The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, February 22, 1916, Image 3
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The Child Labor Question.
Written by S. G. Dover, oi
Kershaw, and published last
week in The Kershaw Era:
The world's greatest powers
are at war. The earth's greatest
nations are hammering each
** other to their knees. The cry of
the wounded, the voice of the
dyirg are ra:3cd to the heavens
in the agonies of the greatest
battles t vcr know, in the w ?rkl's
history. A gre it President,
Chief Magistral of the U. S.,
is going from plare to place,
uro inr* /%??? A - * 1 *?
vmi wmury 01 me lmportance
of being prepared and
the dangers that threaten us as
a nation. The Congress, that
great law-making power of our
country, can hear the death cry
of our sister countries. It can feel
the vibration of the thunderous
guns and yet with all the necessity
of action along the line of
preparedness and aside from the
fact that this country should act
on the tariff and other great
measures, it ignores these things
of vital importance to the coun
try as a nation; and legislates
to wha^ the South feels; for one
section against another section.
It seems that rather than lend
an ear to the President in his
righteous cry for preparedness
and passing laws that would
benefit the nation as a whole;
^ it is listening to the argument
of the Congressman from the
State of bloodshed and labor up
heavels and the howls of McKelway
and the Child Labor
Committee.
If there was the same necessity
for action on the child labor
Question as there is on cnmn
the other great questions bcfi>v*
iv. we would take off our hats tc
the action of Congress along thinline.
If there was any real dangee
to the children working i?i
the cotton mills and if it was a
question that needed the assistance
of our national congress
and one that had been absolutely
ignored by the several States interested,
then we would applauc
the efforts of congress anc
Keating, McKelway & Company
but as this law is an indirect way
of abridging the rights of th<
States and legislating their pow
er out of their hands by an ad
that will prove to be in dired
juxtaposition to our Federa'
Constitution and the rights o1
the States, then we are con
strained to say. "Mene, Mene
Tekel, Upharson."
But we do not concede th<
necessity of national action or
m a question that should be left t<
the States interested. Have no
the States that have been s<
maligned by the National Chile
Labor Committee; North Caro
lina. South Carolina, Gorgia am
Alabama, already passed law
along this line? Tn South Caro
lina, the Legislature is formulat
ing a law, lengthening the nr<
limit of children working ii
manufacturing establishments
The law now prohibits all chil
dren under twelve years of ae<
from working in any manufac
turing establishment and n<
child under sixteen years of ag(
can work at night.
I want to go on record as say
ing that I am in favor of a law
regulating the shipment of whis
key from one state to anothe
and I believe the Webb-Kenyoi
law -"'as a good law. The pre a
thinking world knows that wins
l?-?y is an evil and that whei
BY HI
Well Printed Le
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vo" are $? ?ig a rru> whiskey you in
ic com,-lilting a cri.i t You t.ii
issociate whiskey with crime th
and la? essness. It is not the d
m.iking of whiskey which hurts K<
so much as it is using it. It is or
whiskey itself which causes so pc
many murders and crimes. Can hs
you associate a piece of cotton on
i cloth with a thing that will 0p
wreck your home and cause you th
to forfeit your manhood and Rj
honor? No, never. Yet this howl- fQ
ing bunch of fanatics want you w
to believe that because a piece hi
of cloth has been made by a fr
weaver who is fifteen years old fG
[ that it is contraband and that the a
; Federal Government should sto^ tu
its shpiment from one State to C<
. another. m
If this bunch are not striking Sc
[ at the mills and the people who wj
t work in them; and they are the m
, great philantrophlists they oi
' claim they are, then why do they M
, not advocate a law saying that ur
; the farmer cannot ship the pro- th
ducts of his farm from one on
t State to another, when his child kr
has toiled from 5 o'clock A. M. he
until 7 o'clock at night to help he
make these same products? an
Wherein is their consistency.
Have they advocated such a law ? ch
Certainly not. Yet. I say it is co
:,ist as hurtful to the farmer bov fo
or girl to work long hours as the te
boy or girl working ?n the mill, as
Let me say right here that the or
health of the child working in hi
the mill is looked after more ed
(.'oseb* than the child workir;; or. Pi
the farm. J his enm d cb ! -. thev hf
are going to conserve the health to
. of the children and yet the death hf
rate in the mill is not as great to
' as on the farm, to say nothing w<
; of crowded cities. Take eontage- w<
> ous diseases, and who ever heard fo
. of a house in the country being at
. flagged because a inmate had L<
i measles or whooping cough?
