The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-09-04

authority TO say that they can nc
work in fields, stores, or other whole
some and healthful occupations. Ay'
it goes even further, it confers upo
Congress the power to say girl unde
IS years of age cannot work to assis
her own mother in doing the house
work, cooking, dish washing, and 8
forth, in her own home, and that
son of like age cannot help his owl
father to work on farm.''
Remarking upon pamphlet circu
lated among both the Senate an,
House of Representatives by the lob
byists, through whose efforts thi
dangerous measure was pushed through
Congress, Mr.. Crisp went on to say:
"We all received pbamphlet en-
titled Child Labor Facts, issued and
circulated by the proponents of thii
amendment, ladies and gentlemen ac
tuated by humanitarian motives, pre-
senting reasons why the amendmen,
should be adopted. On page 10 tho
statement said:
" The Southern States have larg-
er percentage Of child labor than any
other section of the country because
of the prominence of agriculture
there
Only 20 per cent of the children Of
Georgia, including white and black.
are engaged in gainful occupations, II
per cent of the 20 being engaged in
work on farms. The same phamphlet
urges as reason for this amendment
that children work on the farms in
the cranberry Dogs of New Jersey,
that they are used to pick berries for
eanneries and packing fruit; that In
Michigan they are used in the beet
sugar industry; that in the South they
are used in raising cotton; in Ken
lucky and Virginia in the tobacco
fields. In view of these statements,
if the power should be conferred upon
Congress to control the labor of child
rem under Is years of age. God alone
KNOWS what future Congresses will do.
Today we have legislation by blocs
The farm bloc, the farmer-labor bloc,
che labor bloc, the wet bloc, the dry
bloc, and blocs without number-and
there is no telling what these blocs,
supported by paid propaganda be
hind them, may force Congress in the
future to do.
In every section of the country
are many splendid people rich in wo-
and character who are poor !
in this worlds goods, and they and
heir children must work to meet the
necessities of life. Millions of them
ire engaged on the farms, and, in my
work on farm is not in
furious to anyone. l believe 80 perl
,ent of the members of this House
worked before they were IS years old,
nd l know that myself went to work
t IL years of age, and from that day
ntil this have supported myself, and |
do not think / am any the worse
or it.
81 am southern man, and / have
he kindhest feeling for the negroI
ace; and if this amendment is adopt
and congress should pass law for
idding negroes under IS years to
-ork ON the farm, God pity them; for
Il
know not how they would live. Their
Ibor is essential to their maintenance
g An idle brain is the DEVILS work
lop.' If Congress should enact a law
nder this proposed amendment, which
would have the power to do, that
inors under Is years should not work,
hat lawlessness and chaos would TO-
W in many communities the Supreme
uler of the Universe alone knows.
such minors are forbidden to do \
holesome work, millions of citizens =
i'll become a public charge and Con- !"
ess will be forced to feed and clothe :
EN- out of the public treasury. The .
xpayers will be called upon to pay
veral hundred millions of dollars
ar of taxes in addition to what they - :,
Q now paying to meet this civil pen !,
IN list. - a.
These were wise words though they /"
re UNDECIDED by the majority, which q
ted for this amendment in the
,use of Representatives.
Since the foundation of the Federal
non nearly three thousand amend or
nts to the Constitution have been TO
opposed, but less than twenty have w,
en- adopted, Strange to say, this oil
rst one of all has received the APP 70
wal of both houses of Congress. ~
It is worse than paternalistic; it is or
ialistic. Yes, it is worse than so do
listic; it is bolshevistic. That is to
!, it is of the same type of social
| with which Lenine and Trotsky i,
re cursed Russia. 1t is the rankest
most ruinous form of radicalism.
e in America have been using the
m Hbolshevism in very loose
inaccurate way. 1t has been en-
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