Excerpt from The Cry of the Children: A Study of Child-Labor We might expect to learn everything that goes on from the newspapers; but what is true, as I have just pointed out, of each one of us is also true of the newspapers. They are busy with the day's happenings; they are willing and anxious to publish anything in teresting, but once published it ceases to be news - it is not good journalism to pursue it. Therefore it is forgotten. Then again, while most American newspapers are free, pure and fearless, all of them are not. Within the last ten years interests which wish to prevent reforms that will interfere with unrighteous profits have begun to buy up newspapers, and very wealthy men who want to have a public career have done the same thing. Both these interests and these men have done this for the same reason namely, to control public opinion; but after all, there are, comparatively speaking, only a few of such papers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.