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Show Vested interests andIpov-- andIpov-- ertyJ - Whenever the majority of the people peo-ple seem to have a chance of getting favorable laws, the small minority, the few that Senator LaFollcttc says control the country, rise up and talk about vested interests and property. This time, however, it is used by the Manufacturers' Association in a resolution reso-lution passed at their recent meeting in New York City. The resolution says: "We have had excess agitation under the guise of moral crusades, such as child labor, railway reform and similar movements, which are cx ccllcnt and desirable in reasonable measure, but not so when pressed to the hazard of vested interests and property." How the mind of any man of the least enlightenment and of even the vaguest morality could have' evolved that resolution, -is ha1rP to imagine. How a great national or- gahization could stamp it with its , approval is inconceivable. Butfin the ' " 5 u 1, t records of the National Association . 1? j8 L ' of Manufacturers stands that deplara tioii of- the principle that child-labor laws arc not excellent nor desirable, "when pressed to the hazard of vested interests and property." The Eastern Dealer. |