Negatively. of course. Uncle Sam is assuming a great responsibility In his continued neglect of them. in his dontlnued application to the minor interests of the country and continued neglect of the greater Interests of the Republic. That is the way the matter presents itself increasingly to numbers of people who from year to year become interested in the problem of the immigrant children or our own pnor white children. such as these children In Maine who are losing their childhood and the privileges of education. who are going the way the English children have gone for the last 100 years. Our industries are increasing. One State after another changes from an agricultural State to a manufacturing State. We find this process going on in the most conspicuous manner in New Jersey. where formerly there was chiefly fruit growing and agriculture. but now every steerage that comes Into the port of New York brings with It children who work In the manufacturing industries there. The compulsoryeducation law is very laxly enforced in New Jersey. We do not ask the Government to Interfere with that. but we do believe this proposed Federal law would come to the rescue. right there In that one State. of an increasing number of children every year that passes. and there has been dire need of it.
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