The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-01-21

factory labor yet every one knows
that under present conditions unless
u homes for the aged and infrmI
and our orphanages are vastly en-
1arged some children must labor.
Neither the counties or the denomi-
nations are ready to shoulder the
expense, however good in theory of
maintaining all those whose children
now help to support and such children
themselves as now have to work.
Child labor of some kind at present
is an unavoidable evil. It appears
that these children who must toll can
earn more In factories than on farms,
and often they any theirs prefer the
factory. The mill children of to-day
will be the ancestors of many mill
workers of the future. For our fac
tories to compete with others, high
class labor will be essential. High
class labor must be healthy. A far
sighted wisdom makes. our mill own
ers anxious not onlyto preserve, but
to improve the health of every opera
tive both for present results and for
future safety.
Corporations.
The Attorney General should be
authorized to examine every proposed
| charter for corporations to see that
it violates neither the written or the
unwritten law. He should be spe-
cifcally charged with the duty of en-
forcing our laws against all corpora
tions, domestic and foreign habitual-
ly violating it's provisions. Many
of the wrongs committed by corpora
tons against our people are under
circumstances which the State can
not control and cannot be WIDELY
remedied except by the Federal gov
eminent. Yet the State can do
something for the public and has a,
duty to do for her own interest. We
should require every foreign corpora
ton to obtain license to do business
4 in this State, and should provide that
such license be revoked when it is
engaged in violating our law or is at
tempting under the power of mo-
nopoly> to exact from the industrial
life of the State unreasonable profits
with which to pay dividends upon
fictitious values or watered stock.
Such license should also be revoked
when any such corporation maintains
an established office in this State for
the transaction of its regular bust
ness. No corporation lacking ON
fidence in our courts should desire
to enter our midst. They have rights
which are and will be respected and
encouraged. Unjust burdens and
wrongful restraints have not and will
not be placed upon them. / doubt
:, not that nine-tenths of our corpora
/, tions comply with the law and do an
. absolutely honest business and are
therefore entirely free from public
complaint. The State believes in jus.
tice evenhanded and universal and il
I strives toward the attainment Of uni
5 versal right, regarding not whether
t a corrupt man or a corrupt corpora
: ton impedes its progress. The mar
? who by foul means willfully ant
e needlessly takes the life Of a riva
T under our law forfeits his own. TIL
Q corporate monopoly that by foul mean
q willfully and needlessly destroys hi
{ rival by wrong doing for the pur
pose of exaeting unjust profits iron
the public should forfeit its existence
l. Good Roads and Drainage.
It would be difficult to over
estimate the value Of good road
, while various counties are dom:
, much in this direction, many coun
. ties are doing very little. W. ar
:, vet but on the threshold of the goo
) roads movement and the next gene
4 Grafton will witness wonderful pre-
- gress. The State can enact an I'm
proved up-to-date law which shal
apply to every county that hereafte
adopts the taxation plan of buildin
good roads and thus promote uni
y formity of system. In my judgmen
u a State highway commission ma
'1 with great advantage be created
u consider the whole matter and repol
~ to the next Legislature, as we hav
- no department charged with the dut
u, of investigating on this importar
=. subject.
: We have vast areas of swamp lane
awaiting drainage to become fertl
Ii and profitable. In many cases Il
timber will pay the cost of drainag
An experiment on a small scale
worth trying in the drainage of son
~ of our swamp lands. Also some cor
We p~rehensive, liberal and effective la
" should be enacted authorizing upc
lust terms owners of swamp LAM
to enter upon the lands of others Fl
the purpose of effectual drainage.
If Bank Deposits.
Iat The last platform upon which Il
rs incoming national administrati'
was elected declares for postal sa
ings banks, and it is not unr%easonah
mr. to presume that before that admin
tration ends Congress will obey t
pledge of the Republican party a.
ed establish postal savings banks. I
inf national Democratic party is hE
ter wise conditionally pledged to post
nj hanks. The results will tend to dir
every State bank out of busine'
in AS no national bank can have a ca
ID. ital of less than $4,000, there wou
full be danger that many Of our SIN
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