The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-10-20
Many Were Unable to Oh
tain Adrnittance to Pres
byterian Church.
1000 PERSONS
WERE IN CHURCH
Noted Humane Worker De-
livered An Excellent Ad-
dress to the Largest Con-
gregation ever to Assem-
BILE in the Church.

The Child Labor Evil" was the
subject of an address delivered Sun
day night by. Dr. ]. A. Mckelway, OF
Washington, to the largest congrega-
ton ever 10 assemble in the First
Presbyterian church. Every seat in
the church. which has a seating ca
pacity of 700 was filed and hundreds
were standing, while may were un.
able TO get even standing room in the
spacious edifice and were prevented
from hearing one of the most able
addresses TO be delivered in this city
The program, which was an inter.
eslng one, opened with an organ pre-
Jude by Prof. Backham, watch was
followed by the voluntary, 1.-The Ra-
diant Morn Has Passed" by the full
choir. Then came the invocation of
Rev. c. w. Gavis, scripture reading
by Rev w Senterfitt, prayer by
Rev. Thos.. NJ. Galloway and a solo
by a quartette composed of Misses
Barnum and Hart, and Messrs Gar
field and Anderson. Rev. ]. S. Sibley
then introduced DR.. McKelway, and
after he had concluded Miss Belle
D. Hart rendered the offertory and
choir, composed of Miss Barnum,
Miss Urmey, Mrs. Post. soprano;
Misses Hart and White, altos; Messrs.
Garfield, Walker, Anderson and Phil
lips tenors; Messrs. Halcott Ander-
son and ]. o. Walker. basses. The
services concluded with benediction
by Rev. F. A Rogers.
DR.. McKelway's Address.
DR. McKelway. who was listened 20
with rapt attention, said in part:
The extent of the child labor. evil
ASsv.haen--a-snhiect Znf much debate
lie opinion, in the growing lf0FRT1g1z--
of sane and humane men and wo-
men at the evil, the ground of the
apologists for the system has shifted.
They used to say that child labor
exists and it is a good thing. 1t is
the best form of industrial education,
more valuable to the child than the
training of the schools. Even now
we hear some echoes of this ssnti-
ment. In the official report of the
Commissioner of Labor for North
Carolina sixteen of the cotton manu-
facturers in answer to question
boldly say: Yes, children under
twelve years ought to work in a cotton
MILL and six were honest enough
to confess in their reports that they
were employing from ten TO fifty
children under twelve. But now it is
claimed that this is a necessary evil,
connected with extreme poverty, for
which the payroll itself, not legisla-
ton is the best cure, and that there
is very little of 1t any way
The census reports for 1900 cannot
tell the whole truth about this evil
in 1907. The manufacturers reports
embodied in the census are growing
more and more worthless, scientifical-
ly, as to the number OF children en-
ployed, for the double reason that tne
manufacturers are growing pleasing
ly sensitive of the shame OF creating
demand for the labor of children,
and that they would frequently I'm.
eliminate themselves by stating the
real ages of the children employed.
e'he population satisfies are talso
open to the objection that they are
given in by the parents of the chill
dren, many of whom are ashamed TO
confess upon what tender shoulders
they have laid, in part or in whole,
the burden of the family support, re.