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Show CHILD LABOR When tho daughter of Sir Hobert I'ccl was stricken with typhus, the Infection was traced to a stllsh riding rid-ing habit ordered and fitted at a correct cor-rect Regent street shop, but finished In tho tenement of a starving tailor with two children 111 of the fever. Nine-tenths of tho clothing emanating eman-ating from Now York city Is mado wholly or portly In sweat shops that frequently aro radiating centers for dlscaso germs, Tho fact docs not concern Now York alono, for New York Is the sourco of clothing supply for tho wholo country. Tho danger of general disease Infection In-fection would bo startling but for the fact that wo havo got used to tho condition, Just as wo have got used to many other horrlblo conditions that ought to fctnrtlo us but don't. An"way there la decided causo for worry. Thero Is disease moro infectious in-fectious and more deadly than fovcr coming from tho sweat shop, whore tho blood nnd bones of somo are starved that tho rest of us may glutton, glut-ton, and this Is the social disease called poverty, crime, anarchy, In-snulty, In-snulty, or what you will under any name, It comes from the same germ. Tho llttlo child that Is forced to strain Us eyes, to bruise Its little hands und to senr Us tender heart over Interminable sowing that tho grasping employer may get a little moro profit nnd that tho flno lady may get her cloak a little cheapor Is breeding a disease germ moro deadly than that of any fever which merely mere-ly kills. What tho child forced Into labor earns Is taken from him, but by nnd by he may discover that what ho steals and keeps to himself Is his to enjoy. There tho foundation of a llfo of crime Is laid broad nnd dcop. Forcing the child to labor without reward molds his lmpresslonablo mind to the Idea that all labor Is a cruel curso put upon the poor by tho rich. There tho seed of anarchy Is planted. Well, what Is there to be dono about It? ' Why, wo can nt tho very least think about It. |