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Mother Jones The March Of The Mill Children Summary

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In the document “The March of the Mill Children” by Mother Jones, she explains and describes events that took place during the early 1900’s dealing with child labor and how these events affected lives in America. Mother Jones fought for workers rights and to abolish child labor. Throughout the article, Mother Jones takes a stance to get her voice heard and to help create better lives and opportunities for the children in America. Mother Jones argued that she had “stocks in the children”, so she was going to go public with child labor issues. One morning in Independence Park, a meeting and parade was organized for the city to show the public what child labor has done to young boys and girls. Mother Jones had young boys stand on platforms to show the crowd their crushed hands and missing fingers. After the meeting in the park, the town started talking and discussing the issues concerning child labor. Mother Jones led the children from Philadelphia to New York in the march, and hoped for Congress to pass a law protecting children in the workforce. President …show more content…

He describes three different “modes” that the wealthy can spend their money. The first “mode” is to leave your wealth to your decedents. The second “mode” would be to leave your wealth for public purposes. The third “mode” is to use your wealth during your life. Carnegie believes that leaving your wealth for public purposes would be the best use to benefit many people in the community. With free libraries, parks, and museums the poor would have the opportunity to better themselves. This would create an ideal state where the surplus wealth of the upper class would become “the property of many”. However, Carnegie does emphasize that charity should be provided as a means for those to help themselves become financially independent and not to rely upon

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