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JEROME SHAMP'S PLATFORM.
Te!l About His Political Affiliations
In the Past.
MXCOLN, Neb., July 30. To the Re
publican Voters of Lancaster County:
I have been a republican all my life,
with the exception that in 1891 I af
filiated with the Independent party in
their movements for certain reforms
which have since taken place.
1 ptood as a candidate for congress
on the Independent ticket but was at
all times opposed to fusion with the
democratic party. Since that time 1
have affiliated with the republican
party, and when Theodore Roosevelt
was a candidate four years ago for the
position of president of the United
States, believing that he was 'one of
the greatest champions of the cause
of the common people, I was an ad
- vocate for, and voted for his election,
and from that time on, have affiliated
with the republican party.
I believe that President Roosevelt
has done more in the way of reform
regarding the strict regulation of all
corporations, than any president since
Abraham Lincoln, and believing that
he would in no wise recommend any
man for president whom he did
not know would carry on the reforms
bo well begun, I therefore, am for Wil
liam Howard Taft. as president of the
I'nlted States, and believe that he Is
perfectly able to carry forward this
.great retom movement.
I am very much - interested in the
present campaign, as I am a strong be
liever in the strict regulation of all
railroads and trusts In the final hope
that government ownership of the
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means of transportation of this coun
try will prevail.
I endorse the republican platform,
and especially that clause which de
clares for postal savings banks.
As for my candidacy for state
senator of Lancaster county, I stand
upon this issue. I believe in securing
all deposits in the state banks.
I believe in municipal ownership in
all public works in our cities, and be
lieve that labor should always be held
on an equality with capital, and that
all diffeences in labor organizations
should be settled by arbitration.
I believe that our revenue system
should be amended so that people
should not be taxed on their debts, and
there should be no penalty placed up
on the people for loaning their money
or capital in their own state.
I am a believer in the initiative and
referendum, for I believe that the peo
ple should have the right to vote on
all questions of issue and importance
that arise and a majority should rule.
1 have lived in Lancaster county
forty-two years, coming to Nebraska
shortly after being mustered out of
the army, and am perfectly willing
that my record should be investigated
and that my record in the legislature
of 1887 should be taken as a guide
to the voters of Lancaster county as
to my honesty in advocating that
which is for their interests.
I am sincere in what I advocate, as
my best friends well know, and I have
never yet and will not commence now
in deceiving tnose that have hereto
fore put their trust in me.
JEROME SHAMP,
Candidate for State Senator for Lan
caster County.
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Doing
JtmMBoro,
NE line of accomplish
ment in which the Unit
ed States government
has gone ahead mightily
in recent years is in the
help that has been ren
dered to the cause of la
bor. Moreover the aid
that has been given to
the working classes of the coun
try has not by any means been
confined to those conspicuous services
with which the public is familiar, such
as the settlement of the anthracite
coal strike, the enforcement of the
eight-hour day on government work
and the establishment of labor's own
branch of public service the depart
ment of commerce and labor.
Uncle Sam,, stands ready, of course,
to step into the breach wherever oc
casion demands in an effort to secure
a "square deal" and living wages for
the toiling masses but even when there
are no clouds on the horizon of the
relations between capital and labor
this paternal government is busily en
gaged with the problem of promoting
the welfare of those who labor with
hands or brain. A number of differ
ent branches of the government are
contributing to this policy but in the
main the work devolves upon the bu
reau of labor at Washington, which is,
in effect, the labor division of the de
partment of commerce and labor.
Newspaper readers hear of the bu
reau of labor when its head, the com
missioner of labor, steps in and at
tempts to arbitrate some strike or
threatened strike, as for instance the
recent difficulties of the telegraphers
of the country, but there Is not one
citizen in a thousand who has any
idea of the scope of the everyday work
of the bureau in acquiring and diffus
ing useful Information on subjects con
nected with labor in the most general
and most comprehensive sense of that
word."
Is Doing Good Work.
By means of an energetic "field
force" and a capable corps of experts
in the home office at Washington this
branch of the government is continu
ally investigating in all parts of the
country such subjects as the relations
of capital and labor, the hours of la
bor, the earnings of laboring men and
women, and other similarly fruitful
topics. What is more, this public In
stitution Is continually striving to pro
mote the material, social, intellectual
and moral prosperity of the workers.
Of course these government scouts in
the labor field cannot work in a rut.
Indeed the force is so mobile and the
Individual workers so . versatile ,. that
when a serious dispute arises between
employers and employes or there is a
controversy such as -that some time
ago regarding conditions in the meat
packing industry all other work at the
bureau can be dropped and all hands
concentrate their attention upon the
causes and facts of the crisis of the
moment.
The late Senator Hoar of Massachu
setts is perhaps entitled to be con
sidered the father of the movement to
have Uncle Sam systematically aid
the cause of labor.' It was in 1871 that
Mr. Hoar, then a member of the Unit
ed States house of representatives, In
troduced a bill providing for the ap
pointment of a commission to study
the subject of wages and hours of
labor and the division of profits be
tween labor and capital in the United
States. The bill did not pass but the
ball had been started rolling and final
ly after much agitation congress In
1884 made provision for a bureau of
labor as a part of the interior depart
ment. When the department of com
merce and labor was organized in 1903
the bureau of labor was taken under
its wjng as one of its principal
branches.
