Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-26
TO PATRIOTS

WI HEN we have an administration
w courageous enough to deal with
life as it is; that is to say, when
we have a Democratic administration,
one of its first official actions must be
to institute thorough inquiry into the
employment of women and girls at
occupations which interfere with
health, and, IL the women marry and
become mothers, make their children
puny and siclxly. This is a question
hardly inferior in Importance to that
of the employment of young children
in mines, mills and factories.
1t seems as If the interests which
are contributing lavishiy to the Repub-
lican campaign fund, in the hope of
staving off an evil day when they Will
have to lessen their profits by employ
ing men at mems wages. were at pres
ent engaged in a deliberate attempt to
sap the vitality of the American people.
Their wretchedly unpatriotic course has
lowered the educational standard of
this nation until we are now sixth on
the list instead of first. Not content
with sacrificing the proud position of
our country as the leader of civiliza-
ton and enlightenment, these wretched
and debased devotees OF Mammon, who
are in the business Of producing goods
not because they wish to encourage
industry and create prosperity, but be-
themselves with which they may sport
in Europe and buy second hand castles
for their sons and damaged dukes for
their daughters, are now engaged In
an attempt to lower the standard of
the human being in the United States,
to make our great land the home OF an
inferior race, which in course of time
not only may find itself unable to COM
pete with harder peoples, but may
become an easy prey to the foreign
invader. There is no exaggeration in
this statement. Official reports as to
defective children, observed in the
metropolitan schools and elsewhere, and
as to degenerate or feeble children in
the manufacturing districts, show there
is almost as great a percentage of
Increase in the number of defective chill
dren-physically incomplete or impaired
as there is in the increase of Hitter
ate children, who cannot read and write
and barely know how to think; cer-
tainly do not know how to think intel
ligently.
How much longer do we intend to
put up with this diabolical and out
20 aoaOuS roDeansap With f,1II IxpowI
edge of the facts, how can any self
respecting American who has respect
for his country as we'll as self respect,
cast his ballot for the perpetuation of
conditions which, If not remedied, will
inevitably result in the irreparable
injury of the country? We cannot inn
agine how any sensible man with
proper regard for his wife and family
and with a knowledge of the fact that
ON wives and families the welfare of
the nation depends, can be SO unthink-
ingly irresponsible as to vote for Taft
and Sherman and a continuance of con-
ditions which must be most highly sat-
isfactory to envious foreign enemies of
the United States.
The statesmen of poor old Spain must
chuckle in saturnine glee when they
read that in point of percentage of
illiteracy in proportion to the total
population their country is now tied
with the United States, rival for sixth
place!
Oh, be warned and be wise! No
matter for what or for whom you may
have voted in the past, vote for Bryan
and Kern and a restoration of the first
of Americanism.