| Show CHILD LABOR LAW IT 18 0 estimated that the child labor law which was lately passed by the english parliament will liberate from the factories and other places of harsh servitude nearly two hundred thousand children between the years of ten and eleven the original amendment extended the age under which a child could not lawfully be hired out for wages to twelve years for some cause which was not revealed in the pointless point leee arguments advanced the tory element opposed the measure it was charged that the operatives of the lancashire cash ire mills had bad something to do with their opposition they mie op posed the eleven year amendment but by an extraordinary effort the liberals crowded the bill through on a small majority of sixteen this places england in advance of most of the other Euro european pian countries some of the united states however have gone even farther than england in this chii direction massachusetts chu for example places the limit of child labor a at t thirteen years that state has further provided that no child shall be employed during the hours that the public schools are in session the temptation is thus removed from poor paren parents to to deprive their children of the advantages of education in order to avail themselves of a little e more of their young energies it might in many cases seem to be a hardship but while the provisions of this enlightened statute may inflict privations the indulgence which it is intended to remedy is a barbarism A restriction is always a tyranny to those whom it prevents from the pursuit of a fixed custom or desire but limitations that are inspired by the exalted motives that have prompted this bitloy of child labor are the harbingers of the liberty that all noblemen noble men and women most moat desire irethe des the liberty of the weak from the thralldom dom of the strong |
