TMTalciflfi Difficulty of Fram
yr ind Good
11jO.W Laws Is Enormous
By HON. JAMES BBYCE.
ttrttlxk Iriwiriw to Calted States.
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AN ENTERTAINING LECTURE.
Full of Striking Information for the
General Public
Of C. J. XlcUorrow. vho will lecture
at the Auditorium on May 24. on the
anion labels of the various crafts, the
St. Paul Union Advocate says:
T. J. McMorrow, the accomplished
gentlemen who explained the labels
as the were 1 thrown on the large
screen in brilliant steropticon views,
prefaced this part of the performance
with a luminous and eloquent exposi
tion of the purposes and achieve
ments of trade unionism which was
very instructive and entertaining. He
showed that the labor movement had
for its highest aim the better condi
tions for the toilers of the land and
their families, higher wages for the
worker, improved domestic and so
cial conditions for the household, en
larged intellectual advantages and
business opportunities for Itae young,
the abolition of child labor, the total
elimination of the sweatshop and its
products, and the removal of the un
wholesome competition of contract
prison labor with trained free labor
The Man Who CTorlis for Uages
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A few years ago the wage-earner was supposed to fare nothing for the fit of his
tint hex. If he did. he had his care for his paius. Manufacturers cut their clothing with
a circular saw. and a coat that would fit a workingman 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighing
pounds, was supposed to fit just as well the worker 5 feet 3 inehes tall and weighing
115 pounds. On one it looked like a skin of a banana, on the other it hung like a horse
blanket over a fence post. Only the well-to-do. could afford tailor-made clothes. Suddenly
a great light dawned on manufacturers The nit-n who work for wages keep things going!
Aha. we'll cater to them a while. Xow the worker, the man who deserves the best, can
dress as well as the professional man.
Ill-fitting clothing is no longer the badge
of toil: tine clothing no longer the mark
of wealth. The man who deserves the
best is no longer forced to accept the
worst. We handle a line of union-made
clothing that has no eual for style, fit,
durability, material or workmanship
n
On
the
Square
On
the
Square
garments any union man should be proud to wear, just as we are proud to reeommend and
sell them. We also handle union-made shoes, tir.ion-made hats, union-made collars, union-made
work clothes, etc. We hunt the centers of itr.icn manufacture for the very best union-made
l:Oods. because we believe that union men deserve the best the market affords. Our
present prices are the bargain prices you wi'i find further down the street when this
vpring's line goes on sale there in the winter. We beat "em to the bargain price just the
length of a season. (Jet into one of our un on-made suits and feel like a well set-up work
iugmau. That's better than feeling like a kng. Some kings are two-spots so far as any
good service they perform.
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-On the Qquare" TENTH & O "On the Corner,
in all the productive crafts of indus
trial life. The reduction of the hours
of toil for skilled workmen from thir
teen hours a day to eight, by gradu
al triumphs over heartless and con
scienceless capitalistic greed, the im
provement of the homes of the toilers
the augmentation of the freedom, cul
ture, enjoyment, power and influence
of the great mass of the people under
the benign inspiration ok trade union
ism which have made the 'American
standard of living the highest and
broadest in the world, were rapidly
and vividly portrayed, and forced home
on the apprehension of the vast audi
ence in thoughts that breathe and
words that burn, all presented in the
fascinating style for which Mr. lie-
Morrow is everywhere renowned."
HE difficulty of framing good laws is enormous, because the
T work is in most countries no longer the comparatively easy
8 task of reneailincr olil laws whir-h hamwrKl sml fnn-ftitrwxl
the citizens destruction is simple work but the far harder
task of creating a new set of laws which shall guide and help
men to attaining the ends thev are lient on. Seventr Years
J I ago people thought that the great thing was freedom. When
I they had got it they were dissatisfied, and instead of simply
tmmammS letting everything and evervbodv alone to work their own
weal or woe. on individualist principles, they forthwith set Jto
work to forbid some things which had lieen tolerated before and to throw
upon government all sorts of new functions more diuit-ult and delicate
than those of which they had stripped it.
Tlie demand for a profusion of legislation is inevitable; and the diffi
culty of having it good, undeniable- In what does the difficulty consist?
In three things. First, of those who demand legislation, many do not
understand exactly what is the evil they desire to cure, the good they seek
to attain. Secondly, when they do understand the evil they seldom know
what is the proper remedy, when they seek the laudable end they seldom
perceive the best means to it. Thirdly, the number of measures, reme
dial and constructive, called for is so large that it is very hard to select out
of them those most urgently needed. Xo legislation can deal with all at
once. Where many are !eing pressed at once by different person they
jostle one another, and like people crushing oik- another in the narrow
osits of a theater, they move more slowly than if they were made to pass
a?ng in some reguJar rmler.
The task of legislation becomes more and more dliEeult, owing to the
complexity of modern civilization, the vast scale of modern industry and
commerce, the growth of new modes of production and distribution that
need to be regulated, yet so regulated as not to interfere with the free
play of individual enterprise.
