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Show IT -- THE CITIZEN k failed as a progressive people and it will not be long be-i- s year the gas companies throughout the country expended some nation disintegrates and falls to pieces. for construction and extension of service to meet necessary have it $450,-000,00- child amendment as introduced at Washington was a most measure. Of course it was defeated, but nevertheless, the fact that it had a hearing and much support. Now comes forth nor Smith and indorses the amendment, and we take it that he 5 because he might thereby secure certain support throughout lie 0 demand. s os antry. hat is this child amendment? is a measure which provides that no child under the age of j en years may be compelled to do manual labor without sanction federal government. If this amendment was passed, any one tnandyears of age or under could absolutely refuse to work at if forced to, could appeal to the government for protection, (course, those in favor of the measure would say that the fed- gvernment would use discretion in the matter and would treat lual cases as necessity demanded, but if such were a fact it take a bureau of many thousands of people to see that the law perly inforced and executed. he individuality of states is gradually lost by those seeking in Washington and at the. present rate that we are going it will Every long before we will entirely lose all state rights and deleft present powers states have to the central government at agton, which is already overburdened with so many bureaus q are standing in each others way and are unable to do I ef-wor- Two hundred million dollars in war boats went up in smoke the other day. They have been standing in the Potomac river since they were built. They were built for war purposes but were of such poor construction that after the war they could not be sold to private interests. That s one reason why taxes are high now. The government has always had the name of building well, but here is an example which would not stand investigation. Of course no one ever thought that the war would continue for ever, and evidently upon the presumption that the war would soon be over, the boats were constructed accordingly, as probably no one figured any use for them after the war. But whats two hundred million dollars to Uncle Sam? He loaned over fifty times that amount to the Allies and has not even sent a collector to Europe to make a collection. A few more potato and wheat crops and we should worry about debts. At that only about 2 per cent of the farmers pay an income tax. k. would a farmer do with several young men on the farm juld refuse to work because of the federal amendment which sj; lees them immunity from work? Propagandists of the pro-aiamendment say that the present measure does not in any way & the farmer boys and girls. e t (nil ell, if the measure includes the city boys and girls it must h farmers as well or it would be the rankest kind of class Jiy one who will read the proposed amendment and think for cL !, and not allow any one else to do his thinking, will come to the will cause iiy.i conclusion that this meddling in family affairs l id :ouble and do more injury to the country than anything else that ie mentioned. slong as the head of the house in a poor family is well and But when is(pt work he endeavors to send his children to school. ing happens in the way of sickness or accident, and generally hints no insurance, someone must be the bread earner and in such i generally find many willing hands to go out and earn sup-- r the family. If the children of the poor are to be kept from 3, not many of them would ever be able to secure an education, ust all work their way through school, and in these days when iblic free school is more expensive than the private school of years ago to attend, the poor have little or no opportunity for Htt hat p Isnt a Homme Witlhont a Teleplhone E e in-h- leg-net- tJERE is a young man. He has a new suit, i hi a dollar and a nickel. With the dollar he will buy two tickets for the movies. The nickel will be spent for a telephone call. He is a nice, young chap. But the girl without a telephone will stay at home. an. regulating the morals and liberties of the people are the Haws which make good breeding places for the much talked propaganda. The people living under a good government epi wnplain, but when government begins to be oppressive, then urei pie rise up in protest and future results always prove disas- ws ih thought that Smith was a bigger man than to allow him-tcaught by such propaganda as the child labor amendment, ;are also glad to find out his stand in the matter in order that akes will be made if he. ever runs for president of the United e ; icfc1, Set cwant er to A1 a big men for president and not radicals or reformers. t INCREASED GAS. is one of the most products vastly used of present-da4 other public utilities, represents an invested capital greater fr'. other American industry excepting agriculture and the rail-jc- J Its capitalization, together with that of the gas equipment, and f companies, has been estimated at some four billion dollars, k 4e past six years alone, the use of gas has shown an increase ;4an in the previous 100 years of the industrys existence. New are being added at the rate of 400,000 a year. In the past f y Yon Can Have One Soir a Few Cents a Day 3 Z |