The Independent . led to a general relaxa-tion of the laws limiting working hoursor forbidding child labor. This ten-dency the President deprecated in thestrongest terms. I have been verymuch alarmed, he said, at the ap-parent inclination of the legislatures ofone or two of our states to set asideeven temporarily the laws which havesafeguarded standards of labor and oflife. He exprest confidence in theloyalty of the working men of theUnited States both to the nation andto its cause in the present war and hedeclared that it would be inexcusableto take advantage of their patriotismto enact legis
The Independent . led to a general relaxa-tion of the laws limiting working hoursor forbidding child labor. This ten-dency the President deprecated in thestrongest terms. I have been verymuch alarmed, he said, at the ap-parent inclination of the legislatures ofone or two of our states to set asideeven temporarily the laws which havesafeguarded standards of labor and oflife. He exprest confidence in theloyalty of the working men of theUnited States both to the nation andto its cause in the present war and hedeclared that it would be inexcusableto take advantage of their patriotismto enact legislation abridging their ex-isting rights. In his speech the Presi-dent defined the object of the war asthe attainment of democracy. He ad-mitted that there are many differentforms of democratic government andthat we were not fighting for any par-ticular form, but he insisted that theessential safeguard of every form ofdemocracy is the equal admission ofall men and all women to the right ofa voice in the Kadcl & Herbert BLESSING THE STARS AND STRIPES IN FRANCEAt the Cathedral of St. Denys a service of con-secration dedicates the colors of each new de-tachment of troops for the front. At this service,for the first time, the flag of the United Stateswas included May 26, 1917 T HE INDEPENDENT 367
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