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MORE ABOUT OUR COURT BY JUSTICE JOHN FORD, of "'the Supreme Court of New York ^ ' 4 I > o U R Federal judiciary, through usurped power and perversiqn of 'the Constitution, has thatiinstruraent; a, straight jack' American democracy. The Su_ Court Justices were not satisfied with arrogating to themselves the func tion of vetoing laws passed by; the responsible representatives of "the •people. Nor .was their lust for power satia ted by the further usurpation of pow er, to disregard the plain language of „ those laws which they graciously al lowed to stand and to give to them such meaning as suited their own private views under the “rule of reason’* promulgated in the Standard 'Oil case. They have gone t farther, and now boldly assert their right to declare the public policy of the na 'tion and of every state. * Jefferson’s Principle. A democracy is a living, growilg, expanding organism. Social progress ill the primary motive of its being. Its constant endeavor is to realize Jefferson’s “greatest good for the greatest number.” Its life principle flows from the intelligence and ethi caj( concepts of the masses. To bring within their reach opportunity for education, culture and development of the higher human instincts and aspirations is a fundamental neces sity for the accomplishments of its sublime mission. Hampering, hindering, blocking the progress of Our democracy toward ~ its ideals stand the nine puny mortals who constitute the United States Supreme Court. Ajnd what they say is final and binding upon every sub ordinate Federal judge and of com pelling influence ordinarily upon all the State courts. Illustrative of this obstructive policy of the Supreme Court toward humanitarian legisla tion are its successive decisions anull ing the two child labor laws. The first act was passed in 1916. For upward of ten years devoted men and women had worked untiringly to procure its enactment. It was back ed by the American Federation of ^abor and labor unions generally, and especially by the women’s organ izations and philanthropic and reli gious societies throughout the coun try. Shocking Evil* Shown. ~ Exhaustive hearings were had be fore the committees of Congress re sulting in a mountainous mass of evi dence showing the shocking evils in cident to the employment of child Tabor in gainful. industry. Here is an extract from a Senate report; “Evidence is overwhelming that J unregulated child labor does not pro mote a healthy citizenship; that it tends to the deterioration of the race, physically; and the dwarfing of child ren mentally through the denikliiof full opportunity for education; and m crjartualitjOsilite "the statistics; <jf, our juvefijle courts show that by fat the largest percentages of juvenile delinquents are the children whbj.are put to work too soon rather than the children who are trained in the schools.” , During the years of agitation for the measure similar evidence dqluged GOLD SEAL, USED CARS V: - ■ ' ■ •••' ' , ' ' - ■ ■ ••• ' H - ■ ■ ; ' ' ■ . —are— GUARANTEED We loan you the money to buy with You pay back in easy, long time installments while you are getting pleasure and use out of your car. Why Not? A Gold Seal Used Car is a better investment than ' some new ones. COME NOW! Charlotte Motor Car Co. $01 E. Trade St. Phone 961 “THE GOLD SEAL HOUSE” Congress proving that child labor shortened life, bred disease and fos tered criminality. The only opposi tion came from, the employers who \Vere coining the souls pf ' children into tainted dollars. Also, a strong plea was made for the/law on the ground of commercial fair play. Some states had effective child labor laws, some had none. The manufac turers of the former could not suc cessfully compete with those of the latter in interstate commerce be cause of the cheap child labor and consequent smaller cost of produc tion in the States of unrestricted child labor. , Child Law Overturned. Congress has exclusive jurisdiction over interstate commerce, and the first child labor law passed merely excluded the products of factories employing such labor from that com tierce. The vote in the house on the bill was 337 to 46 and in the Senate 52 to 12. It became a law by the signature of President Wilson. The Federal Children’s Bureau undertook its administration under the direc tion of that noble woman, Julia Lath rop. Under her supervision the new law was working out effectively and without material friction. The death knell of child labor restriction in America was sounded when an in ferior Federal judge in North Caro lina declared the law unconstitution