[ The mill do this. Are there not th
. thousands of children dying ?t
. yearly from hookworm. Who bf
- ever heard of a child getting th
. hookworm in the mill ? The grea* n(
1 medical profession will tell you Wl
I that this is an impossibility. th
f Mr. Keating said in his speech to
r at the Asheville Conference that tu
? child labor was responible for the n(
. rejection of many of the applic- th
t ants for Army and Navy service. i*1
> Wonder who he was talking er
J about. Men who as children w
f worked in the mill? He was not.|bi
. very specinc about it. If child y<
t labor is a hindrance to the Army
and Navy, then why doea he not
? advocate a law restricting the P1
i 'ahor of children working on th<> st
) farm? I aay now, that Mr. Keat- K1
t ing, if he refera to men who aa
-) children worked in the mill, ia
1 maligning the very people whose w
. cause he ao boastfully claims e<
\ he is championing. e(
* I aay thia: That ahould j\ ?J
. cauae ariae and our country need li
. ua, that the call to arms would ni
> shut down every Southern coti
ton mill, and I apeak adviaedlv. *1
Let aome foreign power inveigle tf
- thia nation into war and there n<
5 wouldn't be enough able-bodied to
- men left in the mills to make d<
i shirta for the aoldiera. We are vi
e just as proud of the flag as the "w
renowned gentleman from Colo- dt
- rado and we would desert our s1
. homes and work just aa quickly v:
- to fieht for our country's honor w
r and let me inform the Child La- t<
i bor Committee and Keating. Mct
T'elway and Company, that not- it
- withstanding the fact that most
i of ua have worked as children oi
f
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jtterhea is, Enveliheads
Indicate
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BUSHING COMPANY. c<
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the mills, that they would find
iat we would not be found in th<
le rear in the hell of battle or, rig
serters in our country's need. I cas
eating to know that there was jot
le member of Congress of his j cor
riitical faith and order, who, cas
id the manhood to stand up vie
i the floor of the House and! abc
pose this bill and he impugn to
n % ? ! P 11
^ luvvivg VI V>VSU|? I 11*11 1 Wil
*itt, in his speech at Asheville cer
r taking the stand Britt took, cer
ould Britt have been true to' doc
s trust as a Representative sel<
om the South, to have voted ate
r this bill when he knew it was ors
sword thrust at the manufac- as
rers of the South? No doubt is
mgressman Britt left, like the Bri
ajority of the people of the me
>uth felt all along, that there to
is "Something rotten in Den-} for
ark"A negro in the wood- for
!e," and after Mr. Gardner of ier,
assachusetts had the mon- j 1
nental gall to virtualy own that fer
is' law was meant as a check ' dia
i Southern manufacturers; he wh
lew this was so. He would have irit
en a traitor to his State and J
r sister States to have taken j "H
ly other stand.
This bunch of self-constituted "Y
lampions of child labor in this
untry, tell you that it is wrong M
r a child to work until it is sixen
years old. I would like to "T
k the question: how many men
women ever amounted to "a; r
11 of beans" who never work- '?es
I before this age. Take every all
resident this nation has cvc~ doi
id, the Senators, great Inven- for
rs and men and women who ing
ive fought their way to the
p, and as children they have agi
arked. There is nothing in the sui
nrld today, that breeds crime, th?
sters weaklings and degener- unl
es the race as fast as idleness. 1
jt the boy who is allowed to go exj
here he pleases and is idle all as
e time, come in contact with rer
her boys and they form aid
...:n
iu nauiin mat win Miti\
iroughout manhood. Would it Hr
)t be better for the child to
ork at something than to roam r
le streets with vicious boys and v.
irm bad habits that all the cul-i '
ire and education of earth can-|
)t get out of him? You take (\U]
le larger per cent of the crim- "(!
als and if you will probe deep
lough, you will find that they ;
ere caused from forming bad air
ibits through idleness in 3- (
Duth. an
Suppose this law goes into efset
and is upheld by the Sureme
Court and declared con- ,>r<
;itutional. I want to ask these ot
reat philanthropists what's to OU!
