This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...of 14 and 16 toil i department stores an mail-orde. houses for starvation wages. Children denied the protection of home, the privilege of school, the teaching and environment that make for better womanhood and prepares them for motherhood--starving and slaving their lives away; wrecking health and spirit, and dulling ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...of 14 and 16 toil i department stores an mail-orde. houses for starvation wages. Children denied the protection of home, the privilege of school, the teaching and environment that make for better womanhood and prepares them for motherhood--starving and slaving their lives away; wrecking health and spirit, and dulling their moral sense, while this President and his crowd admit piling up twelve millions of dollars profit in a single year. Shame on such philanthropists; shame on the State or States that will permit thousands of its little girls to become the victims of the greed of these philanthropists; to be ground to pieces intellectually, physically and morally, under the wheels of selfish business, when the law should throw a strong protecting arm about them and direct their young foot-steps towards the "school "house instead of the sweat shop. r Is a maJf capable of directing a business which will bring to its owners a profit of $12,000,000 in one year incapable of determining the relation of low wages and vice? Does any sane person believe, for one moment, that this man does not feel, way down deep in his heart of stone, that hunger and want and ceaseless hopeless yearning for just a little of the good things of life, and rest to the tired mind, drive the craving body and faltering spirit of the working girl over the brink of shame? Philanthropic employers of little girls at starvation wages may go on piling up millions of dollars, but their path of business success will always be strewn with the wrecks of womanhood and virtue. Giving alms that were secured at the expense of children's souls is, indeed, a hollow charity. If the donors of ill-gotten gold would build fewer monuments to their own memory, and help save a few of the young girls in ...
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Acceptable. Chicago: The National Publicity Bureau, 1915. 16mo. 185pp. Fair book. Spine ends, boards edges, and corners worn. Front hinge open. Title page and other front matter has been cut out. (NOTE: publication dat from OCLC listing. ) Binding split at p. 79. Contents clean. Inquire if you need further information.