al. In 1918 the case reached the Su preme Court and that tribunal up held the judgment of the North Car olina judge in one of its notorious $ to-4 decisions. Justice Holmes wrote a tellir" dissenting opinion concurred in by Justices McKenna, Brandeis and Clarke. Thus again the vote of one non-elective, irre sponsible, life-term justice set at naught the votes of 337 Representa tives, 52 Senators, the approval of the President and the views of the Department of Justice, which advis ed the President that the bill was constitutional. Margin of Loss omall. Among these 389 representatives of the • people in Congress and in the Department of Justice there were many lawyers of renowned learning and ability. They all in effect had declared the law constitutional. They represented the weight of legal au thority as against the five men who declared it unconstitutional. The Representatives, the Senators and the President were all sworn as solemn ly as were the Supreme Court Justi ces to support the Constitution. Yet the wotes of five out of the nine jus tices prevailed over all the others, in cluding four justices who voted to sustain the validity of this great hu manitarian enactment, i Again the forces of righteousness set to work and caused a biH to be ifprepMired«thafc would meet the «bjec ■tion 'of- fKer cdtaft to the former meas Nise. The highest legal talent was en listed, and it was decided to follow precisely the form of other laws which had met the approval of the court. The new measure imposed an excise tax on manufacturers employ ing child labor when their products entered interstate commerce. This second act was duly passed and ap proved by the President but scarcely was the ink dry when it was annull ed by an inferior judge again in North Carolina. The Supreme Court promptly -affirmed his decision, and thus the brutal conditions of child lgbor were continued .-uJWiijK'the Con stitution shall have been amended. In the meantime, more than a million children between the ages of ten and sixteen years must go on wrecking their young lives and stunting their intellectual and moral development to the enrichment of soulless em ployers. Paint* Sad Picture. In his annual report of last year Secretary of Labor Davis painted this picture of the inhuman condi tions which exist under the protec tion of the Supreme Court: “The destiny of the poor victims seems clear. When they reach the age of manhood and womanhood, in stead of being able to do their share of the world's work and do it effec-; tively and efficiently, they are wrecks physically, mentally, and morally, a large percentage of them landing in the poorhouse, the madhouse, the jail or the grave. There is not a single defense that can be urged to this awful system.’’ It was Chief Justice Taft who wrote the prevailing opinion annull ing the second child labor law. .Note the .arrogant tone of him as he nulli fies the will of the people as ex pressed by the overwhelming vote of their Congress' and the approval of their President: Taft and Has High Record. “It is the duty and high function of this court,” he proclaimed, “in cases regularly brought to its bar, to decline to recognize or, enforce seem* ing laws of Congress dealing with subjects. not intrusted to Congress but left or committed by the sup reme law of the land to the control of the States. We cannotavoid! the duty, even though it requires us to refuse to give effect ter legislation designed to promote the. highest good.” The average citizen knows nothing about most of the nine irresponsible men who control so largely hjs coun try and its destines. He had nothing to do with their selection, and never heard of them until their appoint ment was announced in the news papers. But he does know a lot about Chief Justice Taft who was President for four years, and the candidate of his party for a second term. The Taft Administration Was dis tinctly commonplace, except in so fhi as it was a model of standpatism. It endeared the President to the forces of plutocracy, At the end of his term they were solidly for his re nomination, but the rank and file of his party, the plain people, were solidly against him and demanded the nomination of Roosevelt in his stead. The agents of plutocracy were notoriously in control of the Republican convention of 1912, and they were deaf to the protests of the Republican voters. Plutocracy ruthlessly squelched Roosevelt sentiment and forced the renomination of Taft, Roosevelt and his followers revolted, .organized the Progressive party, and put' a ticket in the field, with Roosevelt himself at its head for President. This great