It has vaunted itself before this country as the party that believed in subordinating our entire fiscal system to maintaining what they call " an American stfndard of hours and of wages." and yet at the very first opportunity that presents itself the Republican party. represented by the Speaker and the Committee on Rulesthe other two members of that committee being. perhaps. the ablest men and most typical Republicans in this Housebring in a rule to do what? To let the United States. as an employer of labor. set the example of defying and dispensing with their own law of hours as applied to labor! The gentleman tells me that this act applies to nothing but " alien labor." That is not true. In words this act applies to nothing but alien labor. but the American laborer. whether the Mississippi darky or the Pennsylvania white man. who will be down there upon the Isthmus working will be brought into contradistinction with the aliens who are working more than eight hours. and if the same idea that is instigating you to pass this resolution will then instigate the managers of labor upon that Isthmus. they will very soon tell the Mississippi darky or the Pennsylvania white man that if he does not work longer than eight hours he is persona non grata with his emplbyer. and he can go back where he came from.
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