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Show Kj SACRED RIGHTS OF CHILDHOOD. ft " TVhen that distinguished poetess who died in 1861 wrote of the Bf I sorrow of children she, no doubt, little thought that her words might Hr tie applied with equal force to an industrial condition half a century HF later "in the country of the free." There are children in the South HJ today that have the weight of responsibility placed on them so heavily that, their little lives are spent in the gloom qf big southern manu- B, facturing plants, where child labor is tolerated because the Demu- E I cratic party of the South is owned by the big interests in control of H f the factories. B T Do you hear the children weeping. 0 my brothers, H Ere the sorrow comes with ears? H They are leaning their young heads against their mothers, H And that cannot stop their tears. H The young lambs are bleating in the meadows, B The young birds arc chirping in tho nest; P The young fawnR are playing with the shadows, H The young flowers are blow ing toward the west; H Bui the young, joung children, 0 my brothers! H They are weeping bitterly H . They are weeping In the plrytime of the others H In the country of the free. iH ; J The mistreatment of the children of the poor in the South. Against which the Progressive party protests, is made a national H i issue on which Theodore Roosevelt has said: H I "We propose to lift the burdens from the lowly and the weary, ! H - from the poor and the oppressed. "We propose to stand for the H sacred rights of childhood and womanhood." ' |