ABSTRACT
The only interesting thing ever said in defense of human slavery was that it enables those who live upon it to cultivate a liberal life. But no one who reads the arguments of those who came to Washington in order to oppose the Child Labor bill will ever claim that the employment of little children makes pleasant human beings out of its apologists. One gentleman did say that you could “go down to the muddiest old pond and pull the whitest lily,” but if Mr. David Clark, editor of the Southern Textile Bulletin, and ex-Governor Kitchin of North Carolina are the lilies, then the statement can hardly go unchallenged.
