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Show COLONEL ROOSEVELT CHAMPIONS CHILDREN Insists That National Law to Regulate . Child Labor Should Be Passed. KANSAS CITY. Sept. 21. Criticism of the judiciary and a plea for immediate laws to regulate child labor were voiced by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt in an address ad-dress made in Kansas Citv, Kan., tonight. to-night. He said: The Progressives want a national law to put a stop to child labor and we are going to have it. The Republicans Re-publicans and Democrats say it ia against the constitution to pass such a law, but in the day when the constitution con-stitution ,was written there was no child labor. We should choose our laws to suit the present needs of our people. No man admires the constitution more than I. No man admires more the lathers that wrote it than I. I admire ad-mire them intelligently, for I know what they didn't then. New York has the proud distinction of having t he most reactionary judiciary ju-diciary in the country and the funny thing is that the men who compose its courts are A-No. 1 men and could settle a dispute between two men with perfect justice. When they settle a law case, however, how-ever, they don't think of the human being involved. They think only of' the papers, precedents and arguments. argu-ments. The Roosevelt party will leave here tomorrow to-morrow morning for Lincoln. Neb., where Colonel R.oosevelt wnll speak tomorrow night. |