The Federal Government and the Working Children

Secretary of the National Consumers' League.Never again can the problem of the working children in this Republic be regarded as merely a local one, when the textile indus- try stretches from Texas, Alabama and Georgia northward through all the Atlantic States to Pennsylvania, New York and New England ; when the glass industry, to-night, while we are gathered here, is employing little boys in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, and Mis- souri ; and in only two of those states-Ohio and Illinois-is there even a pretence that it is illegal to have children working all night.Surely the American people can never again honestly regard these industries, and the conditions attending labor in them, as matters of merely local moment.It is only necessary to state the

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