Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1912 — LABOR AND THE RULE OF RIGHT. [ARTICLE]

LABOR AND THE RULE OF RIGHT.

The working people of America—if they must be distinguished from the minority that constitutes the rest of it — are, of bourse, the backbone of the nation. No law that safeguards their life, that improves the physical and moral conditions under which they live, that makes their hours of labor rational and tolerable, that gives them freedom to act in their own interest and that protects them where they cannot protect themselves, can properly be regarded as class legislation or as anything but as a measure taken in the interest of the whole people; whose partnership in right action we are trying to establish and make real and practical. It is in this spirit that we shall act if we are genuine spokesmerKof the , whole country.—From Woodrow Wilson’s speech accepting the Democratic nomination.