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PUBLIC CONSCIENCE AROUSED TO GREAT EVIL
DREADFUL MENACE OF SOCIAL
ULCER A 8 SHOWN BY CONDI
TIONS IN LARGE CITIES.
STARTLING FIGURES ARE GIVEN
Low Wages Sending Thousands of
Victims to Underworld. Horrible
Revelations by Investigating Com
mittee of Illinois ILegislature.
There is no more hopeful sign of
the times than the awakening of the
American conscience to the frightful
menace to the nation of the social
evil. In the past the subject was
zenerally avoided. It was shunned
as one might shun a leper, and many
high-minded citizens contented them
selves with the reflection that the
social evil had always existed and
always would. Regarded in this light
commercialized vice was subjected to
attemptes to regulate and supervise
it. The system of regulation and
supervision was tried in many cities
and failed in all. In all the evil
zrew worse and the menace to the
nation greater.
But there were men and women
who did not fear to grapple with the
vice and gradually they aroused the
bublic conscience. Gradually the
lecessity of plain speaking concern
ing a plain evil was brought home to
many, and today the various phases
of the system are being discussed
Openly,
broblem,
The investigation in New York,
"hiladelphia and Chicago are educat
ing the public to the enormity of the
sistem, whose chief beneficiaries are
the promoters of the traffic and the
corrupt police officials who find in
tolerated vice the most fruitful
source of Jishonest cain. In the
invest:gativa »f the eril ir Chicago
the senate committee of the state
lezislature is probing deeply into the
inderlying cause of much of the hu
ian wretchedness and moral dere
liction which exists in that city.
llecognizing that mueh of the evil
is due to the fact that its clief vie
tims—young girls—are led into dives
of shame by inability to support
themselves upon the wages they earn
the leg'slature is contemplating the
lassage of a minimum wage scale
THE DAWSON NEWS.
designed to correct this tendeney.
Its investigating committee has had
before it the great employers of fe
male labor in Chicago and ‘has very
clearly brought out the fact that
while some of the girls are paid liv
ing wages others are not, the miser
able pittance given them being en
tirely inedequate to support them
without outside assistance.
Employer after employer has ex
pressed the view that $8 or $9 per
week was necessary for a girl to sup
port herself in decency and comfort,
‘and most of these employers, to their
credit be it said, declared their will
ingness to better conditions, particu
larly in the cases of girls of from 13
to 16 who are paid only $3 or $4 a
week. Some even expressed the opin
ion that they could pay the minimum
wage scale which the legislature con
\templetes enacting into law—§l2 a
week—without raising the price of
!any article to the consumer. But
‘they pointed out that if this sum was
i’flxed as a minimum others of their
‘employes now getting $l2 or over
would be dissatisfied and would
ask for more. In such case the prices
of commodities would have to be ad
vanced to the public and another re
gult also might follow. As $l2 as a
‘minimwm men in many cases might
‘be substituted for girls and women
‘and the latter would be forced to find
other means of livelihood. It is prob
‘able that the committee, whose work
‘will extend over a considerable peri
od, will recommend a minimum wage
scale for girls of $l2 a week. In its
investigations the committee had be
fore it various members of the under
world of Chicago and these invariably
testified that they wehe forced into
lives of degradation because of their
inability to live upon the wages they
earned.
The committee is now in New
York studying the relation of wages
and vice in the metropoiis and later
will visit Washington, where a meet
ing is to be arranged with President
Wilson in the interest of a federal
wage law, and it is not improbable
that out of the Chicago invesgigation
may grow a public demand for such
a provision. The governors of Wis
consin, lowa, Indiana, Michigan and
Ohio will recommend to the legisia
tures of their states the appointment
of commissioners based on the llli
nois model, so that the movement
DAWSON, GA., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 18, 1913.
started in Illinois may develop into a
widespread crusade against white
slavery.
The committee is convinced that
the low wages earned by women and
girls are in large part responsible
for the recruiting of the underworld.
And this conclusion as was reached
in Philadelphia. Dr. Howard A. Kel
ley of Johns Hopkins University, the
leading gynecologist of the United
States, asserts that hundreds of wo
men are forced into lives of shame
in that city because they do not re
ceive a living wage. The same au
thority asserts that 600,000 women
die annmally in the United States as
a direct result of the social evil—
about 12 every hour.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, presi
dent of the International Woman
Suffrage Alliance, who has studied
social conditions deeply and who is
not given to exaggeration, says that
thousands of American women are
carried from this country every year
to undergo a worse fate than death
in Asia and Africa. ‘‘There are at
least,” she says, 1,200,000 women in
this country leading lives of commer
cial shame and the horror will exist
until women are given a living
wage.”’
“KING COTTON™
Southern States Are an Essentially Important Factor in the
Manufacturing Industries and Commerce of the World.
~ Last year, upon one-eighth of the
‘land devoted to the 12 leading crops
of the country, the South produced
‘one crop, cotton, having a value more
‘than one-fifth of the aggregate value
*’of the whole 12 crops and empha
sized its unique posifftion in the
‘markets of the world.
The value of merchandise exported
from the United States in the fiscal
yvear ended June 30, 1912, was $2,-
204,322,409, Of the total raw cot
ton represented $565,849,271, manu
factures of cotton $50,769,511, and
cotton seed and their products $42,-
142,181, an aggregate of $568,760,-
963, representing products ‘of the
cotton plant and 29.9 per cent of the
total value of all merchandise exports
of the country. In the 33 years be
tween 1880 and 1912 there was ex
ported from the United States mer
chandise to the value of $39,151,-
828,195, and of that total $9,685,-
282,138, or 24.7 per cent, was the
value of Southern cotton exported.
