The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-05-05
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GIVES VIEWS ON LIVE ISSUES
Pensacola, Fla, May 4, 100

Pensacola, Fla, May 4, 19OS.
Editor Pensacola Journal.
In the heat of a campaign during
unsettled times, such, that people for.
get or lose sight of real, live questions
which should be considered as living
questions affecting the material, men
tai and moral conditions of a people,
I believe it the duty of any person,
especially a candidate for the law-mak.
ing body to, at least, awaken public
interest enough to ascertain the stand
of any possible future Legislator
Among these questions in that ques-
ton of child labor.
Shall We continue to rob the cradles
to despoil child life of the right to
an elementary education, to furnish
the work shop and the factory with
cheap labor, at the expense of future
fatherhood and motherhood?
l shall favor any bill which will be
presented. making the minimum age
for boy labor Ia years, and of female
labor 16 years. No other bill will re-
ceive any vote or be sanctioned by my
voice. l will seek to wipe from the
statutes the present moral monstros-
ity, the divorce laws of Florida, which
today virtually condone higamy and
poligamy.
Again l say, do you believe in i'm
proving the public school system, so
| that the child of the Country will re-
ceive equal advantages with the child
of the city? 1 do, and will support
| any intelligent, equitable method
that will accomplish it.
| / shall at all times favor any bill
that will provide for the employment
of American labor, in preference to
alien, on state, county and city work
Employ the citizen, native or natural.
| lied while they can be- obtained, then
work outsiders.
| j am the father of the system OF
automatic arbitration in the granting
of public utility franchises. Provide
for arbitration, from a franchises in.
ceptiOn, and before passion holds
sway. I am for decent sanitary laws
governing employees surroundings.
am for a state labor commission
whose business it will be to carefully
| advise the people from time to time
of labor conditions of the state; in
veStgate differences and seek to set
tie things amicably, thus avoiding ds-
sentiOn, and disaster to all concerned
The state needs constitutional con.
vention elected by the people TO sub
NIT to the people new constitution
| The city needs a new charter TO re.
place the present beWildering, in eff
| fectiVe bOtch or excuse. / favor both
l say to you, remember that it re.
quireS time to effect these things.
Two years will elapse before a new
legislature will be elected after the
coming one; act now ana anticipate
the growth and advancement of the
state. Before the first ship passes
through the Panama canal, the state
| of Florida will be transformed into an
| awakening giant. Jacksonville, the
| closest Atlantic sea port 70 Kansas
City and the granaries of the west
! will be a port of ocean, sail and sea
traffic. Pensacola will be what il
| should be, the east bound port of call
the up-air port, the cotton export oil
the south BE prepared, by having
such things at least considered by the
coming Legislature of Florida
Consider these well, in the selec
ton of your representatives, and
even though l am not SO selected.
could be content that have called the
attention of my fellow men to their
present and approaching needs.
Yours respectfully,
| CHARLES H. HILL