French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-03-02

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six cents for "a hours, with an aver
age rainfall in the mountains Of "a
inches that ipsures uniform water
supply year in and year out. If the
world knew this, by a government
certified survey, millions and millions
Of dollars of manufacturing plants
would lift their heads here from Muir
ply to Mt. Mitchell, free from clouds
of smoke; for electricity generated by
the w~aterpower will do, the work.
They will come here just as fast as
competing railroad transportation
facilities reach these water powers.
A government ~waterpower survey is
one of the duties of Congress to pro-
vide. Do the people want a nan in
Congress that will secure it?
Seventh Issue: Why has. every
district, yes, nearly every county in
the state been enjoying, and now en-
joying a continuous growth in manu.
featuring plants; most of them far
from the cotton fields; far from the
timber; far from the coal mines, for
the coal they burn, because thew have
no waterpower, with little doing in
the Tenth. A few words will answer
it. They have working members in
Congress, and railroads that the peo-
pie of Western Carolina helped to
build. Inland territory without rail-
roads, or with just one line of rail
road is as far from manufacturing
success as Is cents is from being q
dollar. Cooperative Congressional
legislation with state legislation will
cure this thouble, and it is possible.
Do the people want it cured?
Eighth Issue: A bill is before Con-
gress providing that no goods or pro-
ducts produced in mines, mills and
factories of the south can be sold in
America under the interstate com
merce law if children under sixteen
perform labor on their production. A
more destructive bill to this southland,
and the opportunity to childhood
could not be suggested, If Congress
has the power to pass that bill, (which
under the Constitution it does not)
it has the power to pass a bill that
every school teacher IN the nation
shall keep in school the latest copies
of the Government Statistical Alb
~stracts, and devote one hour one day
IN every week, teaching the chill
dren, from what source comes the
money fer the support of the nation,
and haw much each state contributes,
directly Or indirectly to the support
i-of the National Government, and how
! much each state receives back per
annum, of the amount it pays per
sannum for the support of the gov
eminent, and further provide that a
similar review Of each county in each
state (shall be thought to be chill
d1en) they will know what each county
pays fo- the support OF the state per
annum, AMI what each county receives
back per arrunl Aud my word iCr
it, unequal taxation will not prevail
another decade in this state Or nation.
a compulsory National educational
law, supporting the state, and making
the parent criminally liable that don't
send their children to school during
the school terms, and making factory
owners and the parents Of the children
criminally liable for hiring their chill
dren to factories for more than a
given number of hours fixed by law, at
eight years of age, so many at ten,
so many at twelve, and so many
hours at fourteen to apply to boys,
and no hours for boys under fourteen
on night shifts, and no hours for girls
under sixteen on night shifts. There
is no law that compels child-labor to
work in cotton factories, or in any
other kind of employment but the
stern necessity of the preservation of
life. And any law, that directly or
indirectly deprives the child from
eight to sixteen years of age, a rea-
sonable opportunity if it wants to, to
work a few hours every day when it is
out of school is criminal, vicious and de