Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1912-08-29
WASHINGTON LETTER.

where the highly protected WOODEN
mills hold forth where boys and girls
work for So, So and 81 a week. and
fathers and mothers work long hours
for So, Sc and 81 week for full time,
AZ out of every 100 deaths are those
of children under 5 years of age; and
of those AZ children, 35 are under ]
years of agei 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:
Forty-seyen 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 LOG persons who die, but 10
are children under years of age.
The average for the whole conn-
try is "a children under 5 years of
age instead of AZ as in Lawrence and
for the whole country 10 out of every
100 deaths are of children under
year of age instead of 35 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 years of age. At New
Bedford, 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 WOOL
en- mills are protected" That is,
the millionaire wooden trust
magnates who come to Washington
for excessive protection say that the
sole reason they desire tariff rates
which give them a monopoly on
American markets and permit them to
charge double the value for wooden
clothing is that they are protecting
their employees.
n 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 K of the Payne-Aldrich law.
Here is plain question for the
American people to ask themselves:
Why should they longer permit
comparative handful of millionafres
to force them to pay exorbitant proc
es for every article of wooden cloth
ing they wear on the pretext of these
rich men that they are protecting"
their employees, when these employ
ees are not only being protected but
are being paid such low wages that
they are practically compelled 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. JAS
T. Lloyd, Chairman National Demo-
cratic Congressional Committee, of
Washington, d. G., for copy of the
new Democratic campaign book.
Whatever amount is sent for the book
will be used toward carrying on the
work of the campaign without the aid
of trusts and special privilege. The
committee is in need of funds
No Cheaper Sugar.
The price of sugar is not to be re-
duced cents a pound, not at least
as long as the present Republican
Senate and President remain in bust
ness at Washington
The Democratic House of Represen-
tatives, it will be recalled, passed a
bill placing sugar on the free list. It
was estimated this would reduce the
price approximately two cents
pound. Another bill was passed.
placing tax on incomes above So
600. This would have meant, in
few words, the transfer of a portion
OF the burden of taxation from the
breakfast table to wealth But the
Republican Senate objected to any
such transfer, with the result that
the people will have to go paying an
artificial price on sugar while wealth
is to remain untaxed by Uncle Sam.
Perhaps some day it will be different,
but it will not be until Democratic
Senate and President are elected to
cooperate with a House of Represen-
tatives that is really trying to repre-
sent the will of the people of this
country
LaFollette Against Roosevelt.
Robert NJ. LaFollette, United States
Senator from Wisconsin, foremost
Republican progressive in the upper
house OF Congress, is against Theo-
dore Roosevelt for a third term. be-
cause, he says, Roosevelt, while Pres
ident, co-operated with the trusts, in
stead of cooperating with him in his
tight against the trusts.
On the day that Roosevelt was
made president of the United States.y'
declares LaFollette, there were I49
trusts in the United States. When
he turned the government over to Mr..
Taft there were 10000 great trusts
and combinations.
When Theodore Roosevelt entered
the White House the trusts and com
binations had capitalization of 3d..
7S4,000,000. On the day that he turn
ed the administration over to Taft it
was $31 1917. 100000, more than sew
enty per cent of which was water.
II do not believe that the man who
was president for more than seven
years, while the greatest trust growth
in this century occurred, at the very
time of all times in the history of
the Sherman law when it could have
been made productive in DESTROYING
4,.,.r II !,