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Show decry mm of royfcu 11 Strong- Resolution Introduced H nl Methodist General WM Conference. , H INQUIRY WILL BE MADE H One Hundred Baby Hands' H Lost Yearly as Sacrifice to . H Greed for Gain. MINNEAPOLIS? Mny J. Nineteen thousand ministers will institute a viff-orous viff-orous warfare against the employment of children under 1(3 yc-rs of ape in mm the factories and textile mills of the HI Unite. States, was atiuoiniccd at the B general conference of the Methodist .Episcopal church today. The employ Hi raent of children W3S tonned "a par- ody on civilization" and "one of the greatest of modern evils." BK To investigate charges that "in the 8 textile .mills alono one hundred baby hands are lost, yearly as a sacrifice lo'the pfrcc.l for wealth," and to for-II for-II mulato an appeal to all churches to HI fight -for national legislation against II child labor, a commission of fifteon iniuisters arc ordered appointod. H Denver Man's Plea. I The matter wns brought before the conference by Henry .T. Coker of Denver, Den-ver, who asked for 'adoption of the iol lowing resolution: . ".That we, representatives from the whblo earth." declare our utter condemnation con-demnation and' most determined hostility hos-tility to this shameful custom- in our own fair . America and rcspoctfully urjjo our officials in stato and nation, both executive, judicial and legislative, legisla-tive, to do their utmost to abolish this great evil front bur national domain aud-the whole earth.'' Greed for Gain. "In. their greed for gain, employers in this country have put about 2,500,-000 2,500,-000 children under 1(3 years of age in mills, mines, factories and messenger Bervice," declared Mr. Cokor. "Of the 80,000 children in the textile mills 70,000 aro under 12 years of ago, and in thoso mills yearly about 100 baby hands aro cut off by machinery. In; the glass factories there are 7500 chil-, droit, in sawmills 8000, and in cigar factories fac-tories 12,000 children handle cigars at the rate of eight cents per 'thoiisanfl. This is an appalling commentary on modern civilization. Who is it we-' hear crying on tho street corner,'' Suffer the little onos to come unto mo'? Is it .Tcsus Christ or tho greed for "ijaiuf It is about time we realifcd the suffering and calamity which modern civilization is imposing upon tho children.' Henry Wado Bogeys' of. NewHa'ven, Conn., had referred 'to a commit'teo a. resolution which provides' an ago limit for bishops and for their retirement, from active- service when they- have' reached tho age of 75., |