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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1902
Page
4
A 1902 Pendleton column comments on local humor and race relations, notes on Marconi expansion, and the campaign for irrigation. It praises Umatilla teachers, Oregon progress, and a looming strike settlement while urging civic cheer and neighborly greetings.
The article notes that about 20 states have general laws on drunkards while others rely on local ordinances. Penalties range from 50 cents to 100 dollars, with fines common and imprisonment used in many states. Maine and New Hampshire mainly use imprisonment, from minimum to five years maximum.
The New York World notes temperance advances across Alabama and Minnesota with penalties and bonds shaping sobriety trends. It cites railroad employers demanding abstinence, arguing reforms stem from societal and business pressure rather than mere penalties, while Austria’s laws add to offense records.
The document calls for laws to bar injunctions in labor disputes, protect free speech assembly and organize, and ensure jury trial. It demands excluding all Chinese by race, supports an eight hour public work day, government vessel construction at Mary Island, a state labor bureau, and forbids purchasing state supplies from prisons or reformatories, urging union involvement in procurement.
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