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Show GiSNEROUS people all agree that eight hours I ought to be enough for a day's work for an earnest man. But, unfortunately, that cannot yet be, for the great majority of men who do the world's work. Most politicians, just prior to election day, feel it a duty to go on tho stump and tell the farme'rs that they are the backbone of the state, that tho republic relies more upon them than upon any other class. But the farmer has to work on an average eleven hours a day, his wife, if they have children, about fifteen hours. " ( I I i 4iA The farm hand works much oftener twelve ihours per day' than eight. The merchant works, on an average, eleven hours a day. The editor often works sixteen hours a day and keeps it up year after year. The lawyer and doctor in active practice works from eight to sixteen hours per day. All the men who outline the world's work and provide the means to carry it on, work at least twelve hours a day. , , - The I. W. W.'s think that four hours per day ,is enough, and when they contract for that are at the same time premeditating how to shirk work quite half that time. The above classes and more like them supply all the money that the government has to spend. That fact supplies ample reason why tnose who pay out what the great workers pay in, should be most careful in their expenditures, and never should pay out one penny without ample reasons for 'such expenditures. Just now the friends of President Wilson are giving him great praise for advancing, without consideration, the ipay of some already overpaid workers, $60,01)0,000 i per year, by reducing their legal day's work to I eight hours. He did that, too, when those same men declared de-clared that they would not submit to have the justice of their claim determined by a fair tri bunal, and added a covert threat that if their demand de-mand was not complied with in five days they would smash things and cause great losses and inconvenience to thousands of people; the people, too, who make it possible for them to obtain employment. em-ployment. There are three facts that seriously mitigate against the claim for glory for the president in this transaction. The first is that when he as chief magistrate of this great nation was bluffed by an organization organiza-tion of overpaid employees, he laid-down. Second: By his act, he levied an annual assessment as-sessment of $60,000,000 on the taxpayers of the nation, most of whom work twelve hours per , day. Third: Me flunked under a threat that unless he yielded those employees would smash things. He says he was not afraid. What was the reason |