South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-09-21
TWO-FACED DEMAGOGUERY AND THE
CHILD LABOR LAW.

Efforts of republican wind 1ammerS-of both the
pen and palate varetyto the child labor law
passed by the congress; this by charging am
bguity pretending to have found Joker" in it. and
declaring it hoax is in perfect keeping with their
demagogic attacks upon democratic accomplishments
generally. is hardly be expected that demo-
cratic congress- with the aid of republicans could
possibly do anything to the satisfaction of these usurp
OF throne sef-assumed successors TO
His infinite wisdom.
You perhaps remember how the Adamson eght-hour
law was ambiguous. unconstitutional and bungesOme
when passed the congress- that is, in the est-
of these infinitely transformers. After so
long time however, they are finally getting the
Adamson bill through the end of their
necks. they not as yet able to comprehend
the child labor law Our Main St contemporary is
particularly fault pretends have discovered
that the child labor only warehouse" act and
that by storing the products child labor in
house thirty days there nothing the bill what
ever bar it from interstate traffic than if it the
work of and full grown.
Were such tie law, the criticism neaped upon the
president and congress by our contemporary would be
well deserved. This subject trihed with,
save by demagogues and copperheads. and the mere
delaying Of shipment of child-made goods for thirty
days, would indeed. be a monstrous humbug. But we
doubt there a lawyer of repute
unless it be Charles +. Hughes and James Eli Watson
who would prostitute his profession by rendering
such a fool opinion. And we are quite certain. now
that Mr. Hughes has been recalled from the L. S SUI
bench, that tribunal would give the
brief such disreputabe lawyers. advancing
such contention, any thing but a passing shove
The thirty day limitation in the BILL within which
products child labor
commerce, plainly there enable manufacturers to
work off such products hand the the first
effectiveness of the law. At the time when the law
transportation forbidden
to products on which Within thirty days prior to re-
mOvaI children under years age have
been employed" 1t may be too deep for a republican
sensible point a republican politico
lawyer but il is there and plain that he who reads
enough fool need err"
But suppose the law were as bad as our contemp-
orary paints Why blame president or dem
in congress- The aforesaid contemporary takes
all the passage the law, repub-
leans. Read its words:
The shows that the republicans of
the senate had to threaten and buster before
bill would be ordered before the senate.
Such the influence and power Of that
southern bunch senators from child-work-
ing states"
And after all this threatening clustering this is
what got is it? Then the republicans threatened
and clustered and didn't know what they threat
ening and clustering about: Some boneheads. Our
guess that 'bluster' s word and that the
threatening" largely bluff which the repub-
hcans called. Sow they want
to discredit the bill blaming the democrats for an
alleged defect it. though still hanging grim
death to wanted credit for its passage
Pifhe such two-faced demagoguery.