The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1909-07-17

spending a billion, when there are %
many things to do.
Nor am ] the only old coot in the
territory that has his hop dream oe.
c~asionally. For example the venor
able Behringer, who founded Ration,
and has persisted In his refusal to b
wiped out by the hand Of chance ai
the Gateway, has been INDUCING 10 a
few on that gag Of the great DR.. Rich.
ards % New York TO the effect tina,
defective moral sense aud that u
compulsory use Of eye glasses for
habitual criminals would largely OBJ
via,e, N no, entirely obliterate, oil
crime varieties" The idea bobs the
cork Of Behringer, and be comments
on II as follows;
"while this latest medico vision has
not wildly outlined all Of the neees
sary eve reinforced aud conscience
aroused details, II already naturally
appears that an ordinary pair Of eye
glasses will prevent all the minor
thefts and the bearing Of false wit.
ness; that the next higher grade Of
spectacles will estop burglary. safe
blowing, train OF highway robbery, en-
able n more Illuminating reading Of
the age Of consent statutes aud, also.
bar out divorce suits; while n more
powerful lens will render impossible
revolver or shotgun interpretations Of
the "unwritten law, - do away with hu
tomobile killings, c~Gntributory railroad
negligence and, in fact, all Of the
present known species and speci6ca.
tions Of modern murder. The new pre-
tentative crime discovery will, doubt.
less also, keep American laboring men
from voting Democratic tickets; knock
nut congressional back salary grabs,
insure n downward revision Of the tariff,
correct more or less current personal
financial obliquity Of vision in bank
presidents and cashiers, eradicate gov.
ernmeat by injunction aud corporation
check book regenerate Rockefeller, and
allow the early admission Of the terri.
tories Of New Mexico and Arizona"
There Is just one point on which I
have sympathy with the socialists 30
that you can notice IL. This IL not
confirmed by the endless rant OF 10.
c~ialistic orators, hut by careful read
ings Of the government reports in re.
lation 20 child labor. Do you realize,
beloved, that in the United States over
four million children Of tender years
are daily ground In factories and in
other lines OF industry In which the
demand for cheap labor has silenced
the humane instinct that IL supposed
to dwell in the human breastf -Four
million children compelled TO work from
eight to fourteen hours n day at loom
CRIME OF moving wheels Isn't our
civilization 4 little out Of joint when
we permit that sort Of thingf Every
child has a right to be well born, and
Il also has n right TO be we'll raised, to
have a modest education, and above
all has 4 right to the years Of child.
hood as nature intended. God never
meant that In the tender years the child
should he put at stunting, warping
labor, that would produce ignorance and
hate of society. How would you like
to see your little chap forced away from
the school room, the ball game and the
Joys Of the innocent days, to some old
death trap Of a work room, giving his
little limbs no chance TO Gil out, his
mind to expand, or his intelligence to
developed II dosent look good to you
does iti And yet you are part of a
system that permits such a national sin,
and every time you buy the sweat shop
cloth and e1ult in the lowest possible
price Of the mill, you are helping 10
perpetuste such a system. That IL the
truth reduced to plain english, and II
means that you are one OF the child
murdeTers Of free America. OF course
socialism cannot remove this national
disgrace. No other wildly visionary
political theory can remove il. There
must he 4 healthier general sentiment,
that will insist on the right principle,
and the passage and enforcement Of
proper laws. Eight million little hands
are raised in supplication for such IN
eventuhlity, and II our whaek'up friends
do 30 much as to hasten by u day the
answer of that prayer their fantastic
and Utopian career will not have been
in vain.