Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1906-10-10

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poliucai campaigns; you have prohib-
tied the solicitation or receiving of po-
litical assessments by city employees;
you have by law protected the state
treasury from depreciation, and con-
served the public moneys for use only
in the public interest; you have by
law for the protection of the elective
franchise made tampering with the
ballot boxes and the casting of illegal
votes so difficult as in all probability
10 be Improbable; you have provided
a primary election law which guaran-
tees to the voters free expression in
The selection of candidates for office;
you have by law regulated and improv-
ed the civil service systems of your
great cities; and, finally, you have
past a law containing a provision
which 1 must earnestly hope will in
substance be embodied in a law by
congress at the coming session-a pro-
vision prohibiting the officers of any
corporation from making a contribu-
ton of the money of that corporation
to any candidate or any political COM
mittee for the payment of any election
expenses whatever.
Protect the Children.
ut is surely not too much to say
that this body of substantive legisla'
ton marks an epoch in the history of
| the practical betterment of political
conditions, not merely for your state
| but for all our states. l do not recall
any other state legislature which. in a
similar length of time, has to it's credit
such a body of admirable legislation
Let me. however, most earnestly urge
| that your legislature continue this rec
ord of public service by enacting one
or two additional laws. One subjecr
which every good citizen should have
at heart above almost all others il
| the matter of child labor. Everywhere
the great growth of modern industrial
ism has been accompanied by abuses
in connection with the employment o
labor which have necessitated a com
plete change in the attitude of stat,
| toward labor.
This is above all true in connection
with the employment CT child labor
In Pennsylvania you have made a be
ginning, but only beginning, in PROF
er legislation and administration o.
this subject; the law must if neces
sary be strengthened and 1t must b
vigorously enforced. The nationa
government can do but little in tn
matter of child labor, tho l earnestl
hope that that little will be permitte
to be done by congress. The grea
bulk of the work. however, must
left to the state legislatures; and
our state legislatures would act a
drastically and yet wisely on this sui
juct of child labor as Pennsylvania ha
acted within the present year as RI
CARDS the subjects have enumerate
above, the gain would be literally il
calculable; and one of the most Wit;
needs of modern American life woul
at last be adequately met"
In connection with his praise {
Senator Knox, who, as attorney gel
eral, maze Sucn progress IN enfOrclr
the laws against unlawful corpor
lions and illegal restraint of trade, Il
president declared that more efficie
supervision of the great common ca
riers Of the country was requir,
rather than the actual ownership al
operation by the nation of these publ
utilities. This policy he regarded
an evil one from every standpoint
After the cheering that greeted Il
president on conclusion of the pres
dents speech had died away the Rig
Rev. James Henry Darlington, bish
of the Episcopal diocese of Harrisbul
: advanced to the front of the stand a
with uplifted hands invoked the divi
I benediction, bringing the ceremony
J. a solemn and impressive close