| Show CHILI CUll Those who are no much over sundry domestic problems of ot this coun count country country try would do well to 10 contemplate the fact that greed or poverty has hall created a condition In III which many children are 1110 slave simply slaves worked to death literally speaking Hero Here Is a shadow of ot disgrace resting upon time the American home According to the New York Tribune Investigations In the tho four lour states stabs ot of Now New NewYork York New Jersey Connecticut and Massachusetts h have ve disclosed dl the tha tact fact that thousands of ot children tire mire being ruined mentally and physically by lIy hard hand labor In New York for tor Instance In children as III young us three or four enra of at age uge have been found lound tolling for tor u a few leIV cents it n day Many deny children have been found so eo stunted In mind and body that they are aro practically ruined for utter after life A large proportion proportion tion of ot these thello unfortunate children fin nn anally finally ally land Innet In th the prison on or lima Iho asylum I Those who have Investigated the lime guise glass glassand and 1111 textile factories say ay ninny chil children dren Men under the ago of at fourteen tourte n labor In them supporting drunken and profligate parents In JI the time glasa time fac factories tories lodes tho time children oftentimes load lead the tho lives of ot veritable slaves Here Hera they thoy work day and night In the glare tutu heat hoot nf ot tho the furnaces Children who will twill do tie such luch work synch are nr at a 11 premium and u II father who Is t himself worthless con oun U nil employment If It ho he can bring along two boys to work lork as ns snappers I Tha glass children frequently mica are so no til tired Id that they are 1110 unable to io go hone homi at nt night hut but drop droll down In ht 11 some cor cur curner nr ner of ot the factory to sleep They Jho soon Hoon become wan wap gnu and peaked and the die young In Connecticut teal reel child slavery sIMor Is U UBald said Bald 1 to exist on op many farms In there thesa country districts a n father frequently regards his lda children as nn ho he does his horses or cows III hi Massachusetts Ma the tho Is III to be ho conducted cl 1 by tho thin American Federation of or Labor which has already unearthed flagrant violations of ot the tho I I Ilav I lav lay In the city olty of ot Lowell well they found that children under fourteen were em tm employed in III almost every overy mill When Whon tho the state police pollee were Informed of ot what had hall been heert discovered and were cro asked to Interfere they only mails made excuses excused They Thoy said tho the children were only tak tok taking takIng ing to tn till limo mills their theft parents meals and they made maclo this statement In spite of ot the limo tact fact that the tho little ones went to In tho the factories at lit In imi the tho morning Ruch Hutch conditions do not prevail In the tho wild and ond woolly west wesl and they should not bo ho permitted to exist any ony anywhere anywhere where In a civilized community With race suicide divorce complications rod and child chillI slavery reformers have havo domestic problems In abundance to occupy their time and best beet talents |
