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Show MILLIONS OF CHILDREN WORK IN AMERICA WAPHIXGTON. Jan. 24 Senator Alvert J. Beveridge of Indiana, address ing the Senate on his Vil I to prohibit ths transportation in interstate commerce com-merce of the products of child labor, dsclared that the census shows that nearly 2,000,000 child breadwinners under un-der 15 vears of age are now at work. Of these almost 700.000 are engaged in work other than agriculture. Child labor la-bor on the farm is good, he said. His bill does not strike at that. It strikes onlf at child labor in factories, mines ana sweatshops. Appalling as these cen stis figures are, said Senator Beveridge. thev do not show the full enormity of the' evil. He presented a large number of affidavits, photographs and published articles setting forrti the conditions under un-der which children labor in factories, mills and coal breakers. Mr. Beveridge spoke at length of conditions in Wreat Britain, where, he said, it took three quarters of a century to stop causes that were ruining the British people. There, he said, the rem edy was applied too late, for when the Boer war broke ont the deterioration of the British people was revealed by the fact that 40 to 60 per cent of the men were unfit for military duty, and 30 per cent of all recruits were rejected re-jected for reasons of physical and nervous ner-vous inferiority. |