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Show ; j page two TEX PEOTO POST c!,,r'cwuL-b.J.:InJospitalCusters Last Scout, a , ' CHILD LABOR LEGISLATION I' AND NEPOTISM LINCOLN All enlightened people recognize the Among the items in a publication running a of children column law labor the for chronicling happenings of fifty years regulatingby sity The conditions. certain ago today, and prohibiting it under appears one about Robert Todd immost Lincoln becominjg a member of GeneraUGrants conservation of the children is one of .the a be staff It the would, of states at jCity Point February 23, 1863. This was portant problems dwarf son bodies the their of the president, a young man freshlj and crime to stunt their minds. Men who would coin the lives pf children graduated from Harvard. lie doubtless owed his into profit deserve the contumely of the world. appointment to his fathers influence. "In fact The national house has just passed a nationaberild his father could have commissioned him into any labor, bill, barring.from interstate commerce all ordinary rank without provoking criticism or even under a certain attracting attention. But he chose a different wares made by children conditions. to GearMany peoplf method! lie wrote a confidential-tett- er age and under certain are averse to the extension of fedaral authority to Grant, reciting the boys history and his own anthis subject. But the bulk of the decisions seem xiety to have hip bee something of the war beCould to uphold the authority of cougress. Great as the fore it was done. The letter concluded: expense fur the federal government may be in the he without embarrassment to you or detriment enforcement of such a measure, it may.be worth to the service godnto your militaryTamily, and ubile for it will bring practical uniformity in the I, not the public furnish his necessary means? If " ,r" ' withemt-th- e states! least hesitation. Weause-"'777'" Such uniformity Is desirable.. .Under the am anxious and as deeply interested that you shall freedom of interstate commerce no state is inde- not be encumbered as you can be yourself. -Gem Grant replied on the blank half of the pendent of the others. It must meet in competition condition of states. other the Any the products presidents letter, apologizing that he had no other of over that which increases it cost of production paper available, granting the request, and sugotherstates greatly handicaps it. This is true of gesting that the rank be that of captain. He excompensation acts, ns weH as many other subjects plained that, he had three members of his staff of state legislation. In the case of child labor, of this rank, although they bad seen considerable state laws are ineffective in another respect. They service. .Young Lincoln served until the close of duiot even protect the children, for they can be theowar and had no little parkin the formalities taken by trainloads from states which have hight-law- s attending the closing scenes great.com into states which ignore the subject. Th ere flict.. The most interesting feature . , . , of the entire is also a national aspect Pf tit! matter, since tire transaction is children are prospective citizens and will hold the the careless reader may ot have caught. They were: I and not the pablie, furnishing the necdestiny of the nation in their habds. , J be sensible. But child labor legislation should essary means. j In the days whennepotisinJn The action of a few fanatics may bring the whole Missouri stalks abroad, naked and unashamed, subject into disrepute. Ip some states children it is well to note Lincolns conception of public from working for wag- duty. lle naturally desired that his son should pf the cities es at any time even out of school hours or during have a part in t&e closing scenes of the war with vacations. 'The women of the Pennsylvania have which his fathers name would be linked forever, recognized this fget and are demanding that the but he refused to let the peoples mony be used laws of that state be so altered that the children in. furtherance of this desire. of the cities and villages may be allowed to work during vacations and on Saturdays They argue DOES TAFT PREDICT WAR? wltlTtnucb; forer that an kilo mind ds th.leviTs In a recenT note AViTliamHoward "Taft, forworkshop. . They insist that if the children are net early taught to. do.something usefnl, they will mer president sounded a note of warning to the American people. Mr. Taftsayg the time is,, at grow up idlers. They do not object to the state hand for every American, every citizen of the prescribing rules as to the hours and conditions of labor or from barring the children from cer United States, to loyally uphold the president in tain kinds of labor. In the rural districts the his foreign relations, in any action he may deem hildren work at home. But in the villages and it necessary to take, irrespective of party lines. Are we to assume from this that Mr. Taft sees ritiea lhey have no such opportunity. They must States at war with one or more of the spend their houra out of school in idleness, usually the United in the near future! And if belligerants nthe streets. That this is injurious to them must foreign we in fof presecutrng such what" condition so are 3e admitted by all people who are at all tamiliai "We have only a handful of soldiers, an vjth huannature. The boy who has never done a war! are short of amunition, guns .ny labor until he is sixteen yearsof age begins inadequate navy, we are lamentably weak and defenses coast are few, ife under a great handicap. Child labor laws are wisean3 sanitaryPLuiT they, should le Jbased congress resolutely refuses to make adequate provision for defense.' mi common sense - trot.-says- 1 of-th- e ed f wat o o o it does we will be but paying the price libel suit The trial of the own shortsightedness. , as been set for April 19. Is this a mere coinciAnd today our Uncle Samuel is skating' dence that this is the anniversary of the first around on thin ice. bloodshed of our two greatest warsf o o-of-o- ur Barnes-Itooseve- lt -- Tuf"as gootT aYrlend' of peace as Mr.- An Iowa senator would appoint Mr, Taft and will not ask this country to declare war on Mr. Roosevelt On a commission to bring about Great Britain even if it did open one of his peace in Europe. But will not a preliminary com' " letters." , mission have to be named! v . Bar-thal- dt . O 0; Indian and military drama, the "x. "which is told before the story of How many hospital patients, suffer-- ; the frightful itch, the raw scorch-- I camera by Alfred L. Chapman In lng pain of skin disease, have, been S an aged Indian veteran of thvj ,? Dakoth Indian fights and the last surviving fitness of Custers last stand, will be shown t.. the Ellen Monday,, matinee and night The action of the 'story, told by Scout Chapman, is by all the great eompanj Of ICE Blsom Players, including hundreds of Indians and cavalrymen in costume. A real d scendant of Chief a graduate of the Carlisle Indian, school, plays tberole ot his ancestor in the drama of Custers massacres of Custers Last ALWAYS SlQilt takes place in 1876, whein our Indian wards decided to exPhone l64. terminate the white soldiers, -- into The-acti- on J 1 - Selling - -- Are less than any other concern in the State; hence we can sell . Household Cares J. WE MAKE Ta x the Women ' of Provo Same as Elsewhere - . , X of standing have tf famous specific ss well as the eflU&&, D. D. D. Skin Soap. But we are so confident of lhs merits of this prescription that we will refund the purchase price of the first full siss bottle if It falls to reach You alone are to judge. your case. 1 N. GULICIi, Center Proprietor SPECIALTY OF FEATHLR , PILLOWS AND BEDS , V' are-atme- m she seldom would kidneys were well. Doans Kidney Pills are ' . dorsed by thousands. Have been used it? kidney trouble over 50 years. 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