The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-11

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 q have cared for political life only insofar as it gave me a chance to deal with questions related to non-political life" was the statement made by Col onel Theodore Roosevelt last night be- fore a crowd which taxed to the utmost the seating capacity of the Orpheum theatre.
 The address of Colonel Roosevelt which was directed towards "The Con servation of Childhood" had been scheduled for the fourth session of the National Child Labor conference. The immense auditorium had been filled long before the hour for the beginning of last nights meeting, and perhaps more than thousand people were turn ed away for want of room.
 With the view of giving Colonel Roosevelt longer recess in the rapid schedule of his visit to Birmingham transposition was made In the pro- gramme last night whereby Dean Her. man Schneider's address on Industrial Education in Public Schools was heard at the beginning of the session. In the meantime Colonel Roosevelt arrived and was presented to the audience by Dr. Samuel McCune 4indsay, who pre- sided in the absence of Governor O'Neal
 "Friends, men and women of Ala / bama, and fellow citizens of America" evening to speak to you on one of the greatest fundamental questions of our citizenship in this great republic, the conservation of childhood.
 Befriend the Unprotected
 T ask that you think of your own children and see to it that the children of other people who can't fprotect themselves be given the same chances as yours. I make an appeal to you for a limitation by law of the ages under which children shall not be allowed to work, of the number of hours a day they shall be allowed to work, and for the prohibition of their working at night. I ask only that you look into the intimate conditions of your own life and see that the state provides for the same conditions to be possible in the lives of those who are not able to protect themselves. T..
 q ask that you people here satisfy yourselves as to the conditions exist ctat ~3nDOinf committees from among your own num- Der to go into the factories and mines to see the conditions and consider whether the children who are to make the future citizens of Alabama should be subject to such conditions
 M Effect in England
 Tn A brief review of the history of industrial development in England during the past 60 years Colonel Roose- welt showed how the conditions of child labor had sapped the whole coun- try of it's stalwart manhood. He said that during the Boer war the Eng fish army authorities were forced to reduce the measurements for the re- ouirements to a comparatively low scale, and that the armies raised by this means had not been able to stand the lighter tests of endurance. q am speaking to people who are almost dominantly of English ances- try" he said "In looking back over the lamentable conditions that have en- dured in England for the past 60 years we see that the noblemap has re- mained the same. that his type has been preserved; but the sturdy yeo- man has been replaced with the stopped -shouldered anaemic factory iaporer. I speak with genuine and un- asected regret and not with exultancc. For over a2century English statesmen have treated the average man as noth- ing compared with the success of bus mess, the accumulation of wealth, and tho widespread industrial supremacy.
 Maintain Good Stock
 We can't get on well and have the right kind of republic unless we have the right kind of homes and the right kind of families. and you are asked to see that your stock doesn't go down in the same way as the stock of the the importance is for the development of all the industrial resources. the greater is the importance for the de- velopment of a good citizen.
 You people of the south since first I came among you have made a great