Show Many Children at Work The factories the mines the workshops work-shops and the great mercantile establishments lishments of our country teom with the labor oC children says W S Waudby in an article on child labor In Leslies Some of them are of the age required by the laws of the State but innumerable innu-merable thousands are much below the limit these statutory laws provide for and far far below the limit which thn laws of nature demand There are fow branches of our great Industrial life which are not overcrowded with child labor I have been informed by Mr William C Hunt chief statistician for population that the V report of the census office for the year 3000 when issued is-sued will show that for the mainland of the United States excluding Alaska and Hawaii there were approximately one million seven hundred and fifty thousand persons from ten to fifteen years of age inclusive reported as engaged en-gaged in gainful occupations |