New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-09
rULMAN, AGAINST 1T,
LASHES CAPITALISTS
South Carolina Man Says MIL
Owners Are Driving People
TO Socialism.
rrr,m TIE Triiune Bureau

80 i.bor were Bankhead, OF Ala
% - R-van and Fletcher, Of Florida;
U.-S,,,k and Hoke Smith, Of Georgia;
- and simmons, Of North Caro-
Ta.. Smith and Tillman, Of South
ca-ol,a. and Williams. Of Mississippi
|n..,,.rst.l. and PcnrOse and Oliver
p.-,.y.vania ,Republieans).
The bin now goes to conference
having PASSED the House in different
sorr Both measures agree on such
1.,su. as the ages Of children for
-. occupations. their difference
-. :, tbe manner Of effeeting the
prohibition.
IT.. House bin bars from interstate
,o-,msree the products Of children
,,5er the specified ages sixteen IN
Zines and auarrics, fourteen in mills
la factories. Il further provides
,bs. The fac, chat a child under those
ices IS employed in mill or factory
as..i, Thirty days before the shipment
a.. nrima facie evidence that the
products Of that factory are the
rro5uets of child labor within the
meaning of the bill
Senate Bill More Sweeping.
The Senate bill bars from interstate
commerce the products of factories IN
which children under the specified ages
s-s employed. without reference to
whether any particular piece Of goods
,ros made i'm whole or in part by child
-S So,s+ors Newlands and Robinson,
Democrats. and Clapp, RepuolcSn'
were appointed as conierrees lot the
Senate 90 confer over the aol uSImeiiI
aft the differences in the two olils. IL
&C. expected that the House conlerreeS
viii accept the Senate OIL IN iuI'
Senator Tillman ran ms pitchlork
into the cotton mill owners OF ms own
s.e+s Of South Carolina before the
Vote i'm faylng their opposition to the
bill and twisted II around
@Tbe clubbing and selhshness OF
cotton mill owners he declared,
"-,ake me almost willing 10 vote for
the Keating bin, despite my honest
conviction of its unconstitutlonahty,
and I have told them so in my replies
IN their letters. The reasons they ad-
vance against the measure led me 70
tbink that they oppose IT, not because
d, sets a bad and dangerous preeedenN
but because it reduces their DIVIDENDS
Raps the Mill Owners.
T have been shocked TO see men II
South Carolina rich, intelligent, We
educated who were Wiling u
eue1 their dividends at the expense Of
r,Ie children. The veil of sophistrN
in rbe,r letters could not hide then
besrtf.ssuess. Their plea, stripped o.
yerbiage. is Let the children tol
thai We may live in luxury And YET
v. wonder at the spread Of socialism
and the increasing hostility OF laDol
toward capital"
Nr Tiliman said he would vote
against the bill, however, because ne
did not wish TO aid in the encroach'
mCnt on state rights.
He quoted Thomas Jefferson as pre-
dieting that the judiciary would press
us % last into one consolidated mass
and as saving "the judiciary or the
United States is the subtle corps OF
sanpcrs and miners constantly working
under ground TO undermine the louh-
dauous of our cOnfederated fabric.
off Congress passes the Dill, con,
tnued Mr. Tnlman, II have no doubt
that the Supreme Court will declare
II constitutional. for the 'sappers and
miners Will never refuse to proht by
the attack Of the infantry. ! would
ON # G0nQTGG
on this bin with much more ease OF
mind II ] had more confidence in the
Supreme Court But the Federal JUS
tees early learned the lesson that the
true Office of good Judge Is 10
enlarge his own Jurisdictions Ever
since the government was founded the
Supreme Court slowly but surely mas
been adding 20 the powers Of Congress
a. the expense of the states"
Criticises Labor Leaders.
Labor leaders, Mr.. Tillman charged
have supplantod the representatives OF
concentrated wealth as dictators OF
legislation.
"The greed and inhumanity Of capt.
tal on the one hand, and the blind, .un-
reasoning hatred Of labor on the other,
is the one dangerously significant fact
. Of the twentieth century" lie went
On: what 10 viii finally lead 20, no
man can tell, but it looks like we are
travelling toward Socialism, if not an
srehy. Later day politicians are not
meeting problems like statesmen. Their
eowarcice and selHshness are lamenta-
De- They are as subservient to organ
Hed labor, as the leaders Of twenty
years ago % concentrated wealth. The
congress Of the United States trembles
every time the labor unions frown. The
average politician Of to-day is more
AFRAID Of an adverse vote than real
man Is Of a grizzly bear.
Where is the leader broad enough
BRING about lasting peace, founded
On justice and actual understanding
however If the fight must 90 on, |
ON Tor labor, because capital started
he trouble"
Answering Senator Tillman's refer
tsnee 20 labor Senator Hitchcock, Of
nebraska, declared that labor, with
perfect propriety, demanded IT should
Ly' be forced 10 compete with child
,aOof but larger element than labor,
Sald, demanded that stop be put TO
Se abuse Of children in the United
s1Ns Senator Tillman interJected
-N i the child labor bill could be
s'sea directly, and without recourse
I he interstate commerce subterfuge,
| would vote for il.
o.. DO not agree with the Senator's
nOlg opposition TO accomplishing
i'sss reforms in an indirect way" re-
nAs1 Sir. Hitchcock Some Of the best
~ ugs that have been done have been
" accomplished"
a, Ntng children 20 work at too early
n. sse was blamed by Mr. Hitchcock
bs. we Tact that in the industrial cen
es,a 0uring the recent attempts TO Sc
Re- recruits for the army il had