The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-12

city, made the address of the morning, her subject being Child Labor" This was very brilliant and forceful. She said, in part:
 T am glad that women are sufficient ly Illogical to fail to realize that a wrong is right, especially such ter rible wrong as child labor. 'Mand shudder at the thought of the child, physically and mentally undevel- oped, toiling ten, twelve and fourteen hours day. The fact that the child labors at all is the crime of the twenti- eth century. The question on wages consider totally outside. No one has ever attempted to palliate the terrible crime of the slaughter of the innocents. It has remained for this civilized coun- try, in the name of Mammon, to daily slaughter ten and twenty times that number.
 Public opinion, with its root in the hearts of women, has been raised to take hold of this question. A wave of ,, indignation is sweeping over this coun- | try, The feeling that 1t was exagger- ated and that there was necessity are slowly passing.
 These. children grow up without phy- sical, mental and moral development. This question, so fraught with menace to the future, Is simply the most mo- ticeable symptom of economic abuse. Every home-maker knows that if there is any injustice, carelesness, etc, in the distribution of wealth in her home it will tend to waste and make uncom- fortable.
 "The housekeeping of the nation is the same thing Therefore all branch es of ethical thought tend to make bet ter the economic system which is the nations housekeeping.
 ''The greed of fathers and mothers, which some give as a cause, is terribly unjust. You mothers must understand that the tender love for children is the last quality which dies from the hu- man hearts, as 1t is the strongest and best,
 "The very small percantage of such parents, who do agree willingly or in differently, simply proves that they are the great sufferers from economic cop- dftions which so crush natural love out of their lives.
 The mill owner is loving father, yet under the present economic condi- tions he must bleed other children in order that his own may survive. The wolf is at his door, the pistol is at his head, and he must yield to the system,
 Laws are made and, with a struggle, enforced Suppose we did to-day take all of tie children out of the factories; all would be thrown on the street with nothing before them but slow starva- tion. You, then, only do by charity what you should do by justice.
 These fathers should be given their rightful share of the wealth which they produce, There is something funda- mentally wrong in our economic condi- tions.
 Every human being born into this world needs the earth and fruits of the earth for mere physical existence. To me 1t seems the more terrible blas- phemy that two or three men can con trol the earth and that these may say u olhers, @ou Woih lol lle al my ptlee or you die.'
 The earth Is the one thing which belongs to all and should be owned by all for one do not believe that God could ordain that few should own ths earth and order the lives of others. It Is wrong idea m the ownership of the earth which is at the root of economic evil
 "An American has found in taxation remedy The single tax, more and ] more people think and believe, will cure fundamentally this crime of child la bor."
 Miss Bush reported for the Hope and Leila Day nurseries, and after music adiournment was taken.