The San Francisco call., 1905-01-10
CHILD LABOR.

Il 1t proposes an age limit on child labor fixed be-
years. There for discussion OF the dele
terous effects upon the labor Under
ground mill work children Constant employment
any early injurious Indeed
indoor occupation school FIVE days OF the week
during min months of the year is harmful.
What needed for the wholesome and symmetrical develop
physical moral and mental occupation suited to the
strength of children When the subject approached from
the side OF those who desire only the elimination OF
labor the view sided and defective The stringent limitation
ancho import 1he Importance OF preventing improper chd aoof
below minimum be overesmaed But what is to be-
of the youth Of the above that minimum presents
plexities that may we'll engage public attention
Under conditions the only life which youth
health and at the be occupied trained thrift
and industry is the country in occupations
life. hard and fast law which will this, by compelling the
the employment of their children the light and work OF
the farm only improper invasion of the domestic rea
parent and child but limitation hufu to the children
themselves law that obids the employment of children below
minimum in certain specified and hurtfu occupations putting
limit harmless and useful kinds of work which children do
benehcal themselves and hepu their parents would
the wiser solution of the problem Many family saved from
ndgence and papsm by the services of its children and such
families the rule that the children mature into good citizens
temperate and thrifty.
The country recently inspiring this fact
in the election of Mr. John Johnson the Governorshp of Mime
His father immigrant who had been dunkard in
Sweden After he this country he reformed married
qired tved When young family depended
HIM he apsed and rapidly went to the gutter hna deserted his
family and left be supported by the mother washerwoman
The Oldest boy John under of his notion quit
school and went to work at $40 month"; to aid his mother lie earned
$2 month and then rapidly until he released his mother
from the wasub supported the whole family educated his brothers
and sisters paid the the home acquired property nfu
and position After serving the Legislature he became the
him by disclosure of his origin In their parades they carried
transpaencies inscribed Don't Johnson His father
drunken loaer His mother washerwoman Johnsons
friends alarm asked him He said he could
1he people took the matter the the boy
looked into struggle and its triumph made public and
he elected by large majority although President Roosevelt
ried the State by $4,000
Now the law had prohibited that splendid boy working his
mother would have broken under her burden the family would have
become and he and his brothers would
ignorance likely and He
had helpful freedom and State gladly makes him Gov
and first citizen Such incident eXho Legislative mod
the matter of limitations upon the labor OF the young
that there who their their
children and willing the natural order and compel
them work that the father and perhaps the mother
dleness and so There greedy and earss employers
who willing the future blood the
employing children places and occupations fit only
veoped strength of the adult There still others who with
greed seek monopoly of the labor market by the
apprenticeship the youth of the country But all of
of the legal of the young
to leave fitting of labor the John onsons
the brave little fellows who take burden their
step the path of that lead headhip of
The country that kind of
such families from humiliation pauperism
shame of dependence We know which the
and take the place Of such boys
for themselves.
In discussing the divorce problem Dr. Jordan wisely,
people must have leisure to be unhappy If they
and have chance the
jugal nfecty So that young old
to be vicious, criminal, disorderly and unclean.