The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1908-05-29
union LABOR Done
AGAINST Child LABOR.
While Universities Have Done
A Little and the Churches
Next to Nothing.


and wear and comfortable houses, and
no anxiety for the future, this world
may naturally wear an aspect slightly
unlike the one presented 10 the strug-
Cling many. Speaking Of industrial
progress, Mr.. Raymond Bobins re-
marked that both a:c necessary, and
and yet both are @: N utterly innu-
man. He spoke Cf the man who had
worked twenty Yeas as a typesetter
and who is TOO old 10 learn a new
trade when tie linotype forces him
out; OF the wood carver of yesterday
who is out of job to-day because
Of the patent process of COMPRISING
sawdust, putty and clay; of the man
who had worked twelve years in a
shop and had bought home near his
work and is slowly paying off the
mortgage, when this snop is closed
down without warning by the indus
trial consolidation; of him who has
lost his hand in an unprotected sick
er after fifteen years Of faithful Ia
Dor. All those possibilities have been
foreseen and charged up and paid
for by the consumers. But what of
these workers? What of their jobs
and their hands and legs by which
they and their families live? Mr.. Rob-
ms says that up TO this hour the la
Dor unions have done something, the
universities little, and the church
next to nothing. The labor unions
have won some sort of fair wages,
hours and working conditions wheI-
ever they have been Strong. They
have made a good fight against child
labor, night work for women and ua-
protected machinery. Yct al bcst
they reach only small par of the
working world. In regard 20 violence,
Mr.. Robins speaks some very impress
sive words, which touce upon what
often exists between the press and
the larger forces Of business:
"'Our conscience has a way of CO.
ing TO sleep on the job and then work
ing overtime. In the last four years
the railroads of this country have KILL
ed 1864 men and i4mNed 219,495. We
are very patient over this steady in
dusirial slaughter but If q union man
slugs scab who is seeking TO take
bread from his children's mouths we
make a great ouJcry. We don't seem
10 mind that the Labor laws are viu-
la,ed and how the workers are delib-
erately poisoned and crippled and kill
ed in smelter and mine and factory,
yet, when in the blind, hopeless strug-
gle of Infatuated masses OF men some
one is killed, then we are very much
outraged and demand the troops IL
protect human life and enforce the low
lest the foundation of the safe crum-
BILE. remember THAI during the grca,
stockyards strike the packers import-
ed animals and prostitutes from The
purlius of Cincinnati and s.. Louis
and held private prize fights in the
yards 10 keep the mamused after tho
days work. These vicious and diseas-
ed persons worked over the meat
that you and your families were u
eat, yet the conscience of the country
spoke not a single word of protest
How is it possible the people Car
be made to carry so much at one time
and SO little at another? | want &c
tell you why, and | want you 10 re-
member this much, at least, of what
say tonight. IL is because of the
industrial censorship of the pres:
The great employers are the great adj
vertisers and they can make OF
break newspaper. This skilful in.
dustrial censorship creates false NOR.
al resentment or enthusiasm ait will
and thus the press of the country
is used 10 play upon and mislead the
moral forces of the nation. Nor is thi!
industrial censorship confined 10 The
press. 1t is over the pulpit and the
best clubs and the most select socie.
ty."-Collier's Weekly.