The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1902-02-13
show their resentment when the time

show their resentment when the time
comes.
Mr.. Wingo continued that the mil
people have coed Sunday schools. li'
had visited one in which 500 chlldret
were assembled. lie had been aston
ished to learn that 41 OF them mac
never been IN Sunday school Deiore
they went to the mill district. Mr
Wingo's speech was III his character,
istic style, and was received with at
tentiOn.
After Mr.. Wingo's measured, spon-
daic sentences, there was quite a con
trast with the rapid-lirc uttcranccs
when Mr.. Spears, Of Darlington, got
The floor. lie spoke rapidly, earnestly
and with effect. He declared that he
had opposed this bill las: year, but
since that time, he had gone home and
found the conditions to be quite differ
! cnt from what he had suspected. He
declared that around every mill com
munity are drunken, idle fathers who
buy drink with the money earned in
| the mills by their little ones. Talk
about liberty God Almighty never
intended that a child should be con-
fined in cotton mill. That is not
liberty. lie declared that if 800 chill
drcn should be brought before him he
could pick out the ones who work in
factories.
Mr.. Williams, OF Lancaster, opposed
the bill. lie had given it more study
than any other measure which had
come up within the last six years. He
had visited many mills. He found
that people who have skill and compc-
tency never work their children. 1t is
the " nc'cr-do-well who cannot ekc
out miserable existence on the fam
who works his children in the mills.
They have gone there ragged and hum
cry, they have gone there and bave
gotten wolk and comfortable quarters.
1t is pitiablc indeed that children must
work, but if they be driven out where
in Gods name can they go? If yoI
drive them nut Of the mill where they
make a miserable living, how can they
get education when they cannot get
existence? He would vote for no b.!I
which would give neither education,
nor clothes nor food. 1t is true that
the mill children are wan, but it is also
true Of the children Of the tenant class
in The back country. The bill will not
drive the brute out of man. 1t Will
not make him work. The man who is
brute enough to make his children
work in the mills while be stays drunk
is brute enough to let them slnrvc. Mr.. |
Williams spoke with an carncstncss |
very MAJ kcd.
Mr.. Mayson, Of Edge field, declared
that he had opposed the bill last year
because he had been misguided. Since
then be had Informed himself and he |
is now heartily in favor Of the bill, for
good citizenship, for the mental and
moral conditions and for humanity.
Mr.. G.. T.. Robinson at this point |
made the motion to indefinitely post
ponc the bill. This was not a debata-
bic motion, yet several advocates of The |
bill have not been heard. The motion |
was put and the House went on re-
cord as follows:
Ayes~-(opposcd to the bilD-Messrs.
Ashley, All, Austin, Banks, Brown,
Bryan, Butler, Campbell, Carter,
Coggcshall,, Colcock, Dantzlcr, Dean,
DENNIS, Dodd, Dorroh, Durant, Est, |
i'NScS, wy ioSIi ) N'"ii'Sh'', oiiio,
Humphrey, James, O. i. Johnson,
Kecls, Kinard, Little, Lockwood,
Lomax, Lylcs, Mauldin, Mccall, Nc
Gowan, Molictt, Morgan, Moses, Mes
bet, Nichols, w. III. Parker, Prince,
Pyatt, Rankin, G. T.. Robinson, r.. b
a. Robinson, l,ucker, Stackhouse,
Scabrook, Thompson, Wolling, Wells,
Whalcy, Williams, Wingo-54.
Nays - Speaker Stevenson and
Messers. Bacot, Bcamguard, Bivens,
Blcasc, Bolts, Brooks, Bcstlck, Croft,
Crum, DeBruhl, Dunbar, Elder, Gas
ton, Gourdin ,Ilailc, Hill, IIough, lzlar,
Jarnigan, kinsey, I,idc, Logan, May
son, McClaw, Mclaughlin, Mcleod,
T.. II. I.McMastcr, John McMastcr, Mis-
hoe, Morrison, Moss, MurchIson, w. l..
Parker, Patterson, Rainsford, richards,
Richardson, Robertson, Sanders, Scig-
lcr, Sinkler, Nj. l.. Smith, Stroman,
TaLum, j. =. Thomas, ,Jr., w. j.
Thomas, Towill, Webb, West, Weston,
Woods-;J2.
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