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Show RAILROAD MEN KNOW SUTHERLAND. Senator George Sutherland, that cold and clammy Standpatter and representative of the corporations who misrepresents the people of Utah in the United States senate, in a speech in Salt Lake City, said the Republicans in the senate had passed an employers' liability bill, but the Democrats had killed the measure. Our readers will recall that the Standard exposed the vicious features fea-tures of that bill at tho time it was introduced by Sutherland. It was a railroad measure, intended, under the cruise of legislation friendlv to railroad employes, to make damago suits for injuries or loss of life almost impossible, except on terms of settlement wholly disproportionate dispropor-tionate to the injuries sustained. Had tho Democrats, and Progressive Republicans who joined with the Democrats in killing the bill, allowed the measure to become a law, they would have been guilty of a base betrayal of the people. That one bill introduced by Sutherland has confirmed in the minds of the railroad employes the truth of the charges, repeatedly made by the Stumlard, that Sutherland is a corporation tool and a misrepresontcr of the citizens of this state. There arc so many men of his stripe who reach tho United States Senate, under our present method of indirect voting, that the people I arc demanding a change 10 the direct system advocated by the Progressives. |