Many of the problems which legislation now presents are too bard
for the ordinary members and even for the abler members of legislative
bodies, because they cannot be mastered without special knowledge. (It
may be added that in the United States a further difficulty arises from
the fact that legal skill is often required to avoid transgressing some
provision of tlie federal or a state constitution,)
The above conditions make it desirable to have some organized system
for the gathering and examination of materials for legislation, and espe
cially for collecting tlie laws passed in other countries on subjects of cur
rent importance.
To secure the pushing forward of measures needed in the public
interest, there should be in every legislature arrangements by which some
definite person or body of persons become responsible for the conduct of
legislation.
Bills of a local or personal nature ought to be separated from bills
of general applicability and dealt with in a different ami quasi-judicial
Arrangements ought to be made, as, for instance, by the creation of a
drafting department connected with a legislature or its chief committees,
for the putting into proper legal form of all bills introduced.
Similarly, a method should be provided for rectifying in bills before
they become law such errors in drafting as may have crept into them dur
ing their passage.
When any bill of an experimental kind has been passed, its working
should be carefully watched and periodically rejnrted on as respects
both the extent to which it is actually enforced (or found enforceable)
and the practical results of the enforcement
In order to enable both the legislature and the people to learn what
the statute law in force actually is, and thereby to facilitate good legisla
tion, the statute law ought to be periodically revised, and as far as pos
sible, so consolidated as to be brought into a compact, consistent and in
telligible shape.
BALCH AT BALTIMORE.
Popular Lincoln Pastor Standing Up
for the Workers of Today.
BALTIMORE. Mr, May 12. With
the backing of Governor Hoch of Kan
sas, Senator DoUiver of Iowa, and
prominent ministers and laymen. Rev.
Dr. William Balch, of Trinity church,
Lincoln. Xeb is leading a movement
to put the Methodist Episcopal church
closer to the laboring men, particular
ly those in labor unions.
"The church should make a direct
bid for the laboring men's support,'
he said today, "and should try to meet
and conquer any hostile feeling toward
the church that 'any laboring man may
feeL It is a crisis in the conflict that
confronts us. On the one side preda
tory monopolies, on the other the mis
ery of the oppressed multitudes. Be
sides there is a deadly and increasing
class hatred. In such an emergency
nothing can be more deplorable than
the. manifest fact that the masses are
not only indifferent to the church, but
also the suspicion that the church
Indifferent to them. Dr. Balch said
that his committee will recommend the
creation of a department of labor. He
has been working out the details with
a special committee..
HUMAN LIFE CHEAPEST.
It is cheaper to kill workingmen
than to protect them. It is an easy
matter to sell a device to save time
bnt one to protect life cannot be given
away. The whole story rests in
neglect of our government to enact
ability laws that will force the employ
er to provide safety appliances and
them. The Railroad Trainman.
the
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Man
Is
a
Builder
yKt. TMHAS fWIB Ball.
Involuntary architects, we shape anil
rear four houses for ourselves, establish
ing and beautifying them or making them
unsafe and unsightly by all we are and do.
What are you making your family house,
vour home, out of? 1-oyalty, honor, truth,
unselfishness are the four corners of love
inclosure, tlte safeguards of its teaching
and inspiring ministry, the anchorage of
the hearts it sends forth for struggle with
the world.
You build a bouse for yourself in so
ciety. Business and social intercourse are
its life. Integrity, industry, justice and
good-will are its cornerstones. Io you square to these?
With what are we building our national house? Liberty
and justice, equality and brotherhood, bound the circuit of our aatkxul
hope. . - -J
What kind of a house does your religion make for you? A chamber
of horrors, where morbid conscience and unjust authority hold you in
terror? An unfenced plain, with the uncharted heavens to guide you over
. at wwn 1 1 " A
an unknown eann nat are me tanamarss oi mis great, estate z
Eeverence for God and for all that is, because God made it ; faith, is the
good in men and for men ; hope, for the ultimate triumph of right in our
selves and in the world; love, for all God's world, here and beyond the
vail of death, specially to help those who need. Does your religion make
it easier for you to resist temptation? Does it help you to be brave, wor
thily ambitious, untiring? Does it make you patient, sympathetic, help
ful? Does it bring the unseen and spiritual closer to your corta-iotisne.
with the appeal of its supreme, controlling, lasting worth? This is the
tabernacle of God, let down out of heaven for each man, and which each
may make tangible for himself. In this is the peace that passeth under
standing, anS joys forevermore.
Four houses? There is a fifth the house of character. Thought and
desire, purpose and experience, weave a tent, the expression of ourselves,
which we can never quit and through which we look and work upon the
world. What if it be the poisoned shirt of Xessus, tormenting Hercules
to his death? What if it be the creative foreg leant of the building of God,
tha house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens? To attain that
revelation toil and pain are well
wartb while- cre-ce iitu!Cvt
