In a mill which weaves the yarn into cloth, the percentage is greatly reduced, as practically no one under sixteen can be profitably employed in a weaving room.
Public sentiment against the employment of children became aroused only slowly.

Crusades against such industrial customs are usually led by organized labor, by professional philanthropists, by sentimentalists, and by socialistic agitators.

The mill operatives of the South have shown little disposition to organize themselves and, in fact, have protested against interference with their right of contract.

The South is only just becoming rich enough to support professional philanthropists, and an outlet for sentimentality has been found in other directions.

There has been as yet too little disproportion of wealth among the Southern whites to excite acute jealousy on this ground alone, and the operatives have earned much more money in the mills than was possible on the farms.