Child Labor Reform
A Mothers* Fight.
Hv EDW ARD EVERETT HALE.
Dr. E Iward Everett Hale, dis
tinguished pit riot. chaplain of
the United S int?"' Senate. Arueri
ca's Grand Old Man, loo hwome
active in the failure now being
waged agunst the evils of child
labor. In a nuking uppeal to
mothers of the country, publish
ed in the And Child Slavery
League's official organ, the |
Woman's Home Companion for
October, he says:
Looking with a wide range.
over this dear America of outs, 11
think the beet and the happiest j
life for any boy is the wide range.:
open-air life of thecountiy where;
he and his father und his mother
are all united in plan. and in
fact, in the daily life of home.
lu what I might almost call
this natural system?the *\ seem
which the American p< ople have j
worked out for themselves
wherever they were not closely
cemented <ogether, four points
of the first 'm'<0vtenee in educa
tion are iusu ?o I'irst of all
the boys au<l go Is h.. vc the ad
vantagi of u s-ieut tie iollitein
the open air. This is essential to
al1 good education.
Second, boys and girls under
this system liave a great deal of
intercourse with their fathers
and mothers. This is very de
sirable to all education, and a
failure here is a very serious fail
ure.
Third, the children of the
neighborhood are brought to
gether in their schools and, in
deed, in all their active life. This
is essential also; for together is
one of the central words of real
life. Many a fine man or woman
is lost to the world because of
shyness aud other forms of ina
bility which were really cultivat
ed in youth. On the other hand,
joy in society is natural to the
humau race, which for the pur
poses of such society has tongue
aud lips and ears. And, to add
one more necessity in educatiou,
this system gives the great I
cbauce for health. .Not to go
farther, where we have so little
space, a large life, a life con-1
stantly enlarging, a social life
and a strong aud happy life are
well-nigh insured in such u sys-!
tern.
Let us compare this with what
is now almost a system; which
takes possession of that sixth
part of the children which havej
been aduded to. Suppose a lit-'
tie girl eight years old is takeu !
into a shirt factory, where she is
to spend ten hours a day, or per
haps eleven or twelve. Sunday j
is the only day, you might say, j
when she can look up at the sky
or look around on Hod's world.
It is the only day in which for j
any purpose worth considering
Bbe can ruu and play and exer
cise the bands and feet and arms
and legs with which she was
born. The chances are against!
ber in the matter of using her
tongue or her ears The rule of
the workshop probably forbids
her talking or listeniug except \
to the instructions for the daily
work.
And it is hardly an even chance
whether she knows her father and
mother and her big brothers and
sisters by sight. Anything which
you aud I would call home ie(
(roue.
t ?r tMke the boy of eight or ten
, or twelve years, who in net to
work iu 'he factory. There are
a irreut many days in the year
wneu he must be up and report
j at the mill before daylight. Sup
pose no law forbide child laboi;
[ that mill may run twelve or
more houre out of the twenty
four. Now look in your alma
nac and see how many days
there are when there are not
ten houre between eunriee and 1
Minuet. Ail tboee daye the
little fellow muet go iu the
dark and come back iu the dark
to the mill. He must be in the
mill as eoon ae the powerieturn
ed on. If he ie not there he loeee
the day's work, and lie loeee the
day's wages, very likely. 1 can
not say precisely what he will do
in the mill. I'erhape hie busi
neee ie to "carry waste." That
ie, he-has to sweep up the waste
from the cotton which hae re
fused to be spun, to fill great
baskets on wheels with it, and
wheel those baskets from room
| to room till he comes to the
dumping-room. There he emp
ties the basket, and then he goes
hack to the place he started
from He does this for ten hours
of the day, or for eleven hoursor
for twelve hours, as may be di
rected by the laws of the State in
which he lives.
if you want to see how such
mill children look when they are
at their work, or after it, Hud
the Woman's Home Companion
and examine the pictures which
we have printed for you there
Now, compare this girl in the
shirt-room, or the boy and girl
in the factory, with your own
boy and girl of any age between
seveu and tifteeu. In the first
place, neither in the shirt-room
or in thp factory has boy or girl
any chance for life in the open i
air. If their fathers or mothers j
mean to have them work in the i
mill or in the shop, they live as
near the mill or the shop as they
cau. True, the mill is not a I
prison, but for the work hours it
is very nearly a prison. The
children cannot talk to each
other, they cannot look out of
the windows, they eanuot stop
while the machinery is wording.
This means that they have not
the fun and joy which children
ought to have in the beautiful
world which the good God has
made for them.
Of this imprisonmentyou must
let me speak very seriously, for
it means something which ought
to come very close to the hearts
of every father and mother who
reads these lines, it is not true
that Nahum is any nearer to
God when be takes down the bars
to let the cattle into the pasture,
or when he puts them up again,
or when he climbs a tree to see if
the wild cherries are ripe,or when i
he throws a stone into the chest-1
nut tree to make the burs fall
He is no nearer to God than;
Hosea is, who is for ten hours of j
that same day wheeling cottou j
waste in the mill.
