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Show A special report of the census bureau shows that 1,750,178 children in the United States are compelled to work for their living. -They form more than G per cent of the total number of workers. In spite of the prohibitions of the law and the- efforts of philanthropists, the curse of child labor seems to be growing in this country to- the proportions which made it a scandal in England in former generations. gen-erations. In the middle west it is not common enough to be alarming, but in the factories of New England and the cotton mills of the south it is already al-ready a plague in the nrescrlt and a menace to the future. Child labor must produce abnormal and dangerous conditions physical, mental and moral No necessity can justify its inevitable conse-quencese. conse-quencese. Catholic Universe. . A . . |