The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1905-07-27
Editorial Symposium
Selected from the Columns Of the Leading Newsps.
pers Of America.

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New York Post Now tits the gov.
eminent printing Office which has Its
story of graft or corruption requiring
investigation and perhaps dismissal
or two. Where is this to end? Must
President Roosevelt devote his entire
administration to uncovering scandals
in the departments If 50, 1t Is very
hard fate for a man who is himself SO
upright. But If he has much more
Of this work to do, he may find 1t
worth while to 60 behind all the
trouble and inquire why 1t is that the
postoffice had its Mache ms and
Beavers, the agricultural de partment
its Holmes, and why he has had to
dismiss eight army officers this year
and bring to trial six more--all for
embezzlement. 1t is the get.rich-
quick craze which has been stimulated
by the republican theory that govern.
ment exists to help people make
money, either by creating new Offices,
obtaining colonial possessions, or by
artificially raising wages and prices
BY means of protective tariffs. When
the history of this period Of cerrup.
tion and speculation in and out of the
government comes to be written up,
some decades hence, he will be but
poor historian who fails to perceive
that the spirit of protection is at the
bottom of it all.
CHILD LABOR JERSEYS CURSE.
Golfers Weekly: The latest publ.
cation of the National Consumers
league Is from the secretary, Mrs.
Kelley, who writes in Charities of the
needless destruction of boys in the
glass factories of New Jersey. The
laws of that state prohibit the employ
ment of boys under IA in manufacture,
but allow night as we'll as day work
after that age. The child labor laws
are enforced there also better than
in mary states, hut they are in this
respec, of night work clearly in
sufficient. Boys in glass factories
labor side by side with men, and even
on men The strain is destructive. No
blower sends his son to the glass
factory to work, but orphan sons of
blowers are among the carriers,
moulders and gatherers. No well.
situated workingman sends his son in.
to the glass bottle trade, but the sons
of recently immigrated laborers with
large families and small wages are
thus sacrificed, and DO are imported
from New York orphan asylums to
work in the boiling heat at night and
roam the streets in gangs by day.
Ohio, at least according to the law,
protects boys from night work until
they are 16, and both Ohio and Illinois
are far ahead of New Jersey in re.
placing boys in glass factories by
machinery. New York, Illinois, Ohio
and Michigan have laws forbiuding
all workrby children after certain
evening hour, and no state is excusable
for leaving it's children without such
protection.
MERCHANTS DEMAND TARIFF REVISION
Chicago News: A committee, ap.
pointed by sixteen of the largest busi-
ness associations in the country, has
issued a call for conference to be
held in Chicago next month. The
organizations to be represented in
clude the Chicago Commercial asso.
citation, the board of trade, the Hi.
nois Manufacturers association and
a number of similar bodies represent
ing farmers, cotton growers, mlllers,
stock raisers, and agricultural imple-
ment makers. The object of the
meeting will be to urge upon congress
some action which will Substitute in
our foreign relations the principle Of
reciprocity for that Of exclusion and
retaliation.
The men taking part In this move
ment are not politicians. They are
uninnuenced BY partisanship. They
do not want free trade, nor do they
assume to say whether the right course
lies through reciprocity treaties or
tarih reduction. As practical busi.
ness men they see that If the present
high tariff schedules are retained
mnch longer American industry will
be greatly injured, and they demand
that their business be protected
against the peril. Foreign countries
whose requests for reciprocal trade
arrangements have been treated with
contempt are beginning to retaliate.
Already Germany has adopted tariff
designed to exclude from its markets
every pound of American bread.tufis
and provisions. 1t Is the practical
necessity for averting this danger
that inspires the present demand.
The last few months have brought
to light again evidences of con.
sistent purpose on the part Of the high
tariff element in the Republican party
to stiAe any attempt at tariff revision.
The senate controlled BY corporations
which have grown fat on the tariff,
may be relied upon to try to block
any such policy just o. 1t has blocked
the reciprocity treaties. In spite of