Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1895 — Little Siaves in Engiand. [ARTICLE]

Little Siaves in Engiand.

“Does slavery survive in England?” iasks the London Christian World, and this is the answer;'“After reading Saturday’s ‘special’ number of the ‘Schoolmaster’ on th.e subject of ‘Half-timers,’ we find it difficult to answer that question in the negative. An inspector writes: ‘I examined a child who rose at 5:30, worked at a mill, and then walked in. couple .of miles to examination. Another girl of 11 rose soon after 5 a. m. and walked through the frost and snow nearly two miles to the mill. Work commenced at 6 and (continued till S:3O, when there was an interval for breaks fast, the child not leaving the mill. At 0 work again till 12:30’—six hours in all —‘and then dinner at the mill. At 1:30 the child trudged off to school.’ How many British children are liable to this sort of experience? Not less than 170,000! Shame on us!” Such facts are a shame, indeed, to any civilized, not to say Christian, community.