The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-10

 1t happen that merchant in Birming- ham knew best what was for the good of the people of county one hun dred miles distant when 1t comes to sss.dias ss. Rcn 'S Sodisns. dIisnre'en' them The Horrors of ChiId Labor. Mobile Herald.
 with no intention of influencing the Alabama campaign. has bscl publish ing series of articles by Mrs John Van Worst, which makes complete eS- posture of the child labor conditions in North Alabama cotton mills, whi!h MT. Conner stands for. defends, and i' his own mills. Is responsible for. mil. Mrs. ssr.ns Sam n' verss sm s1ssrsen0' !ays:
 Having. waited for the l2:3o bell to sound. got into conversation wi;h once more tho slow procession waich moved toward the factory gates. Thus, without dihiculty, I entered ,fs way as pleased to other parts of tho
 II paused a moment to watch boy his brows drawn together hia hands were like claws. With lightning rapid. ity he snatched the old quills from the places. and when the spindles struck 7 he drove them down with q nervous stroke. that plainly said: 'Yoa mist | His face lighted up.
 "fn D a cotton ff milifT his tone i...pli.a that he had always been work;ns
 Yes, ssiaI. fin cotton mil.
 GA little he nodded. passing .en along the. frame out. of hearins. like some sombre mechanical spIin.r whseh, do nothing hut 'ao' until It's time came
 Mrs. Van Worst thus describes what '"s sstraisht I made all speed to .ne spinning room, and as I entered this vast domain I thought. at first inE passed along one end. I perceivei toilinR laboriously. quantities of cniId: ren so small that their heads v,di,r,rsa did not ePfpeahr oPf shess oseh tiny f1e spnners s three of them only claimed to be twelve. and these had all been several
 "Have you ever worked in ! cotton millr one small girl asked ns, in her shriil little voice.
 "T tell you she answered, its real hard work
 Well she smiled. 1t isfor us !it-
 ."Did you ever go to schooi?' ask e'a No. but I'd just love to- Here she threw out her little hands with only twelve. i've been wsrSin' most eSucasion eSue feal't to a"a read and wrl.e e'
 "The heat in this great hall was in- tense, In order to maintain the proper RosehsFs Of of the he oson sponns se addition to the steam-pIpss which en- pa I've 'W air every breath of its vitality.
 M was not H,,1n i9ng 1e,a:e h.2 ,reafv @ne or the 9anshss''; taikins with hH ths ii:tis. toli-worn. ghastiy waifs who pliet their way up saa oyer sS bsasn sas to
 "'We don't care about havin' inc hslP talk much' he said'
 No. You see they don't allow no miiis. Of course he added, our eo;id-
 %po you think sol? asked.
 tiacsfs: W. We ks.p a Guf notsrSs tS busy @ the
 T continued my. round. Ths. ,.ext child I questioned. having noticed per haps that the boss had spoken to me, answered In this way when asked her
 "Tm teaun. No-1 mean-rm twelve spinning rooms as I have described and not cry out lustily against child labor. No moderate friend of the manufactur:: n G eoud nd single argument with which to meet the unspoken plea of this army of lit tie toi,ess They bear & no ,ro resembaf6e Tss me pale, insipid flowers that struggle up in the furrows of the wheat field when the harvest has been snaat gasherredS; fSs mill. which | subsequently visited. confirmed the remarks made by the little spin nng hana tSs hen ass to ys see 'em.'
 pened, wsle H1HefiesSa %as q there % to be Pass,ag through the village where his plant is situated. There was, in consequea 'c, some reluctance to let dv me sooiss olsit le le weaving rooms and engine houses We've shown with free conscience. since no
 little help San be sds yyson in t o flee explained to me, they were clean ing the machinery in the spinls,s TOST and so n0ss tSers or wasn't ths anyt much to see
 "Let us hope that this sort of decep- ing ing really what wraiths of childhood are doing his work for him. Other wise he would too easily appear in the guise of modern monster crushing human life in order to get the full price of his greed. And the snowy threads in the spinning room, as they whirl about the spindles like an inn maculate diaphanous cloud. mIkht seem to this same mill owner t. he drenched in the scarlet that speeds out ward from little fingers, whose forces, as their life,s blood ebh' fr'm them "r An. but but MT. Mr. Conner doss know all
 He actually defends such practices. and loses his temper when pr. Cur. uingham mentions the evil effects of such environments on the body and minds of a child spbjs'i9d t4 such ten, ed. Worst; above quote, ia ,, il the IH sstur, Stu. l who feel a sympal.ly for the Childran l should get those HaIIcs of recent issue and read the whole stoIy. Whc would not be touched by raIs paragraphs.
 And again. perc" vlpg, c-'pnlHd boy. I asked hH-'' he h1d lost his arm, and received .ot the t1ach,er 1ast ,r !nis ths mil! We get lots of then maimed. with one finger, or a hand. or an arm gone They go Tn SO young to work | that they don'tknow what machinery | is. and they try just for Fun to sec | how near they can come 10 t without touching It's rather a dangerous | game sometimes.
 It might also be spelt "dolllrIsm CT what you will. 1t is the isnl- which will receive a severe blow if Dr. Gun ningham is elected governor next Au-