Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-06-05
HARTLEY


paper editors are shooting The
News-Rccord doesn't feel like
taking crack al such a target
Frankly there are four things al
number OF papers are censuring
the governor over, and this paper
believes the governor was right on
all four Of these matters, The first
storm arose over the federal child
labor bill. This paper pointed out
at the time that the regulation OF
child labor should be done by the
individual states, rathe than by
the federal government. What
concerns the industrial state of
Massachusetts certainly doesn't
greatly concern the agricultural
state of North Dakota. What
would be big issue in the cotton
growing state of Georgia would
hardly answer i'll the Yakima val
ley. When the governor stated
that the child that hadn't per
formed any work up to the time
he was Is years old would hardly
rank with Lincoln, a Garfield,
or a Roosevelt, he stated fact
The japanese school children are
running away from the American
children when everything in the
school is equal, and the Japanese
child commences to perform USE
full work as soon as. he learns to
walk. For the government to
enact law doing away with child
labor up to Is years of age, it
would be enacting a law nine
times out of ten based upon the
lhysterical wailing of some disap-
!pointed old maid.
s&aaasa&
The governor disapproyed bill
to pledge the credit of the. state
for 100000. to help the whea,
farmers of the eastern part of the
state to buy seed. The bankers
came to the aid of these farmers,
and as result $120,000. was ali
the farmers used! In other words
la generous legislature was senti.
mentally offering these farmers
twice as much as they wanted.
But it is the principle Of the mat
ter in which the News-Record APP
proves the Hartley stand, Ii would
be just as reasonable TO vote the
credit of the state to the apple
growers to buy lime-sulphur spray
material, or to the fishermen to
buy new boats, or to the daiIymen
to buy alfalfa hay, or TO the green
house growers to buy oil to heat
their hot houses. The whole thing
is class legislation, plus paterna-
/! ism. Better pass law to hang
1.-THE wheat gambler in the Chicago
ipit, then the wheat grower will
have money in the bank next yeal
to buy his own seed wheat. Pas.
a law to hang the Chicago CON
mission merchant, and the apple
grewer can buy his own spray ma
terial. There is something fal
I deeper than doing out few dol
lars to buy seed wheat-to follow
| Coolidge in working out a scheme
whereby the farmer can get bach
a fair return for his summers.
sweat. The farmer has been go.
ing in the hole for several years
the wheat gambler has been wax
ing fat. If every farmer woule
lay off for a year it would be q
good and wholesome thing fol-
American agriculture. The whea
gambler would be the one who
would start sweating, and tht
farmer would get a chance to en-
JOY the hammock under his owl
front yard. shade tree. We fancy
this was what Governor Hartley
had back of his pen when he We
toed the seed wheat bill.
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No one seemed to understand
why the governor acted as he die
on the third policy--of discourag
ing the Kittitas reclamation pro
ject. All the state had to do wa,
turn over few paltry thousand;
and Uncle Sam would turn ovel
several millions" 1t would topper
up new land, mean more homes
and the rose and peach would sup
plant the jack rabbit and the coy
ote. " Such is what the paper
say about the Kittitas scheme
and Hartley knocked it in tn,
head" Speaking generally, Their,
is already too much land, and tor
much is grown each year so fal
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