The Washington herald., 1915-02-21
'ANTI:SUFFRAGE;
AN7I.CHILDREN
Representative Moore Says
. the Two Go Hand
in Hand.
SOUTH ALMOST "SOLD"
Give the Women the Ballot and Save
the Tots" Pennsyl-
vanians Cry.

| The men who voted against the
child-labor bill in the House We're the
men who voted against suffrage. This
statement was made yesterday by Rep
resentative Palmer. of Pennsylvania.
who fathered the child-Iabor bill in
the House and is also staunch sup
porter of woman suffrage.
An interesting and significant fact
in connection with the vote on the
Federal child-labor BILL said Mr..
Palmer. lis that all the opponents of
the bill save one were found also
suffrage amendment to the Constitu-
ton. or course. the opposition to
cEild-labor legislation comes principally
from the cotton mill States of the
South where the labor of little chill
dren has long been exploited to swell
the profits of the mill owners. The
theory that the little children are en-
ployed with the consent and approval
of parents does not Sibc with the ac-
realize that II the women get the vote,
the child-labor evil will be wiped out.
THE women of America are the
friends of the little children and il
they could effectively speak their opin-
ion by the use of the ballot the child
labor evil would soon be relegated to
the realms of ancient history.
The vote on the child labor bill is
only another indication of the way in
which the woman suffrage proposition
is tied up to many of the great ques-
lions now confronting our people. Ev-
cry vicious interest, of which the
liquor traffic and the exploitation of
child labor are conspicuous examples
is violently opposed to the extension
of suffrage to women. They know that
the day when woman suffrage is an ac-
complished fact is doomsday for them
selves"
south Almost ..sOlid."
The Paimer-Owen bill to prevent
interstate commerce in the products of
child labor passed the House last week
by q vote of 233 to 43. With the eX-
ception of two or three scattering
votes the opposition came entirely
from the South. There were no solid
delegations voting against the meas
urc. but Georgia cast nine OF its
twelve votes against it. North Caro-
lima seven out of ten. and Mississippi
six out of eight There were six ad-
verse votes from Texas. four from
South CaTol:na, three from Alabama.
two from Virginia, and one each from
Delaware. Florida. Illinois. Kentucky,
New Jersey and Oklahoma.
The opposition was based on the
ground that the Federal government
was usurping the powers of the States
in the control of their industries. but
as was pointed out by Representative
Lenroot. of Wisconsin. in the course of
the debate, this same Congress March
1, 1914. passed with only three dis
senting votes a convict-labor bill pro-
hibiting the shipment in interstate
commerce of the products of convict
la bor.
III we have the right to do that"
said Mr.. Lenroot, land We have. then
we have the right to prohibit all inter-
state commerce shipments of the prod
ucts of child labor. which ought to be
of a great deal more concern to this
country than any other form Of labor"
Vote Against Measure.
OF the forty-three members who
voted against the child-labor bill not
one voted against the convict-labor
bill. Thirty of them voted for IL, two
voted present and nine did not vote.
Representative Mulkey. of Alabama.
and Vinson. of Georgia, were not
members of the House at the time.
The members voting against the
Palmer-Owen bill were as follows:
ADMINISTRATION, Dent Mulkey.
Decentralization
Florida-Clark.
Observation-Disclosures, Bartlett. Bell.
Crisp. Hughes. Lee, Park, Trioble. VIM
son.
Illinois-O'Hair.