The more things change...

Florence Kelley speaking, live from 1890s Chicago  

The children, we have to save the children, came into this world without asking to be born, not to work chained to a sewing machine. We understand: The parents aren’t bad people, they need the money, to survive themselves, to put bread on the table. Still, intervene. Put a stop to it, if you can. That evil to the child. Any time is all right to put a stop to it!   

Funny, it doesn’t change that much, decade to decade, century to century. 

Group portrait of seven boys kneeling, playing marbles on a playground in Chicago, Illinois. Two boys stand and look on, a girl is visible in the right on the image, swing sets are visible in the background. Text on negative reads: Spring Picture. Source: DN-0062448, Chicago Daily News negatives collection, Chicago History Museum. Date: ca. 1914 Mar. 30.