The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-03-29

sicians. who are taken as authority
claim that children do not attain
capacity for manual labor until they
reach the age Of thirteen years and
yet In those damnablc places they
work when they are five years old.
They become stoop shoudercd and
old men at the age of ten years. it
death does not take them away be-
fore they reach that age The Off
GERS of those institutions refer To
them as kids, imps and devils"
and many of them have declared that
they did not know how to play.
tell YOU white children are taking
the place of the black slave in the
south. They are being literally
murdered. At the time that Senator
Boyeridge was discussing his child
labor bill, Senator Tillman, when
reference was made to South Caro-
lima, declared. Every thoughtful
man recognizes It as a very great
evil, and | will so as far as any
man in trying to stamp it out in
f. legitimate and constitutional way.
hope the senator will not omit, as /
said while ago, to get all we'll au-
thcnticated facts in the Record. so
that we may have ammunition with
/ which to begin crusades at home 20
keep our legislatures from being in
/ iJuenced by northern millionairos who
/ have gone down there and built mills
and made industrial slaves out or
white children instead of the chattel
| black slaves of the old days. ! know
/ there are fathers and mothers in
South Carolina as well as there are
elsewhere, who, to my mind, occu-
py the relation towards their chill
drcn of cannibals | ask
. the senator to not omit anything
/ that Il we'll authenticated and non
|est. Publish 1t all in a document, so
/ that We can have it to circulate
/ among the good men and women OF
| the south and help us to organize
a crusade to stop this hellishncss."
/ Some will say the conditions in
/ this country do not demand this law.
| There is over SlGO0OOO0 invested
in factories in Oklahoma and about
| 5000 employees working in them. n
we do not cure the evil intended to
be met by this bill, we will later be
approprating money to take care of
some of them in our jails and aims
houses. Senator Taylor told me of
an instance today where a man died
| in his old state-Kentucky. lie was
| in moderate circumstances financial
/ ly, his family was healthy but i'm
medately after his death the moth
or decided she would move to the
| city She put three of her children
in sweat shop and in less than
three years they were physical
wrecks. | say for the sake of our
widowed mothers, for the sake of
humanity, let us pass this bill. |
| do not believe that the great indus.
tries should be permitted to build
up on the shoulders-yes, out Of the
very life's blood-of some of the
children of this state. Some say
protect capital and invite the great
| Industries to our state before leg
| islation along this line Is passed.
| Protectlon-you have heard that
word used falsely before. Those
who favor the iniquitous high tariff
use that word-protection. The
treatment that some of the children
of the south has received is enough
to breed a fever in the blood of ey-
cry humanity-loving man and wo-
man of our southland and make in
/ fants sinews as strong as steel.
| When ! think of how the factory Of
| ficials have treated them, | can but
feel like eXclaiming 'imps from
hell, unclaimed banqueting in selfish
glee upon the hearts blood of the
south"
Two principles operate in our be-
ing-the principle of altruism and
the principle of egosm. One regards
the cause of humanity and the other
is mindful only 70 self. They are
in contradistnction TO each other.
our usefulness to society can be bet
ter determined by the former Mans
humanity to man should enlist our
attention. had rather be instru-
mental in helping make laws for the
hGod-made man than for the man
made giants, for the latter Is con-
scienceless and has no regard for
human being. Whenever opportunity
presents, | will help pass such laws
as will hurl vice and immortality