THE PROGRESSIVE ERA 1900 1917
THEODORE ROOSEVELT THE PROGRESSIVES
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With machinery, Mr. President, we believe that forty-eight hours is sufficient.
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The manufacturers have threatened to starve these children, and we seek to show that no child shall die of hunger at the will of any manufacturer in this fair land.
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It is in the hope that the words of Christ will be more clearly interpreted by you when he said, “Suffer little children to come unto me.”
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On behalf of these people, we beg that you will reply and let us know whether we may expect an audience.
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Detailed explanation-1: -To attract attention to the cause of abolishing child labor, in 1903, she led a children’s march of 100 children from the textile mills of Philadelphia to New York City “to show the New York millionaires our grievances.” She led the children all the way to President Theodore Roosevelt’s Long Island home.
Detailed explanation-2: -She writes a public letter to the president to remind him that the children who work in the factories are just like his children. She explains that the federal government can force any child to work in a factory whether the child is from a poor or wealthy family.
Detailed explanation-3: -The March of the Mill Children, the three-week trek from Philadelphia to New York by striking child and adult textile workers launched on July 7, 1903, by Mary Harris “Mother” Jones (1837-1930), trained public attention on the scourge of child labor and energized efforts to end it by law.