New-York tribune., 1897-08-24

CR1E1ry AND BRUTALITY SUFFERED IN EARLY
DAYS BY TINY CHILDREN IN THE FAC
TORY TOWNS OF ENGLAND.
Professor Graham Taylor. of Chicago. delivered
n most startlingly interesting lecture re" Gays
AGO at the New-York Chautauqua. His subject
was Industrial Revolution and his stor'es Oh
child labor and suffering In the factory towns OF
England long ago were unprecedented j" '"e"
revelation OF cruelty and brutality.
"A young Yorkshireman by the rame OF hcharn
Oastler" said Professor Taylor. found Out the IN
human treatment TO which tiny children were
daily subjected in English factories. ana ne AT
once became their champion He forced the HOUSE
Of Commons TO hear the stories of child slavery
and this is the appeal he made for the he'p'eSS "-
tie
OAsTLER'S APPEAL
"Take a little female captive six seven years
old" he exclaimed; she shall rise from Hed at
O'Clock a. m. OF a cold winters day. but before r sns
snys sses :Ps Fs,Scr %tfs is rf ime Faiher M is Anl
at last when she gets up b and pTss n'r vet with the
last days work she leaves her pareLts in nen, LOT
h ISS sS ,dsss r. nsy aons haSy h4cush rain and
mire and darkness. to the mill and there 3ht iGr ,na
hours is obligad to work. with only thirty minutes
interval for meals and play llomeMard , aSnm nnv a"
time she hid herself In the wool In the mill rs ,n THe
had not strength to go And II she were m ohf hnG t
mGns 'fTh o rne % When she Srrd With trembling
shivering weary limbs at the factory door lnei.
SoY he ashe% her holding up Sll SyTrG0ks5s 20 ;6is
strap is NJ od cp 6 gn na1d m spskDr s Of died
In 1921 Mr.. Sader. member of Parisms,n, ,n,,onI u'
for children wis so great as to place premium
upon marriage and parentage among the mos mo-, @ l,s
science Of all then and since. who have not been
scared by the hot iron Of greed in these n no
have supposed it possible postcrity Will not Deheve
true ho g"nera,ion of EnGlsnmen Of h"d few
summers Old, regardless alike OF its aTSoss nmrS o
twelve thirteen fourteen sixteen hours day. and
through the weary night also till IN ,ne "a ~ I'll
awake to stimulate their .exertons. means ar, are
instance Of the degradation to which this system
has reduced The manufacturing % oprratheS o pra .
pared for the purpose yes ne females o, p me
country no matter whGteer chGren most oF sgmstng
..Isge-are baaten. beaten in your free market OF
!'fF Is sogSed Ss ~ saw like dog by tyrant over
locker. We speak with execration OF the carr wn'p
equal feeling rise against the factory town Of Eng
land
THE childs sob in the silence and the voice IL
found I'm the press and platform through Oastler
non and srccch and on the floor OF Parliament
through Sadlers brave denunciatlons OF those VINO
were defended in general terms as unimpeach-
able for their humanity and Kindness ana yet les
tincd TO dividends OF hundreds and even thousand
per cent. from cnId lahor were hot "'t'""' "
sponse from the heart and conscience Of the ma
ton.
CRY OF THE CHILDREN.
"Although poor Oastlers reward at the hand of
his generation was persecution by imprisonment
for debt and. worse still neglected Old age, YET
the public opinion reused by him forced Parlia-
mentarv action 10 that benefcent factory leg!sla-
,ion then instituted which will be hereafter more
particularly considered. But the astonishing fact
remains that fifty years OF this agony nervened
hetwecn the first disclosure OF its existence and the
beginning Of the really efficient legislation against
child labor.
1.-TWO historic memorials Of the fearful struggle
re nhin sufficiently impressive. ii would seem. To
deter or succeeding generations. especlaHN
i'm America from repeating the dreadful injustice
one IS the rise and triumph and enduring fame 81
Lord Ashley the seventh Earl OF Shaftesbury. the
greatest champion Of the weakest and most op-
pressed victims of modern industrial system
For what individual conscience or national econ
omv dare challenge the choice which he deliber-
atelv made in 1892. when. I'm tie words OF his hog-
rapher ON on. hand lay ease. Influence. promotion
and trooI.s Of friends. and on the other an unpop-
ular cause unceasing labor midst every kind Of
opposition. perpetual worry ard anxiety. estrang1-
mcnt Of friends. annihiaion Of leisure and 1t lifr
among the poor The other monumental witness
to all generations against the inhumanity of money
against man rises IN English literature to over
whelm the readers heart with the spe-cnesS
pathos OF mute suffering and 10 strike the l%ndl- %
vidual and national conscience with the conviction
of sin in those words of Mrs !rcwnings cry or
the Children that seem 10 rrvcrherate from the
Judgment throne:
VIII You stand :" r1"," the w|id on emu mart
Stirr down win mailed h-"l"' - ralpitaii1n =, ,o
And tread onward toward Your throne anil the mart
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