Children for Gold

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Dec 13, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 50.

Children for Gold

Children for Gold.—A striking article which comes home to the heart is that of Juliet Wilbor Tompkins in the December issue of Success. Its title is "Turning Lives into Dollars." It is a brief rehearsal of the conditions in the sweatshops of our great cities, and it ought to stir those who read it. But will it do it effectually enough so as to amount to anything? She goes on to say that it is utterly impossible to regulate it by overseers or officials, because when they visit the tenements the work is put out of the way; the children are playing. And there are thousands and thousands of these tenements where work especially on clothing of all kinds is done under the most wretched conditions of squalor and filth and disease. Her proposition is the abolition of all work of that kind in tenements.