In the 33 years the cotton crops of
the South, including seed, had an
aggregate value of $16,452,000,000,
the output of all the gold mines of
CLAFPK, OF ARKANSAS, THE NEW i
FRESIDENT PRO TEM. |
Has a Violent Temper, and Is Partic
ularly Intense in Likes and Dis
likes. Both Hated and Loved.
A picturesque Southerner of the
fire—eatig type familiar in the hefo’
de war stories—such is Senator Jas.
P. Clarke of Arkansas, who has just
been elected president pro tem of
the United States senate.
Tall, straight as an arrow, with
gray hair and a distinguished look,
Senator Clarke is easily the most
conspicuous figure on the democratic
side of the upper house. He is con
sidered an able lawyer, too, and be
longs to what are known as the con
servatives in politics.
The picturesque thing about Sena
tor Clarke is not his legal nor his
the world was worth $7,634,105,600,
and the output of all the silver mines
was worth $3,459,909,642. The 33
cotton crops had =z value of $8,817.-
894,400 greater than the 33 years’
gold production in the world and
$5,357,984,758 greater than the com
bined gold and silver production.
In no year since 1880 has the com
bined output of all the gold mines
and silver mines in the world equaled
in value the value of the South’s
cotton crop, with its seed, and in only
five of the 33 years was the output
of all the gold mines in the world
sufficient to pay for the cotton ex
ported from the United States.
Southern cotton mills alone are
now consuming annually more cotton
than the South produced in 1868,
more than all the mills of the whole
country consumed as late as 1896,
and more than half the amount now
consumed annually by all the mills
of the country.
A criterion of the South’s textile
activities today is contained in the
fact that there are produced in the
16 states over 100 different lines of
goods, spun, woven and knit.
parliamentary talent, but his violent
temper. His likes and dislikes are
equally strong. He is said to have
more enemies in the state of Arkan
sas than any other one man, and
likewise more friends. He is dead
open and shut about it; either he
likes a man unqualifiedly, generously
and openly or he aates him cordially, !
bitterly and eterrally. l
The evidence of his dislike brealm|
over all rules of conventionality.
When Senator Jeff Davis, who until‘
his death a short time ago was juniorl
senator from Arkansas, appeared in
the upper house to be sworn in Mr.
Clarke refused to have anything to
do with the proceedings. It is cus-‘
tomary on occasions of this sort for
the senior senator to escort his new
colleague to the vice president’s desk,
introduce him and stand while he is
isworn. Political and personal dif
ferences are dreopped for the time
being while this little formal courtesy
is extended. Clarke had no use for
Jeff Davis back bhome in Arkansaw,
and could see no reason why he
should be polite in Washington,
therefore he absolutely refused to
take any part in the doings, which
he opined were hypocritical. When
Davis died and another of Clarke's
bitterest political enemies, was elect
ed, John N. Haskell, Clarke took a
similar attitude. In each case a
democratic leader ‘had to relieve the
embarrassment of the newcomer
by escorting him through the induc
tion ceremony.
While he never has assumed a po
sition of leadership in the senate he
is a valued man and his striking per
sonality adds piquancy, to say the
least, to what might otherwise be a
somewhat colorless body, since in
these latter days sectional differences
mean little and senators from the
'most distant states are very similar
iin dress, manners, habits and speech
' HE TAPPED THE SEWER.,
Negro Could Not Stand to See Good
' Whiskey Wasted by Government.
i A Muscogee negro just couldn’t
stand to see ‘‘good licker wasted,” so
while the federal enforcement officer
was emptying several barrels of per
fectly good whiskey into a sewer.the
!negro tapped the drain pipe and sav
ed fifteen gallons of the fluid. But
|there his luck failed him, for some
body informed the officers, and the
darkey “hit the breeze,” as the cow
boys say.
WILSON 10 LOWER THE BARS]
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PRESIDENT WILL PROBABLY RE- |
VOKE CIVIL SERVICE ORDER. \
Would Give Hungry Democrats at
~ Least a Fighting Chance to Get ‘
Near the Pie Trough. |
. WASHINGTON, D. C.—Presidenti
}Wilson’s advisers have hit upon SO~ |
ilutions of two of the political prob-l
lems confropting the administration
' which promised to be most trouble
.some—what kind of democrats shall
get plums from the poiitical tree and
lhow thousands of democrats through
out the country can be given a fight
ing chance at least to zZet near the
tree. 1
r Within the next few days Postmas
|ter General Burleson is expected tol
present for the president’s considera
tion a plan which opens to democrats
the 35,000 third and fourth class
postmasterships placed in the civil
service list recently by Mr. Taft. Mr.
Burleson said to night that he had
not yet decided to ask the president
|for a revocation of this order. If he
'd‘ecides against asking for a revoca
tion he wili then suggest that post
lmasters who benefited by the Taft or
| der be required to pass a merit test,
lwhich would be open also to others.
If the president took the first course
thousaads of postmasterships would
be available at once, and if he chose
the other democrats would have as
good a chance as republican incum
bents.
As to Postmasters.
Ever since Mr. Taft issued his fa
mous order, which with a similar one
by Mr. Roosevelt put every third and
fourth class postmaster in the coun
try in the classified service, it has
been subjected to a vigorous criti
cism by democrats, who charged that
its purpose was to keep in office
through Mr. Wilson's term thousands
of republicans who were not in sym
pathy with the administration and
who were given such protection
merely to kep the republican machine
in working order. Mr. Burleson has
given the order serieus consideration
|and any recommendation he makes
to the president is likely to have
lmuch weight.
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