It takes so little physical strength or mental power to become a cog in these rapidly revolving wheels.

It means such a waste to thus use the years of youth, meant for education and development and meant to attract toward successful family life rather than away from it.
The wrong and injustice of child-labor is equal for both sexes and no law can be too stringent or too severely enforced against it.

The social waste of using youth exclusively in wage-earning pursuits can easily be proved, in the case of girls, to extend to years older than in the case of boys.

The family cannot be maintained in stable condition, and certainly can not progress in social value, unless the majority of young girls are given the right attitude toward it and time to prepare for its opportunities and responsibilities.

If, as is generally now believed, the legal majority and voting age for boys and girls should be the same, namely, twenty-one years, then the girls, as potential mothers, must have a distinct and specialized protection up to that legal majority from all that harms health, prevents safeguarded recreation, or turns life-currents away from the home to the factory.