No! Hut Nahum sees God a
hundred times, aud hears what
| he has to say a hundred times,
while he drives the rows to past
ure aud takes down the bars and
climbs the cherry tree or breaks
open the chestnut burs, for once ,
when the poor Micah in the midst (
of the clatter and dust aud smell
of the factory sees him or hears
him ?'
What you and I can do about!1
it is this: . ^
U e can re -oiiect what we were }'
when we were eight and nine aud '
tm and eleven aud twelve years u
old.
We can a*k ourselves whether] (
it would have been a good thing { \
for us to be shut up in the facto- J r]
r.v or a sewing-room three hun- j y
Ured and six days everv year at,
that time ot life
Kvery one of us knows that it y
would have been a bad thing.
First?Those are the growing
^earsol life. You and I, well, j '
perhaps we were four inches tall- 1
er eveiv year than we were the ]
,>ear before. We did not earuji
any wages?no! Hut we were!*
growing up strong and well be-, 1
cause we could try ourselves iu c
all sorts of lite. We bad good
exercise. We bad as much to eat ,
oi what was good for us to eat, ,
aud we were happy. I
^ecoud?We recollect again ,
that we were a great deal with f
our fathers aud mothers aud ,
brothers and sisters. We knew ,
what the word home was, and j
that home is the dearest place in ,
this world.
Third?We do not talk about t
it a great deal, for it is too sa
cred a thing to be lightly talked
about, but some of us, perhap*
all of us, found out that God is
our loving father; that He is very ]
near to us aud we are very near
to Him. We would not lote the
memories and the heip of what <
He has told us and we have told |
Him for anything which you can i
offer us. |
Fourth?Most of us came out, i
wheu we were sixteen years old, j
strong and well, ready to take ]
part with the best men and wo- '
men in the world, in the very
best work of the world. '
1 think myself that that would j
be a wise Nation or a wise tstate <
which would make such laws that j
people snail not make money out <
of their children before they are '
sixteen years old. 1 think it i
would be a good thing to devote !
those sixteen years wholly to the j
education of the children, to |
making them better men and J ,
women. Let boy aud girl helph
in the home. The more work j |
they do there the better. But
let them be the companions of j ]
fathers or mothers as much as J ,
possible until they are sixteeu. j j
But here is oue of the cases where i
1 cannot have my own way. The 1
custom is so general which per- !
mits fathers aud mothers to |
"hire out" their children as the !
phrase is, that you and I cannot
make a law that children shall
not earn wages before they are'
sixteen.
What can we do? We can say
that they shall not be confined
in factories or workshops, ex- j
cepting for very limited hours,
before they are fourteen. We
can say, until a boy or girl is
sixteeu they shall have the priv- j i
liege of going to school at least j "
half the year. In some cases we |
can say that one set of children
at work shall work in the morn
ing aud another set shall take j t
their places in the afternoon -
Tnis is a practicable method of ,
legislation which has not yet t
been applied. But the sooner it
i J ?. ? I _ ii' ?
in appueu iue uener. oecan in
sist ou a very careful and rigid
inspection of factories and work
shops by public officers who are
iu nowise precuniaril.v interested
in the establishments which they
examine. Such examinations '
should be possible at any hour v
of any day, and the publicity 1
given to the results should be 1
such as should make it certain
that factory or workshop visited H
shall be kept neat and sweet aud
cleau?a tit place for the best
prince or princess iu the land to
work iu. ^
I do not think that there is one
woman out of a million women
who will read about the progress
of child labor reform in the Wo-.
man's Home Companion who
does not know bow she can act,
whether on some particular
workshop in the town she lives, I
or in giving information in some
club or circle to which she be
longs, or in cultivating through
the press such information as
Companion with every month;
will give her?or by direct con
versation or correspondence with .
some member of the Legislature. '
This country is governed, and
ought to be governed, by puhli?
opinion. And you and 1, dear
reader, must do our share to
keep the public opinion good aud
just.
We have several good second j
hand Buggies for sale cheap. '
The Ellington Buggy Co.
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Dr. Edward Everrtt Hale, Chaplain of the United States Senate, who mala* a *110108 appeal in tha
Woman'* Home Companion (of a mother*' fight against Child Labor
From Overshot.
Thanksirivirij; passed almost
mobserved in tins community
id the 2!Jth.
A protracted lliee'llu: IS ilHD>r
arried c l?y t*e Frewill Hap.
ists at N w Z aland Phurch.
V It strieltland and a Mr. It lav
nek ap?- ooinc rh? preaching
Phere Iimvm i ei>n no accessions
ip to r hi- ? iui-.
