Show WORE SHAMEFUL DISCLOSURES The stories told by the little girls whoa who-a > e testifying before the anthracite coal commission ot their lone liours and scant pay exhibit a form of child slavery slav-ery that Is revolting to every sentiment of manhood The little ones twelve to fourteen ycarc of ayo stand on their feet from 130 in the ovcnlUK to C30 In the morning ill night and receive 3G to CC cents for the twelve hours toll This work IB I m the silk mills and It Is no doubt Introduced to show the deplorable de-plorable straits to which the miners families arc reduced In their efforts to live It appears however that Judge Gray the chairman of the commission considered the evil to be to some etent at least the blame oC the fathers and tho testimony slowed in two cases that the fathers owned the houses they lived In Judcc Gray was emphatic IIi his desire to see those fathers nnd strongly expressed himself as to the outrage of putting these children to such work I do not think a father has a right to coin the flesh and blood of his children Into money It Is an outiiscy and the report says the other oth-er members of the commlpslon apparently appa-rently approved what he said And so wIll bf the unanimous opinion of right thinking men It ID true as the attorney attor-ney for tho miners said that the employers I em-ployers are to blame for not paying I wages cnbnffh to permit a man to keep his children In school but It Is I also true aa Judge Gray replied that while employers may be to blame in this there are miners who receive enough to enable them to keep their children out of the work house An appalling fllatc of the working conditions condi-tions In the anthracite coal regions is ddveloped < by this Investigation so I bad that we do not wonder at Judge Grays < rts ust and denunciations Such conditions con-ditions of work and wages are diE i gracewul In this country It is 1 a shame that they exist and a taint upon the coal operators that they did not realize the atrociousncss of the testimony that was sure to be given at this hcarlnir They must be calloutt indeed to be Indifferent In-different to the awful showing that they must have known would be made But when a man will calmly place himself him-self In the stead of God and claim a favored mortality which gives him aright a-right to deal with property and people through divine right aa Baer did In his notorious letter then he has probably got to the place where he can fervently ay the king can do no wrong and that he Is the king |