The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1912-08-29
WASHINGTON LETTER

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Special Washington Correspond
ent of The Times.
BY CLYDE II. Tavenner.
Washington, D. C.-In the city of
Lawrence, Mass, where the highly
protected wooden mills hold forth;
where boys and girls work for 81, So
and 81 a week, and fathers and moth
ers work long hours for S., $6and 81
a week for full time, AZ out of every
100 deaths are those of children under
S years of age! And of these AZ chill
dren IS are under 1 year of age! The
doctors declare the big majority of
these children perish because their
mothers labor such long hours, under
unsanitary conditions, in the WOODEN
mills.
But mark the percentage of child
deaths in Lawrence particularly; For
ty-seven out of every 100 persons
that die in Lawrence are children
under years of age. Now compare
this with Seattle, Wash. There, out
of every 100 persons who die, but 10
are children under years Of age.
The average for the whole country
is q children under years of age
instead of Al as in Lawrence, and for
the whole country 10 out Of every
100 deaths are of children under one
year Of age instead of IS as in Law
renee.
In Fall River, Mass, where the
wooden trust also operates, so out of
every 100 persons that die, are chill
dren under s years. At New Bed
ford, Mass, another wooden mill
town, 40 out of every 100 persons
that die, are under years, and the
great majority of the 40 are babies!
These people who work in the
wooden mills are protected" That
is, the multi-millionaire wooden trust
magnates who come to. Washington
for excessive protection, say that the
sole reason they desire tariff rates
which give them monopoly on Amer
lean markets and permit them to
charge double the value for wooden
clothing, is that theyare "protecting'
their employees.
In addition to making this plea, the
trust magnates, Of course, make lib
eral contributions of money to the
campaign funds of the party of pro-
lection. The result is such bills as
Schedule X of the Payne-Aldrich law.
Here is a plain question for the
American people to ask themselves:
Why should they longer permit a
comparative handful of millionaires
to force them to pay exhorbitant
prices for every article of wooden
clothing they wear, on the pretext
of these rich men that they are "pro-
tecting" their employees, when these
employees are not only not being pro-
tected, but are being paid such low
wages that they are practically COM
PEELED to live like cattle.
Have You Sent for Campaign Book?
Every Democrat who is working
for the success of the ticket this fall,
should send some money to Hon.
James T. Lloyd, Chairman National
Congressional Committee, Washing
ton, D. c., for a copy Of the new
Democratic campaign book. What
ever amount is sent for the book will
be used toward carrying on the CAM
paign, without the aid or trust or spe-
cial privilege. The committee is in
need Of funds.
No Cheaper Sugar.
The price of sugar is not to be re-
duced to two cents pound-not at
least, as long as the present Republi-
can President and Senate remain in
business at Washington.
The Democratic House Of Repre-
sentatives Il win be recalled, passed
\ biIl placing sugar on the free list.