Our public -c i nil at Sindv
irove under the mann;erneiit of
jr. J. H l.a >tf->oij is iii1 ? viasr
id aicwlv, an i we are h ipinjf f >r
;ood require
Hoy killing will he on in all its
;lory for the next tew days in
his ueitrhh irtjo ??! Oil Capt.
It Hood lias a lot of fine ones
hat be exp-cts t" slaughter to
uorrow
Old in in < din Jackson and
Jr. Ueddiii Carr, hotti of Samp*
od Pouuty and highly respected
n their coiuinu'iiiies, died a day
ir so a no at a ri|ie old ayre.
We were verv much saddened
o see an account of the death of
it|r e-.teeuieil tfiend. I);1, li L>
iarper. of Kinston. N. C. I'r.
larper and the writer were close
r ends hi vuijiiir manhood and
ip to th-time He left this corn
uunitv for tne active duties of
ife H ? din in it live in vain, hut
or the f;uod ne luiKDtilohumaii
ty. Peace to his ashes is the
ribute we pay to his memory.
Dec. 2nd. W. N. R.
FACTS IN NATURE.
Rot Only Do We Get Inspiration Fran
Nature, But Health as Well.
For people who are run-down and nerv
>us, who suffer from indigestion or dys
pepsia, headache, biliousness, or torpid
Iyer, coated tongue with bitter taste in
ihc morning and poor appetite, it be
somes necessary to turn to some tonic or
itrengthener which will assist Nature
md help them to get on their feet and
put the body into Its proper condition. It
s becoming more and more apparent that
N'attire's most valuable health - giving
igeiiis are to be found in forest plants
md roots.
Nearly forty years ago. Dr. R.V. Pierce,
sow consulting physician to the Invalids'
Hotel and Surgical Institute, at Buffalo,
N. Y., discovered that by scientifically
attracting and combining certain medici
jal principles from native roots, taken
from our American forests, he could pro
line a medicine which was marvelously
sllicient in curing cases of blood disorder
md liver and stomach trouble as well as
many other chronic, or lingering ail
ments. This concentrated extract of
Nature's vitality lie named "Golden Med
ical Discovery." It purities the blood by
putting the stomach and liver into
healthy condition, thereby helping the
digestion and assimilation of food which
teods the blood. Thereby it cures weak
stomach, indigestion, torpid liver, or bil
iousness, and kindred derangements.
If you have coated tongue, with bitter
or bad taste in the morning, frequent
headaches, feel weak, easily tired, stitches
or pain in side, back gives out easily and
aches, belching of gas, constipation, or
Irregular bowels, feel dashes 01 heat al
ternating with chilly sensations or kin
Ired symptoms, they point to derange
ment of your stomach, liver and kidneys,
which the "Golden Medical Discovery"
will correct more speedily and perma
nently than any other known agent. Con
talns no alcohol or habit-forming drugs.
All its Ingredients printed in plain Eng
lish on wrapper.
The sole motive for substitution is to
permit the dealer to make a little more
profit, lie gains; you lose. Accept no sub
stitute for "Golden Medical Discovery."
Constipation causes and aggravates
many serious diseases. It Is thoroughly
cured by Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets.
One a laxative; two or three are cathartic.
If you wish to buy fine trim
ned hats at lit ing pi*ices go to
ifelvington's Millinery Store.
NOTICE!
Taken up at my house, one
jlack boar with blaze face; mark
iwallow fork in each ear. Own
sr can trot him by paying for
his notice and feed.
C V. Bailey,
K. 1. Selma. N. C.
NOTICE!
On account of a miller we will
lave to stop our coru and Hour
nill on Swift Creek. Would be
?ery plad to have some compe
>eteut man apply. We want a
niller for certain part of toll.
iVill notify the public when we
tart up apain. ?
Respectfully,
A. M. ?& P. W. Barber.
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I want to buy Cattle, Pork,
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I run a
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Restaurant in Connection
and meals served at all
how- I ask vour patron
ape. Give me a call.
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BENSON, N. C.
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C. W. CARTER, Proprietor.
Cla.yton, N. C.
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I have a full stock of Shoes, Hats, Clothing, Notions
and other goods. Ladies Shoes from $1.25 to $3.00
per pair. Men's Shoes from $1.25 to $4 50 per pair.
Boys Suits from $1.50 to $4.50. Men's Suits from
$4.00 to $11.00. Umbrellas at all prices. Ladies
Shawls to suit all the ladies. A full line of Jewelry.
Ladies Rings from 25c to $3.00.
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Special - Sales - Every - Friday.
I thought of leaving Clayton some time ago but my
customers and friends urged me to stay and I have
decided to do so. I shall be here regularly now.
Come to see me. It costs you nothing to look. 1 am
satisfied with a small profit.
JOSEPH M1LAD,
CLAYTON, N. C.
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