Show CHILI LABOR A STATE ST. QUESTION New York Tribune The report of tho time hou house c committee on time the ju Judiciary denying the con constitutional power of oC congress to prohibit pm child labor sustains sus sus- talus the tho 1 position llon The Time Tribune has held regarding that question We Ye have ha havethe the utmost sympathy with wih the kindhearted kindhearted kind kind- hearted persons who are trying to end eili the he he sacrifice of or children to greed but hut their clear clea tut duty Is to make mako the negligent states state protect the children It I doubtless is more difficult to arouse mouse the tho dozen ozon or moro more states which arc are without t proper propel eh child li In labor bO la laws WM than to make a n single appeal to congress but tho the constitution can caim not be In In- In eted according to 1 if I I the powers o of congress a over O interstate interstate inter inter- state tate commerce extended to cover coyer coer coy cov co er articles ma made e by child labor that tha clau clause c could gradually be stretched so as ns to take the 1 vitality out of stat slat statS S government gO There There are two sl sides es to the tho of or tho ho assumption b by congress of oC duties duties du du- du J ties simply because certain states ne no gleet to do Oo them Such a u. course courso ma mahave mar have a n effect within th the negligent states but it will certainly have a n bad ono one upon the tho states that aro tiro coln doing their thel dut duty To have havo an nn ef- ef n Ioto have a c certain well veil wel defined sphere of br action acton and Us Its citizens must bo be In Inthe inthe the time habit of or expecting It to lo discharge it f Its proper propel responsibilities To transfer trans trans- fer or er certaIn Important state functions to tho the fedora federal government SO can only result In lii moral flabbiness In the lie states It I Is entering a general pica plea of state Incapacity while we wo havo noni no x noxall all ni over ovel tho ho country y general evidences evIdence of or a public desire for CO or moro mono state governments The Time states that are arc doing their duty should not be robbed of or their thel functions Now that the house committee has taken the lie reasonable m ground that this his is no proper subject for federal legislation legis legis- lation laton we wo hope that lint the friends of or children will concentrate their Influence wIl thel ence the tIme states upon uon permitting child labor In the time meanwhile the whole subject will wi be greatly cleared ed up through the coming Investigation by bythe bytho the tho thC department of commerce and la labor labor la- la bor into child labor When we know what states are arc the sinners s what states Hates are sacrificing the time health e education education edu edu- u- u cation caton and anti character of their citizens of the coming coining generation to build up Industries then thon lieu public opinion will wJ know where where- whereto to aim attn Its Hs righteous In In- In I |