| Show c- c Ella tElla Wheeler Wilcox F- F on Child Labor O OO Children Toil in American Mills and d Mines Mines-If the Co Country Demanded Its I r Abolition It Would Have to Co Come e. e ELLA WHEELER C 1213 by Company o 0 LIt alt In allence when llen we hould g f. f cowards out ot of men J J. human race u climbed on Protest Had no voice been raised t Injustice Ignorance n an lust yet yot QuId the tle la decide OUr least dl fo who dare t ml-t and the wrongs lOngs ot of many thank hank God power In this gr great t day and l Janel E or and olce may maya c a of ills If llon and nd condemn he IS I ot of protecting 04 W yo the and child i toll toll tollo o Purchase ease for Idle 1 do I protest against the thc boast ot In this ml mighty land Call rio no chain strong J holds one rusted link iI no 10 land free Cree t that at holds one fettered Of slave the manacled slim wrIsts of oC babes tAre re loosed to toss los In childIsh sport and k ii glee Mother bears no burden save Q The precious one beneath neAth her heart until soil loll Is rescued from the clutch or of p greed freed Anden And given en back to labor let no man mazi And Call cali ihl thIs the Land nd of C l r Have Now in United It States tates 7 Child L- L Laborers A recent st striling jing cartoon savage age if childr n were ere running T Dake l and wild ild in tho and abye b ye them pallid palli sickly ly factory chit dr of civilization tion were shown the gloomy doors of unsanitary x I e in America 1 CHILD J BORERS arc aro the appalling J Jh 1850 Robert who ha had been an in ho boy tn in Engl England D and and a child chUd lAborer el aped from froni his cr and tamo m to America lie He was then a tal- tal fart farto youth o tb man grown f for r be ha had escaped in in time t to save lila his Joei Kingsb general en ral n for fori i pr the o ot the pour U avi t gland is i's n notoriously a laZ land o P pi JI len third ot of it its last Jast generatIOn fles at ati stin ta a field Jf If Jim tho life of these poor wretches on III M how many of tb woud J II ll k to poor little to tb rl l limbs of the tho si raJ d out from t the or of orphan asylums lo lobe lic boun bo 1 t to l tb the tac i 8 s. s In th the o ad Dd who The u cannot b be d We haven't D t But Bill f bo O 11 1 doubt douht that thc they woul Le be t if thc they could he be ob d Tf rr we could show accurately the of the tc under which land today todar which is the re ot if child labor Jabor the statistics would 00 invaluable to ti us iu proper prope child labor Jabor legislation But after all s J one haa strikingly lt JJ put it You put e e palli che ks and J acrid t id little limbs into put Robert the i. i it- it er escaped com coni- fau of a child laborer 1 lii when about 25 o age Le he and his bride brido ed the bright shores of this land of opportunity It was a land ot of then t labor to speak ot as it was then known in England as as it is s known here to today a No poverty po such as Eng Ens l land nd was was was- then beginnIng to to with such as we now no see ace in our larger Jarger cities A o Dalf balf h has s passed sincO Robert l landed n fed We have vo r cruit d a standing l n army of child laborera labor labor- erR era stron strong lt is quite to visualize this appalling number of HUle a at labor out rt sn says S 'S We could fl nc ncr dt r forget the sIght of oC a bundred hun bun tIred dred of theo little ones if they were cre marched out ot of the mills mines mines' and factories s our eyes ees or if we vo S1 saw them together t iIi s or ten or or hours a da day or a pitS tarico of a wage but that wo Q do not sf ste ste. What we sec seo are the figures and we forget figures Io New York City alone we have c thousands ol of fain fam the records of man ninny reec in cb charity public ao and rate ate S Many S Such ch Families Are Dependent De- De pendent Because of Child I Labor I I a er very large larse proportion or of th these gc families arc dependent chiefly I because of child labor Last car families were the care are of oC the thc As As- for ln the Condition or of the Poor This Is but one of the tho large lane 3 private tc charItable In that city Here Is what one InvestIgator In lor Sal's about a certain mill The rIle machinery In the mill starts at cr c morning and I pressure is 19 brought to beal beai upon the workers to see that thc they are arc when th machinery begins begin The time Is from I 6 o'clock only A half hal hour Is counted out at dinner time but the machinery goes rI right hl on and man many of oC the workers stay me fhe shop hop closes at after it It has twelve t hours At t 4 6 o'clock It begins agaIn and work tIll 9 I. I Is contInued for live JI nights of the week and an any or of the tho workers who will return aDd permitted to work Mr 11 Ma sc told lold file there were no violations or of thi the law In iii hl his mill lie He seemed to think an all all' enc gave him the right to work worl seventy ent hours per week In lie he wae working hours for or of the thc p worked fifteen hours for five days dat Q unit 1111 n e hours on I Saturday tuna lie He said ald he 1 child ora II and nd Is III It lIot ot Limo that hu 1 the Intelligent and humane hearted pt of America com coni- I blued In one great r borl body or of JC If every CO 11 ane and every churchman of no UI JI reed arced or belief should II 11 itA lii III lUll vait march tim laud the abolish abolish- lit or child lallur It would have to conic come Jr H muc n would oulI orin all amid II upon a half hair hour ur of l ft every till day I for or united va cr the tue Uns F Forces rc s or of th thin e to give in them pow pow- I rr ir to 0 h Child Labor IT CO COll m nem Remember what t came the people 0 of Fran France e C lr- lr ONE O TRI TRI- DOUS There Ja i. i laud land enough and money enough IJ In our vast opulent countI to give hc homes amid comfort to 0 cr c every adult human and to give hI sun alid 1 all air allAnd And freedom to every ery chIld If H we e want to f. f fO O our land from tam destruction and our rising generation from poverty crt sickness a arid lid d despair we must re rca cue ue our little children and send them out to play Let our churches and our humane organizations or- or begin a united campaign of oC Protest Against ChIld Labor |
