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That Baker Conspiracy Bill Again

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Day
26
Month
October
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Courier having gotten lts candidate for congress into trouble over the Baker Conspiracy bill is now floundering around in a most distressing manner and seeking to befog the matter. 'l'he fact that Mr. Baker who offered the bill was a democrat doesn't help Mr. Allen a partiële. Mr. Baker is not running tbr ofhce and couldn't be elected if he was running; whiLe Capt. Allen is making an attempt to run. Mr. Allen voted for the bill as ït stands to-day and not only voted for it but made a speech in favor of it. The laboring men justly deem it a blow at them. No longer ago than the last legislature the knights of labor petitioued for its repeal. We have been informeel that Oeorge II. Pond the local editor of the Couriersigned such petition, and Mr. Pond aflects now to believe that the law doesn't hurt the laboring man but merely is designed to prevent him wrecking the train on which the'editor of the Argus rides. Why did he_ sign thai petition? Why did the knights of labor so sirenuously ask its repeal? The Courier knows and so does every laboring man. The Courier lays great stress upon the fact that Mr. Allen had the words "and maliciously" inserted in the bilí. The word "willfully" was already there and if the Couner knew any law at all, it would see that the words '-and maliciously" added to the word willfully wouldn't make a much larger loop hole out of which the poor laborine man could escape. The statement of the Courier that the word maliciously means criminally, is a definition which ought to make even a school boy laugh. We have long ago given up the idea of instilling legal principies into the Courier's brain, but we did think the Courier knew a better definition for the word malicious than that. That the laboring men understand Mr. Allen's position upon this question fully is evidenced by a letter, which has been shown to us, written by one of the active labor leaders oí a neighboring county, who is well posted on this whole marter. The letter says: t "Mr. Allen not only voted for the measure and every amendment which tended to strengthen it, but the rerord shows that of the fifty or more representatives who voted with him, he was by far the most conspicuous in his endeavor to make the measure just what the corporations wanted it. Two of the 'binders' werc of his own motion." The Couiier of this week in effect pleads that Mr. Allen is guilty. It calis attention to the tact that he got the words "firm or individual" put in the bill in three places, so that firms, not incorporated, in which such men as Gen. Alger and Torn Palmer might be concerned, .niight coerce their employees and be protected in such coerción by the statute law of the state.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News