Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
$1 per day 50 cents Amount received Average daily Blue Springs Bonne Terre Boys over 12 Boys under 12 breweries cash ceived checks cigars circulation corporation coupons Court currency days worked Amount dollar due bills E. H. Bess employes factory inspection Female Flour foreman Girls over 14 Girls under 14 Helpers Holladay hours of labor Inspector issued Jefferson City Kansas City Labor Bureau Labor Commissioner lawful money LEE MERIWETHER legislature less Louis Louis Tobacco machine Madison county makers Male manufactured Marquand Mendota Coal mill miners Missouri Occupation operator paid pay day Period consider person piece Piedmont plaintiff ployes police power private currency prosecuting attorney Putnam county ran 52 weeks received for days received from $1.50 redeem refused screen Section Sept Shoe statute TABLE SHOWING TABLE VIII-A-Continued tobacco trade truck store Union ventilation violation wages received Williamsville
Popular passages
Page 76 - That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
Page 85 - It is sufficient, for the purposes of this case, to say that legislation is not open to the charge of depriving one of his rights without due process of law, if it be general in its operation upon the subjects to which it relates, and is enforceable in the usual modes established in the administration of government with respect to kindred matters : that is, by process or proceedings adapted to the nature of the case.
Page 82 - Under these powers the government regulates the conduct of its citizens one towards another, and the manner in which each shall use his own property, when such regulation becomes necessary for the public good.
Page 63 - SEC. 19. —That every person, firm, association, other than national bank associations, and every corporation, state bank, or state banking association shall pay a tax of ten per centum on the amount of their own notes used for circulation and paid out by them.
Page 91 - ... to establish, for the intercourse of citizens with citizens, those rules of good manners and good neighborhood which are calculated to prevent a conflict of rights, and to insure to each the uninterrupted enjoyment of his own so far as is reasonably consistent with a like enjoyment of rights by others.
Page 348 - March in each year, statistical details relating to all departments of labor in the Commonwealth, especially in its relations to the commercial, industrial, social, educational and sanitary condition of the laboring classes, and to the permanent prosperity of the productive industry of the Commonwealth.
Page 82 - If the public safety or the public morals require the discontinuance of any manufacture or traffic, the hand of the Legislature cannot be stayed from providing for its discontinuance, by any incidental inconvenience which individuals or corporations may suffer.
Page 76 - For our purposes we must assume that, if a state of facts could exist that would justify such legislation, it actually did exist when the statute now under consideration was passed. For us the question is one of power, not of expediency. If no state of circumstances could exist to justify such a statute, then we may declare this one void, because in excess of the legislative power of the State. But if it could, we must presume it did.
Page 93 - Every possible presumption is in favor of the validity of a statute, and this' continues until the contrary is shown beyond a rational doubt.
Page 85 - In this country the requirement is intended to have a similar effect against legislative power, that is, to secure the citizen against any arbitrary deprivation of his rights, whether relating to his life, his liberty, or his property.