Powers of Commissioner.
Congress has conferred pretty broad
powers upon the commissioner of la
Dor. He can undertake at his discre
tion any investigation which in his
judgment relates to the welfare of the
working people of the country and he
can employ in this quest for informa
tion all the means at his disposal and
the corps of statistical experts, special
agents, clerks, etc., carried on the pay
roll of the bureau of labor. Uncle
Sam's labor commissioner may, if he
choose, simply make a report to con
gress once a year on his Investigations
but of late years special reports have
been issued monthly or even oftener,
and on a number of occasions the
president has called upon the commis
sioner of labor to make special inquiry
in 'some field and communicate his
findings as quickly as possible.
The bureau of labor is in reality a
great "intelligence office" that pours
out information through four different
channels. The first of these is made
up of the results of original Investiga
tions conducted by the bureau or its
agents and experts. Secondly the la
bor jbureau gives the whole country a
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digest of state labor reports, thus
bringing to the attention of the gen
eral public many matters relating to
conditions in the different states of the
union that might not otherwise become
matters of common knowledge.
Has Wide Scope.
Thirdly, this bureau of labor Infor
mation reviews exhaustively for the
benefit of its millions of American cli
ents the labor and statistical docu
ments of all foreign countries and
when anything is discovered that has
a bearing on labor interests in Yan
keedom it is promptly brought to the
attention of the people concerned.
Fourthly, the bureau fulfills its func
tion as public servitor by publishing
and sending broadcast all new laws
that are passed affecting the interests
of the working people. No matter
whether a law be passed by the nation
al congress or by the legislature in
some one of our two score states it
is no sooner on the statute books than
the labor bureau sends the tidings to
the toilers who will be affected. Final
ly there Is a similar system for the
distribution of news relative to court
decisions interpreting labor laws or
other happenings affecting the rela
tions of employer and employe.
Most interesting and most important
of the undertakings of the bureau of
labor are the special investigations
conducted by its own experts. These
lave covered a very wide range of
subjects. It Is, of course, impossible
to enumerate them at length but just
to convey an idea of the fields that
have been explored there may be cit
ed such subjects as industrial commu
nities at home and abroad ;-co-operative
distribution; railway relief de
partments; the padrone system; con
ditions of negro workers; building and
loan associations; the Inspection of
factories and workshops; the trade
union label ; protection of workingmen
in their employment; child labor in the
United States; wages and cost of liv
ing, etc.
Deals Only in Facts.
In the earlier years of the work peo
ple did not, in many instances, take
kindly to the idea of having their pri
vate affairs probed for the benefit of
the public, but latterly this spirit has
largely disappeared. Nowadays if the
special agents of the bureau of labor
are refused information by one manu
facturer they usually have no difficulty
in discovering some other establish
ment where the needed data may be
obtained. The government labor ex
perts have won confidence by : never
allowing the names of parties furnish
ing facts to be given in its reports, al-'
though, to be sure, they take every
possible means to verify all the infor
mation gathered. The bureau will
have nothing to do with estimates or
hearsay statements about labor con
ditions. It never makes any state
ments unless it has positive facts to
back them up.
At the outset the government labor
experts thought that they could carry
on their investigations largely by mall,
but It was soon found that few people
would respond satisfactorily! to queries
thus transmitted and so the bureau of
labor had to organize a corps of spe
cial agents who are continually "on
the wing" securing information at first
hand and recording it on carefully pre
pared schedules. The policy of the
bureau of labor in looking into labor
conditions and the problems of life
affecting the working people is seldom
if ever to argue a point. It simply
secures all the facts in the case and
then lets- the intelligent labor man de
cide what is best for him from the in
formation set out for his benefit. The
bureau of labor is particularly fortu
nate in Its directing heads. The com
missioner of labor, Dr. ' Charles P.
Neill, formerly one of the faculty of
the Catholic university at Washington,
is a man who has a wonderful faculty
for clear-sighted investigation and the
chief clerk of the bureau, Mr. Q. W. W.
Hanger, has been fitted by long experi
ence for work in behalf of the cause
of labor.
Employment Bureau.
Uncle Sam has also inaugurated an
other aid to labor in the form of the
largest employment bureau in the
world. This is an adjunct of the bu
reau of immigration, and is in charge
of Terence V. Powderly, at one time
a recognized leader of union labor
throughout the country. It is the func
tion of this new bureau to inquire as
to the facts about the reported demand
for labor in all parts of the country.
Mr. Powderly has opened correspond
ence with responsible officers in every
state in the union concerning the need
for labor and the opportunities for em
ployment in each state and when any
worklngman desires to make a change
of location all he has to do is to in
quire of Uncle Sam as t the prospects
in any section in which he would like
to find employment. V
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