The Washington herald., 1906-12-10
Selling Real Estate.
AIDING INDECENT WHITE
CHILDREN IN THE SOUTH

Fresh impetus was given The Indus
trial Educational League of the South
yesterday in the bin introduced in the
Senate by Senator Beveridge for the
adjustment of child labor.
While the efforts OF the league are not
especially directed against the factory
evils. in which the President, Senator
Beyeridge. and Senator Lodge are deep
~ interested. as well as the reading pub
lie. stirred TO indignation by facts re-
Gently brought 10 light in q series OF
magazine articles. its work has 10 do
with all phases Of chigd-eYiI in the United
States, and especially in the South
The Industrial Educational League Of
the South is a philanthropic organization
that came into being about one year
ago. Since its Incorporation II has grown
marveIousIy in point Of membership and
has melted general interest. despite the
fact that no advertising or flourish Of
trumpets have characterized its work.
The ultimate purpose Of the league is for
the preservation Of the integrity and the
uplifting Of the AnglO-Saxon race by
means Of cooperation with the Southern
States in placing elementary education
within reach OF the INDECENT white chill
dren. By assisting 10 establish industrial
schools for manual training, and thus
opening the door of hope to hundreds
and thousands Of children thrown upon
the world without means of mental,
moral. or physical salvation this side of
eternity.
The founder Of the league is a sister
Of Senator Daniel, of Virginia Mrs.
Sarah ". Halsey, who for more than
twenty years has held a position in the
Bureau OF Statistics. Agricultural De-
partment- II was due 10 her uutiTing
efforts that the society was Incorporated
and that a bill for its permanent charter
was offered in the House Of Representa-
tives last March by the Hon. John Sharp
Williams. Of Mississippi. The author OF
the bin. which is pending now in Con-
gress. is the Hon j. W. Hoyt. NJ. D.,
Ii. D.. former governor of Wyoming.
If Senator Beveridge's bill. backed
by another in the same line presented by
Senator Lodge, goes through Congress,
and into active effect six months after its
passage, there is thought 10 be excellent
chance for action on the leagues petit
tion, as such movements frequently go
through Congress in an avalanche slide of
popular sentiment.
Ii is the purpose Of the league, which
exists solely in Washington at present,
TO establish associate leagues in the cap
itai cities of all Southern States. They, in
turn, Will form auxiliary leagues in the
county seats of the respective States, so
that all funds created in a State or coun-
~ may be devoted TO its own industry.
The parent league. here in Washington.
Will give its funds, pro rata. TO the South
ern States TO assist in establishing in
dUstrial schools in the needy districts.
In the membership list of the league
nearly every State in the Union is repre-
sented. Senators and Representatives
cleTgymen, and members of the bar have
interested themselves in the movement
i'm response to the bitter cry OF the chill
dren that sounds from the remote noun
tain districts rs well as from manUfac-
turing centers that grind the lives Of
children, from as young as four years,
in the factories.
The officers of the league. instigated by
the zeal Of the chairman of its executive
committee, Mr.. T. Jackson Seay, of Vir-
giDia, give their services voluntarily, and
the resources of the society are unre-
stricted by politics or religious creeds-
Fraternal organizations. such as the Ma
SONS, Odd Fellows. Knights Of Pythias.
&c. have representation in the league.
a paper setting forth the purpose Of
the league has been presented before the
industrial and educational institutions of
the South soliciting their cooperation.
To humaritarians few projects appeal
with stronger force than those which
have TO do with the rescue work of chill
dren Ii is the root and foundation of evil
eradication in the United States. Men
and women. who by reason of their Wig
orous methods of attacking appalling
existing conditions have been stigma
tized with the title of socialists. g"
have fought for the childrens rights
against the difficult odds Of preju-
dice Every earnest TefOTmeT is in a
measure a socialist since socialism means
the reconstruction Of a faulty system of
society for the achievement of a more
Just and equitable distribution of prop
erty and labor There is nothing incen-
diary in the actual Interpretation Of the
word. Jack London is socialist at
heart; so is Edwin Markham, John Spar
20. Eugene Wood, Upton Sinclair, Moth
er Jones'" and a host of other namable
advocates of the doctrine of mans obli-
CATION to the human race. who. in one
way or another are battling the hideous
forces that sap child life before it has
fairly begun. to run freely.
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