The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-02-02

inst what he puts into IL and noth-
ing more. II a man lives by what NJ
puts into the world and cuitIFales
that he will not have time 70 BE- idle
! think If you will classify the Things
that you are trying 10 do YOU viii
find that you will have Just four class
idcatiors. In the first class you Will
find hat you Will try 10 remedy
things that ought not 10 exist. whetn-
er by repeating laws that you nave
or by enacting new laws ana mere
are the things we have TO deal with
Our bodies, our minds and our
No matter how many things you sus-
gest they will fall in one of these
classes.
Again Child Labor.
Child labor | find the next tnlnS
on the program. | have not heard
what has been said about child labor.
but it Will not take me long 10 ex-
press all | want 20 say on the SUD-
| ject. Every child born in this world
has a right &c a chance n II you
deny il that chance you are dong
il an injustice and there IS no arsu-
ment that You can make that VIII
Justify the taking of that chance from
that child. will prove it TO you.
Apply it TO your own child, and II
YOU do not think it is good for your
own child do not put il on your neigh-
boris child. The child IS born IN
this world without its own vohton
and it is here working out a divine de-
cree, and no man has the right TO
check the child's chance or give II
an inferior chance. There is n doc
trine that needs to be burned into
the minds of the human race, that
Gods laws have no limitations Gods
commandments are no more TO De
broken by a dozen, one hundred, one
thousand or by a nation, than it is by
the humbleSt human being.
Thou Shalt Not COvct.
1T is true of the commandment
that thou shall not steal as Of the
commandment that thou shalt not
covet. The commandment thou shalt
not steal was intended to restrain
the man who violated the command
ment thou shalt not covet The
commandment thou salt not kill was
intended to hedge still further some
! one, and these three commandments
are the commandments violated in
g ternationally, and the same image
: that can be violated with impunity in
child labor.
IF any individual wants to deprive
a child of his chance, l think thai
: he has no moral right to. If the
> people of the State think that they
can do with impunity what one ind
= vidual would not dare to do, l de
{ clare that the State has no NOR.
mural j a ~ w 4 lIldi1 oil lIlOA u q
: and if all the States joined togethe.
think they could do it, they coult
, not escape from the punishment tina
follows if what they do is wrong
= Purpose to Act Together.
1T is the purpose Of the law am
government to enable the people t
a act together, the press and the pub
lie consciousness in the restraining o
wrong, and since you pass laws upol
the subject of child labor you ar
building your laws upon the sam
"a logic that you do in every other in
~ stance-fOr the protection Of society
1t is just as necessary that you kee
individuals from robbing children 9
their chances as it is to pass law
~ preventing the stealing Of horse:
-. mules, pocketbooks, etc, for Whe
you take from the child it's chance:
~ then you are rObbing it Of somethin
- far mt valuable than horses, mule
:. pocketDooks, etc. I believe that Whe
the people understand the logic Of tn
" child labor laws there will be nc OF
"a lection.
Il notice that you have a commit
- tee here on public health. 1t he
- been about nine years ago we had
great conference in the White Hous
nc Experts told us that the Goa min
" would be exhausted, that the limb
, was being cut, that the soil was beiI
70 robbed, and ever since we have bee
ne talking about being conservative, b
VI it is not the Goa mines, the iron or
the timber lands, the soil that are o.
oi greatest assets. but it is the manhot
eH Of the country that we can onsery
'r7 but this we are neglecting.
Health Measures.
"If we can conserve the people
A. health everything that tends to eliI
mate disease is worthy of the co
sideration of the Society for Soci
.~,, XNn h va n1o6n WOO 80
way in preventing diseases. Abo
16 years ago our soldiers in the Spa
ish-American war, where l got r
i'd. brief acquaintance with military Ii
nat remember how the typhoid visit
18th the soldiers and played havoc.
us less than 16 years we hav1 discover
len a emedy for typhoid fever, or rath
lid a remedy to prevent it, and tod
Ter there is not a single case of typht
md fever in the American army. YOu