Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1914-03-24
A STIRRING REBUKE
TO LEGISLATURE
administered in ak By Miss Rose
Representing child Labor
TO JUST GOVERNMENT LEAGUE.
Taking Care q Children b Great
Bu,In IS a If

AahtN& N@BE - AhFNAEh u 0LEnR
Bu,n IS a Lif,
The Just Government League of
Anne Arundel county listened ysster-
day To an address by Miss Rose, Of
the Child Labor Bureau, giving a
clear, concise end comprehensive
showing Of conditions existing in the
canneries of Maryland As inspector
of these places she has met conditions
appallingly disgrsceful TO any State.
Without making any impassionate
appeal, but by a simple correct report
Of what she has seen. she made such
an impression on mothers present that
il seemed wonderful that the whole
audience did aot move bodily to the
legislative halls and demand enact
m mt of laws that would relieSe chill
dren from such wre tched and cruel
impnsitions. Even at the age of
twelve, it is a great wrong and crime
to a growing girl. IL is the age when
they are most sUsct ptible to physical
ills and often enter upon wOmanhoOd
unfit for It's pleasures or its burdens.
That such work under such condi-
tions is conducive TO immortality is n
serious aspect If the case. The herd
ing of men, women and children 10
sleep under most unwholesome and
revolving conditions, in any part OF
country that processes to be civilized
and christianized, that grows righte-
ously hystericBl over the. conditions
nf the heather abroad torgetful Of
the heather at home, is duspeakahle,
unthinkable. "shall these things be
and overcome us, like a summers
cloud without our special wondeTf
Doe not the letter that appeared in
these columns yesterday addressed TO
members of the House of Delegates
merit q stirring rebuke from all wo-
men, from all mothers who 90 down
into the valley Of death that fresh
young lie maybe continually re-
newed upon the earth to take places
Of the weary. the worn and the wick
ed who have misused such a great,
grand gift as life.
Does it not behooye women to mar
shal spiritual forces against a mater
ialsm manifested in letters. like
that, this materialism that has been
the curse of all humanity and is the
only goal Of unthinking striving.
Shall we 90 or thus, each generation
making the same mistakes as that
which preceded itf While protesting
faith in Him who declared man shall
not live by bread alone, shall man still
grapple soul 10 soul in the greedy
game of who shall get most bread,
Are We better than the Chinese who
ask when the claims Of our reli zion
are pressed upon them: "HoW much
more rice is there in it" If men,
according to that allegory Of Bunyan,
are so busy with the muck rake they
cannot see the crown suspended over
their heads, let women catch this Wis
ion Of a spiritual and moral life that
the Master came 10 upliit, and which
must be sought by many people be-
fore material prosperity, can be last
ing or good.
There is no more practical work
| ing law CT life than Seek We first
the kingdom of Goo and all these
1 AUiilEH EndlA NC d1AEu NubV NlNg UNN
the kingdom Of God is not visionary
intangible state of futurity. Jesus de-
clared it to be right with US in the
heart of all little children, how can one
who does not know or care for the
heart of child or the body of the child
know aught of il? he kingdom Of
he ave is that estate in which men
and women toll to make the youth Of
the land happy in childhood, that il
may be holy in manhood. A child
| who has had no time or wholesome
| play becomes the stolid man or wo-
man, with no Imagination, no humor
who never contributes to life in the
aggregate anything worth while.
| That our schools are faulty is well
know9, and that it is no more crue
that young people toll eight hours 6
day and late into the night by an OF
dip, than that they bring home any
book from school and fag the brair
and strain the eye by study under
electric bulbs. Roth are sins we
permit against youth that cannot hell
itself, snd that should be deyoutlI
gaseguarded and its health auC
strength husbanded for the comint
years.
| II is high time for men to awak,
out Of sleep, and approach with spirit
usl awe the young life for which the,
are responsible and for which wer,
travails in pain. Let no man quot,
Massachusetts, law as authority ii
anything pertaining TO child lite
No greater fight was ever waged o.
won than that the wQmen Of Massa
chusetts led for woman's guardianship
Of the child-hsr share in it, and i
was rot conquered without the shed
ding Of woman's blood. 1t is no won
der that men, from whom such treas
ure had to be wrested By fearfu
measures, should be lacking in exalt
ed foreth0ught and wisdom and con
servation OF the most valuable asse
OF physical moral and spiritual life
the child. A wise man was Otter
heard to say: Taking ears Of chill
dreu is tho great business Of life. ;
For every one who grows uprigh
some patient man and woman has toll
ed and suffered Young cubs are no
the only things that have to be liekel
into shape, bat lee children be licket