2come of the boys and girls ?01
>urteen and fifteen years old,
ith indigent parents or widow-'
1 mothers, who will be legislat-; is
1 out of work and therefore out tin
F any way to make an honest es
ving. The law says thev can-: an
ot work. The Federal Inspec- on
ir comes along and sees that wc
icy do not work. Are you going tiv
) provide for them ? Certainly i Tti
[it. Can the States which are on-1 th<
r beginning to recover from the frc
estruction of the rebellion, pro- coi
ide for them? Can the mills, inj
ho have gone through the late
epression and many of them toj
:ill running at a loss today, pro- an
iide for them? Massachusetts; m<
ith fifteen dollars per capita m<
i our one, might do it, yet the N<
ict remains that she doesn't do st:
The conseonence will he that i th
lere will be a horde of beprpar- is:
r these same boys will steal and an
)me of the orjrls will be driven Ioj
) a life of shame. Yon have "ft
iken from the #irl a chance to |
s honest. You have broken her Qfi
in do. vou have broken her trust
? the hiprher law^ of civilian- W
on. You have thrust upon her, J
lat which is a thousand t?mes Ni
orse than work, yet. worse than
*ath itself. Ah! Could you hear
le cry for bread, could voo , Hj
ear the maudlin# son#s of tb~ ed
dlen and see the hectic spot of fe
lame you had painted on the lir
me of one of earth's fairest! sis
owers, would you have the he
check to defend your hellish fo
ork or would you have the man- of
ood to own your mistake. afl
S. G. Dover. m<
Kershaw, S. C., Feb. 8, 1916. cic
soi
The Cashier. ^
, i(jfi
ine DanK casnier is always sci
le man who knows the inner- [ su
lost secrets of one's soul. A fo<
?an will pro and tell his cashier kn
(lings that he wouldn't dare tell wf
is wife, his mother-in-law or th
is best friend. The cashier is re]
Iways on the know. He knows on
hen you are flush and he knows cei
'hen you are broke. He is ajar
artner in your joys and a Job's; se;
imforter in your sorrows. in
a?/j.u '
When you get a raise, who is basket-toting variet
i first man to extend the tic is always availa1
:ht hand of fellowship? The the needs of a persi
jhier. When you get a new idler in the ba<
>, who hands yjbu the first Valdosta (Ga.) Tim
lcrete evidence of it? The
ihier. Mr. Smith wants ad- MY CREE
e on a piece of property he's i would be true, fc
>ut to buy. Who does he come those that trus
for it? The cahsier. Mrs. . ... ,.
leblood is about to invest in would be puie, fc
tain tocks a* bandsfihdd those who care
tain stocks and bonds. Who I would be strong,
?s she consult for she needed much to suffer
actions? The cashier. An est- j WOuld be brave,
is about to be settled; min- . . j0^?.
are involved. Who shall act , ,n l V I
guardian or trustee? The I would be friend
hier. When Mr. Dun. Mr foe. the friei
ulstreet and the other big I would be giving
rcantile agencies fail utterly the gift*
give the needed credit in- , ,, , humble,
mation, to whom do you turn .
absolute data? To the cash- mv weakness;
I would look up?<
n ninety and nine other , dif- and love?and
ent ways the cashier is the Harold Arnoh
gnostician, the balance
eel, the legal, moral and sp;ual
adviser and general help- Experience A Goo
of the business community: Texas is strong f
ere's to the cashier, the man ness. A gcvd n any
who knows, pee'sdly along the 1
our in's and out's, your joys learned that the ni
and woes; defend himself is th
^ay he continue with us, and rascals leave alone,
never grow old, Courier.
o hand out our share of
greenbacks and gold." ^cJld.^y
Lhe poem is not ours, it sug- your feverirh throat, r
ded the lead, for in spite of -o nr. Beirs Pine-Tar
the things the cashier has soo,,l<--s the irritation.
le to us, and for us. we have !fon P P?n? TaValso ai
him only the kindliest feel- ROptie, as a result gen
; and the most wholesome re- lows. Breathing i>eooi
;ct. We know what he is up V hor tLon 5.
