After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth.

He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice

Honor lies in honest toil.

A cause worth fighting for is worth fighting for to the end.

I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds ... I find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution.

The laboring classes constitute the main part of our population. They should be protected in their efforts peaceably to assert their rights when endangered by aggregated capital and all statutes on this subject should recognize the care of the State for honest toil and be framed with a view of improving the condition of the workingman