Chief Justice, who now sits where he can by his single vote nullify the people’s will and scoff at it as “public clamor,” with four years’ record as President before the elec torate and backed by all the power of plutocracy, his party machine and his presidential patronage, > was able to win only 8 out of 531 electoral votes. If the people had had a direct vote on his elevation to the Supreme Bench, how many votes would he have received? Yet there he is for life, to force his bourbon views upon the country by judicial decree, with no power in the people to get rid of him, while he complacently draws his $10,000 pension from the earnings of the Steel trust. (Copyright, 1923, N. Y. American.) WISHING. Do you wish the world were better? Let me tell you what to do. Set a watch upon your actions, Keep them always straight and true. Rid your mind of selfish motives, Let your thoughts be clean and high;. You can mAk'e a little Eden Of the sphere you occupy. Do you wish the world, were wiser? Well, suppose you make a start By accumulating wisdom In the scrap book of your heart. Do not waste one page of folly, Live to learn and learn to live; If you want to give men knowledge You must get it ere you give. Do you wish the world were happy? Then remember day by day Just to scatter seeds of kindness As you pass along., the way. , i . For the pleasures of the many ; Rfay be oftimes traced to One, As the hand that plants the acorn Shelters many from the sun. —Margaret Reedy. WHOLESALE PRICES. WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.—Com paring wholesale prices in Octobei with those of a year ago, as meas used by changes in the index num bers, the general price level has de clined less than 1 per cent, says the United States bureau of labor statis tics in its latest release on wholesalt prices. V Fuet*and lighting materials aver aged 24 per cent lower than in Oc tober, 1922, while building materials were slightly lower. The group of miscellaneous commodities showed no change in the price level. In all oth er groups prices were appreciably higher than in October of last year. Saturday last day to register for school bond election. Register and vote your sentiments, whatever they are. As for us, we are in favor of the school bonds. LIONS CLUB OF CHARLOTTE Presents Black and White Minstrels BENEFIT BOY SCOUTS’ BAND Wednesday and Thursday » December 5 and 6 8:00 o’clock p. m. City Auditorium Tickets on sale at J. P. Stowe & Co., Lynch’s Pharmacy, Tryon Drug Co., in Charlotte, and at Gamble Drug Company, Nbrth Charlotte. NOTE:—Gamble Drug Company very kindly consented to seU tickets in North Charlotte for the con venience of the citizens of that section of the city. j WIT AT RANDOM She—Oh, I wish the Lord had made me a man ! He— (bashfully)—i£e did. I am the man.—‘Punch Bowl. Grace—Oh l Stealing jam! I’m going to tell mama! Freddy — Wouldn't you rather have some jam?—Delineator. “There’s a man outside,' sir, that wants to see you about a bill you owe him. He wouldn't give his name.” • ”What does he look like?” “Well, he looks like you’d'better pay it.”—Life. “Did any of your family ever make a brilliant marriage?” "Only my wife.”—Boston Evening Transcript. > “Well, I imagine those who have been married themselves start it, and the others join in.”—Boston Evening Transcript. Shop Foreman—-You ain’t one of them blokes wot drops their tools drtd scoots as soon as knock-off, mows, are you? Lily White—Not me. u Why, I often have to wait five minutes, after I put me tools away before the whistle goes..—The Sydney Bulletin. Mother (to daughter)— JVIy. good ness, how did you get all that , ink, on the side of your face? Daughter’s fiance (unconsciously searching in his vest pocket).—Gosh! Is that pen leaking again?—Jack-o Lantern. Teacher—(jocularly) —“Do you know anything worse that a giraffe with a stiff neck?” , Pupil—“Yes, sir!” Teacher—“What?” Pupil—“A centipede with corns.” —Kasper (Stockholm). The Sunday School teacher asked the small boy, “Tommy, what must you do to save your soul?” Tommy stuttered and stammered. He did not knew. Then a little neighbor whispered to him'; “Wor ship—” 1" Tommy then said: “Oh, yes. To save my soul I must wash it.” A colored revival was in full blast and one old fellow was exhorting the people to contribute generously. “Look what de Lawd’s done fo’ you all, bredren!”