The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-30
OPPOSED CHILD LABOR.
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sist In paying for the teacher of some
school In which they were interested.
work for woman


A work for Woman.
THAT this work is essentially one
for women must be patent to everyone.
1t is the woman and not the man who
has the care OF children. Women al
most always teach the young In any
grade of life. However poor the home
may be 1t is the mother and not the
| father who looks after the children;
she has to mend their rags, IL rags
they be; to wash both clothes and
| babies, when she has time or thinks of
| 1t; she gives them food and watches
them In sickness, and to a woman a
child runs for comfort as IL by instinct
However devoted a father may be
to his child, IL appears abnormal for
him TO dress IL, feed It or give Il medi-
cine. These duties, particularly the
last and least agreeable, men are ex-
exmpt from, for however exacting a
woman may be of attention from her
husband, she neither expects nor de-
sires him to become a baby tender.
I'VE are Kings Daughters and Sons.
Is IL not then our duty to remember
the pointed favor shown the little ones
by our Kingly Lord and Master? Who
soever shall receive one such little child
receiveth Me- Tnasmuch as ye have
done 1t unto the least of these little
ones, We have done 1t unto Me- All
through the Scriptures the child occu-
pies a prominent place. Our Lord came
to us as a child perhaps. to show that
childhood is as important as age Reu-
ben of old besought his brothers DO
not sin against the child and when
punishment comes admits that II is de-
served for the wrong done Joseph as a
child. Solomon teaches us to train up
a child in the way he should go, and
/ st. Paul commends Timothy in that
from a child he has known the Holy
Scriptures, which are able to make wise
I unto salvation.
"If we do not use every effort to
| stamp out this curse of childhood from
the South are we not SHINING against
the children, and through them against
God? 1 ask you each one individually,
are you doing anything to train up
and better the condition of any chill
dren but your own? These poor little
i mill hands have no one to fight their
battles--their parents cannot, for they
think the child's help is needed to get
bread. It Is our work--yours and mine
not somebody else's, to see IL we can
not obtain for them the power to know
/ the Bible and the manifold works of
God that they may be not only by
adoption, but by grace, children OF
: God and joint heirs with Christ.
Help From All Sections.
you from the North, who now enjoy
the blessing, help us of the South with
your advise and influence. 1t is said
that Northern capitalists, who operate
Southern mills. could not and would
not do so were the employment OF child
labor prohibited here. If this is so
will the representatives of the North,
assembled here, do all in their power
to avert such condition?
rHow grand It would be II those
present at this Interstate Conference,
held for the first time in the South, be
the first to pledge themselves TO work
for the redemption OF the children.
The next few years the conferences
may be held in the West. the North or
the East, but work so that before we
meet again in the Land of the Palm
and Pine. we may be able to say that
in every Southern state there is law
prohibiting child labor"
The address was greeted with ap-
plause and a motion was promptly
made by Mrs. Isabella Charles Davis.
seconded and unanimously passed, that
the chair appoint a delegate from each
state represented in the conference to
inquire carefully into the laws Of her
state relative to child labor and be
prepared to report on them at the next
annual conference. Later II was also
of those states not represented in the
conference. the secretary should send
request asking that she appoint a SINH
lar delegate for the same purpose.
Discussed ny Delegates.
In the discussion before the motion
was carried Mrs. e. Trask Hin of
Boston told OF the child labor law that
is now in force In Massachusetts, and
said that II had been brought about
by baIlotiess women. Mrs. Washing
ton OF Virginia asked how II was done,
and Mrs. Hill replied that II had been
brought about by a federation OF all
the women's clubs, whose representa-
tives kept close watch upon everything
In the Legislature that affects child
labor. THE legislators have learned"
she said, that unless they behave the
women can keep them at home"
Mrs. Davis stated that similar laws
are on the statute books OF New York,
but that they are not rigidly enforced
as II is almost impossible 10 do 50.
where the sweat-house system exists.
II was decided that to-day. and on
the remaining days OF the conferences,
the sessions Will begin as heretofore at
10 o'clock a. M. and VIII coniinue
through 10 1880 .. m. Those present
last night were notified that tickets
for the oyster roast NJ the Yacht Club.
20 be given this afternoon, could be
secured a. the close of the session from
Miss viola Kennedy, ana that a. the
TbunderbOlt Junction, where those