into prosperity another class hold bold that the favorable action of the jaw making power is the panacea for poverty an want that both can give reasons which are at least plausible for the ads they a matter of course that some perhaps many features feature ul of their doctrines are sound bound is ia not to be controvert ed but wat that in their broades bro adea and beat light they are wholly good la is a proposition which at the very verj least admits of controversy if it does not invite it there Is ia still another class who believe that there to is no royal road to wealth any more than there is to education cation and honorable distinction that hat even a slight or temporary surcease ol of the sorrows which result from meagre circumstances must as a rule be the reward of industrious persistent meritorious action these do not concede that because they are willing to work in accordance with fair and reasonable terms they are thereby serfs or tile the lower strata of cooie ty neither will they admit that they are opponents of or in co elvance te the best interests of oi of hers who work because unable to see the feasibility of a statute which proposes to either regulate their times time of work fix the limit of the same game or proscribe prescribe the compensation on the contrary they regard the actions of those lawmakers who claim that this can be d ne and still violate nobody nob odys Ps free dom of action and interfere with no one onea contract as themselves laboring under a delusion or else doing something worse making a bid for the votes and influence of the sl and injudicious no lust and sensible person will attempt to ta place obstacles in the way of the working peoples prosperity and true drue advancement but those who clam clamor or roost most loudly for these desiderata ata are too frequently the ones who desire them the least it is more likely than otherwise that selfish ends enda and ambitions lurk beneath the ibe demagogic expressions which find their greatest area test favor among those who are also selfish as well KB an envious and inconsiderate the NEWS hopes and believes that better times for all hands bands are about to dawn upon the land but any attempt to abridge toe freedom of contracts or otherwise interfere with tied labor is a blow at free institutions that will sooner or later recoil upon its ita authors and retard the advancement van vau cement which might be ours we repeat the Gi governor vernor is undoubtedly satisfied that he and those who have acted and are acting with him are right but we look at it differently and believe the courts will do the same |