. , lAi. 4. r-ist on Dr. Boll s Pineainst
every day and the most nn i(,?al treatment.
prising part of the thing is
it he will smile right through
til promptly two. Asthma-Latar]
B.?No special favors are ! , and H
lected, gentlemen, and, so farl ttftt* mj
we know, we have no notes to Greatly Rellev?
lew today.?Spartanburg Her-J External Vapor Ti
I Don't take internal med
forming drugs for these t
I "Vap-O-Itub" Salve is ap
>W TO LIVE WITHOUT relieves by inhalatioi
nrnntr bv absorption thronoh
WVFIVIY. 1 Aithma and Hay Fever, mi
rhe report that negroes in in a spoon and inhale the
rginia were organizing them-, wcU over the spinal colu;
ves into societies, which re- 25?' C?c
irod "an oath to do no more WI?K3 \^PORUP
rk of any kind for whiite _
ks," has tempted a New York r. ,
tor to remark: "As this P ? ^
lounts almost if not quite to * ,13
ietermination not to work for I Q V C? *
ybody, it is no wonder that cq *
" "cw societies are attracting r , j b ? d
2at numbers of the colored i- ? t ,,
ithers and colored sisters, for ,nd?kcj. One for
course they all m ike the .iov- n(j ev neetJ
3 assumption that life will c'eightful mealtimi
nehow go on with work elim- w% a
lted-" EXILJ ^ ^ a pP
This editor's own assumption Iwi
hasty. It does not seem likely Madel' '>onv 'le (
it even among the most shifts
class of blacks in the south RP II R.MV.
y very large number of "colad
sisters" would join anti- Will cure Rheumi
>rking societies or take an ac- ralgia, Headaches, C
re part in a strike of this sort. Sprains, Bruises, Cut
ley might be so inclined but Sores, Tetter, Ring
ey would encounter opposition zema, etc. Aiitisept
>m their husbands or "steady used internally or ex
mpany" among the anti-work
? "colored brothers". The lat
have no desire to rely al nAl.~,
?ether on thieving, which is |4|j|} V|j|yj&<
uncertain dependence and, * UVJITlLi
ireover, is unsafe. There is a | /it ICC \7 Tf
ire prudent and easier wav. i I.I.AlAl II
" ii i % i vwiiui/ a a v
) doubt in all the southern j
*tes shiftless blacks employ
e methods reported from Miss- Western Sirloin S
dppi, where, according to an
nusing writer of that state. Choice Native St
*fiing negroes cheerfully sing: i o
ly gal lives in de white folks' Pule Pork Sausa<
yard, Armour Star Boi
ie brings me bacon and she
brings me lard; Kingan Breakfas
hen dey has turkey I gits de
stuffm'. Boxes
ggers think I'm workin', but | .
I ain't doin' nuffin." t Dr e(l Beef
The story of the shiftless j Dress Chickens ,
*ck man s joy and the plunder- |
white man's dole is most > Dress Turkies
licitously recounted in these !
les. Manifestly no "colored 1 Choice Mince Me
;ter" who nightly carries a j
avy basket out of "de white '
Iks' yard" for the delectation Remembe
a masculine dependent can , ^ .
?ord to be numbered among the ? h V A YjLI
smbers of an anti-working so- > n.l\ I ww
?tv or ioin in a strik-p nf anu i * * * *
rt. All accounts agree that
itber the basket carrier nor
e basket receiver is in the
ist disturbed by conscientious
uples. When renroached for ^
ch unlawful transportation of /vV H A
^>d supplies, they have been f -1 ^
own to state in effect that low
iges require such pickings, and
at in any case the pickings Hri-IIi
present but a small "intruss" IlN 1 Ml
the unpaid labor of slave an
stors. Southern housewives *
e well acouainted with the /t
rvant problem that is known /"ill
all sections, but at least the
;y of domes- many people don t know
ble owing to] \ 3iuggi6h liver can cause a p:rlasive
dusky , son an awful lot **r misery. Sn?-'..< i
:k-ground.? dizziness, heada bes. constipation
es- and biliousness are sure signs that
your liver needs help. Take Dr.
'D. King's New Life Pills and see how
>r there are . they tone up the whole system. Fine
t me; I r?r Stomach too. Aids digestion.
.. ^ ! Purifies the blood and clears the coin)1*
tliere are plexion. Only 25c at your druggist.
