The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-02-23

Kipling was baptized Joseph John Rud-
yard Kipling, but the name was too
long for literature, so Kip dropped
the half of it. One of his admirers
writes of it as follows:
'Oh, it's Brother Joe and Joseph, when
insignias are out.
And knives and forks are busy, and the
bottle goes about.
It's Brother Joe from India where'er
the Masons throng.
But IT. Rudyard Nipling only, when
he writes blooming song"
THE SOUTH ATLANIC QUARTERLY
Prof. John S. Bassett, of the faculty
Of Trinity College, has begun the publ
cation of a high grade monthly review
that promises to stimulate interest in
literary, historical and social progress of
the South. Mr.. Bassett has written
several valuable historical books and has
shown his fitness for the work he has
undertaken. There is need and there is
room for publication of this character,
and II ought to meet with instant sue
cess. 1t will be published quarterly at
Durham at the price of two dollars per
year
The first number. has the right ap-
pearance and flavor. 1t is well gotten up
and ii contains eight able and valuable
papers from leading educators. They
are
AN INQUIRY REGARDING LYNCH
ING. by John c. Kilgo. D. ID.
GENEVA. by John Martin Vincent.
Phi. ..
LOWELL AS A CITIZEN, by Edwin
Minis, Phi. D. u
CHILD. LABOR, by Jerome Dowd
A. NJ.
KING ALFRED IN RELATION TO
ENGLISH LITERATURE. by William
Preston Few. PHI. d.
KING ALFRED AS STATESMAN. by
William Kenneth Boyd, A. NJ.
A NEW EQUALITY, by William
Crawford. Phi. D.
In addition 1t has Book Reviews and
Literary Notes. written from the stand
point of true, honest and capable criti
cism. The Editors Announcement con-
tains this paragraph, showing the scope
and breadth of the Quarterly: THE edi-
tor OF the South Atlantic Quarterly de-
sires to make the journal medium OF
encouraging every honest literary effort
He recognizes that to do this there must
be liberty to think. He will not close
: the review to opinions with which he
may personally differ. A fair field and
q respectful consideration will be his
policy" This is broad and noble pur-
pose--one worthy of all commentator,
and upon that broad platform will de-
serve the, support and cooperation of the
/. Southern writer's, thinkers and makers
of history
In All article In the South Atlantic
Quarterly, Prof. Jerome Dowd discusses
Child Labor" as follows:
las much as we may rejoice in the con-
irlbution of modern civilization to the
welfare of children, we are forced to ad-
nit that the development of the com
nlereial spirit of the nineteenth century,
the greed OF capitalists on the one hand
and the economic distress of the wage
class on the other, have led to a sacri-
flee OF the child's welfare in way that Is
about as brutal and savage as anything
ia the past. When a child five or seven
years of age is put TO work In a factory
and its life sacrificed in the interest OF
ciple any better than selling into slavery
or eating it? Is it not refined form OF
cannibalism
IF farmer were to hitch his young
colts to plough and work them eight
hours a day. his nelghbors would de-
nounce him as a brute. What sort OF
horses would such colts come to be? Can
We afford to be less humane In the treat
.,fr- -
or colts? The testimony OF medical
science and Of statistics is that child la
Dor III factories shortens life about one
half and stunts both the mind and body. |
This inhumanity to children has SO
outraged the feelings of civilized people
that there is not now a manufacturing
country in the civilized world, except
q few States in the South, where children
without age limit are allowed to work In
factories. Even Russia and Japan throw
me protecting arm of the law around
these innocent and helpless human be-
ings. There are about $1,000 children in
the Southern States working in factories
under IA years of age, and many of these
under 10 years.
!. This Is the greatest blot upon South
fFn civilization. Last winter the manu-
AdSiQiS4S VI 4NOElH 1dIOlIHd agreed among
themselves not to employ children under
l2, but the agreement embraced so many
exceptions and conditions, that 1t LETT a
way open for any manufacturer to do as
ho pleased about carrying out the agree
ment The agreement was a farce and
has not at ell been observed. Only yes
ferday | read III the Charlotte News that
q man was before the Mayors court for
some olfense and he admitted that his
cwn child. 10 years old, worked in one
Of the Charlotte factories, and that there
were others of the same age employed in
lie factory There is nothing in the
world that can be said as an excuse for
Child labor, either in behalf OF the parent,
the manufacturer, or the public. There
is no kind Of outcome OF the non employ
ment Of children that is not better for
all concerned than the grinding up of the
children In factories"
The Southern pulpit and press on
this question OF child labog. seem to be
largely deaf and dumb. and unless there
is soon mighty awakening the outside
world viii rightly conclude that the last
spark of Southern chivalry has disap-