| Show FEDERAL CONTROL I IfOR fOR CHILD LABOR Senator A. A J. J Beveridge of Indiana Makes Strong Plea for Regulation THOUSANDS NOW AT WORK AT Children of All J 1 ARCS cs lie le Amuat Aro Amu at at Irl ut Along lol All Al of American Industry Cincinnati Doe Doc Doc 13 In hi In a speech tonight before the National Child Labor Labor La La- bor convention Senator o of Indiana declared e-ared e that the continuation ot or child labor In the factory and arid mine fa s dally daily daly creating an element in American Amen Ameri can citizenship saturated with the spirit spir spir- it of rev and filled fled with wih more real physical danger danler to property Itself I el than ever was packed in dynamiters dynamiter's bomb He called caled upon the tho lords o of gold Sold to reflect upon this fact when they tremble for their widespread proper- proper tes tics And Amid not only said sid the ti-ic senator Is physical danger aJer to property properly manifestIng manifest manifest- manies- manies Ing lag Itself In incendiary fres fires In unreasoning unreasoning mobs In shots through Inoffensive Inoffensive Inoffensive windows but It will wit finally manifest Itself in votes to lo the destruction tion ton of or tho the very purpose and reason ver for tor which this government oC or frei fret ant and equal men was founded System In lit Operation Now S Tile r h dc r d h tg i tern teal against pi w tea W was li in operation now S This crime against free InstitutiOnS Institution is being being- committed this vcr very er night he exclaimed As A I speak to you OU thousands thousands thou thou- sands Jd of or children are arc at work in cotton cotton cot cot- ton tom mills glass Klaus factories sweat shops and on tho breakers of ot mines mines Their bones hommes are not yot ot hardened their brains tire aro ro yet Jho he brains brains- of ot Infants Infants- they icy are ne still stil In what should be th the very first period of of their growth and yet the materials for or tho the foundation of their lifes life's Ires Ire's development dc are being utterly shattered their normal growth Is being stopped thou thou- thel bones made crooked their backs bocks forever l I bent nt with wih the stoop stool of an eternal old age their minds stunted their characters s are being malformed further i cr De Degeneracy cy Sure Hollow cheeked checked and sunken sunken-e sunken eyed cd weak nerved and vicious ck Iun puny hundreds of or thousands of or ml miserable little creatures aro being still sti further degenerated degenerated by a system of greed gi-ced as foolish as it I is wicked The senator adverted ad to his own childhood when he worked but he heid said id It was In iii tho open air all on the farm tarm then ther on grades of railroad building building build build- ing afterwards In the logging hogging camps and finally dually amid all al the time savIn saving saying sav say In ing forces of or th the 1 true tho the beautiful and good and yet ho declared Ido rdo I r Ido do not nol permit myself to lo think o of m my life from twelve to nineteen be because it J makes mo me biter bitter The rhe senator advocated fe federal erl re regulatIon regulation re- re of child labor |
