Mr. President. that we shall have succeeded in taking the child out of the factory. in depriving it. even amid most uninviting environments and adverse conditions. of its opportunity to work. suppose we shall have taken it from the surroundings which we believe to be calculated to arrest its development and to circumscribe its life and send it to a home of squalor and want and miseryto what extent have we served humanity? Suppose we shall have taken the child out of the factory and sent it to a home where we have. by reason of our immigration laws. deprived the father or mother of a Job. displaced some one else occupying the position of those upon whom It is dependent for support. If the parents of this country. the mother and the father are not to be protected in their citizenship. if they are not to be protected in their wage or in their place. we shall have exerted an impotent but ostentatious display of legislative power in taking the child from the factory. It is incumbent upon this Congress to supplement that legislation by such legislation as will protect the. home to which the child is supposed to return and to give its parents their prestige and their place in the industrial world. where they may educate and take care of the child.
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