.he shouted. “Give Him a portion of all you has. Give him a tenth. A- tenth belongs to de Lawd!” ■> “Amen!” yelled1 a perspiring mem ber of the congregation, overcome by embtioh. “GlorrtJ de Lawd! Give Him mo’, Give Him a twentieth!” —Selected. n . A speaker at a minister s meeting in Boston told the story of a negro clergyman who so pestered his bishop with appeals for help that it became necessary to tell him that he must not send any more appeals. H,is next communication was as follows: “This is not an appeal. It is a report- I have no pants.”—Houston. A chap was hrr^sted for assault iind battery and .brought up before the judge. Judge—(to prisoner)—What is your name, your occupation and what are >vou charged with? Prisoner—My name is Sparks, I am an electrician, and I am charged with battery. Judge—Officer, put this guy in a dry cell—The Inland Merchant. “Pass?” asked the sentry. “Countersign?” “Countersign! Don’ know nuthin’ ’bout no countersign.” “Well, you can’t leave camp with out the countersign.” Rastus thought it over and his grievances mounted high wjjj-ljin Jiim. The time had come for action, With a swift motion he produced a razor from his puttee and flourished it open under the sentry’s nose: “Listen, Mis tuh Sentry, Ah don’ 'want to staht no trouble, but—Ah got a mothin in heaven, a father in hell, and a gal in this yeah town, and Ah’m suah gwine to see one of dem tonight,!” Of course the story of the lazy negro who guided his mule simply by saying “gee” and “haw;” is well known, but a man in a small town who was making a purchase in a store found a lazier person. " ! . As he came out of the Stone he noted that a tramp was leaning on a wheel of his buggy. As the man got into the wagon, he dskepl the tramp, who was still leaning, what he wanted. “I*m just waiting for you to start so the wheel will light my match,” was the reply. Blinks, after inviting his 1 friend Jinks to dinner, was telling him abbut the remarkable memory of his little son, Bobby. “And do you think he will remember me?” asked Jinks. “Remember you? Why certainly he will.” An hour later they entered the house, and after Jinks had greeted Mi’s. Blinks, he called Bobby over to him. “And do you remember me, my little man?” ' “ ’Course I do. You’re the man that pa brought home last year, and made ma so wild about it that she didn’t speak to pa'for a week.”— Mobile Register. A STARTER. Fanner—-“Now, come along, and I’ll teach you to milk the cow.” Cockney H&nd-—“Seein’ I’m new to it, Mister, hadn’t I better learn on the calf?”—London Opinion. \ BELK BROS. CO. “Better Values For Less” Sell It For Less BELK BROS. CO. “Hbme of Better Value*” A FEW THINGS NECESSARY IN EVERY HOME—AND FOR LESS QUILT COTTON Quilt Cotton, in 8 and 10 oz. Packages for making good Comforts and Quilts— ’ 10c 12ic 15c Package The large size—3 pound packages for making Quilts. Made of beautiful White Cotton, woven 90 inches wide. Fine white cotton? Three pdtmds make a beau tiful Quilt. Package— $1.25 QUILT LININGS Linings for the Quilts can be had at— 10cand 12ic YD , „ Either in white or colored. WOOL BATS For leaking Wool Quilts and Comforts. Made 90 inches wide. Ready to put in the Quilt. All-wboh Three pounds to the package, for— $1.50 This makes a very fine and warm, quilt. China Cotton and American Wool Bats 50 Per Cent Each The prettiest and whitest cotton you ever saw—and the wool is as white as can be. Very beautiful—they come in three pounds to the package, 90 inches W(ide, ready for Quilts. Come in and see them. $2.98 A Package BLANKETS BLANKETS YOU PROBABLY HAVE NOT BOUGHT ALL THE BLANK ETS YOU NEED—COME IN AND SEE THESE SPECIALS An Extra Beautiful Quality in large plaids. Very soft and fine—25 per cent Wool but feels like all wood— 66x80 and there are no better to be had for $6.95 a pair. We have several pairs left from a special Sale at.. 500 Pairs Fine All Wool Blankets In the best and purest wool. 66x80 and 68x80. Beautiful plaids. Grays or plain white at— $6.95 and $7.95 Blankets for the Babies In All Sizes Pretty Annual and Floral Designs, at— 75c85c 98c $1.39 V We are selling Good Heavy Outings at 15c, 16 l-2c, 18c We are Selling Good Canton Flanhels at 16 J-2c to 20c SWEATERS For the Boys and Girls In Just the Kind They Want at ' i $1.50, $1.98, $2.48 and $2.98 And Sweaters for the Women All Ages At $2.98 $3.98 $4.95 *° $7.95 The new; Brush Wool Sweaters included. Ladies’ Ready-to-Wear This week we are specializing on 200 Ladies’ Coats in all the new material and styles, at $9.95 to $19.95 200 FINE WOOL DRESSES • X ON SALE THIS WEEK 1 Every dress a new model—the goods are the new; materials and styles up to the last thing in dresses, at— $9.95 $16.50 $19.95 Dresses Worth $15.00 to $25.00 Many Other Special Values We Haven’t Space to Recall in the Ad—Come to See Us and SAVE MONEY. Belk Bros, Company
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