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Identifier: literarydigest16newy (find matches)
Title: The literary digest
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York : Funk & Wagnalls (etc.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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y. Sheriff Martins defense forthe murder of the men ruthlessly shot at Lattimer rested whollyupon the assumption that he had a right to deal with them as amob, because he suspected that they might become a mob ifallowed to go their way peaceably. And this doctrine has been adopted by an American jury.-—The Journal (Dem.), JSeiv York. The law is for all men, and against all men who are notobedient to it. There is no question of the right of men tostrike. The strike is often the only weapon. But when thestriker learns to keep within the law, to be fair to others, and torespect property rights, he will have made the greatest advancesin the direction of public sympathy. An illustration is the caseof the Pittsburg miners a year ago. The determined efforts tokeep within the law won the friendship of the people, and alsosaved any serious clash with the law. The law is the defense ofthe individual and the salvation of the nation. Violence towardit can not win.—Z^^ Times (Rep.), Pittsburg.
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CURRENT CARTOONS 338 THE LITERARY DIGEST. (March 19, 1898 VALIDITY OF UTAHS EIGHT-HOUR LAW. THE Supreme Court of the United States has affirmed thevalidity of an eight-hour law in Utah on the ground ofpolice power inherent in the State. Justice Brown, in giving theopinion of the court, expressly stated that, without passing uponthe constitutionality of eight-hour laws in general, it was plainthat the state legislature had power to restrict the hours of laborin unwholesome employments. The Utah statute provides foran eight-hour day in underground mines, smelters, and all otherworks for the reduction of ore, and violators of the statute aredeemed guilty of misdemeanor. The Chicago Record speaks ofthe significance of this decision to the industrial and labor inter-ests of the country as follows : It is contrary to the reasoning of most of the state supremecourts upon cases involving similar points of constitutional law.The Illinois supreme court, more than others perhaps, has freelynulli

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