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

we have made crazy quilt of thu
Federal Constitution since 1865, whei
before that but declaration of prln
ciples and fundamental truths, where
in the rights of individuals, the power
Of the states and the power of tho
Federal Government, were stated, was
all it contained, a Baltimore lawyer
comes to the issue of the proposed goth
amendment.
This lawyer is Mr.. Calvin s.
Slagle. The twentieth amendment pro
posed to give Congress the power 10
regulate or prohibit the labor of all
persons below IS years of age. OF
the proposed amendment, Mr.. slagle
says:
1t is unadulterated bolshevism.
Lenine and Trotsky conceived few
ideas more revolutionary than this
1t implies the destruction of parental
authority and the life of the family,
and puts every child under the control
of the government so far as labor is
concerned until it is Is years of age.
/" Under the authority conferred by
this amendment Congress can pass
laws prohibiting any labor of children
under Is years of age, either in the
home or elsewhere. A farmer could
pc prohibited from requiring any work
from his children. Any work of child
rem under Is years of age might be
made violation of the law, for which
fines or Imprisonment could be afflict-
ed,
Continuing his correct comment up
on this bolshevisitic amendment, the
editor of the Advertiser says:
'1In Russia, the Government actual
ly assumes entire control over the
children of the land. Oddly enough,
remarks the Newport News Times
Herald, the Baltimore Sun publishes
letter from Brooklyn correspondent
on the same subject in which he points
out that the Child Labor Amendment
carrying express power over the la
bor' of persons under Is years of age
carries with it the necessary implied
power to control the education of sucA
persons. In other words, says he, lit
would make constitutional national
education bill.
Or, as the Times Herald puts it,
n commenting upon the foregoing:
And if parents report that they
ire not able to support their children
II idleness while they are attending
chool, what then9 Would the govern
nent not be compelled to provide Tor
he child 3 maintenance
1t is but step from one to the
Their.
Stress is laid by the advocates
t this measure on the fact that the
tates are given concurrent power with
he Federal Government. That is only
artly true, for the Federal law would
AXE precedence over the state law.
he states could not enforce any law .
hich conflicted with the Federal '
wv
''This may be progress, but it is not
berty. Americans of late have been
rofligate of their heritage of liberty. 4
they go on according to the present
'ndency, the time viii come, and I
thin a generation, when liberty in
merica will be nothing but faded
emory"
It seems that a majority of the
merican people are suffering with
the sleeping disease, and while
ey sleep their dearest and most sa-
ed possessions are being stolen from
EN-. Or, it is perhaps more accurate
say that they are intoxicated with
cir acquisition of mere things ma
rial. They are the richest people
w on the earth, or that ever was \
the world. And yet they want
IRE Like a victorious army, in
nnkenness devouring the spoiIs
itch they have won. They are in
niger of being disgracefully defeat
and ingloriously destroyed while IN
state of wild intoxication.
How can they be awakened from
'ir dangerous debauch in which
y forget many high things in the III
'orbing eff TT to get more gains?
Il they never awake until it is too
sY-By Bishop Warren A. Gambler.
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