The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-08-22
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
(By Clyde H. Tavenner, special
Washington Correspondent of The
RenOrter

| Washington correspondent OF Inc
Reporter.)
Washington, Aug. 17-In the
light of the presidents veto OF the
wool bill, which veto gives the wool
en- trust a continuance of it's privi-
lege to plumber the consumer while
at the same time paying its workers
starvation wages, page from the
hearing in connection with the
Lawrence strike inquiry makes in
teresting reading. The witness is
Miss Sanger, trained nurse.
Page 226, Hearings on House Reso-
ultion 400 and 433.)
The Testimony.
Mr.. Pou: Miss Sanger, were you
instrumental in taking number OF
the strikers children away from
, Lawrence during the strike?
Miss Sanger: Yes sir.
Mr. Pou: Did you talk with those
children about their manner of liv-
ing?
Miss Sanger: Yes sir, found that
the children-there were l19 Of
them in my party-seldom ate meat,
and their physical condition was
the most horrible l have ever seen.
In the first place four of the small
est children had chicken pOX, and
they had not received any medical
attention. They were walking about
among the other children apparently
without noticing the chicken pox or
diphtheria; one child had diphtheria
Of 1l9 children only four OF them
had underwear, and it was bitterly
cold We had to run all the way
from the station to Labor Temple
after we got to New York to keep
from freezing.
! Mr.. Foster: You say only four
had underclothing; what was the
condition of their outer clothing?
! Miss Sanger: 1t was simply in
rags Their coats were worn to
shredS.
| Mr.. Foster: We're the children
, pale and thin?
Miss Sanger: Yes sir, and l want
to say that when they had supper
i it would have brought tears to your
eyes to see them grab the meat with
| their bare hands.
Mr.. Foster: Did any of them
have on wooden clothing of any sort?
Miss Sange: No sir.
Mr.. Foster: And yet they all
worked in WOODEN mills?
/ Miss Sanger: Yes sir.
In his veto message Mr.. Taft
has much to say about the 'woolen
industry and foreign labor He
makes no mention of these poor vic
/ tins of the WOODEN trusts greed.
How Democrats Helped Labor.
! Chairman w. B. Wilson, of the
| Committee on Labor of the Demo
cratic House of Representatives,
pointed out in a recent speech in
the house that labor interests of the
country had received more consld-
Grafton from the present democratic
house than. had come to them in
many years.
He laid special stress on the fact
that the democrats had restored to
government employees the right OF
! petition-a constitutional privilege
! that had been taken away from them
! by executive orders under both
Roosevelt and Taft-and on the
further fact that. the democratic
party had lived up to it's platform
promise in. the treatment OF labor.
Mr.. Wilson cited fifteen SPECIFIC
measures beneficial to labor that had
been passed by the house at the
present session at the request OF
, the workers of the nation.
Prominent among the list is the
eight hour bill, extending the opera
ton of this law to work done for
the government as well as work
done by the government; the anti
injunction bill, to protect working
men during wage dispute; the con-
tempt bill, to provide for trial by
jury in cases of indirect contempt;
the bill creating a department OF
labor; and the investigation OF Tay-
lor and other systems of scientific
shop management" which imposes
undue hardships on working men.
Wilson Progressive, But Safe.
Governor Wilson has quoted the
fears of the business interests that
the tariff may be reduced too sud-
| denly in the event of democratic
success in November.
Governor Wilson recently had, a
conference with Congressman Red
| field, of New York, who has made
some of the most sensible tariff
speeches ever heard in congress, and
it was agreed between them that the
proper and safe thing to do with re-
gard to the tariff is to cut 1t down
| gradually until the proper level is
reached. In that way it will be easy
to ascertain just what effect each
successive cut has on price condi-
lions and wages. Thus by easy
stages the tariff for private profit
can be turned into a tariff for rev.
enue, and this process is sure to re-
suit in a reduction in the cost OF
living.
Governor Wilson is not anxious to
injure any mans business. He will
insist, however, in the event of his
election, that all business be legiti-
mate, and that the false foundations
be taken from under the tariff
trusts. But he will make it a grad
ual process, and one that will not
! disturb either business or the
country in general.
Watered Stock costs Each Family
aN 500 Annually.
Over capitalization of our indus
tries is not only one of the prime
causes of the present high cost of liv-
ing. but is also one of the principal
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