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Child Labour and Child Crimes 319
bad parents are not instructed in the art of
training their children, nor is an incorrigible
child to be led by admonitions to change its
character, if he is left in the surroundings
which have caused his degeneration. By
corporal punishment administered in the pre-
sence of witnesses, a child already accustomed
to cuffs and blows is made more hardened and
shameless. A person with only a superficial
knowledge of the subject, enough to under-
stand the causes which produce such parents
and such children, soon realises that he is
concerned in each detail with the infinite hori-
zon of the social question. It is clear for ex-
ample that low wages, combined with the work
of women and children, are the main factors
in poor dwellings, insufficient food, and bad
clothing. The fact that the wife works out
of the house causes the neglect of the children
and the home. The lodging-house system is
the result of the lack of dwellings; want of
comfort at home causes the husband to fre-
quent saloons and public houses. All these
factors, taken together, cause immorality and
intemperance; these last again produce those
physical and mental diseases to which children
are often heirs at their birth.
Leaving out of discussion the notion that
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