Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 148, 6 April 1911 — Page 4

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUX-TELEGRA3I, THURSDAY, APRIL G, 1011.

The Richmond Palladium and Sun-Telegram Published and owned by th PALLADIUM PRINTING CO. Issued 7 days earn week, evenings and Sunday tnornlnit. Offlca Corner North th and A street Palladium an1 8un-Tlrm Phones Muioaa Office. 2tU; Kdltorlal Itoorns. 1121. RICHMOND. INDIANA.

Raal.l.h O. L. Edltur J. '. Rl.ch.rr BmIsmi M..sr Carl Bvrahardl Associate Kdltor V. II. ..ailal... Nta Editor SUBSCRIPTION TERMS. In Richmond IS 00 .-r year On advance) or iOo per weelc MAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS. One year. In advance '5 22 l months. In advanr On. month. In advance RURAL ROUTKs On. yaar. in advance HI months. In advance - One month. In advance Add.eie changed as often as desired; totli new and old addresses must ie Clven. Subscribers will please remit with order, which snuuld be .riven for a specified term; name rrlll not bo entered until paymei.t la received. Entered at Richmond. Indiana, post office as second class mall matter. New Tork Representatives Payne ft Yocr., JO-SI West 3rd street, and 2914 West 12nd street. Nuw York. N. T. Chtrafo Repreeentatlves Payne ft Touna. 7I7-74S Marquette Uulldlna. Chicago. Hi. I ' Tfc Association of AnMriua 3 AeHortiaore (Now York Gty)fcaj i af this publication. Only tht figures ot etteulatioa eoctalntd in 1U rtport act ; E gttMMtM4 to U Association. RICHMOND, INDIANA "PANIC PROOF CITY" Has a population of 23, 000 and Is arowfiiK. It In the county eat of Wayne County, and the tradlnir center of a rich agricultural community. It Is located duo east from Indianapolis C mile and 4 tulles from tho state line. Richmond I city of homes and of Induxcry. Primarily a manufacturing city. It Is also the Jobbing center of Kastern Indiana and nnjoya the retail trad-) of the populous community for miles around. Richmond la proud of Its splendid streets, well kept yard. Its cement sidewalks and beu 'tlful shade trees. It Imu 3 national banks, 2 trust companies and 4 building assoctatlohM with combined resources of over J8.000.000. Number of factorlua 126; capital Invested $7,000,00(1. with an annual output of 127.000.000. and a pay roll of 13. 704.UOO. Tht total pay roll for tho city amounts tvi approximately 6,GOO.OOJ uunually. There are flvo ratlroau companies radiating In eight different directions from the city. Incoming freight handled dally, l. 760,000 lbs.; outgoing freight handled dally, 760.000 lbs. Yard facilities, per day 1,700 cars. Number of passenger trains dally 89. NmnluT of freight trrfln dally 77. The annual post office receipts amount to $80,000. Total nesrsHed valuation of t'ae city, I lb. 000.000. Richmond lias two Interurnan railways. Three newspapers wltli n combined circulation of 12.000. Richmond Is the greatest hardware jobbing center In the state and only second In general Jobbing Interests. It has a piano factory producing a high grade piano every 1C minutes. It is the leader In the manufacture of traction engines, and produces more threshing machine, lawn mowers, roller nkates. grain drills and burial caskets than any other city In the world. i The city's area II 2.840 acres; has a court bouwe costing $500 -000; 10 publlo achooia and has the finest and most complete high school In the middle west undor construction: 3 parochial schools: Karlham college and tha IndianRuslnea College; five splendid firs companies h, fin ho houses; tllen Miller nark, tht largest and most beautiful park mond'e annual Chautauqua; seven In Indiana, the home of Rlchhntels; municipal electric lie-lit plant, under successful operation and a private electrlo light plant Insurlnar competition: the oldent public llhrary In tho state, except one and the second largest, o 000 volumes: pure, refreshing water nnsurpassed: 5 miles of Improved streets; 40 miles of sewers- 25 miles of cement curb and gutter eomblned; 40 miles of cement we lk. and many miles of brick walks. Thlrtv churches. Including the Reld Memorial, built at a cost of IISO.OOO; Reld Memorial llosnltal. one of the most modern fn the stste: T. M. C. A. building erected at a cost of f 100.000. one of the finest In the state. The emneement center tt Kastern Indlna and Western Ohio. Sn city of the slo of Richmond holds a fine an annual art exhibit. The Richmond Fall Festival held each October Is unique, no other city holds a similar affair. It Is given In the i".eret of the cltv rtnd financed by the b'.ilness men. Success awaiting anvone with enterprise In the Panic Proof City. This Is My 67 tli Birthday THOMAS W. BRADLEY Thomas V. Hradley. representative in Congress from the Twentieth district of New York, was born April t, 1811. He is I he only member of Congress from the State o. New York ho served in the civil war. At the beginning of the war he entered the I'nion Army as a private ar.d afterward became captain of the One Hundred and Twenty-fourth New York Volunteers, lie was seriously wounded at Gettysburn, again wounded at the Wilderness, ami ngnln before Petersburg. For gallantry at t'hancellorsvillo ho was awarded the Congressional medal of honor. After the war, Mr. Bradley returned to New York and engaged in business as a manufacturer. He be. gan hii political caret r In ISTtS. when he was elected to the New York general assembly on the Kepublican ticket, lie was first elected to Congress in 1902 and has been five times reelected. Hepresentative Hradley is n member of the Chattanooga and Gettysburg battlefields commission. MASONIC CALENDAR Thursday, April 1911 Wayne Council No. 10, R. & S. M. Work in the decrees. Water .bills due April 1st 29-10t

