Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1886 — LABOR’S ALLY. [ARTICLE]

LABOR’S ALLY.

Governor Gray, in bis Logansport speech, declared that the Democratic party nad been true to its pledges made to the people, and. as showing to wnat extent the last Legislature -ad gone in its effort to better the condition of *he laboring classes said: The last Democratic Legislature passed an act repealing th? alien laud law; It also passed an act prohibiting the importation ot foreigners under contract or agreement to perf >rm labor within the State; Also an act prohibiting the employs ment of children under twelve ? ears of age in certain manufacturing, and in those in which thev are allowed to be employed from keeping them at work more than eight hours per day; An act providing the means for se curing the health and safety of persons employed in coal mines; An act securing the payment of laboring men ana mechanics, and mak« ing them first creditors until they are paid in full; An act reducing telephone charges and prohibiting discrimination be tween patrons; An act compelling companies coi potations and associattons, doing business in this State, to pay their em.-> pfoyes monthly; An act giving laborers a.d mate rial men engaged in the construction of railroads a lien on the same; An act guaranteeing and enforcing civil rights of all persons; An act providing for the education of pauper children in all the counties of the State, and An act providing for the enrollment o all soldiers of the State; An act to prohibit forced contribu? tions of money or property from employes by corporations or their offi» cers No Republican Leg stature ever did anything like as much for labor? ing men. The record stands a pl6dge that the Democratic party will continue to meet the demands of labor. The Democratic majority in the last session of the National House or Represen tativ s passed every bill it was asked to pass by the laboring men of the country. The course of the party in all of labor legislation, State and National, has been marked by the utmost liberality in dealing with labor questions and by the promptest acquiescence in the dei* mauds of labor. It has assisted more powerfully than any other agency the advancement of the condition of labor. It has thrown a bar across the way. The most fortuhate thing that could occur to the laboring men of the oouniry would be a Democratic majority in both b-anches of the National Congress. The reign of Wall street would end with the beg nning of such a dispensation. The Republican Senate, during the last session of Cohgres; made it a special business to weld the shackles upon tne limbs of Labor at the lictation of the money-kings of the East, It Is certainly to the interest of laboring men that they should give the Democratic party, which has proved its willingness to fearlessly champion their cause, a f fir trial. With a Democratic House and a Democratic Senate, Las bor would quickly realize every hope that is dear to it.