The Cairo bulletin., 1907-04-28
SAME QUESTIONS TODAY
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the great body of American citizen
ship to poison and pollute 1t and to en-
danger, In the end, the republic itself
No word Is vitriollc enough to con
Tenn the savage infamy Of child labo,
In this free country 1t has got to
be stopped. States have not stopped
it--can not stop it. The nation can
stop 1t, must stop it, will stop it. The
combined factories, mills and sweat
shops that practice this brutality,
the Immense mining interests thai
increase their already swollen profits
with the blood of little children, the
vast railway systems which haul pro-
ducts of child labor--al have unite
to resist the passage of a national law
to end this evil.
And as was the case with the
dealers in lottery tickets and obscene
literature, the argument these inter.
ests use is the moth eaten doctrine of
that such law is unconstitutional
that such alaw is unconstitutional
that it violates The rights of the
states. But it is as constitutional as
the lottery law, which was also de
nounced as a violation of the rights
OF the states, as constitutional as the
obscene literature law, which was also
said to violate the rights of the
states; as constitutional as the Nc
kinley law prohibiting the importa
ton of convic made goods which no
body says is violation of the rights
of the states.
IL Is such absurd contentious tha
weaken the peoples respect for the
constitution The constitution was
made for the people; not the people
for the constitution. 1t is interpret
ed not only by courts but by eventf
all its great expositions by the su
preme court have been called out by
which states rights dc
clared the constitution did not permit
the nation to meet and overcome.
Work of Lincoln and Grant.
Thus we see that present and FIJI |
alton of the mighty work of Lincoln |
IN the statesman's cabinet and Grant |
in the stricken field, just as their |
work was a continuation of the labors |
IF Washington and the great men who |
achieved our independence, wrote on
n constitution and breathed into tho |
lation the breath of life. And just |
Is these men personifed a great |
movement CT the people toward
ounder welfare and a large happiness
n their day, so there is a man who
epresents this same movement in our
lay | need not name him. You know
lin. His name is in your hearts anc
N your lips. | only voice your un
poken thought when | say that the
treat successor of Washington in his
inc, Of Jackson in his time of Lin
DIN and of Grant in tn ir time, is in
nr time Thandnra Rnnspualt
americans, was in his day UNANIMOUSLY
ssailed. Think of the attacks on
They said that his re
igion was hypocrisy, his immoyab.e
a fixed selfishness, ms
PATRIOTISM a sham. Thy sa that
le was a politician, and that for the
purpose of power" he linked himsel'
With the infamous and the vile.
And today, like Washington llke
Jackson. like Lincoln and like Grant
Theodore Roosevelt is similarly as
"a led by similar men. Like them
ne has been called "despot. Like
hem and like all great men OF all
Countries and of all times, he has
been called "egotist" and insane.
70 little minds the great have Away
been both vain and mad. But OF our |
president, who is great only becaus !
he is big eonugh to reflect the pur-
poses of ninety millions of people, the
final charge that he is a child was
made thu other day by brilliant edl-
tor i'm an acid speech.
III child he be, God give us more
such children to serve and to bless
this nation. Esod grant that such
stock shall not run out, God gram
that for every Washington period
there shall be a Washington; for
every Jackson period a Jackson; Tor
very Grand and Lincoln period
Lincoln and Grant; for every Roose-
rc,t neriod a Theodore Roosevelt"