Show it fa nil oil suzue TuE beare BEaro are several societies in the eastern states for the tha prevention nUon ot of cruel cruelty tito to children they aceino aie nie no doubt doing a good work there the reports of their labors which appear frequently in the publio journal journals show the necessity of their organization and the benefit to society of their humane exertions but their very existence Is a standing reproach pr aa ahto to the boasted bonsted civilization of th the 6 age ze anda and a rebuke to those who laud it so highly that in a ko eo balled called christian land in the very centre cantie of christian Influence influences 7 lit tie tia children have to be protected azaine Athe cruelty and inhumanity of their parents and natural guardians argues a terrible condition of society egla if anything of tho the kind existed in utah it would be ba pointed out at on once as au an outgrowth of mormonism 9 natural result ot of ife but these things are peculiar to the large cities of christendom and to people who dwell in near proximity to oler clet clergymen philanthropists and ladles ladies and gentlemen who are fond of declaiming against the assumed depravity of the mor ditmor 11 mons the philadelphia society for the protection of child children reri rell has recently been working in the mills and factories of pennsylvania where it appears the laws in relation to the employment of children have been boldly disregarded disregard edo forty children under thirteen years of age were discharged in ono onn day through the complaints of the society it ap ears that one of these a little girls girl rad ead ad been compelled to work from 6 in the evening to 6 the next morn morning luz lug during the night the little boilers toilers would become so BO tired anda leepy that they would drop the spools they were putting on the machinery A wate watchman liman ilman was employed whose duty it was to go among the looms and shake the ift lit tle ones or them with a stick to keep them awake it la Is said the tiie parents of most t of these children were compelled d to have them work in order to in make uk a both ends meet in the the labors of these societies are sometimes misapplied and they are no doubt occasionally meddlesome and prompted by extreme notions of sectarian piety but they are accomplishing much for the protea wn tion of children from brutal parents and taskmasters task tuk masters and deserve credit for it and yet there is something radically wrong in the constitution of society in hi which ought to be at school or enjoying the recreation which is essential to their thein health and development are to toll toil in tasks unsuited to their years and strength because of the inability of their parents to obtain employment wor won gain sufficient return from labor to support their their thein little ones humanitarians and social reform ers era can find in the labor problem affecting millions of their own people a sufficiently important and perplexing I 1 subject of consideration W without troubling themselves vea yeb concerning utah where such sorrows asam asaf as milet afflict the poor of christian cities are aro unknown and where there iano lano Is no need for societies so cities teb les to protect little children from cruelty and oppression blon bion |