96 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 



causes, like education, apprenticeship and 

 leadership, renders it necessary for the 

 families to be small among the better class- 

 es of society. There is no hope for a 

 change. As a compensation, the improvi- 

 dent must be taught to better their condi- 

 tion by having only healthy early maturing 

 children, who can be properly reared and 

 educated so as to assist in the support of 

 the family. 



CHILD LABOE. 



A well known magazine writer was dis- 

 cussing with me, recently, the conditions of 

 child-labor in the families of the South, 

 which he had been sent to investigate. To 

 this, he is much opposed. He described, in 

 most graphic terms, the anemic, undersized, 

 sallow-complexioned and narrow, flat- 

 chested and stoop-shouldered children, add- 

 ing that it was a crime for them to work. I 

 insisted that the children must work or go 

 hungry and naked, as their parents cannot 

 support them, as they, also, are physical 

 weaklings as were their ancestors. He 

 replied that the United States Government 