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Industrial Accidents

The New York court of appeals has decided in it6 wisdom that the legislature cannot enact a law which insures compensation to employes injured in the course of their work and to the families of those who are killed. The utmost that can be done is to sweep away some of the Judge-made defenses behind which employers have shielded themselves in damage suits. These defenses have indeed been strong enough to defeat elementary justice and common sense. The fellow-servant doctrine, the doctrine of contributory negligence, and the doctrine of assumption of risk, we are now told lie within the power of the legislature. When Crystal Kaslman was discussing work accidents and the law, as they are In Pennsylvania, she found the law behind hand" and the lawmakers "blind;" their minds thoroughly steeped in old ideas of theoretical equality and freedom of contract;" and this she described as the summing up of the whole situation. We now k'o how how incomplete was her apparently keen and conclusive analysis. All that she said is true, but it does not by any means sum up the whole situation. We now learn that when the law makers open their eyes, when their minds are stirred out of the old ideas and they determine to enact a law which is in principle measurbaly abreast of those of tho ijnst backward countries of Europe, they are not to be allowed to do anythig of the kind. Employes may without legislative enactment be declared to have assumed, but employers can not even by statute be required to assume, the risks of their trade. The doctrine that employes tacitly assume the risks of their trade is good law'j for the judges since Abingcr in the Priestly case, and Shaw in I he Harwell case have said it. No legislature had ever laid dow n such a principle. The famous decisions rest purely upon such economic, moral, and sociological reasonings as the court of appeals in its recent decision re-fuses to admit though it dismisses them with a tribute of respect. That reasoning, it is true, was not sound morally, economically, or sociologically; but it is equally true that.it was not and did not pretend to be legal, in the sense of being derived from any constitutional or statutory expression of the sovereign legislative will. Lord Abinger, in refusing o hold the employer liable, roundly declared that "the inconvenience and absurdity of the consequences is a sufficient argument against this priciple." After all these years a legislature finds, what has long been obvious to moralists, economists and sociologists, that it is the opposite principle of requiring an employe to prove that neither he nor his fellow servants are negligent, which involves inconvenient and absurd consequences. The legislature modestly tries, in a few admittedly dangerous trades to establish the principle of assumption of risk by the employer. It proposes a plan by which the industry as a whole is to assume the risk, which is gradually transferred like other increases of expense In manufacture, to (he consuming public. Hut behold, what the judges did without difficulty at the expense of the defenceless workers, even the sovereign legislature can not do, at the expense of the industry. Why? Hecausc, it appears, this is taking property, without due process of law. The legislature had done its best ; but to create a due process of law for the establishment of a rational, just and modern system of compensation for industrial accidents, even in the dangerous trades is beyond its power. This not because the makers of the constitution intended to put it beyond the power of the legislature, or because they have ever done anything which by the widest stretch of the imagination could possibly be interpreted as indicative of any such intention. The fourteenth amend

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ment was intended to protect ex-slaves from any state laws which might impose civil disabilities upon them. An earlier amendment, the fifth, requires the federal government also to observe "due process of law" in taking life, liberty or property; and in fact, the "right to law" is one of the most ancient and esteemed of all the common law traditions. But if this ancient bulwark of liberty, so long the peculiar glory of England, and of English speaking people, is by judicial interpretation to become one more obstacle in the way of rational legislation, one more mocking denial of popular rights under the cover of protecting them, a husk of a constitutional guarantee with a rotten kernel of legislative impotence, then the sooner it is swept out of the constitution and out of the judicial mind the better for all concerned. Courts and constitutions can not retain public respect and loyalty, to say nothing of veneration and affection if decisions of this kind represent their prevailing spirit. No lip service to the economics, sociology, and morality, which the judges evidently discover with much misgivings, as a naw force which they do not fully understand, but with which they see that they must reckon, will save them from the popular wrath which such decisions engender. If we must amend the state and federal constitutions before we can enact a compensation law, providing such financial compensation to the sufferers in tho Washington Place ti 'e, as would be theirs if the disaster had happened in any civilized country except ours, this, we repeat, will not be because any constitutional convention, or any popular vote has ever so decreed. It is because phrases have gradually been distorted from their original and natural meaning, and because legal rights have been transformed into judicial wrongs. We are not prepared to say that any oilier remedy than amendment is now possible, or that in practice even that one is possible. We point our merely that the obstacle which the court finds in the way of doing what moraltiy, economics and sociology require is a court-made obstacle, just as are the other obstacles which the court is now complacently willing to let the legislature remove if they will be good enough to try again The Survey.

"THIS DATE

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