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any mine or factory where cHiioi ' II are employed. The age hmlt' 4 ie inc standard already in most af the states of the Union, some Southern states among them, ana in Enone as well. 1t is admitted that if such bill is passed oS l congress and declared constltu- tional if will be effective i'll the prevention of the evil of child laoor where there is the greatest apuse os tho system in the mills and in tn mines.
 President Roosevelt has come ont heartily in favor of the bill and it is receiving strong support from members of both parties Ill congress. And that illustrious eX- emplar of Democracy William Jeh- nings Bryan, has declared himself in favor of the measure and has 1 added that the interstate commerce clause of the constitution, as he
 
 has always contended, affords the same simple remedy against the oppression of the trusts Of course there will be those who see in this extension of the functions of the national gov ernment. under this clause, viola tion of the doctrine of states rights. But so was the quarantine bill. ana the rate bill. and so were the pure food and meat inspection bills. to all of which the South and the Democratic party assented. The trusts have been quick to see the same connection between this and an antitrust measure, that Mr. Bryan has pointed out. And it hap pens just now that the strongest advocates of states rights, or at least the most conspicuous, are the corporation lawyers. But the Dem ocracy has had enough of lining up with these influences. One half hearted campaign for the presi- deney with that alliance was enough for one generation.
 And We predict that the uncor- rupted Democracy of the South. feeling the necessity of national protection against the expressions of trust and railroad corporations, which are quick enough to use the interstate commerce provision to evade state laws, will be found fa voring the full extension of the rights of the federal government under that provision of the con- stitution, while the capitalized East, made rich by the plunder of the South and West, through the debauching of such a state as New Jersey with its unlimited charter grants to corporations, will be found now contending for the sac red and inyiolable rights of the states and pointing out the danger to our liberties in yielding one inch to the powers of the national gov ernment!
 One of the gravest questions for the nation to consider is the welfare of it's future citizenship. The system of child labor is an in- jury to the welfare of that citizen ship of the future And when the sacred rights of the child are con- sidered as we'll as the right of any state to be protected against ar unfair and inhuman system of labor as allowed by another state, there will be an insistent demand for the suppression of the evil that will make the issue one of the livest ones before the American pople.
 And the debates and discussions of the subject will doubtless make such revelations of intolerable con ditions as he discussion of the meat inspection bill disclosed in the# fast congress.
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