The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-08-19

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to do. Child labor being injurious
even the mill men themselves admit
ting it to be injurious, the State, il
order to protect its future citizens
has right to stop it. He wanted
Bill that would be just to the mill
and just TO the operatives.
HON. JNo. F. BANKS
gave his record in the legislature
having introduced a Bill providing
for biennial sessions and having
| worked for all measures introduced
to increase punishment for violation
of labor contracts, giving magistrates
a greater jurisdiction in this matter
both of which had failed through nc
fault of his; and went Immediately
into discussion of the Child Labor
Bill.
If the State has the right to say tc
its parents that they shall not work
their children in the mill, where in
the name of goodness will such leg,
islstion stopS We all want to see
the children educated, but we still
believe the parent is the most com.
petent judge for what is best for his
child. The time. is coming in the
near future when the mill population
will outnumber the rural population.
Create friction between these people
and the mill owners, and between
both and the country people, and get
the white people divided, one part
against the other, and what will be
the result? Twenty years from now
the negro generally will be voting.
If the white people work in harmony
they Will outnumber and can outvote
them.
Would any within the hearing of
my voice this morning be willing to
e3nit, l am not doing for my child
what I ought to do. If you favor
this Legislation you put yourself in
the predicament of asking the State
to make you take care of your chill
dren, and if you need this, God pity
you!
He favored good roads and educa-
ton and all inapznnAnaAzata tAAt -AAsala
be secured without impoverishing the
people.
HON. F. b. DOMINICK
was proud that two years ago ne had
headed the ticket at this place and
was proud of his record made in the
service of the people of Newberry
County.
Two years ago he made a fight on
this stump in favor of increasing pun
ishment for violation of labor con-
tracts, and only the other day he had
heard that one of his kinsmen in this
community was against him because
he had done nothing in this direc
ton. That was a SANDER that was
being circulated throughout the
county. He and his friends had
fought for this measure and succeed
ed in getting it through the lower
house and 1t was not their fault that
it now lay dead in the senatorial
burying ground.
Had fought for biennial sessions, but
this measure, which had also passed
the lower house, met the same fate.
Stood to his good roads position,
favoring putting ten year prisoners
on permanent chain gangs. Give us
our ten year prisoners, and in year
or two We will have large enough
chain gang to work every road in the
county. Newberry County is today
between $4,000 and $4,000 in debt.
Why not 60 to work and pay off this
debt and get rid of the interest be-
fore levying additional taxes?
Was against the Child Labor Bill
and had been against it all along.
He knew of children right now on
factory hill who were not in the mill
and had never been in the mill. Why
do they have schools there if the
children are forced into the mill?
MAI. F. ". HIGGINS
opposed the Child Labor Bill intro
duced in the last legislature which
prohibited the mills from hiring any
child under twelve years of age
Divide the thing. Let the children