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82 children must send them to work in an endeavor to supplement the family income, and the man who has a family of small children to keep, or no children at all, must suffer because of this child competition. In some cases, child labor is impossible, because of the character of the work, but in the textile industries, the glass works, and the tobacco factories, children are employed and men discharged.

Is child labor "an industrial waste"? Among the thinking men who have gone carefully over the ground, there is but one answer. Child labor cheapens the product, lowers the industrial standard of the present, and threatens the industrial standard of the future.