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The Logic Of Child Labor

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Parent Issue
Day
28
Month
August
Year
1903
Copyright
Public Domain
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Why should men, created in God's image and destined for three score years and ten, be old and worn out at 21? In two words-

Child labor.

Society made these mens laves in childhood-sentenced them to hard labor in infancy. It crushed them in one-third the time it takes Nature to make men decrepit. It put them to work as "dogs," carrying the glass blower's product to the molding-room all night long, when tehy should have been in their trundlebeds. It bent their boyish backs to the loom when they ought to have been playing at leap-frog.

"Passed on." To what?

To tramping and vagabondage. To petty thievery. To beggary. Seldom to murder or capital crime. There is not left enough in them for such an effort. They are the flotsam and jetsam of society. Firmly conscious that the world has not been quite fair to them, they are not savage. A worn-out slave is not savage. 

In the phraseology of the street, these men are "all in."

Behold your work, O goddess of greed! You killed the body and the soul of these men when they were just out of the cradle! Are you proud of your handiwork? God made them living souls; you made them things!-Kansas City World.

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