The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-07-30
NEW ORGANIZATION.
A National Child Labor Committee
BODY Suggested by Mr.. Murphy.

bOuy SuHkcSNGu ny EhA' F@As'
From q news article In The New
York Times of July 81 the folloing is
taken:
by the selection of Samuel McCune
Lindsay. Commissioner of Education In
Porto Rico and Professor of sociology
in the University of Pennsylvania 10
be it's general secretary. The Nationai
Child Labor Committee has begun In
earnest its work of taking care of the
interests of children throughout the
country who are in one way or anotner
deprived, or are in danger of being de-
prived. of their rights.
The idea of organizing such COM
mittee was suggested some three years
ago by Edgar Gardner Murphy. ana IL
was directly In consequence of his sug-
gestion that in October 1908. the Child
Labor Committee of New York City ap-
pointed from its own members Dr'
Felix Adler, william H. Baldwin, Jr.,
and Mrs. Florence Kelley to act as n
provisional committee which was to do
the preliminary work needed for the
organization of a National Committee.
Out of this preliminary work develop.
ed the organization of the National
Committee, which took place In Car
negie Hall on the evening of April 10
last.
"The members of the National Com
mittee are:
Homer Folks. Jane Adams. Felix
Adler. w II. Baldwin, Jr., John Gra-
ham Brooks, Mrs. Emmons Blaine, A.
j. Cassatt. L. E. Clark. Grover Cleve-
land. Robert w. De Forest. Edward T.
Devine, N b. Feagin, Hugh F, Fox,
Bishop David II. Greer, Robert Hunter,
John S. Huyler, Mrs. Florence Kelley,
DR. j. II. Kirkland. Benjamin b. Lind
sey, Stanley Mccormick. V. Everit
Macy. Graham Taylor, Edgar Gardner
Murphy, Isaac N.Seligman. Clifford Pin
chot, Hoke Smith. Senator b. r. Till
man. Paul NJ. Warburg, Lillian d.
Valid, Talcott Williams, Rev. C. B.
Wilmer. John w. Wood, Adolph s.
Ochs."
Among the Southern men upon the
National Committee may be noted the
names of Judge N. B. Feagin of Birm-
ingham; DR.. ]. II. Kirkland. Chancel-
1or of Vanderbilt University; Hoke
Smith of Atlanta; DIR. c. b. Wilmer of
Atlanta; Adolph s. Ochs. proprietor of
The Chattanooga Times and of The
New York Times; Edgar Gardner Muir
ply of Montgomery; Senator B. r. Till
man of South Carolina and Cardinal
Gibbons of Baltimore.
Such names as ex-President Grover
Cleveland; A. ]. Cassatt. President of
the Pennsylvania Railroad; Judge
Lindsey of Denver; and Talcott Will
liams of Philadelphia. illustrate stil
organization.
As stated in The New York Times,
the suggestion of such a committee
came originally from Mr.. Murphy of
this city. In a recent number of
Charities" he speaks as follows of the
objects which the committee Will have
in mind:
During the past three or four years
the subject of child labor has engaged
"a N sing m p1 nnnnlar inter-
est. The question. under its present
forms, came ConspiCuously to the front
in the Southern states. There had
been little factory legislation at the
South because there had been few
factory evils There had been few
factory evils because there had been
few factories. Industrial reforms do
not precede Industrial abuses and in
dustrlal abuses do not precede indus
trial enterprises.
The industrial activity of the South
brought the inevitable evils as well as
the Industrial advantages of the facto
ry AS these evils became evident the
people of the South took up the work
the women's clubs uniting with citi-
zens of every class In an effort to
secure adequate laws for the protec-
ton of the younger children. Eight
States of the South have now the be-
ginnlngs of protective legislation.
The factory evils at the South were
much censured by the Northern press
But the deepening of interest in the
general subject brought the question
How are matters at homer" And in
answer to that question the Northern
public gained a clearer and more vivid
perception of the fate of the child
workers at the North. The subject
was. of course. no new one. The long
and earnest work of Mrs. Florence
Kelley of Miss Adams and of many
other workers in the field of remedial
nr n IE.r gInf IaI hoo
attended by marked and permanent
gains. But a new interest was added
to the subject; and the question of pro-
tective legislation for the child work
ers now forged to the front AS one of
the conspicuous general interests of all
sections Of our country.
"A cause does not always gain by
becoming conspicuous. The mere