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Show THE president has finally decided that the eight hour day is not a thing to be arbitrated. That was an after thought. Ho was in a close place and had to invent an excuse for his bid for tho Labor Union vote. It is pitiable. If an organization organiza-tion of overpaid working men make a aemand for more wages, amounting to $00,000,000 per annum, which if paid must be paid by the masses of the American people; in tho estimation of tho president presi-dent of the United States there is nothing to do but to force a bill through congress to compel the people to meet the demand. The ordinary candidate can-didate for constable would not stoop to an expedient ex-pedient like that. The president must be working at least twelve hours a day. Suppose he were to demand an increase in-crease of one-third in his salary on that account, and add to the demand that it was not a matter to be arbitrated, how would the country Hook upon the matter? On the part of an ordinary citizen that would be looked tipon as a sneak. j In his acceptance Mr. Wilson was eloquent in asserting that the promises of the four years j ago platform of his party had been so magnificent- j ly kept. But he left out a few things: m I The revision of the tariff he loudly praised. Was it because that revision was really assassination? assassin-ation? I |