V sri.\>U\VS piercixo pain
tor there is
To kill the nerve pains of Sciatica
, . you can always depend on Sloan's
lor there IS Liniment. It penetrates to the seat of
I pain and briutrs ensr cnr?n 00 j*
| is applied. A great comfort too with
of till?the ; Sloan's is i lat no rubbing is required,
idlest* 1 Sloan's Liniment is invaluable for
' stopping muscular or nerve pain of
and forget' any kind. Try it at onco if you
! suffer with Rheumatism, Lumbago,
1 Sore Throat, Pain In Chest, Sprains,
for 1 know Bruises, etc. It is excellent for Neuralgia
aad *-T*adache. 25c at all
. , , druggist**.
ind laugh?
CLERK'S SALE.
. 'T ,, ? STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
J Walters. _ , .
County ot Lancaster.
In Common Pleas.
d Teacher. Samuel Johnson. Bessie McKlnney,
or prepared- et- al- riaintifTs,
Texans, es- vjordev
have John Thompson, Defendant,
an who "an | Pursuant to a decree made in the
e mar. \vho?n inbove state(1 caf;e l)v Ernest
TSJowu nn.l Moore, dated February 5th, 1916. I
4 ' j will sell at public auction to the
! highest bidder at Lancaster Court
?;?" ~~ I House, on the first Monday in March
'AR-HONK\ ' next, within tiw, tn?i *
uuurs ni sale,
our cough, for fjlfl following described real estate
lose and head, to Wjt;
-Honey. Honey j i_ All that piece, parcel or tract
I'ine-Tar cuts ()f land being, lying and situate in
?ving conges- rane Creek Township in the county
-ts as an anti- ,,f Lancaster and state of South Caroeral
relief fol- iina> containing four (4) acres, more
nes easier and or iPSS> bounded north by lands of
s arrested. In- , > \ Williams, east by lands of D.
Tar-lloney. It \ Williams and Ernest Moore, south
Price 25c. 1 ?>y lands of Ernest Moore, and west
by Hooch's Ferry Public Road.
|L | 2. All that piece, parcel or tract
lit f land being, lying and situate in
I t g? Cane Creek Township in the county
>Y01XCtllltS Lancaster and state of South Carolina,
containing eight (8) acres,
>d by the New more or less, bounded north by lands
reatment. I of Johnnie Johnson, east by
Licines or habit- I-?ndsford and Camden Public Road,
roubles. Vick'a south by lands of John Thompson,
pliod externally Nathan Cunningham and L. C. Payi
as a vapor and seur, and west by lands of Dan
tho skin. For Barnes.
Bit a little Vick'a i Terms of sale, cash. Purchaser to
vapors, also rub | ??y ^or papers^
mn to relax the ^AUL MOORE,
, or $ 1.00. John T. Green, C. C. C. L C.
Plaintiff's Attorney.
* jflLfli Feb-11'1916?3t Fridays
O STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
County of Lancaster.
?y J. E. STEWMAN, Judge of ProJ
1 I J bate.
?t i Whereas, A. T. Blackwell has made
crackers, suif tQ nie tn grant him Letters of
,2 crackers Adminitratlon of the Estate and efevery
taste fects of Mattie V. Blackwell, deaffording
!p0ased.
? changes. There arc, therefore, to cite and ad*
\ *
, 11 |j^ admonish all and singular the kindred
and Creditors of the said deceased,
lacker Works that they be and appear before ino,
in the Court of Probate, to be held
m mm at Lancaster on 25th of Feb. 1916.
ill next, after publication thereof, at 11
?'clock in tlte forenoon, to show
EttlSIXl, Ncu- cause, if any they have, why the said
Iramps, Colic \dministration should not be grant9,
Burns, Old etliir
p Given under my band, this 11th
-worm, nc- day of February Anno Domini 1916.
ic Anodyne, j. e. STEWMAN.
ternally. 25c Probate Judge.
THING SPECIAL FOR
) EAT Friday & Saturday
teak A large shipment of Roe and
eak
Buck Shad, Spanish and
?e
led Hani King Mackorell, Blackfish.
t Bacon in
Trout, and Mullets.
I
West Point Extra Select
Sxtra Fat Oysters.
at ???
r it is our p!e isure to seve you.
BA MEAT MARKET
Phone 210.
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