"mother" Jones's Rebuke

"MOTHER" JONE'S REBUKE.

Strike Leader Makes Public President Roosevelt's Letter.

New York, Aug. 6.––"Mother" Jones, who recently marched to this city from Philadelphia with a small number of striking textile workers, and visited Oyster Bay with the object of seeing President Roosevelt, has given out the following letter received in that connection from Secretary Barnes:

"I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 30th ult. and state that it has been brought to the president's attention.

"The president, as was shown by his action while governor of New York, has the heartiest sympathy with every effort to prevent child labor in factories and on this matter no argument need be addressed him, as his position has been announced again and again. Under the constitution it is not at present seen how congress has power to act in such a matter. It would seem that the states alone at present have the power to deal with the subject."