Show XU ANI PRESIDENT F. We Vc have waited wailed with a good deal JI of or Interest t for tor th the tho of leading newspapers rR upon that part of oC Pr's President dent noo Roosevelt's e Georgia da day speech in which he ho declared himself in favor or of or n a law Jaw which would mako the employer employer em- em liable for oJ Injuries to lo the whether o ot of not th the tho could bo he charged with negligence And the comment I Is more In favor or of that system than we could havo o hoped While some ome papers papers and and th these e usually have havo been beer those of or the Democratic party part party have h have hc c assailed the doctrine nea nearly IJo every strong independent publication has hns Indorsed the tho President heartily Here Is tho the statement eXActly i as President made it I I Workmen should receive a n certain definite a and 1111 limited compensation for all nil accidents in industry Irrespective Irre Irre- Irrespective C of ne negligence lI ence At present ent both hoth In ht the epher covered by hy national le legislation and In tho the sphere covered 1 h by state Ic legislation the law low in ht too man many cases cans leaves the financial fin hurd burden n of oC industrial accidents to be he borne borno b by th the injured workmen 11 and their families and a l workman workman work work- man who suffers from an nn accident either has no C case g atall at nt atall all for Cor redress or else must mim undertake a suit for Cor damages es against his employer The Tho present practice i is basest based on the vI view announced nearly that seventy years ago principles prin of ot justice and good sense sensa demand that a workman shall take upon him himself lf all the Iho ordinary risks of or hl his occupation In my view principles of justice and good flood sense ense demand the very reverse else of nf this view which experience ex ox- has hns proved to be bc unsound atH and productive o of oC wide spread suffering Jt n has peen been objected that there are workmen who who will trill purposely cause C themselves to bo be Injured so they can collect damages es from rom the tho employer Such cases must be far Car too rare rale to be bo accepted as proper propel elements clements In the argument A workman would take too much risk l Ho lIc b could not know lenow how small would bo be the Injury And He no certainly certainty would Know that the measure of or his ms uis- uis ability and therefore of or his claim upon the employer CI r would be bo determined b by a medical examination Both the tho President and his supporters take tho broadview broadview broad broadview view that the workman perils all he has all his capital when he enters employment If he loses Joses an nn eye or a J limb he is so near total disability that that ho ma may become unable to provide for himself Sooner or Jat later r. r then h ho o becomes a charge on tho the public The philosophy of President Roosevelt's scheme is that all construction work all aU manufacturing all all employment of or men men men-Is Is forthe for forthe or orthe the advancement ad of oC society for Cor the thc benefit of the people and that the risk of oC injury to a a. workman should hould he assumed in hr the tho first place by that society which In an any case must carry the cost eventually The suggestion Illustrates the Presidents President's broad view of or the Industrial situation It proves his deep Insight into tho philosophy of oc labor laor X And find d' d It sli shows s hat one of the thel most influential men of or the age Is not above championing the case of the bread winner winter |