A History of the Evangelical Party in the Church of England
A History of the Evangelical Party in the Church of England
G R George Reginald Balleine
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Still more awful was the fate of the children who had been caught in the grip of the new industrial system. Lancashire factories bought them by barge-loads from the London workhouses, and held them for years, nominally as apprentices, really as slaves. In a stifling atmosphere babies of five were made to stand on stools, and feed the great machines for fourteen hours a day. Underground in the mines things were even worse. Chil- dren of six were sitting alone all day in pitch darkness, open- ing... and shutting doors as the trucks ran by. But lunatics and children alike had now found their champion. Lord Ashley's first task was fairly easy. He persuaded Parliament to appoint fifteen Lunacy Commissioners, of whom he was one ; and in time all the asylums in the countr)' were reformed. But the other task was far more ' Memoir of Buxton, p. 325. "^Life, III, 3. THE FIGHT FOR THE FACTORY ACTS 127 difficult. The mill-owners and mine-owners were almost omnipotent in the House of Commons; all the Lunacy wealth of the country was against him, and p"'^ most of the leading statesmen.
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