Show I 4 y 6 Do Sugar Beet Fields Field Make Babies Babies The rest of the country has frequently condemned the South for employment of children in the cotton fields but now it will turn its attention to the West Vest In U the e United States senate a charge was made yesterday J that in inthe the the b bet beet et fields of the West Vest children as young as six years rears of age areY ar are Y 1 t J n made made de to work Senator Senator nato Thomas of Colorado a thorough h. h westerner himself ac ac- fainted q with the country west of the Mississippi as well as any I ft other Hother ther man in it is the m man n who made mad the statement r Ve We can an think of no more ore serious charge that can be made against gai st any community It is evident that the SUGAR TRUST IS is i blacker than we thought it was created conditions such bring about the robbery rob rob- Not only has it as bery berg of the gr grownups by making sonic some give their very lives by bylong long hours of toil at low wages in the factories while others contribute to its ts greed by paying outrage outrageous us prices for the table necessity b but t now it seems it is stealing a richer thing It is taking from little children the God given right TO PLAY AND BE HAPPY AND I GROW UP TO BE CONTENTED men and women with pleasant memories memories' i mories of childhood to look back upon It is inconceivable that a man with such a splendid reputation as as Senator tor Thomas of Colorado enjoys would make such a damning i statement about any section of the country without being able to to prove his allegation Therefore we think it is about time that congress started a thorough probe of this whole rotten sugar business It was bad enough for the sugar barons of Utah to charge their ha consumers rich and poor alike 2 per hundred pounds more in this r city than they they charge charge in Philadelphia It was bad enough for them to take advantage of the poor faithful faith- faith 1 t c ful slaves adults we mean who are arc willing to sweat and work their lives a away ay at long hours in their factories at miserable wages but r. r when the SUGAR TRUST allows its avaricious appetite for huge I profits to gain such control that it is iR willing to rob human beings of YOUTH itself then it is time for those i in power to see that this lust is no longer satisfied i. i The The poor devils who toil day in and day out with never a thought thoughts s of a vacation and who have to give up their money to the sugar i f tr trust st can somehow get along without that they can afford to be beLM LM cheated perhaps 5 Some day some of them may be fortunate enough to get back part of it many it-many many a man who is poor and struggles along in a miserable mis mis- erable condition some someday day wakes up rich rich but but what man who has lost his youth has ever gotten it back 1 What happy human did you ever see who hadn't had a pleasant childhood 7 The sugar trust is TAKING FROM THESE LITTLE ONES SOMETHING THAT IT CAN NEVER GIVE BACK TO THEM THEl Should the consciences of the men who make it necessary for these LITTLE ONES TO TOIL IN THE FIELDS ever become so that they would want to make amends for their evil deeds they would find it too foo late to ever give back to these children what what they have so cruelly taken away from them In this modern day a government built on a belief in human rights as that of the United States States' is certainly cannot longer afford to see e mere babies forced to labor in m the fields that the rich masters may grow fat and sleek on the results of their toil We thought that the war of f the settled once and for all the question of slavery in this country J |