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During the debates in the Senate on the sugar tariff The New York World charged sugar producers with extensive employment of child labor in the beet sugar fields. These charges have now been fully substantiated according to reports made by the National Child Labor Committee after an exhaustive investigation...
...Committee found that what amounts to contract peonage exists in the Michigan beet fields...
...families visited by the Committee's agents, 407 were "grower" families and 274 contract labor families. The total number of persons in those families between the ages of five and sixteen working in the beet fields was 1,358, or 67 per cent of the workers. More than 50 per cent of these children worked on a contract labor basis...
...been used by grammarians, ministers, and editorial writers ever since those nuisances came into existence, several thousand years ago. It furnished the slogan of the war-garden in the amended form of "Lettuce Beet the Kaiser", and it has served the purpose of statesmen and politicians. It is on the subject of politics--class politics--that the familiar construction comes in again. This time it is: "Let us vote...
...style, especially if there are habitual outstanding excentricities of phrase and mental twist. The real parodist gets inside of his victim's mind, and compels him, not only in his own phrase and vocabulary but in his own kind of mental operation, to make fun of himself. Perhaps the beet example of this deadly skill in modern literature is that of Charles Stuart Calverly, that most brilliant of Victorian pranksters, who fairly reincarnated the very personality of his victims, An able citizen he, by the way, and of university fame; he still stands as the only undergraduate who ever...