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in. the mill and then go back to doze in the sunshine. The results of child labor are and bad. Child labor, vag- rancy and petty vice are intertwined in a strand of annoyances that beset the country. It is responsible for tfto. "floating laborer," the unskilled workman, who weakened by his early labors, the resulting lack of nourishment and deficient physical powers, intensifies the problem of the unemployed which confronts the big cities at certain seasons. It is bad for parents to live on the earnings of their children. It pro- -

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they be rendered better and mora . saleable in the market And child labor weakens the citizen. It robs him of his vitality,'' it weakens his children, it increases the populations of public institutions and pjits this added weight and expensa on the community to bear. The remedy is laws like the Palmer Bill; education the communities and the child itself. An en light-- . ened public opinion, in time, will for1- bid an atrocity like child labor. But" while that time is coming there must be laws to regulate and knowledge to understand the problem. That is why the Palmer Bill and other laws like it should be passed. It will not only regulate child labor byt its enforcement will call the attention of the public to the problem and Will result in a demand for the abolishment of child labor. When 'that demand is heard, child labor will be a thing of the past.
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UNITED SOCIETIES HAVE COME OUT FOR WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE

duces an unnatural 'relation. It makes the child independent of parental authority and liable to acts of lawlessness and ignorance that only parental authority can prevent. The industrial wealth of a country, its human timber, is lessened in quality by the laboring of children who should be building up their bodies and minds-ischools, in playgrounds and in the home. It is bad for the manufacturers who exploit children and child labor. The products of these factories are tbfi nnnrfist: in nnalitv and onlv bv the abolishment of child .labor will
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The United Societies have come out for women's suffrage." After a long and losing battle this organization has decided to climb into the band wagon not.the water wagon and ride along with the women blazing the way. The United Societies, which has a, close affiliation with the liquor inter- ests, threw up the sponge when the Supreme Court by a majority ruled that equal suffrage was legal. Tony Cermak says the United Societies will shortly demand all candidates for public offices to declare foe, the women. w ' RIOTERS BURN CHURCHES Rome, Italy, June 16t 7Burnmg of the Church of Peace and the Church of the Holy Cross at Senegallia, jtport on the Adriatic Sea, and thenear destruction of the qathedral there by rioters was th worst outbreak "reported yesterday as aconsequence of thjaeneraTstrike which is still convulsing Italy.
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