"It is assumed to be impossible to educate, employ, and pity the child at the same time, and pay him out of his own production. But I assume my fellow citizens, until this very thing is done throughout our common schools, we shall lose millions every year from the loss of unemployed power and keep raising and perpetuating in our republic the elements of pauperism, crime, and insanity." In addition to the above able arguments, we wish to add that the present system of labor is opposed to industrial training. The low wages of the father too often forces the child into the factory as a slave, there to grow up as a mere drudge and nothing more. There is but little public desire to qualify young men for the productive pursuits of life. The only remedy is to maintain a high standard of wages, take the children out of the factories, and put them to school; then adopt industrial education, and America will make rapid advancement. THE LAND QUESTION. From foreign labor papers we learn that a deputation of Irish agricultural laborers recently waited on Mr. W. E. Forster, Chief Secretary of Ireland, and made a statement of their grievances. Among the many statements, one of the deputation said that his cottage consisted of one room, in which seven persons lived. His wages, all through the year, averaged nine to ten-pence a day, with two inches of meat he worked about fourteen hours a day." 